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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1933

2,159 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 65 of 108

Illegal Traffic in Skins Police Raid Exposes Methods Government Revenue Will Benefit

Singleton Argus · Friday 4 August 1933 · page 1

Police visited the railway yards at Darling Harbour and a house at Burmood last night, and seized about 2000 opossum skins. The majority of the skins, according to the police, were cleverly concealed between two brick walls, one of which they had to break down before…

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Criminal Appeal Court Refuses New Trial E. R. CRAIG Sentence Stands Park Crime Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 August 1933 · page 1

The Full Court of Criminal Appeal to-day, in a reserved judgment, unanimously dismissed the appeal of Eric…

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NEWCASTLE State of the Gaol

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 August 1933 · page 2

The following was the state of H.M. Gaol on Wednesday, May 3rd:-For trial, males 31, females 3: for other statious, males 4: under sentence to…

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Opossum Skins Illegal Possession Buyer Charged Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 August 1933 · page 1

Gordon Robert McKay (38), skin buyer, appeared before the Central Police Court this morning on a charge of having had 555 oposum…

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Alleged Spurious Coins Two Women Charged

Singleton Argus · Monday 7 August 1933 · page 1

Lydaa Sehultz, aged 22, and Elsie M'Namara, aged 35, appeared at the Central Poloce Court, Sydney, on Saturday morning on charges of having had…

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Serious Charge Attempted Murder Mildura Story Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 August 1933 · page 1

A message from Mildura states that the police have arrested a man on a charge of having attempted to murder Frederick Priest, at Kedong, on…

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Riot at Football Match Police Use Batons

Singleton Argus · Monday 7 August 1933 · page 1

So serious was a riot which developed among junior Soccer players at Booralie Park Botany, on Saturday, that two police constables were compelled…

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Court Holiday Little Business Done NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 August 1933 · page 5

Bank Holidays was observed at Newcastle Courthouse to-day, consequently there was little business in the Police Court…

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Shot Fired Exciting Chase Court Sequel Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 August 1933 · page 1

After an exciting chase, during which a shot was fired, three men, Henry Lawrence, alias Williams, 25, a labourer, Harold. Thomas Wilson,…

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Theft of Sleepers Defendant Bound Over

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 August 1933 · page 3

Among the cases heard at Cessnock Police Court to-day was one in which George Liddell was charged with stealing sleepers to the value…

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Armed Thief Post Office Assault Official Stunned Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 August 1933 · page 1

When he shouted for help, an official at the Ryde Post Office was struck a heavy blew and knocked senseless by an armed intruder…

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Stole Blankets and Bed Linen Case at Cessnock Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 August 1933 · page 2

Cyril McClintock pleaded guilty, at Cessnock Police Court to-day, to a charge of having stolen, op April 18, blankets and bed linen…

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Fraud Alleged in Relief Accounts in Newcastle SUSPENDED! Female Employee Police Busy Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 August 1933 · page 1

It is believed that a large sum of money is involved, and that further developments are likely, in…

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Youth Charged Murder of His Aunt MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 August 1933 · page 7

At the City Court to-day Leo Starr, 18, who is charged with having murdered his [?], Cathorine Starr, 78, at Tarra wingee, on July 28, was…

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Fraudulent Conversion Three Years' Gaol

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 August 1933 · page 2

In the Criminal Court, Adelaide, yesterday Beasley Janies William Kearuey, aged 41, formerly a solicitor and a former member of Parliament,…

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Paterson Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 August 1933 · page 9

At the Paterson Police Court to-day, before Mr. E. L. Wilson, J.P., Claremont L. Patfield was charged with being drunk and using obscene…

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Government Charged with Robbing Poor Stories of Deputation

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 August 1933 · page 1

How he had married a young couple only a few days ago and later had given them a bed and bedstead to sleep upon, since they were without any furniture, was mentioned yesterday by Bey. L. W. Farr, of Newtown, in emphasising the "dire poverty" of the…

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Difficulty of Convictions for Stock Stealing Graziers' Request to Minister

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 August 1933 · page 1

Thu GrazioiV Association of New South Wales has asked the Minister for Justice (Mr L. O. Martin) to amend the law and enable the police and…

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Profuse Promises Stole Woman's Clothes Six Months' Gaol Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 August 1933 · page 1

"I'll join the Salvation Army if you give me chance; I'm never out of prison and haven't a friend in the wide world," said Edward Henry…

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Police Bullet Wounds Pedestrian Escape of Suspect

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 August 1933 · page 2

A bullet fired from a police revolver in the direction of a man suspected of Laving stolen a bicycle struck a pedestrian, Reginald James, aged 16, of…

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