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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1932

2,327 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 17 of 117

Ex-policemen Sentenced

Singleton Argus · Monday 15 February 1932 · page 1

Walter Henry Webber, aged 26, and Matthew Vaughan Yates, aged 24, formerly policemen, who pleaded guilty at the Quarter Sessions to receiving, were…

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Four Charges Escapee Before Court Police Story

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 February 1932 · page 4

William Croft, 26, who escaped from the custody of Constable Ivan O'Brien, lock-up keeper, at West Maitland, on…

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Three Months Escapee Sentenced

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 February 1932 · page 5

William Croft, 36, who with charged at the West Maitland Court of Petty Sessions this morning, was brought up for sentences this…

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Murder Verdict Murchison Inquest. Rowles for Trial

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 February 1932 · page 2

A Perth message states that after a hearing lasting seven days the inquest on Leslie George Brown also known as Louts J. Carron, a…

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Traffic Cases Unregistered Cars W.M. COURT

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 February 1932 · page 4

Several traffic cases came before Mr. F. D. H. Sutherland, P.M., at the West Maitland Court of Petty Sessions to-day…

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Denman Police Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 5

At the police court on Thursday, Norman Jacobs was fined £3 and 8/costs for failing to keep his dairy premises in order. It was stated for the…

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Ex-Police Officers Charged. Judge Takes Serious View

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 4

Pleading guilty to charges of receiving, two former members of the N.S. Wales Police Force, Matthew Yates, 24, and Walter Webber, 26, were remanded…

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Muswellbrook Police Court. Case from Denman

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 5

Eric William Evelyn George Cole. Hasting appeared at the Muswellbrook Police Court on a charge of stealing a number of tools, the property of…

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Muswellbrook Police Court. Remanded to Reception House

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 1

Edward Frederick Stanley, charged with being a person deemed to be insane, was ordered to be sent to the Newcastle Reception House for eight…

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Gaol for Hold-up

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 3

George Gabriel, 35, a native of Egypt, and well known as a marsthon dancer, plcaded guilty in the Supreme Court, Brisbane, to a charge…

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DISMISSED Stealing Charge CESSNOCK, Tuesday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 5

"We will not plead guilty to the actual stealing," said Mr. J. H. F. Waller in entering a plea of not guilty at Cessnock Court to-day in…

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Case Dismissed Charge of Stealing a Bicycle

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 2

At Ceasnock Police Court to-day, Joseph Thoma, 18, was charged with having stolen a bicycle valued at £8 the property of Donald Murdoch…

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Copeland Police Station

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 2

Hon. W. Bennett, M.L.A., is in receipt of the following communication from the Chief Secretary's Department: "In reply to your…

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Squatter's Ordeal. Alleged Kidnapping. Two Men Charged

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 3

Charges arising out of the alleged kidnapping of Edward Montgomery Perrott, a 65-year-old squatter, of Scone, were preferred against two men…

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Nine Years Attempted Assassination Woman Sentenced Calcutta, Feb, 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 1

Vina Das, the 20-years-old Bengali woman who attempted to assassinate Governor Jackson on February 6, was sentenced to…

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Gaol Riot Lash for Ringleaders TORONTO. Feb, 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 1

A riot of 500 prisoners in the dinning room of the Reformatory to-day was quelled, and the convicts were surrounded by guards armed with…

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Theft of a Bicycle Defendant Convicted and Fined £5

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 3

Norman James Olsen was charged at Ceasnock Police Court to-day with having stolen a bicycle valued at £10, the property of Edward Burns…

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Forged Notes Police Warning SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 1

Following the passing of a forged £10 note at Bondi Junction yesterday the police have warned shopkeepers at keep a sharp look out…

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Busy Days at Court House

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 2

From the 30th. January to the 15th. inst. there have been 48 cases before the justices at the local court. The number exceeds by 12 the total for…

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Police Fire Indian Attack Many Casualties Calcutta, Feb. 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 1

Three were killed and 33 wounded, and live constables seriously injured, when the police fired on a crowd of 3000…

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