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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

2,983 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 69 of 150

"With Reluctance" Verdict for Plaintiff Small Debts Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 June 1929 · page 5

In the Cessnock Small Debts Court this morning Don Bivens, motor cat salesman, claimed from Elizabet Turley the sum of £5…

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Too Fast. Thief Eludes Police. Exciting Car Chase. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 June 1929 · page 4

When a thief walked from the front of a shop in Elizabeth Bay Road, Darlinghurst, early this morning, he noticed the police car approaching…

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Court Scene Bench Defied Counsel Argues With Magistrate SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 June 1929 · page 5

Mr. McDougall. S.M, who was presiding at Redfern Police Court to-day, was continually defied by, Mr. Sproule who was…

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Not Guilty. Charges of Indecent Assault

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 June 1929 · page 3

George Piner Adnum, 56, who was acquitted at Maitland Quarter Sessions yesterday on a charge of assulting a girl 13 years and one…

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Alleged Assault. Case From Tea Gardens

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 June 1929 · page 2

Before his Honor, Judge White, at the Maitland Quarter Sessions today, Albert Charles Frost was charged with having on April 7, at Tea…

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Husband Charged. Attempt to Shoot Wife. Wallsend Case. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 June 1929 · page 5

At the Police Court this morning Bernard Vincent kenny 37 years a mechanic, was charged with having, at West…

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Muswellbrook Letter Licensing Court. Muswbllbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 June 1929 · page 2

At the customary sitting of the Licensing Court, renewals of licenses were granted to hotel keepers in the Muswellbrook and Morton police…

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Remanded. Charges of Indecent Assault

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 June 1929 · page 9

George Piner Adnum, 50 who was accepted on Tuesday on two charges of assoulting girls one 18 years and the other 15 years, at M[?] Flat, and…

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Child Beaten Man Sent to Gaol

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 June 1929 · page 10

A man residing at North Broken Hill was sentenced to three months imprisonment at the Children's Court, Broken Hill, for unlawfully…

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Car Stolen. Arrests at Wingham, Two Young Men Charged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 June 1929 · page 3

The sequal to the disappearance on Saturday night last or a motor car. belonging to Mr. J. A. Scoles, of Dungog, and the arrest of a young man…

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Warden's Court Before Warden James

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 June 1929 · page 6

Eleven applications "by Belford Dome, Limited, for authority to enter and search for coal and shale, petroleum, mineral oils, and natural…

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Spears Thrown. Attack by Blacks, Police Party Menaced. Darwin

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 June 1929 · page 7

Information has been received that aborigines attacked a police part in charge of Constable Hommings in the Cape Dombey district on June 10…

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Judge's Age. Appeal to Set Aside Verdict. Dismissed by Court. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 June 1929 · page 7

When the application for setting aside a judgement on the ground that Mr. Justice Campbell had passed the statutory retiring age, again came…

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Alleged Theft of Vegetables

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 4

Two boys, one 17 years and the other 16, the former the uncle of the younger boy, were brought before the Children's Court at West…

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Alleged Stealing of Motor Car

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 2

Leonard George Wilson was charged that on the 15th day of June, at Dungog in the Stale of N.S.W., he did steal one motor car of the value…

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Alleged Fraud. Doctors Agent Charged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 3

On five charges of fraudulent misappropriation involving nealy £856, Harrie Clydesdale Huggard Eager, 59, an agent was committed for trial…

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State Awards. Magistrate's Criticism. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 5

Mr. Perry, S.M., who has been acting as Chief Industrial Magistrate for three months during the absence of Mr. E. A. Prior through illness,…

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Alleged Assault Cask From Tea Gardens

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 5

Before his Honor, Judge White, at the Maitland Quarter Sessions on Wednesday, Albert Charles Frost was charged with having on April 7. at…

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Guillotined an Innocent Man. "Judicial Murder."

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 2

A tragic miscarriage of justice has been revealed at Neutrelitz (Germany), where an innocent man was guillotined. The fact has been brought to the…

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Land Appeal Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 June 1929 · page 4

Mr. Justice Manning presided at a land appeal court, at the East Maitland Courthouse. Michael Boland appealed against the assessment of…

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