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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1930

2,397 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 28 of 120

Charge of Inciting to Murder Well-known Lithgow Industrialist in Court. Echo of Street-corner Meeting

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 3

Before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., at the Cessnock Police Court this morning, William Orr, a well-known Lithgow industrialist, was proceeded against on a charge of inciting of murder. Orr' pleaded not guilty…

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Magistrate Over-ridden. Government to Introduce Bill. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 5

The action of the Justice of the peace in over-riding the Magistrate in the Kurri court recently in the case in which rowland James and…

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Hopes of Recovery. Victim of Newcastle Assault. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 5

The police are still making diligent inquiry concerning the murderous attack on benjamin Paul on Sunday night. No arrest has yet been…

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Woman Charged Alleged Malicious Shooting. Vaucluse Sensation. SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 5

At the Central Court to-day, Daisy Hunter Pickerying, 30, a married woman was charged with having maliciously sot at Sydney Castle…

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Miner Charged Alleged Inciting To Crime Cessnock Case. CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 5

At Cessnock Court to-day, Wm. Orr, a miner and president of the Valley of Clywdd Lodge, Lithgow, was charged with inciting to commit…

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Adjourned to Kurri Communist's Charges Against Police

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 3

Owing to the length of time taken up by other cases, two charges by Edward Wallace Paton, Communist, against Sergeant Lendrum and…

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Outrages at Ashtonfields Colliery. S.M.'s Strong Comment. Sixty-eight Men Convicted. Three Sent to Gaol

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 2

The cases against the pickets alleged to have been concerned. in the outrages at Ashtonfields Colliery on 10th January, were concluded at the…

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Assault on Woman. Three Men Sentenced

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 9

Three, men who attempted to force Mrs. Violet Mimart, of Campsie, into a motor car at Campsie on February 18, were sentenced at the Campsie…

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Vaucluse Shooting Woman Charged

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 3

At the Central Court yesterday, Daisy Hunter Pickering, aged 30, a married woman, was charged with having maliciously shot at Sydney Castle…

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Found at Bottom of Cliff Sequel to Alleged Assault Defendants Before Court Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 2

At the Redfern Police Court this morning, William Sidney Sullivan, aged 31, and Harry Whitbread, aged 29, labourers, were remanded…

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Foreigner's Suicide. Theft of Countryman's Money

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 2

The Parramatta District Coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clark), at the conclusion of an inquiry concerning the death of peter Nudzik a 29-years…

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Murder Charge. Cairns

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 7

A man named O'Dwyer has been charged at Bowen with the murder of Power, of the Batavia goldfields. Power was shot through the heat…

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Kurri Police Court (Bofore Mr. D W. Reed, Acting S.M.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 2

Mr. D. W. need. Acting S.M. occupied the Bench at Kurri Kurri Police Court, to-dny. MOTOR PROSECUTION…

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Two Years' Gaol Received Stolen Money. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 7

At the Quarter Sessions to-day Donald McDouald, 49, was sentenced to two years' penal servitude on a charge of having received £70 in…

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Communist's Speech Alleged Inciting to Murder. Charge Dismissed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 8

The ease against William Orr, of Lithgow, for alleged inciting to murder, was dismissed at the Cessnock Police Court late yesterday afternoon…

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Critical Condition. Found at Bottom of Cliffs. Alleged Assault. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 7

At the Redfern Police Court to-day, Sidney Sullivan, 31, and Harry Whitbread, 29, labourers, were remanded on a charge of having, in…

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Coolidge Warned Threats of Murder. New York, Feb. 25

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 2

At Los Angeles to-day Mr. Coolidge the farmer President of the United States received a letter (the third of the same kind) stating that…

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Boys Escape From Home Police Making Inquiries

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 1

Three boys escaped from the Roysten Boys Home, Glebe, on Sunday night, and endeavours are being made by the police to trace them. When they…

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Charges Against Police. Allegations by Communist. Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 7

Giving evidence at Kurri Kurri Court to-day in the cases in which inspector Mackay and Sergeant Londrum were charged with having…

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Alleged Vagrant Communist Before Court, Inspector Mackay's Evidence. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 6

Before the case In which Wallace Paton, represented by Mr. J. Clancy who was charged with having insufficient lawful means of…

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