Clash with Police. Shooting at Belgrade. Belgrade, July 28
As a precaution against a Communist rising planned throughout Europe for August 1, the police surrounded a secret meeting of Reds…
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Courts & crime, 1929
2,983 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 85 of 150
Alleged Bribe. Power House Contract. Application to High Court. Sydney
Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., which was fined £1000 and ordered to pay £10,600 to the City Council for allegedly having given a secret commission of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West Maitland Court Monday, July 29. (Before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.m.) Alleged Breaking and Entering
Cecil Waight, 23, and Charles Carter, 28, on remand, were charged that on July 21, 1929, at about 1 a.m., they did attempt to break and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gloucester Police Court
At the Gloucester Police Court on Friday last before Mr. L. R. McGinty, J.P., Milion Amos Brooker, a young man who gave his address as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sexual Cases. Two Youths Sentenced Judge's Comment. Sydney
In scratching John Chadwick Irwin, 19, to eighteen months' imprisonment at Parramatta Quarter Sessions, for having attempted to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Fare Advances Appeal Against Industrial Magistrate's Decision. Cessnockites Concerned
A matter which will be of some interest to Cessnock readers was dea[?] with by the Industrial Commission yesterday. The matter concerned an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sentenced to Death Published by Special Arrangement. (Copyright). Chapter V.—(Continued)
Blake, knowing that the quarry had had a good look at him the previous day, now took off his hat, squashing it under his left arm as though he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Illegal Betting. Police Active in Sydney
On a charge of having used premises at Rusheutter Bay for the purpose of betting, Maude Hill, 40, shopkeeper, was fined £30 at the Central…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Arsenic Mystery. Five Bodies Exhumed Murder Verdict in First Case London, July 29
A verdict of murder against some person or persons unknown was the verdict of the coroner's jury at the conclusion at the inquest in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Transfer to be Rectified Shares in Silvester Bros. Equity Court Case
Before the Chief Judge, Mr. Justice Harvey, in the Equity Court yesterday, application was made on behalf of George Thomas Savage and George…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Exciting Police Chase Youth Suspected of Stealing Car
A youth, aged 19 years, caused a sensation in Tweeds Heads late on Monday afternoon, when he was chased through the town in a motor car,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Warden's Court
Fifteen applications to enter have been received at the East Maitland Court House. These will be heard at the Warden's Court, East…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shot at Wife. Husband Charged Paddington Incident. Sydney Wednesday
Robert Leslie Benwick, 49, was charged at the Paddington Police Court to-day with having maliciously shot at his wife, Muricl Bewick, with intent to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sentenced to Death Published by Special Arrangement. (Copyright) Chapter V.—(Continued)
"Detective-sergeant Sheldon," answered Furneaux. "He's a steady lad. No matter what you may think of me, Mr Blake, you can depend on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Burned with Sulphuric Acid Goulburn Gaol. Alister Jenner Clarke. Goulburn
While assisting in the tinsmith shop at the local Reformatory, where he is undergoing a life sentence for the murder of his wife. Alister Jenner Clarke…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Before the Court. Sydney
At the Central Police Court to-day, Ethelred Harold Chandler, aged 45, an agent, was remanded till August 14 on a charge of false pretences…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jealous Husband Suicide and Attempted Murder. Tragic Story at Inquest
A pathetic story of how a jealous husband attempted to kill his wife, who had left him, and then killed himself, was told at Melbourne yesterday, when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Land Agent Arrested Obtained £1000 by Alleged False Pretences. Magistrate Refuses to Reduce Bail
Detectives yesterday completed their inquiries into a complaint made by a schoolmistress regarding a business deal she had made with a land agent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Arrests. Cleaning Up Regent Robberies Police Hope Sydney
Following the arrest of three men at Darlinghurst this morning, the police seized a quantity of allegedly stolen clothing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Seen Leaving Fiats Police Capture Three Men. Hopes of Clearing Up Recent Robberies. Sydney
Following the arrest of three men at Darlinghurst this morning, police seized a quantity of allegedly stolen cloth hope thereby, to clear up many…
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