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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1928

3,187 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 33 of 160

Attack on Policemen Magistrate's Comment

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 March 1928 · page 1

William Duncan, a cabinet maker, was charged at Sydney on Monday with assaulting police constables Leo and Gordon on Saturday…

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Youth's Crime. Theft of £1400

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 March 1928 · page 7

A canvas bag containing £1400 in notes disappeared from the Wellington (N.Z.) Post Office, Suspicion rested on an eighteen-year-old cadet,…

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Alleged Improper Assault Not Guilty

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 March 1928 · page 4

At Sydney Quarter Sessions on Tuesday, Wallace Milbourne Moore, produce merchant, of Gosford, was charged with having improperly assaulted Mrs…

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Further Remand Darlinghurst Assault Case Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 March 1928 · page 2

The five men arrested on a charge of having criminally assaulted Mrs Ada Mavis Maddocks at Darlinghurst on March 5, appeared…

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Motor Car Fatality. Woman Sent to Gaol

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 March 1928 · page 2

Mrs. Catherine Stickey, the wife of a prominent bookmaker, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment, at Perth, for the manslaughter of a…

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Unsavoury Evidence. Women in court

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 March 1928 · page 2

On frequent occasions references have been made by Judges to the presence of women in Criminal Courts when there was a possibility of unsavoury…

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Scone Police Court

The Scone Advocate · Friday 16 March 1928 · page 8

Mr. E. A. May, P.M., presided at the Scone Police Court yesterday, the business being on the light side. Upper Hunter Shire Council v. Leslie…

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Wife Charged. Alleged Assault on Husband. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 March 1928 · page 5

At the Central Police Court to-day, Madge Baverstock, 28, both of whose eyes were blackened, was charged with having inflicted grievous bodily…

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Police Court. To-day's Cases

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 16 March 1928 · page 2

At the Muswellbrook Police Court to-day Hilary John Daniel was fined £2 10s in default one month's hard labor on a charge of assaulting Constable Newell,…

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Bankruptcy Court

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 16 March 1928 · page 2

Two examinations were made at the Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday, presided, over by the District Registrar (Mr. D. W. Reed)…

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Shooting Sensation. an Italian Charged. Complicity Alleged. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 March 1928 · page 5

At the Central Police Court, Guide Calcetti, 20, a labourer, was charged with being an idle and disorderly person, having insufficient lawful…

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Tamworth Murder. Appeal Against Verdict. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 March 1928 · page 5

Cyril Matthew Thompson, who was sentenced to death by Mr. Justice James at Tamwovth Circuit Court on a charge of having murdered…

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Razor Threat. a Woman Charged. Remanded to Maitland. NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 March 1928 · page 5

At the Police Court this morning. Ruby Kaile, alias Austin, alias Wade, alias Burke, 33, a domestic, was charged with having, on March 15,…

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To-day's Licensing Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 16 March 1928 · page 2

At the Muswellbrook Police Court to-day, transfers of hotel licenses were granted as follows: Federal Hotel, Gungal, to Stuart Mitchell; Railway Hotel,…

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Callous Murder. French Jeweller Confesses Collapses After Long Examination. Paris, March 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 March 1928 · page 5

After being questioned for 20 hours, with only brief intervals, for meals, a jeweller, named Mesterino, confessed to the murder…

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More Police. to Be Engaged Forthwith. Cabinet Decision. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 March 1928 · page 5

At to-day's Cabinet meeting, Mr. Bruntnell, Chief Secretary, asked, as a matter of urgency that the police force be…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1928 · page 6

At the Police Court, William Levi Pike was charged with breaking and entering on or about March 9, the shop of Henry William Bourke…

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Alleged Murder. Police Sergeant Dies

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1928 · page 14

Police—sergeant Alexander Mark, who was shot in the abdomen while trying to arrest Edward Nicholas Kelly at the Brisbane Hotel, Perth,…

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Five Charged. Alleged Criminal Assault. Newspaper Articles Complained Of SYDNEY

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1928 · page 3

The five men were arrested on a charge of having criminally assaulted Mrs. ada Mavis Maddocks. at Darlinghurst on March 5, appeared…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing

Singleton Argus · Saturday 17 March 1928 · page 7

Thomas Henry Andrews, aged 21 years, was, at Denman Police Court, on March 14th, committed for trial at the next Singleton Quarter Sessions,…

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