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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1933

2,159 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 18 of 108

Tram Conductor Arrested Charged with Uttering Counterfeit Coins. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 22 February 1933 · page 2

Detectives arrested a tram conductor while on duty to-day, and charged him with having uttered counterfeit shillings and sixpences…

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'Leave the Court' Order to King's Counsel Judge Edwards Firm Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 February 1933 · page 5

A brush between Judge Edwards and Mr. Loxton, K.C., to-day in the District Court culminated in the latter being directed to leave…

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Alleged Assault Four Men Charged Policeman's Story Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 7

Cecil Ernest Flanagan (22), Henry Bernard Stanton (22), Frederick Smith (20), and John Joseph Smith (28), were charged at the Glebe…

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Liked Change Finished in Gaol

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 8

Louis Doreen tired of being a motor engineer and joined the. Middlesex Regiment of the British Army. He tired of the Middlesex Regiment,…

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Sentenced for Stealing Judge Sheridan Comments on Police Action. Bega

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 February 1933 · page 6

After sentencing Charles Stewart to nine months, imprisonment for breaking, entering, and stealing from a store at Bermagui; Judge Sheridan…

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Petrol Stealing Brothers Convicted

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 February 1933 · page 5

When Christopher and Alan Morrow, brothers were being tried at Kyogle before Mr Mahoney, P.M. On a charge of having a quantity of petrol and oil…

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Razor Slashing Alleged Husband Charged

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 February 1933 · page 5

At the Centrl Police Court, Sydney, on Wednesday Bernard Hayes, 30, described as a jockey, was charged with having feloniously wounded his wife,…

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Mosman Woman Killed Motorist Charged

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 February 1933 · page 5

Charged with the manslaughter of Phyllis Shaffron, of Mosman, at Cremorne on Tuesday night, Lindsay Mac-Pherson, aged 26, was remanded at the…

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Stroud Police Court. (Before Mr. N. L. Sheridan, P.M.)

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 24 February 1933 · page 4

The following cases were dealt with at the last Stroud Court:— John Nicholas, Booral, pleaded guilty to having in his possession a…

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Police Cricketer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 February 1933 · page 8

J. Driscoll, famerly of West Maitland, made 76 for the Police against Lord Bown [?]ond erected in Sydney yesterday and took two wickets…

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P.M. SEVERE Stealing Charge Morpeth Case

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 February 1933 · page 4

Charged with stealing one burricane lamp, valued at 5/, the property of John, Drummond, of Morpeth, James Henry Charles Shumacher,…

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Soccer Secretary Beaney Attacked In Own Backyard. Story Told at Kurri Court. Unlawful Assault Case

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 February 1933 · page 10

Making investigations as to the nature of a noise in his backyard on the night of January 30th, William Hazelwood Beaney, of…

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Court's Finding

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 February 1933 · page 2

His Honor said he believed defendant genuinely thought he was doing his best, but there was a contract and this had been broken. There must, there…

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Appeal for Release Cessnock Youth and Assault Charge

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 February 1933 · page 5

On the suggestion of Ald. Home Cessnock Council, at its meeting last Tuesday ight. decided to appeal to the Department of Justice for the…

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Left Fortune Editor's Luck Changes Now in Gaol London, Feb. 23

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 February 1933 · page 1

Mauady Gregory, editor of the "Whitchall Gazette," who is serving a sentence of two months' imprisonment for breach of the Honours…

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Police Criticised By Judge Sheridan. BEGA

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 February 1933 · page 2

In sentencing Charles Stewart to nine months' imprisonment for breaking and entering and stealing from McIntosh's store at Bermagui, Judge…

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Comedy of Errors Police and Stolen Car

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 February 1933 · page 7

The theft of a motor-car from Mrs Sweetapple, a prominent society woman, was responsible, for a strange comedy of errors, in Auckland…

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Law Relating to Death Pacts Survivor Held Guilty of Murder

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 February 1933 · page 3

Caught up in a hopeless love affair, a young man, "frail in mind and body," and a married woman over 10 years his senior determined in their despair to…

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Street Hold-up Grierson's Appeal Court's Suggestion Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 February 1933 · page 1

His counsel having returned his brief, Paul Girerson, who was [?]tenced to 35 years' imprisonment for complicity in the hold-up of two…

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UNSUITABLE! Small Car for Police

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 February 1933 · page 8

The Mayor of Cheltenham (England) has said that one of the funniest thing he ever saw was two fat policemen wedged into a baby car…

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