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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1933

2,159 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 50 of 108

Theft of Maize. Charge Against Muscle Creek Farmer. FINED £5

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 16 June 1933 · page 9

Before Mr. W. C. Geikie, P.M., and Mr. O. G. Morton, J.P., at the Muswellbrook Police Court this morning, Frederick Pearce Smith, who was…

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Sentenced For. Receiving Two and a Half Years' Imprisonment. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Friday 16 June 1933 · page 6

At the Quarter Sessions to-day, Herbert Frederick Carpenter, aged 33, labourer, was sentenced to 24 years' imprisonment for receiving…

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License Refused. Police Objection NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 June 1933 · page 5

An application by Cooll Charles Drinkwater for a hawker's Heonee was refused by Mr. Harrison, S.M., to-day…

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New Police Quarters Wanted Cessnocck Demands

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 June 1933 · page 5

The need for more commodious quarters Cor the notice at Cessnock is a matter which demands the immediate…

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Clear Name Rofe's Efforts Court View Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 June 1933 · page 1

Thomas Ernest Rofe, whose name was yesterday restored to the roll of solicitors by the Full Court intends to take steps in an…

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Robbery Under Arms. 14 Years' Sentence. Victim former Resident of Denman. Alleged Murder Plot

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 16 June 1933 · page 3

Patrick O'Sulliyan, 32, was sentenced by Acting Judge Nield, at the Quarter Sessions, Sydney, to 14 years' penal servitude for having, while…

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Continuing— six Were to Die Chapter Twenty-five. a Police Siege

Singleton Argus · Friday 16 June 1933 · page 2

About nine o 'clock that night, a certain liveliness became evident in sleepy Silverthorn-road. A stone's throw from the Earl's…

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Mr. T. E. Rofe Name Restored to Roll. Exonerated by Full Court. Sydney, Thurs

The Scone Advocate · Friday 16 June 1933 · page 5

Mr. T. E. Rofe, who was removed from the roll of solicitors 38 years ago, was to-day unconditionally restored to the roll by the Full Court…

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Mr. T. E. Rofe. Name Restored to Roll. Exonerated by Full Court Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 16 June 1933 · page 4

Mr. T. E. Rofe, who was removed from the roll of solicitors 38 years ago, was to-day unconditionally restored to the roll by the Full Court…

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REMANDED Alleged Stealing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 June 1933 · page 12

Arrested yesterday afternoon by Sergeant Michie, Constable Ecles, Evans and Eiphick, George Alfred Costello (44), of Elgin-street, West…

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Brutal Assault Five Youths Charged SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 June 1933 · page 5

Sidney Williams (22), labourer Raymond Abbott (19), labourer, Frederick Wastle (20), nows vender, Claude Lowis (20), dealer, and…

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Butcher Charged Case Adojourned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 June 1933 · page 4

An adjournment of seven days was granted at West maitland Court to-day in the case in which Audley Reay, officer of the Board of Health,…

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Theft of Rugs Man Fined £3

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 June 1933 · page 4

George Alfred Costello, 44, of Elgin-street, West Maitland, was fined £3, in default six day's gaol, at the West Maitland Court of Petty…

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Five Young Men Charged Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 19 June 1933 · page 2

At the Central Court to-day five young men were charged with having assaulted Loy roung, and robbed him of a watch and spectacles valued at £1…

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Ingratitude to Benefactor Theft From Catholic Presbytery

Singleton Argus · Monday 19 June 1933 · page 1

A story of a man's ingratitude to his benefactor was told at the Dunedoo Police Court, when Stanley Joseph Fed was sentenced to a month's…

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Two Charged Goods in Custody Sugar Found

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 June 1933 · page 4

Searching a house at Farley on May 31, Plainclothes Constable Evans found a bag of sugar behind a bedroom door and a…

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For Trial on Murder Charge Girl's Alleged Confession. Baby Thrown From Train

Singleton Argus · Monday 19 June 1933 · page 2

Evidence that she had thrown her baby form the window of a railway carnage as the train was passing Grass Tree, near Muswellbrook, on May 27,…

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Gloucester Police Court. a Prohibited Immigrant

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 20 June 1933 · page 4

Saide Noor Mahomed pleaded not guilty to being a prohibited immigrant, in that he did at Melbourne in 1929 evade an officer, and later…

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Theft from Convent. Described As Contemptible. Grafton

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 20 June 1933 · page 2

"The theft was a most contemptible one, and I sentence you to be imprisoned with hard labour for two months," said Mr. H. Hawkins, P.M. to…

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Mail Bags Brazen Theft City Station Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 June 1933 · page 1

Police are making inquiries into the brazen theft of three mail bags from a postal van outside Wynyard Station…

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