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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1928

3,187 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 25 of 160

Missing From Minmi. the Police Informed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 February 1928 · page 4

A report was made to Newcastle police on Sunday that James M'Cormack, aged 67 years, had boon missing from the Boghole, near Minmi…

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Case of Murder Victorian Farmer's Death. Draft of Will Missing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 February 1928 · page 6

Detectives investigating into circumstances surrounding the death of Martin Ryan, aged 65 years, a prosperous farmer, of Thalia, near…

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West Maitland Court (Before Mr. Reed, P.m.). Monday February 27. Cash Adjourned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 February 1928 · page 2

Emanuer Theodore proceeded against George Bates on a charge of using improper language. Mr. H. T. Skilton appeared for Theodore and…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 4

Before Mr. R. Solling, J.P., at the West Maitland Police Court this morning, Leslie John House (18) and Gordon Terry (20) were each fined…

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Omeo Tragedy Death of Mrs. Griggs. Husband Charged With Murder. MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 5

The inquest concerning the death of Mrs. Ethel Constance Griggs, 22, who died at Omeo on January 3, and whose…

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Burglary Charge. Laid Against Young Lady

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 2

The unusual circumstance of a woman being charged with burglary, involving breaking into premises, occurred at the Central Police…

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Warning Letter to Magistrate

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 5

During the week Mr. McGregor, Police Magistrate at Omeo, received an anonymous letter from Melbourne. It read: "To all whom it may…

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Mrs Sampson's Murder Jury Disagree

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 4

After a retirement of six hours the jury failed to agree in the trial of Ernest Ambrose Kleinert for the murder of Mrs lolone Mary Sampson…

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Alleged Unlawful Assault Wife Gives Husband in Charge

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 2

At Brookvale on Sunday, Hubert William Higgs, one of the three brothers charged and acquitted in connection with the murder of Ronald Lachlan…

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Tea Gardens Police Court (Before T. E. Pyman, Esq., J.P. and A. Motum, Esq., J.p.) Police v. George Leise

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 3

Charged with using insulting words and assaulting Police Constable P. A. Basselt. The accused pleaded guilty to both charges…

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POLICE v. George Leise

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 3

Charged with stealing a fishing net between 19th and 22nd January, 1928, the property of Walter James Davis…

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POLICE v. George Leise

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 3

Charged with having two tins of Shell Motor Spirit in his possession reasonably supposed to have been stolen, pleaded not guilty…

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MR. G. C. Addison Chief Industrial Magistrate Retiring. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 5

Mr. C. G. Addison, Chief Industrial Magistrate for the past 16 years, will retire to-morrow…

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Telegraphic News. Alleged Obscenity. Alleged Wife Murder Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 2

At the Central Police Court, to-day, Beckett's Newspapers, Ltd. were proceeded against by summons on a charge of having sold an obscene publication…

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Cane Cutters. Court Refuses Preference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 6

Not being satisfied that the Australian Workers' Union would be prepared to renew the membership tickets of those cane-cutters who…

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Cessnock Court "Drunk and Disorderly. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 4

At Cessnock Police Court to-day, James Phillips was fined £2, with 16/ costs, on charges of being drunk and disorderly and using indecent…

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Hit and Ran Police Look for Car Driver. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 2

The Liverpool police are searching for a driver of a car which struck a sulky on the main southern road at about midnight on Saturday. Both…

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Fredeni the Gaol Breaker

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 February 1928 · page 2

Several of the local sports have accepted Iredoni's challenge, and he wil be securely tied in full view of the public at the showground…

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Essex Murder Accused in Court Kennedy's Arrest Near Call for Detective. London, Feb. 28

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 February 1928 · page 5

On the resumption of the Kennedy. Browne case concerning the death of Constable Gutteridge, of Essex, who was shot dead last September, as…

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Abandoned Baby. a Domestic Charged, Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 February 1928 · page 5

Ivy Smith, 22, a domestic, was remanted at the Central Court, on a charge of having abandoned her three months old child on January…

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