High Court Crowded New Justices Sworn in Mr M'tiernan Nervous
The High Court was crowded to the doors yesterday when Dr. Herbert Vere Evatt, K. C, and Mr Edward Aloysius M'Tiernan were…
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Courts & crime, 1931
2,327 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 117
House Robbed Regent-street Theft
The residence of MR. Fred. Bulte, in Regent-street, West Maitland, was broken into and a small sum of money and a bicycle stolen…
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Tobacco and tinned goods to the value of about £15 were stolen last night from a small shop at Farley conducted by Miss Markham…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →False Voucher Labourer Charged NEWCASTLE
At Newcastle Police Court today, Vincent Lawrence Andrews (87), labourer, was charged with having falsified a withdrawal voucher for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Brutal Assault Thug Attacks Woman Money Recovered Sydney
Mrs. Katherine Townsend was the victim of a brutal assault in Cleveland-street, Redfern, late last night, and…
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An inquiry was held before the City Corner (Mr. May) yesterday into the death of John Edward Thornton, aged 33 years, of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →What Is the Use ? Sending Man to Gaol Judge's Dilemma Sydney
In the Divorce Court to-day Mr. Justice Long-Innes asked: What is the use of putting a man in gaol because he can't…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Highest Reward" Coroner on Police SYDNEY
In giving his verdict at the inquest today concerning the death of Constables Allen and Andrews, the City Coroner stated that, in his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Warden's Court Authority to Enter Search for Coal
Warden A.N. Graham presided at a sitting of the Warden's Court East Maitland today. Edwin Elliott applied for authority…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£4 a Day. Police Magistrate Surprised
"You say you get £4 a day. How on earth do you do it these bad times?" said Mr. W. C. Geikie, P.M., in a case heard at the Armidale Police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Youths Suicide In Long Bay Gaol on Murder Charge Sydney
Stanley Jackson (18), who was arrested recently for the alleged murder of Mrs. Julla Gorischal, aged 87, at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Our Police Force
We owe very much to our police force, though we may no always recognise the splendid service that they render. Too often they are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court Sittings
In future the local court will be held on the Tuesday after the second Monday in each month. At next sittings there will be three alleged SYDNEY PIG MARKET. Winchcombc, Carson, Ltd., report:—Supplies totalled 1,200 pigs at Tuesday's Sydney auctions. Porkers and baconers made improved prices…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Warrants for Eviction Case at Redfern. Magistrate's Ruling
If a decision given in a tenancy case at Redfern Police Court by Mr W. J. Camphin, S.M., is held to be correct in law, it will be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder Charge Story of Alexandria Fight
The Sydney Coroner held an inquest on Wednesday into the death of John Edward Thornton, 33, who was fatally shot outside a hotel at Alexandria on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Increase in Crime Kurri Police Figures
Figures made available by the Clerk of Petty sessions (Mr. J. R. Thompson) show there was a big increase in the list of cases at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fiendish Murder. Girl Burnt to Death. London, January 7th
Evelyn Foster, a pretty brunette, aged 28, daughter of a garage proprietor, was found dying beside her blazing. motor car on a lonely moor near…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Neighbours in Court Case Dismissed
At the Kurri Kurri Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. Reed, P.M., Francis Partington, of Sawyer's Gully, proceeded against George Bain on…
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The regular weekly sittings of Cessnock Court, following the usual Xmas vacation, will be resumed on Tuesday next, the 18th instant, when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News in Brief Quarterly Licencing Court
The quarterly Licensing Court for the Maitland licensing district will be held at the West Maitland Courthouse on Monday, January 19…
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