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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1927

2,770 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 51 of 139

Racehorse Sankip. Full Court Appeal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 May 1927 · page 9

In the Full Court an appeal was made by the defendant in an actiontried before Mr. Justice Ferguson and a jury in April last, in which…

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Libelling Police. London Editor Fined. a Stolen Passport. London. May 24

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 May 1927 · page 5

A fine of £100 was unposed on William Paul, the editor of the "Sunday Worker" and Workers' Publications Ltd., for libelling the Metropolitan police, A paragraph alleged that…

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Mining Court

Singleton Argus · Thursday 26 May 1927 · page 2

Before the Mining Warden, Mr A. N. Graham, at the Court House yesterday, several applications for authority to enter land in the County of…

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Raymond Terrace Police Court. Before Mr. Cleeve P.M. Friday, May 20th, 1927

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 26 May 1927 · page 3

Claude Bowles, drunk, was fined 10/- and for indecent behaviour 30/-. A local resident falsely pretending that he was a traveller for the purpose of…

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Football Referees. Must Be Protected. Sequel to Assault. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 May 1927 · page 5

At the. Parramatta Police Court Olifton Kells was charged with having assaulted Claude Pewell. It was stated in cvidence that…

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Waterside Workers' Federation Theft at Cairns (By Telegraph.) Cairns (Q.)

Singleton Argus · Thursday 26 May 1927 · page 2

Thieves entered the room of the Waterside Workers' Federation ano stole three of the branch's books, including the levy book and contribution…

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Murder Alleged. Woman Remanded Pending Inquest. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 May 1927 · page 5

At the Central Police Court, Sydney, to-day, Edith Florence Ashton, 37, was charged with haying murdered Isabella Johnson, also with…

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Fatal Collision. Pouch Court Sequel

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 May 1927 · page 4

The occupants Ernest George Reid aged 20, and Harry Stacey, aged 33—of the motor car which, on Tuesday night, collided with a…

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Warden's Court. Sitting at East Maitland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 May 1927 · page 4

Mr. Warden Graham presided at a Warden's Court in the East Maitland Courthouse this morning. Christian H. Frunks made…

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Theft and Waste Serious Allegations at Canberra. It is stated that there is to be another

Singleton Argus · Thursday 26 May 1927 · page 4

It is stated that there is to be another court-martial, in Goulburn, within a week or so, following serious allegations of shortages of stores at the Canberra…

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LOCAL & GENERAL Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 May 1927 · page 4

Richard Douglas Bourke, 45, was fined £2, in default 14 days imprisonment, by Mr. R. Soiling, J.P., at the West Maitland Police Court this…

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Denman Police Court. Theft of Horses. (Before Mr. E. A. May, P.M.)

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 27 May 1927 · page 2

Richard Hamilton was charged with stealing one horse, saddle and bridle, valued at £17. the property of Thomas Maloney, and was sentenced to four…

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Police Court Cases. Failure to Destroy Rabbits

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 May 1927 · page 7

At the fortnightly sitting of the Police Court, before Mr. E. A. May, P.M., the following oases were dealt with…

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Theft of Rabbit Skins

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 27 May 1927 · page 2

Thieves entered Mr. E. Devine's hide and skin depot last night and took away a bag of rabbitskins, xalued at £15. and six fox heads,…

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Alleged Stealing From John Brown

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 May 1927 · page 3

A case in which two employees of J. and A. Brown's Collieries were summoned at Kurri Police Court yesterday for stealing two sugar…

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Three Years. Solicitor Sentenced. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 May 1927 · page 5

At the Darlinghurst Sessions, Harry Waldemar Baum, a solicitor who had been convicted of having fraudcntly misappropriated £1400 from a client…

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Stroud Police Court (Before Mr. F. Potts, P.m.) Cutting Timber Without License

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 27 May 1927 · page 4

A. S. Nicholas, timber contractor and G. Grey, his employee, were proceeded against by the forestry Department. The first was charged…

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Yielded to Temptation Dairy Farmers' Lapse. Theft of a Cheque

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 27 May 1927 · page 8

At the Muswellbrook Police Court, on Tuesday, William Stuart Munro (27) was charged with having, on 19th. April last at Dartbrook steal a cheque for…

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Police Court. Raymond Terrace Cases. Offences Under Motor Traffic Acts. (Before Mr. H. M. Cleeve, P.M.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 May 1927 · page 6

Auni[?] Quick pleaded not guilty to driving a car without a driver's licens.—Constable McLaughlin deposed that at 4.30 p.m. on 2nd…

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The Trunk Mystery. Murder Charge Against Clerk. London

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 27 May 1927 · page 9

John Robinson, 46, clerk, has been arrested and charged with the murder of Mrs. Minnie Bonati, whose dismembered body was found in a trunk at…

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