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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

2,983 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 150

Three Months' Gaol Roubed Men Who Befriended Him Newcastle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1929 · page 6

Joseph Allen Burk, 21; was sentenced three months imprisonment to-day at the police court for having robbed two men, who had beriended…

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New World After Gaol, Judge Wants Dominions, London. Jan. 81

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1929 · page 12

Judge Atherley Jones in an article in the "Empire Review" says; "A destitute eriminal released from captivity. goes out into a cold unsym…

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District Court Acting Judge Appointed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1929 · page 13

The Government has appointed Mr. Norman Dehorne Rowland an Acting District court judge…

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Union Fees. Limited by Court

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1929 · page 5

An application for a variation of clause 19 of the bar attendants award was made to the Arbitration court, Brisbane, by james wilson wilson…

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Safe Stolen. Suspects Arrested. Wireless Aids. Police.-

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1929 · page 14

Early on sunday morning the chemist shop of Richard Brotchie Buckley street Essendon Victoria was broken in to and a large safe con…

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Missing Motor Car. Police Have Exciting Chase

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1929 · page 6

On Tuesday afternoon, the west Maitland police received advice from sydney that a Master six Blue sedan Buick motor car 1929 model was…

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Famine in Kabul Murder and Loot Appalling Conditions CALCUTTA, Feb. 3

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1929 · page 12

Twenty-five British and Indian residents were brought to peshawar by a Royal Air Force plane. Terrible stories of the conditions…

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Arrows Fired Papuan Police Patrol Ambushed Cairns

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1929 · page 7

News has reached here that a band of natives in papua ambushed a police patrol firing arrows The patrol replied with rifle fire and three natives were shot dead…

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Police Methods. Criticised by Judge. Bathurst Case. Bathurst

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1929 · page 7

When Albert Coleman wan charged with a serious offence at the Quarter Sessions, Judge Thomson criticised the methods of the police…

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Court Sensation Suicide of Bankrupt. in Counsel's Room

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1929 · page 6

The name of Robert Abbott johnstone, a secretary, of Barrington avenue, kew, was called several times within the precints of the…

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Pointed Revolver. Threat by Three Men. Police Make an Arrest

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1929 · page 9

Albert Lister Wilding who lives as Moonce ponds, informed the police about 10 o'clock on 1st inst., that three men had called at his home and…

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Goodard's Nest Egg Fight to Come Police and Night Clubs, London, Feb 1

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 February 1929 · page 12

Now that Goddard and Ribuffi are not appealing against their conviction police Headquarters are concentrating unhindered on the sort…

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Award Breaches. Butchering Industry. Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 February 1929 · page 5

In the Industrial Magistrate's Court, West Maitland, this afternoon, before the Industrial Magistrate, Mr. D. W. Reed, William Arthur…

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Stealing Charge Dismissed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 February 1929 · page 4

Before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., at the West Maitland Police Court to-day, James Joseph Ward was charged with being on the promises of…

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Incendiarism Young Girl Sentenced

Singleton Argus · Monday 11 February 1929 · page 3

At the Inverell Quarter Sessions, three charges of incendiarism were preferred against a young girl named Queenie Tassel Blanche Charter. The…

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Police Courts

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 February 1929 · page 4

Raymond Hunter Guy was charged at the West Maitland Police Court to-day, before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., with falling to return a certificate of…

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Alleged Fraud. Director Charged. Ner-saz Affairs. London. Feb. 9

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 February 1929 · page 8

J. C. Brandreth, managing director of Ner-Sag, Ltd., who was arrested on February 4, was again remanded. Mr. Roome, representing Ner-Sab,…

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Boycott. Arbitration Court. A.c.t.u. Decision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 February 1929 · page 2

An a means of resisting future awards of the Arbitration Court, which may determine upon a 48-hour week being worked in other…

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Sydney's Police System "Well Up to Date," Says Mr Mitchell. Nothing to Learn. From Scotland Yard. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 11 February 1929 · page 2

Mr J. Mitchell, Commissioner of Police, said to-day, that, from what he had been able to ascertain, the men who were sent to Scotland Yard to gain…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 February 1929 · page 4

Before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., at the West Maitland Police Court, James Dent was charged with being rdunk and disorderly in…

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