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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

2,983 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 82 of 150

Alleged Assault and Jobbery. Case Remanded Till August 6

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 5

Before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M. at the Cessnock Police Court this morning, Ambrose Murray and George Parkinson were charged with assaulting…

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Sentenced to Death Published by Special Arrangement. (Copyright). Chapter III.—(Continued)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 3

Blake led the way to his rooms on the first floor. His housekeeper, wife of the caretaker, intercepted him at the foot of the stairs with the news…

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Wrestling. Walker Beats Banaski. Police Stop Contest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 7

George Walker, of Canada, and Joe Banaskri, the Polish champion, falled to attract many supporters to Rush cutter Bay Stadium the attendance…

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Strangled. Victim of French Murder. Attempt to Lynch Accused. Paris, July 19

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 2

A poignant fact of the murder of Jeannie Bigogne, is that the mother, while searching for her daughter, passed in the corridor of the hotel…

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Arrested Unionists Appearance at Court Cases Remanded. SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 5

The seven union officials, arrested last night, appeared at the Central Police Court to-day to face charges arising out of…

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Seven Leaders Arrested. Timber Dispute Sensation. Conspiracy Alleged. Police Raid Trades Hall and Homes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 8

A sensation was caused in timber-dispute circles in Sydney last evening, when a big force of detectives raided the Trades Hall and arrested J. S. Garden, M. Ryan, J. Terry, and Charles Reeves on three charges of conspiracy. A big crowd followed Garden…

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Sentenced to Death Published by Special Arrangement. (Copyright). Chapter III.—(Continued)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 July 1929 · page 3

Furneaux's expressive features wrinkled in a Japanese grin, one of those strange contortions of the human face which may arise from…

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Remarkable Forgeries Cheques Drawn Total £2500. Scone Youth Sentenced to Two Years

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 24 July 1929 · page 2

An amazing -succession of forgeries was revealed at the" Singleton Quarter Sessions to-day, when Oswald Lauraunce. Coulton, aged 20, and described as a…

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Appearance in Court. Cases Remanded

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 24 July 1929 · page 3

The seven officials appeared at the Central Police Court yesterday to face charges arising out of the timber strike. Each was remanded until…

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Another Clash. Unemployed and Police at Perth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 July 1929 · page 4

In a demonstration by unemployed in Perth a brush with the police occurred and 12 men were arrested. A large body of men formed up…

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Motor Traffic. Non-parking Areas in High Street. Police Recommendations

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 July 1929 · page 2

At its meeting last evening, the West Maitland Municipal Council had a recommendation from the finance committee that 20 traffic standards be purchased at a cost of £1/14/- each and placed in the positions indicated in the recommendations received from…

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Man Arrested in Picture Theatre After Long Search by Police

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 24 July 1929 · page 2

George Percival Christopher Allen, for "Whom the police have been searching since, he had a revolver duel with Detective Gill about a…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 July 1929 · page 4

In objecting to a request by Francis Leslie Kilkenny, 35, for time to pay, when he was fined £2 or 14 days, at the West Maitland Police Court…

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Gloucester. Aboriginal Sentenced

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 July 1929 · page 6

Stanley Dungay, an aboriginal, was charged under the Vagrancy Act at the Gloucester Police Court, and was sentenced to six months…

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'The Lone Wolf.' Forty-two Burglary Charges

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 July 1929 · page 3

When Owan Glywer Evans, aged 19, appeared before at the North Sydney Police Court on four charges of breaking and entering, the Police…

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Raymond Terrace Court

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 25 July 1929 · page 3

At the local Court on Wednesday morning Harold Dempsey was fined £5 for stealing oysters from the leases of the Renown Oyster Co. at Salt Ash. Trooper…

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Mayor Fined. Assault on Engineer Glebe Council Quarrels Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 July 1929 · page 4

At the Globe Court to-day, William Joseph Walsh, Mayor of Globe, was fined 2, in default four days' imprisonment, for having assaulted the…

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Sentenced to Death Published by Special Arrangement. (Copyright). Chapter Iv.—a Bad Check

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 July 1929 · page 3

Iris was not mistaken. Blake hardly needed a second blance at the ungainly agure. waddling along the pavement some twenty places ahead, that he…

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High Court. Vacancy Not to Be Filled

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 July 1929 · page 2

The Federal Ministry does not propose to fill the vacancy caused on the High Court bench by the resignation of Sir Charles Powers. The…

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Bound Over. Husband Charged with Assault. Case at East Maitland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 July 1929 · page 2

James Yule, 32, was charged at the East Maitland Police Court before Mr. D. Reed, P.M., that on July 17, at East Maitland he did unlawfully at…

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