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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1925

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Police Carnival for Hospital

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 February 1925 · page 4

The Maitland police intend making this year's effort for the hospital something out of the ordinary. At a meeting of the committee,…

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Seriously Injured. Knocked Down by Car. Driver Charged. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 February 1925 · page 5

[?] Stead, 32, a taxi-driver, was charged at the Central Police Court to-day with having maliciously inflicted grievous bodily harm upon John…

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Cliff Tragedy. Man Calls at Police Station Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 February 1925 · page 5

The man whom the police wished to interview in connection with the death of Mrs. Shiriff called at the North Sydney police station this…

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Motorist Charged Alleged Maliciously Wounding. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 26 February 1925 · page 2

Sydney Stead, aged 32, a taxi driver, was charged at the Central Police Court to-day with having maliciously inflicted grievous bodily harm upon John Moss…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 February 1925 · page 4

A young man, who has three previous convictions against him, was fined £1, in default seven days' imprisonment, at the West Maitland…

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Dungog Police Court

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 27 February 1925 · page 4

At the Dungog Police Court on Thursday 19th. Frederick George Crawford was before Messrs. S. N. Dark and J. T. Williams, Js.P., on…

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Industrial Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 February 1925 · page 4

The Chief Industrial Magistrate, Mr. Addison, presided at a sitting of the Industrial Court at the West Maitland Courthouse yesterday…

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Alleged Larceny. Ex-president Scott Charged. Wearisome Evidence

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 27 February 1925 · page 10

Considerable interest is still being manifested m connection with the charge or larceny which has been laid against ex-president Scott by…

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Women and Police Evidence

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 27 February 1925 · page 2

Women jurors, as a rule, will not accept the unsupported statements of a policeman. The foregoing was cabled out we presume at great…

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Prosecution Fails. Alleged Breach of Preference Act. Magistrate's Decision. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 February 1925 · page 5

Last week, Arthur Leslie Mason proceeded against the Australian Stevedoring and Lighterage Co. Ltd., for an alleged breach of the Preference…

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Emily Hemsworth Committed for Trial on Charge of Alleged Murder

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 27 February 1925 · page 9

The adjourned inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of an infant, Charles O'Brien (proper name Joseph Thomas Hems worth),…

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Alleged Intoxication Bus Driver Before Court

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 27 February 1925 · page 6

At the Cessnock Police Court, on Tuesday last before Mr. T. W. Cohen. P.M. William Hancock, [?] proprietor of Cessnock, was charged…

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Baby's Death Body Found in Carriage. Mother Committed for Murder. MUSWELLBROOK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 February 1925 · page 5

The adjourned inquest regarding the death of an infant, whose body was found in a brown paper parcel in a railway carriage at…

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Basic Wage. Guide to Court. Queensland Commission's Report

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 February 1925 · page 4

In December a Commission was appointed by the Queensland Arbitration Court to make certain investigations and calculations that might be…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 4

The only case at the West Maitland Police Court this morning was one in which a young man was fined 30/ for being drunk last evening…

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Singleton Letter. Police Court. Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 7

Mr. T. W. Cohen, P.M., presided at the police court yesterday. John Mason pleaded guilty to two charges of not having a license for a…

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A Brutal Assault

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 6

Frank Saunders, aged 23, of Marrickville, manager of Hoyts' Picture Theatre at Mosman, lies dying in Sydney Hospital as the result of a brutal…

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Three Years. Sentenced at Darlinghurst

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 6

A sentence of three years' imprisonment was passed by Judge Rolin on James Hurley, aged 24, at the Darlinghurst Sessions in Sydney…

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Charge of Murder

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 7

Emily Gertrude Hemsworth, aged 23, mother of a male child, that was found dead with a string round its neck and its mouth stuffed with newspaper, was…

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Sentenced to Floggings Judge's Stern Measure

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 7

At the Darlinghurst Sessions on Thursday, Judge Edwards, addressing, George Judge Butwell, aged 30, a ship's steward, who had been convicted of…

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