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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1922

2,085 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 105

Scone Police Court. Wednesday, 17th February, 1921. (Before Mr. H. H. MacDougal, P.m) Rabbit Prosecutions

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 21 February 1922 · page 2

The U.H. P.P. Board v. Horace Berry, for failing to destroy rabbits on his holding. Mr. R. G. D. FitzGerald appeared for defendant, and…

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The State Elections. Fuller's Police Speech. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 February 1922 · page 5

Mr. McGirr, Minister for Health, likens Sir george Fuller's policy speech to a patent medicine advertisement, warranted to cure anything…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 February 1922 · page 4

Bertha Cragg was before Mr. W. S. Bromhead, J.P., at the West Maitland Police Court this morning on a charge of drunkenness, and was fined 2/6 or…

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Cessnock Police Court [Before Major F. W. C. Crane, P.M.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 February 1922 · page 7

At the Cessnock Police Court, on Tuesday, Walter Johns pleaded guilty to having obtained liquor at the Railway Hotel, Cesenock, by falsely…

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Natives Arrested. Alleged Murder of Castaways

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 February 1922 · page 6

Two natives, alleged to have murdered Bass and Smith, castaways from a wrecked schooner on the north-west coast, were brought to…

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State Elections. Premier and Police. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 February 1922 · page 5

Police officials stated to-day that Mr. Dooley is making a great mistake in reducing officers of the police force, cutting down their allowances, and…

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Lorimore Enterprises. Petition in Equity Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 February 1922 · page 6

In the Equity Court, Mr. Justice Street had before him the petition of Henry Freemantle Davis, of Union Bank Chambers, Hunter-street,…

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Fair Basic Wage. Gas Employees' Application. "Duty of the Court."

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 February 1922 · page 3

Giving judgment in the Gas Emplyees case in the Arbitration Court in Melbourne, Mr. Justice Powers said that he proposed, later on, when two…

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Tirtschke Murder Trial Fresh Evidence

Singleton Argus · Thursday 23 February 1922 · page 4

The trial of Colin Campbell Ross, aged 27, for the murder of Alma Tirtschke, the 12-year-old girl whose ravaged and naked body was found off Gun Alley…

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Our Telegrams. Moss Vale Murder. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 February 1922 · page 5

There are no further developments in connection with the Moss Vale murder.\ The police are endeavouring to ascertain the whereabouts of…

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Mr. Dooley and the Police Interference Resented. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 23 February 1922 · page 2

A police official stated to-day that Mr Dooley is making a great mistake in reducing officers of the police force, cutting down the allowance, and…

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Illness of the Police Magistrate

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 February 1922 · page 4

Major Crane Police Magistrate, is confined to bed suffering with influenza and acute tonsilitis. His medical adviser is of opinion that it will…

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Taylor Murder. a Mew Clue. Vancouver, Feb. 22

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 February 1922 · page 5

The mystery of the death of William Desmond Taylor, director of the Famous Players-Lasky Film Corporation, still puzzles, the police…

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"Police Farce." (Published by Arrangement.) Beating the "Dry" Laws

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 24 February 1922 · page 4

The correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" has cabled the following message to his paper from New York:— "The anti-prohibitionists are rocking…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 February 1922 · page 3

At the police court on Thursday, James Herbert Frederick Wilkinson, aged 33, wearing the uniform of a merchant service officer, was charged…

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Alleged Stealing. Visitor Before the Court. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 February 1922 · page 9

Airlie Warden, 34, who arrived in Sydney recently by the motor yacht Speejacks, was charged at the Central Police Court to-day with…

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Singleton Police Court. Singleton

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 February 1922 · page 14

Major Crane, P.M., occupied the ench at the police court on Friday. Edwin Daley, licensee of the Albion Hotel, John-street, pleaded not…

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Cessnock Police Court (Before Major F. W. C. Crane, P.M.)

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 February 1922 · page 3

At the Cessnock Police Court on Tuesday, Walter Johns pleaded guilty to having obtained liquor at the Railway Hotel, Cessnock, by falsely…

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Attack on Gaol Foiled. London, February 17

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 February 1922 · page 12

Attempts to rescue prisoners from the Ballybricken Gaol, Waterford, were foiled by the presence of mind of a warder. A number of armed men…

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Captives Released. Gaol Disorder. London, Feb. 24

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 February 1922 · page 5

The headmasters of the I.R.A. Dublin announce that all the I.R.A's Ulster captives have been released. The police were summoned to…

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