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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1932

2,327 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 33 of 117

De Groot Before Court. Police and Crowd in Conflict. Police Brutally Handled

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 5 April 1932 · page 5

Police and a very large crowd came into conflict outside the Central Police Court on Friday morning when Francis Edward De Groot, New…

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Judge Declares Prisoner to be a Dangerous Man Longer Term Sentence Increased Assault Police

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 April 1932 · page 5

Frederick Sandfield, who appealed to Judge Sheridan at the Maitland Quarter Sessions to-day against a conviction and…

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Alleged Assault with Intent Cessnock Case

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 April 1932 · page 3

When the case against Thomas Evans, 19, of Cessnock, of assault against a female at Cessnock on February 28, was catted at the Maitland…

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Forged Cheque Aged Man Charged SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 April 1932 · page 1

Sydney detectives last night went to a city club and arrested a man aged 70 on a vagrancy charge, pending the arrival of a warrant from…

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Brutal Murder Robbery Motive HOBART

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 April 1932 · page 5

Shot dead in cold blood at close range Charles Whelan (63) waterside worker, was the victim of two callous murderers…

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Theft From Bank. Tunnel Dug. Trapdoor Cut in Floor

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 5 April 1932 · page 1

The discovery of a hinged trapdoor floor of the Broadmeadow (Newcastle) sub-branch of the Bank of New South Wales has…

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Friendly Appeal Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 5 April 1932 · page 2

The Shire Council is holding a friendly appeal court on the 18th. inst. Seventeen landowners have lodged appeals against the council's…

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Mr. Lang's Guard Tireless Watch by Police

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1932 · page 4

Few people who watched the Premier (Mr. Lang) open the Harbour Bridge or heard his broadcast speech realised what tireless work had been done by…

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Enforcement Bill. High Court Judgment Thursday Next

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 5 April 1932 · page 5

The judgment of the High Court in the appeal of the State of New South Wales against the Commonwealth…

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De Groot in Box Why He Cut Ribbon Police Amused Him Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 April 1932 · page 2

Late yesterday afternoon. Frances Edward de Groot, who is charged with offensive behaviour in connection with the…

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Man Charged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 April 1932 · page 7

At the West Maitland Court of Potty Sessions this morning, Eugene William Falconer (50), a miner was charged that at West Maitland on…

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Vile Crime Assault on Children Story to Police Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 April 1932 · page 1

The police have been informed that two girls, aged seven and six respectively, and a little boy, were enticed away by…

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Sensational Shooting in Newcastle Husband Charged with Attempted Murder. Victim a Schoolteacher

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 April 1932 · page 3

Shot through the left shoulder, a school teacher, Mrs Anita Lorraine M'Ardell, aged 22, of 120 Tyrrellstreet, Newcastle, fell to the…

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Theft of Jewellery Girl Convicted

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 April 1932 · page 4

The theft of £500 worth of jewellery from a house at Double Bay some time age was referred to at the Darlinghurst Sessions on Monday, when…

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Stole Wallet Three Years' Gaol

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 April 1932 · page 2

"I will into consideration your youth, through you tried to brazen out a serious crime," said Mr. Justice Henchman, in sentencing James…

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Stealing Charge Contractor Fined NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 April 1932 · page 1

For Steamer a quantity of barbed wire valued at £2/10/, property of the Defence Department, Arthur Jersey Sketchley (40) contractor…

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Two Years Young Man Sentenced Dungog Case

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 April 1932 · page 6

Ralph Love, 25, who pleaded guilty at the Maitland Quarter Sessions on Monday to a charge of breaking, entering, and stealing at…

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Cessnock Case Alleged Assault After a Dance

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 April 1932 · page 7

An Incident that happened in Cessnock on the night of February 27, following the return of a party from a dance at Wollombi, led to…

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Safe Blower Five Years' Gaol Judge's Sentence

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 April 1932 · page 7

Charles Brien, 28, who had pleaded guilty to having broken and entered the railway stations at Tarro, North Kurri and…

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Author Charged Sending Money Abroad LONDON, April 5

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 April 1932 · page 1

The German Government has seized £1000, in the bank account of Erich Remarque, author of "All Quiet on the Western Front,"…

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