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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1933

2,159 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 59 of 108

Unemployed Man's Plight. Order to Give Up Home Mayor's Appeal in Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 July 1933 · page 2

When the adjourned case in which Mattie Dolman is proceeding against Leonard Renshaw for failure comply with the court. [?]…

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PATERSON Stealing Charge Man Remanded Paterson

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1933 · page 4

At the Police Court before Messrs. E.L.Wilson and A. F. Walker, J's. P. James MacDonald (19) was charged with stealing goods to the…

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Body Under Tree Murder Charge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1933 · page 2

The trial began at Adelaide f Salem Macksad, 51, Syrian stororkeeper, of Gilbert-street, city, on a charge having murdered Richard Joseph Supple,42, engle [?]…

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Mayor Thanked Appeal to Magistrate Evictions Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1933 · page 10

The Mayor of Cessnock (Alderman Shakespeare) in his report to the Cessnock Municipal Council last night, made reference to his apepal to the…

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Thief Bolted Watchman's Discovery Dog Charged Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1933 · page 1

[?] Stenner, night watchman, while on patrol duty, between 1 and 2 o'clock this morning, discovered that an attempt had been made to rob the…

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Dangerous Gunman Sentenced in Sydney Chinese Victims Bad Record Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1933 · page 1

Found guilty of having robbed three Chinese of £140 in a shop at Alexandria in the company of two other…

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Police Car Skids Four Detectives Injured

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 July 1933 · page 2

Four detectives had narrow escapes last evening, when the northern suburbs. wireless patrol and overturned in pittwater-road, St. Ives…

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LOST £1000 Story in Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1933 · page 8

How he lost £1000 in three months was related by Allan Chadwick when he was examind at the Brunswick Court, Victoria, for falling to…

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On Doorstep Body of Infant Police Theory Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1933 · page 1

The body of a male child about three weeks old was found on the doorstep of a house in Gordon-street, Paddington, this morning…

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Kurri Court Relatives' Quarrel Stanford Case Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1933 · page 7

Helen Ross was charged before Mr. R.Atkinson at Kurri Court to-day with having assaulted Mary Ann Ross…

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LOCK-PICKER Police Allegation Man Charged Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 July 1933 · page 1

A man, who has been arrested on a charge of breaking and entering, is believed to have been responsible for many thefts in the…

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Stole a Horse Two Men Sentenced COONABARABRAN

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 July 1933 · page 1

Sentence of a month's gaol was imposed on william. Hayes and Charles Ramptherne, when they were convicted of having stolon a horse…

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Slack Court Newcastle, Thursday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 July 1933 · page 7

To-day was a slack day in Newcastle Police Court. There were only there changes, two drunks and one [?]…

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Life Sentence Man on Murder Charge BRISBANE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 July 1933 · page 4

At Toowoomba, Mr. Justice Webb sentenced percy Claude Airs to imprisonment for life with hard labour for the wilful murder of Percival Cornel…

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Resisted the Police Weston Man Fined

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 20 July 1933 · page 5

Pleading guilty to a charge of having resisted the police while in the execution of their ditty, Timothy, Patterson, of Western, who appeared before…

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Ross Family Rumpus Mother, Son, and Daughter-in-Law in Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 20 July 1933 · page 6

According to evidence given at the Kurri Karri Police Court yesterday, happenings were pretty lively at the Ross family…

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Stealing Charge. Man Remanded

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 21 July 1933 · page 2

At Paterson Police Court on Wednesday before Messrs. E. L. Wilson and A. F. Walker, J.'sP., James MacDonald (19), was charged with…

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Police Raid Coal in Camp Court Sequel Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 July 1933 · page 7

On July 12 police and railway officials raided Clyde-street, Hamilton, unemployed camp, and arrested 13 men. In some of the huts coal was…

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100 CONVICTIONS Inebriate's Record Brothers Charged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 July 1933 · page 6

His hundredth conviction! This was the record made by Michael Howe 62, when to-day he was convicted by Mr. M. B. Meagher,…

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Morpeth Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 July 1933 · page 6

Before Mr. R. Alkiason, P.M., at the Morpeth Police Court yesterday, William Joseph Tobin was fined 10/ and S/ costs for being found on the…

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