Gainsborough Theft Fluke
The theft in March, 1923, of the Gainsborough pictures from Heaham park, the Bergshire home of Mr. Henry Cecil Sutton, was said by the…
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Courts & crime, 1930
2,397 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 15 of 120
Went to Gaol
William Laidlaw, who admitted he was a member of the Communist Party, was convicted at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alleged Embezzlement Bank Manager Charged. Newcastle
Norman Hood Allen, 35, manager of the Government Savings Bank at Mayfield, was brought before the Police Court to-day on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Exciting Chase. Alleged Theft of Motor Car. Sydney
Two youths were arrested after a thrilling chase at Rose Bay about 9 o'clock last night. The youths, it is alleged by the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Girl Vagrants in Cave Sentenced to Three Months Gaol
Two young women, Hannah Robinson and Edith May Mitchell, who were charged at the Central Police Court, Sydney, with vagrancy, were each…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Incident at Side-show Man Charged with Attempted Murder
Frederick Bidwell, engineer, of North Sydney, was arrested yesterday morning, and charged with the attempted murder of Mostyn Moore, side-show…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Escape From Gaol Unsuccessful Attempt at Coburg. Melbourne
Lewis Spencer, 42, who was serving sentences for housebreaking, made an unsuccessful attempt to escape from Coburg Gaol on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mayor of Greta Arrested. Charged Under Mass Picketing Act
The police allege that a canvass of stores in Greta, which is the next mining town to Branxton, was made by miners during last week. Storekeepers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →End of Appalling Frauds Case Hatry Sentenced to 14 Years. Lesser Penalties for Other Principals
London, Saturday.—In the crowded Old Bailey last night, Mr Justice Avery passed sentence on the four principals of the Hatry case. Clarence Hatry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hostile Crowd. Sunday's Domain Incident. Police Report. Sydney
In an official report, the police emphatically deny that either batons or a revolver were, drawn hy them during yesterday's melee in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Batons Drawn. Police Pacify the Crowd. Sydney
In an official report, the police emphatically deny that either batons or revolvers were used by them during yesterday's melee in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Indian Plot. Swift Raids in Calcutta, Police Seize Explosives. Calcutta, Jan. 2[?]
In a lightning r[?] on houses in the northern quarter of Calcutta early this morning, the police discovered moulds for the manufacture…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ugly Situation in Domain Alleged Drawn Revolver to Hold Prisoner Police Give Emphatic Denial Menacing and Jeering Crowd
An ugly situation developed late yesterday afternoon in the Sydney Domain, when after the arrest of a former speaker, together with three other men, over 6000 angry people gathered menacingly around the overturned platform, where a small body of police held the crowd…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LOCAL & GENERAL Police Court
Three offenders against sobriety did not appear at the West Maitland Police Court to-day, and their recognisances of 10/ were forfeited…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Magistrate's Opinion
The Magistrate said that there was no doubt on the evidence that the words were used and that they were encouragement and incitement to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Insulting Words Sergeant of Police Charged. Cessnock Case. Cessnock
Michael Toohoy, Sergeant of Police at Cessnock, was charged at Cessnock Court to-day with having used insulting words to Miss…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Went to Gaol
William Laidlaw, who admitted he was a member of the Communist Party, was convicted at the Wast Maitland Police Court on Friday by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Inciting to Murder. Communist Sentenced. Advocate of Violence and Bloodshed. West Maitland
A charge against Joseph Shelley, 41, for having, at Kurri Kurri, on January 8, incited divers persons to commit murder, was heart at West Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Police Are Lot of Murderers" Laidlaw's Outburst Meant Six Weeks' Gaol "Expected to Be Locked Up"
When William Laidlaw, Communist orator, addressed a meeting at Kurri Kurri on a recent date, ho told his audience of about 800 listeners that the police were a lot of murderers. He also said many other things about the police which did not fall as sweet music upon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Baton Raids Echo of Happenings on Morning of January 15. Men Charged with Joining Unlawful Assembly
The dramatic incidents of the morning of January 15, When police made baton attacks on marching miners at Kearsley and Ellalong were vividly described to a "full house" at Cessnock Court today, when ten men appeared before the court…
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