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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1924

2,671 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 134

Cessnock Police Court To-day's Sitting (Before Mr. A. E. Perry P.M.) Garbage Cases

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 5

When the adjourned cases in which Wm. Downson and Wm. Kil [?] charged with depesiting garbage in other than the proper garpage…

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Matches in a Mine. Magistrate's Comment. "Fine Inadequate." Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 2

Mr. W. J. Enright, for the Abermain Collieries, Ltd., proceeded against Thomas Maher, for taking matches into the Abermain No. 2…

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Singleton Police Court Friday, February 1st. (Before Mr R. A. Perry, P.m.) Breaches of Licensing Act

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 2

William T. Spinks and Athol Smith were charged with having been found after hours on the premises of the Percy Hotel, on January 11; and…

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Family Tragedy. Murder and Suicide London, January 31

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 4

A fourfold family tragedy has occurred near Portsmouth. Albert Gamblin, licensee of the Vine Inn, which is a well-known…

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P.m. Charged Birds of Paradise. Alleged Export. "Matter Op Pique."

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 2

Olivier John Thompson, 29, a magistrate of New Guinea, appeared before Mr. Le Brun Brown, R.S.M., at the Central Police Court…

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Dungog Police Court (Before Messrs. S. N. Dark and J. T. Williams, Js.P.) (Thursday.) Alleged Malicious Burning of Motor Lorry

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 3

Thomas Malcolm Garret Bamber was charged with having maliciously injured a motor lorry (valued at £975) near Myall Creek on January…

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Record Breaking. Melbourne-sydney. Motorist Detained by Police

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 5

F. Della Valle, a Chatswood motorists accompanied by L., Gordon, a mechanic, in a 9.45 h.p. Fiat car, made an attempt on the Melbourne…

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Insurance Frauds. Dictators' Responsibility. Chancery Court Case. London, Feb. 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 February 1924 · page 5

An action against eight directors of the City Equitable insurance Company has commenced before Sir Mark Remer in the Chancery Court…

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Singleton Letter. Police Court. Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 February 1924 · page 6

At the Police Court, before Mr. R. A. Perry, P.M., two young men, William Thomas Spinks and Athol Smith, were charged with…

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Valuable Bird Plumes. Illegal Export. Magistrate Charged. Heavy Bail

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 3

Charged with having taken out of the Territory of New Guinea the plumage of protected birds, namely plumage of the birds of paradise,…

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Forger Sentenced. "Irreclaimable Criminal." Narrabri

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 1

The Narrabri Quarter Sessions opened on Monday. Judge Mocatta presided, and Mr. Browning prosecuted on behalf of the Crown…

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Penal Servitude. Assault on a Little Girl

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 4

Raymond Dodley Browning was committed at Darlinghurst Sessions, on a charge of committing an indecent assault upon a little girl seven years of age at…

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Smoking in Mines. Penalty Too Light. Magistrate's Comments

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 8

The police magistrate at Cessnock Court declared that the penalty for smoking in safety-lamp mines was toot heavy enough…

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Court House Clock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 4

Unfavourable criticism lias been expressed In several quarters in relation to the clock at the East Maitland Court House, which has…

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Long Court Sitting

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 5

The sitting of the Cessnock Police Court on Tuesday last was unusually lengthy, not concluding till after 5 o'clock. The whole of the…

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Tea Gardens Court House

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 3

Messrs R. S. Vincent, and T. H. Hill. Ms.L.A. are in receipt of the following letter from the Minister for Justice:— Dear Sir,—With reference to your…

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Light in Court House

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 6

Until recently the Cessnock Court House lacked means of artificial illumination. After long agitation the wheels of the departmental mills,…

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Paddington Tragedy. Police Still Searching Father's Devotion

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 4

Yesterday the detectives and police continued their search for Edward Williams, father of the three little girls who were found…

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No Sign Yet. the Police Theory. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 4

There is still no sign or Edward Williams, who is wanted by the police in connection with the murder of three children at Paddington…

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Lost Machinery. Comranys Claim. Owners' Opinion of American Court. SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 5

James Burns, of the Lander Oil Coy., giving evidence before the Navigation Commission to-day, said he ordered a consignment of…

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