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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

2,983 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 83 of 150

Police Point of View

The Scone Advocate · Friday 26 July 1929 · page 4

The Acting-Commissioner of Police (Mr. Childs) said there could be no doubt that Mr. Gates was right. Goods were freely displayed in most shops…

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

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 July 1929 · page 3

"That woman is exceedingly well dressed," said Iris. "She is wearing one of the latest Paris models in cedar. Her hat, stockings and shoes…

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

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 26 July 1929 · page 1
Also in The Scone Advocate

Am amazing succession of forgeries, was wealed nt the Singleton Quarter Sess[?], when Oswald Laurence Coulton, aged 20, and described as a…

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Police Stop Funeral. Post Mortem Ordered

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 26 July 1929 · page 9

Detectives held up a funeral at Rookwood cemetery on Monday afternoon and took charge of the collin and corpse. The body was later removed to…

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Bankruptcy Court Friday, 26th JULY, 1929

Singleton Argus · Friday 26 July 1929 · page 6

Examined before Mr D. W. Rood, P.M., in the Bankruptey Court to-day, Frederick Ernest Burgmann said that he had not incurred debts in any other…

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Charged with Infamous Conduct Clerk of Records Denies Offence. Chairman Reserves Decision. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Friday 26 July 1929 · page 6

The Public Service Board to-day opened an inquiry concerning the conduct of Arthur Albert Cooper, clerk in charge of records in the…

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Man Arrested in Picture Theatre. After Long Search by Police

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 26 July 1929 · page 11

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

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Desperate Communist Shot Two Police Officers. and Then Escaped. Belgrade, July 25

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 July 1929 · page 6

The notorious Communist, Svetka Tdhelan, was arrested as he emerged from a train at Sverajovo. While officers were conferring at…

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Operations Cease At Kurri's New Coal Mine Police and Colliery Officials Act

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 26 July 1929 · page 10

Operations at Kurri Kurri's new coal mine ceased to-day, when police and colliery officials visited the scene of the old workings at…

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Notorious Communist Escapes Fatally Injures Police Officers. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) Belgrade

Singleton Argus · Friday 26 July 1929 · page 6

The notorious communist, Svetka Tdhelan, was arrested as he entered from a train at Sverajevo. While officers were confe?ing at the…

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Licensing Court Friday, 20th JULY, 1920. (Before Mr D. W. Reed, P.M.)

Singleton Argus · Friday 26 July 1929 · page 7

Applications for collectors' licenses were granted to Percy Albert Dunshen and Walter Simpson Smith, An application for a Sunday trading…

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Gloucester. Aboriginal Sentenced

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 July 1929 · page 8

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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Murder Charge

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 July 1929 · page 8

Later she was brought before the Chamber Magistrate at North Sydney Court and charged with having murdered Mary Patrician Pattinson…

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Solicitor Sentenced Misappropriation of Money

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 July 1929 · page 9

Camphell Hardings Gifard King, 38, who pleaded guilty to three charges of having misappropriated money to a total amount of £691 which he had…

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'The Lone Wolf.' Forty-two Burglary Charges

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 July 1929 · page 4

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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West Maitland Court Monday, July 22. (Before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.m.) Alleged Stealing

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 July 1929 · page 13

Frederick James Mead, 43, was charged with having in his possession on July 21, 1929 three pumpkins and five cabbages, reasonably…

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Mayor Fined. Assault on Engineer Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 July 1929 · page 5

At the Glebe Court to-day William Joseph Walsh Mayor of Glebe was fined £9 in default four days imprisonment for having assaulted the…

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Alleged Arson. Young Couple Charged Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 July 1929 · page 13

Alma Brown, £1 was charged at the Central Court to-day with having conspired with James Henry Brown 21, a grocer to commit arson at…

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Greengrocer's Loss. Alleged Assault and Robbery Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 July 1929 · page 1

At Cessnock Police Court to-day Ambrose Murray, and George Parkinson were charged with having assaulted and robbed Alan Thompson…

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