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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1930

2,397 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 18 of 120

Alleged Assault. Cross Summonses. Informations Withdrawn

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 February 1930 · page 3

At the West Maitland Police Court, before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., on Monday afternoon Stanley Joseph Duggan was charged with having…

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"Police Protected."

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 February 1930 · page 2

In a statement made subsequent to the meeting, Mr. H. Sutherland said that the colliery was "under police protection." The miners had brought…

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Electrician Charged. Alleged Counterfeit Coins. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 February 1930 · page 5

In the Central Court to-day, Norman Frankel, 21, an electrician was remanded on a charge of having uttered a number of counterfeit coins…

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Four Charged Alleged Company Fraud. Crown Case. SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 February 1930 · page 5

The hearing of charges of alleged fraud in connection with the Property Insurance Company Ltd., was commenced at the…

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Assault Case "Difference" Between 'Bus Boys "YOU — You Cut Me Off"

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 February 1930 · page 2

A "difference" between 'bus drivers had a sequel at Cessnock Police Court this afternoon when Norman Thomas Brown charged Andrew…

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Death Before Lash Prisoner's Suicide. in British Gaol. London, Feb. 3

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 February 1930 · page 4

The fear of the cat-o'-nine talls led the 37-year-old James Spiers, who was sentenced to life imprisonment and 15 strokes of the "cat" to…

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Balmain Dispute. Miners Invoke Police Aid

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 February 1930 · page 2

The cause of the dispute at the Balmain colliery, which is being worked by the Miners' Federation under the collective contract system…

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Man Denies Attempt at Murder. Only Tried to Frighten

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 4 February 1930 · page 6

Francis Bidwell, 54, was charged at the Kiama Police Court on Wednesday with the attempted murder of Mostyn Moore at a travelling side-show on the…

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Coining Plant Found Result of Police Raid

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 February 1930 · page 2

Police in Sydney yesterday discovered a fully equipped and elaborate coining plant, replete with moulds. metal crucibles, and stamps…

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Inspector R. Graham. Retiring From Police Force

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 February 1930 · page 3

Inspector R. Graham, of the West Maitland police, who is entering on twelve months extended leave prior to retirement on February 6, was…

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Hanging to Rope. Girl Rescued by Police. Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 February 1930 · page 5

Betty Grayson, 17, was found hanging to a rope in the river alongside a lighter at Victoria Docks early this morning. She was admitted to…

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Offensive Behaviour "Made Loud Noise with Mouth" Police Got Annoyed and Made Arrests P.m. Convicts and Fines Offenders

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 February 1930 · page 3

At the Cessnock Police Court today Reginald Richard Baldock and Norman Joseph Daley were charged with behaving in an offensive…

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Abermain Cases. Eighty-nine Charged. at Kurri Court. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 5

At the Kurri Kurri Police Court to-day, before Mr. D. W. Reed. P.M., 89 men were proceeded against for continuing in an unlawful assembly…

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Cessnock Case. Fined for Assault

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 8

William Hedley, miner, of Paxton, was charged at Cessnock Police Court, with having assaulted Aubrey James Rusden, an onsetter, at…

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Alleged Assault Victim's Strange Story

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 1

A strange story was told by a man found by the police on a vacant allotment at Darlinghurst on Sunday night. The police thought…

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Charged with Misappropriation Postmaster Acquitted

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 1

At the Moree Quarter Sessions, before Judge Mocatta, James Ambrose Taylor, allowance, postmaster at East Moree, was charged with the…

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Concealment of Birth Woman Sentenced to Three Months

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 1

Edith Esther Cockorill, aged 29, a saleswoman, of Swan Hill (Vic), was sentenced by Judge Macindoe to three months' imprisonment on a charge of…

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Samoan Disorders Despatch of Military Police

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 3

Owing to unrest in Samon, the New Zealand Government has decided to prepare a sufficient force of military police for despatch to…

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Alleged Stolen Goods Police Make Three Arrests

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 3

Visiting a house in Darlinghurst yesterday, the police discovered a large quantity of goods, believed to have been stolen, and, as a result, two men…

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Chicago's Crime Cycle Gang Murder, Shootings and Robberies Chicago

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 5 February 1930 · page 1

The crime cycle, almost unparalleled, even in Chicago, was augmented to-day by a gang murder, the fourth in as many days. There were two bombings as well, one in a theatre crowded with women and children. There were 40 hold-ups listed in the police records during…

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