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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1925

2,458 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 41 of 123

Assaults on Police. Inadequate Punishment. Appeal for Protection. SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 April 1925 · page 5

At the police conference to-day, the president, Sergeant Chinner, said the better section of the public had supported the police in a protest made…

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Crime in Victoria Laws Need Tightening Up. Police Chief Speaks. MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 April 1925 · page 5

The Police Chief, Mr. Nicholson, admitted to-day that Victoria was getting to be known as the criminal State of Australia, but that was not the…

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Police Court

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 April 1925 · page 2

At the Court House on Tuesday evening, before Messrs. A. J. Dodd and G. C. Brown, J's.P., Frederick George Flint and Albert George…

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Deliberate Swindle Company Director Sentenced

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1925 · page 4

Bartley Wilson a director of the Mercantile Coal and Shipping Co., Ltd, who earlier in the week was found guilty of a charge of having…

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Circuit Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1925 · page 4

The Circuit, Court will be held at the East Maitland next. Mr. Justice Ferguson will preside. The Crown…

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Theft of Rabbit Traps Fink of £5 IMPOSED

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 April 1925 · page 1

At the Muswellbrook Police Court on Wednesday, before Messrs. T. J. Puryis and A. Davies, J's.P., William Benjamin Dederer (18) was charged…

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Cessnock Police. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1925 · page 5

For some time past it has been recognised that the amount of work the police have been called upon ti perfrom in the Cessnock police patrol…

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East Maitland Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1925 · page 4

At the East Maitland Police Court this morning before Mr. A. G. Morgan J.P. William Eugene Deherty, aged 35, was charged with breaking…

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Fewer Attacks. Assaults on Police

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1925 · page 2

When asked his opinion on the question of protecting the police from "push" attacks. Mr. G. Mitchell, Acting Metropolitan Superintendent of…

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Maitland Road Sensation. Young Woman Waylaid. Alleged Attempt at Indecent Assault

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 24 April 1925 · page 8

On a [?] part of the Maitland-Cessnock Main Road a few miles from Cessnock, on Saturday night, a young single wom[?] named…

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Shipping Trouble Union Official Charged. Dismissals from The Levuka. SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1925 · page 5

At the Central Summons Court to-day, Jacob Johnson, Assistance Secretary of the Seamen's Union, was charged under the Commonwealth…

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Crime in Egypt. Secret Murder Society. London, April 22

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1925 · page 5

The judicial authorities at Cairo have published a summary of the confessions of some of the nine accused who yesterday were indicated…

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Muswellbrook Letter District Court. Muswellbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1925 · page 6

The principal case at the sitting of the. Muswellbrook District Court and heard before Judge White on Tuesday last, was that of Kenneth…

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District Court Danny, May. Verdict for Plaintiff

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 April 1925 · page 1

On Wednesday Judge White gave his finging in the case, Dann versus May, in which the former claimed £100 damages for alleged negligent…

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A Forgery Scurrilous Literature. Police Seeking Authors. SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1925 · page 5

The police are endeavouring to trace the authors of a great deal of political literature of a scurrilous character, which is being distributed ostensibly…

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Peterborough Murder. Second Person Charged

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 9

A further development occurred in the Peterborough murder case at the Adelaide Police Court, when Nicholas. Tsontsos. aged 23, was charged was…

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Police Court. Cases at Muswellbrook

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 9

At the monthly sitting of the Muswellbrook police court, Mr. T. W. Cohen, P.M., presided. Mr. E. H. Cohen, and Mr. F. B. H…

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Company Promoter Sentenced

Singleton Argus · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 7

At Darlinghurst Sessions on Thinsday, Bartley Davidson Wilson, a company promotei, who had been convicted of having fiaudulently misapproprialed…

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Alleged Burglary. Committed for Trial

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 13

At the West Maitland Police Court on Monday, Samuel Summerville, 42, on demand from Singleton, was charged with having,…

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Alleged Assault. Began Still Unable to Attend Court. Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 7

Robert John Kellett and William Kellett, charged at the, Cessnock, Police Court this morning, before Mr. Fletcher, P.M., with inflicting…

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