Dubbo Gaol Filled Prisoners Mostly Unemployed
Gaol accommodation at Dubbo is exhausted. The prisoners are mostly unemployed. In the middle of last week two extra…
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Courts & crime, 1931
2,327 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 27 of 117
Alleged Knife-slashing in Newcastle Street Court Case Man Charged S.M's. Comment Newcastle
A knife-slashing incident in Hunter-street, Newcastle, late last evening, when attempts to stab two men…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Illegal Use of Car Six Months' Gaol
At the Central Police Court, (Sydney, on Monday, William M' Cormack, aged 35, was convicted on a charge of having used a motor car without the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Conspiracy to Rob Bank Five Sent to Gaol
Refusing to consider elequent ippeals for leniency, based on the claim that accused had only been joking, Judge Woinarski at Melbourne on Monday…
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An inquest was held in Sydney yesterday concerning the death of George Edwin Mitchell (25), and his wife Kathleen Mitchell (26), at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brutal Assault Dragged Into Lane and Kicked. Sydney
William Williams, aged 50, was walking along William-street, Redfern, late last night, when he was attacked by several men, dragged into a lane and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Vermont Tragedy Man on Murder Charge
William J. Dashwood, aged 29, was charged at the City Police Court, Melbourne, on Monday, with the murder of Frederick Westbury, aged 33, of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Appeal Court Land Valuation
An appeal by James Theodore Morpeth Hooke, of Dungog, was heard before His Honor, Mr. Justice pike, at Sydney, against a decision of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Misappopriation Bookmaker in Court
Cessnock courthouse was crowded yesterday by sporting men and others when Alexander Giddins (48), described as a bookmaker, was charged before…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Clue of Voice Stupid Joker Police on Trail
In the hope of riding themselves of the attentions of a stupid hoaxer, an elderly lady and her married daughter, residing in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →University Student's Death Police Theory Is Suicide. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) London
Police investigating the mystery surrounding the finding of the body of the young University student, Ellis, in a college at Cambridge, bound and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GLOUCESTER Police Court Stealing Charge Gloucester, Thursday
At Gloucester police Corut, David Lake and Thomas James Westbrook were charged with stealing three cases of petrol from Limeburners'…
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A well-know Maitland clergyman informed the West Maitland police this morning, that the spare wheel of his motor car was stolen last…
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The two men apprehended in connection with the breaking and entering of Messrs. M. Campbell and Co's. store, at Aberdeen, are to appear at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lond Trek. Ends in Gaol
A youth named Joseph "William Smith (18), walked most of the way from Sydney to answer at Armidale Quarter Sessions a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Redhead Murder. Appeal Dismissed
William Schubert, who was sentenced to death for the murder of his daughter at Little Red Head, appealed to the Full Court of Criminal Appeal on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fraud on Housewives Two Tea Tricksters Sentenced
How housewives were deceived in connection with a bogus tea gift scheme was described at Portsmouth (Eng.) Quarter Sessions, when Albert…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burglary at Dark's Arcade. Narrow Escape from Capture Get Good Haul
It had to come and everyone was wondering who would be the victim. Burglars had successfully operated at Maitland, Singleton, Paterson, Stroud…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Double Murder Charge Woman on Trial. London
At the Launceston Police Court yesterday, Mrs Annie Hearn was charged with haying murdered her sister, Miss Lydia Mary Everard, and a friend, Mrs…
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