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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1927

2,770 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 83 of 139

West Maitland Court. Monday, August 8. (Before Mr. M. H. Cleeve, P.m.) Did Not Pay for Accommodation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 August 1927 · page 2

Robert Louis Irvine pleaded guilty to having failed to pay for accommodation at the Grand Central Hotel. The Magistrate said he had no…

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Tumut Police

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 August 1927 · page 5

Believing that the town and district of Tumut is under-policed, 21 justices of the peace have signed and forwarded a requisition to the…

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Radio in Gaol What Prisoners Like

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 August 1927 · page 5

With respect to the recent proposal to have radio receiving sets installed in New South Wales Prisons, it is reported that some time…

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Man Charged. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 August 1927 · page 2

Miss Victoria Hockloy who was injured In a motor car accident in which John Couroy was killed, died early this morning…

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Two-up School Raid By Police When Scout Was Away

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 August 1927 · page 5

Next time the boys of the Coalfields play two-up in the "big school at Kurri they will, no doubt, get a scout who will not have to…

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"Boys Will Be Boys" Climbed Fence After Football Bellbird Resident Takes Proceedings But Withdraws Charge in Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 August 1927 · page 4

In the Cessnock Children's Court this morning, a Bellbird resident proceeded against five boys, the oldest of whom was 11, on a charge…

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Fired at Doctor. Four Men Charged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 August 1927 · page 2

Dr. A. W. Bretherton, of St. Kilda (Vic.), has reported to the police that [?] shot was fired at him through his [?]rage door on Saturday night…

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Electric Light at Branxton Police Station

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 August 1927 · page 4

Mr. E. B. Harkness, Under-Secretary to the Chief Secretary's Department, has informed Mr. W. F. O'Hearn, M.L.A., in reply to…

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Condemned Communists. Strikes and a Riot. Elaborate Police Precautions. New York, Aug. 9

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 August 1927 · page 5

Sacco and Vanzetti have been denied a stay of execution by the Superior Court of Massachusetts. It is claimed that 145,000 workers,…

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Alleged Assault Girl's Extraordinary Story

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 August 1927 · page 3

A young woman a resident of Camperdown, told tin police an extraordinary story on Tuesday morning. She stated that she was alone in the…

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West Maitland Police

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 August 1927 · page 4

Sergeant Dolman, of the West Maitland police, has resumed duty after six months' leave…

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Secretary Charged. Huge Deficiency Alleged. Stare Bowkett Money

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 August 1927 · page 8

Albert Henry Tildesley, aged 47 years, a secretary, appeared before Mr. Camphin, S.M., at the Water Police Court, charged with having on…

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Unseaworthy. Foundered Collier. Shipowner Arrested and Charged. London, Aug. 10

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 August 1927 · page 4

W. J. Williams, a prominent shipowner of Cardiff, has been arrested on a charge of sending the collier Eastway to sea in an unsatisfactory…

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Chicago Demonstration. Police Use Tear Bombs and Gas. London, Aug. 10

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 August 1927 · page 5

A Chicago message says: Singing the "Third Internationale" a mob of 4,000, led by a sixteen-year-old school girl, invaded the business…

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London Riots Sacco - Vanzetti Demonstration Police Charge Crowd Many Injured. London, Aug. 10

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 August 1927 · page 5

Ten thousand people marched past in the procession before the American Embassy, where Mr. A. J. Cook, the prominent miners' trade union…

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Police Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 12 August 1927 · page 1

A motor cyclist wan fined at the police court on Tuesday for driving his machine without having the head and tail light of his maehinc alight…

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A Mystery. Murder of Moneylender. Police Active. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 August 1927 · page 5

The murder of the money-lender, Daniel Robert Condon, at Sutton Chambers, in Pitt-street, City, yesterday, is still shrouded in mystery…

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Dungog Police Court (Before Mr. P. Potts, P.M.)

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 12 August 1927 · page 5

G. Burrows was fined 5/- with 8/-costs for falling to transfer motor car registration certificate to new owner…

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Climbed Fence After Football. Boys Charged With Trespassing

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 12 August 1927 · page 2

Five boys, ages ranging from eleven years down, were before the Children’s Court on Tuesday, charged with trespassing on era closed [?]…

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New Police Buildings for Weston

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 12 August 1927 · page 10

Mr. Booth, M.L.A., interviewed the Chief Secretary with regard to the delay in connection with the above waiter, and strongly urged that the…

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