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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

2,178 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 22 of 109

Theft From Car

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 7

A louther case, containing tools and a wireless speaker, were stolen from a motor car belonging to Mr. R. H. wookey, of west Maitland, The…

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Heavily Fined for Assault. Local Police Constable. Appeal To Be Lodged

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 3

At the Dungog Police Court on Tuesday Raymond Bacon proceeded against Constable Claude Keith Holingshed on a charge of assault on 8th…

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Police Court. To-day's Cases. (Before Mr. W. C. Geikie, P.M.)

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 9

For having assaulted a policeman while in the execution of his duty, William Rivers was fined £5 or 10 days' imprisonment, 5/- for drunkenness, and…

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Robbery Under Arms. Five Years' Gaol. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 2

At the Quarter Sessions to-day, Robert Allan Schuberg (22) was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for robbery under arms and…

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Police Transfer New Officer

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 3

Constable McMahon of Tenterfield has been transferred to Cessnock to fill the vacancy caused by the transfer of constable Carroll to…

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Remarkable Story Told to Police Evidence at Fire Inquiry Open Verdict

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 5

A remarkable story, told to the police by a man whom they questioned in connection with a [?], was unfolded at Cessnock…

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Murder Charge Woman Acquitted W.A. Case Perth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1934 · page 5

After a hearing which had extended over two days, Lillian Maud Carroll, aged 35, was acquitted at the Criminal Court on a charge of having…

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Suicide Attempt In Police Cell SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1934 · page 7

In the colla at Rockdale police station a prisoner attempted to hang himself with his shirt, but was seen by a constable before he was able to…

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SUICIDE? Police Belief Man Identified Bowral

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1934 · page 1

The body of the young man who was found shot here on Thursday has been identified as that of George…

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Case Adjourned Alleged Assault

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 March 1934 · page 5

A case of alleged unlawful assault was the only matter listed for hearing before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., at the monthly sitting of the Court of…

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Inmate of Gaol Hospital

Singleton Argus · Monday 19 March 1934 · page 1

Mrs Annie Richards, who is charged with the murder of George Washington Nott, at Pilliga, is an inmate of the Long Bay Gaol Hospital. Every day…

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Bail in £300 Two Men Charged Capital Offence Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 March 1934 · page 5

At the Redfern Court to-day Edward Charles Dillon, 29, and George Henry Gillen, 27, labourers, were remanded until April 6 on a charge of having…

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Gruesome Find Skeleton in Box Police Belief Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 March 1934 · page 1

A boy named Richard Casey discovered an almost completed human skeleton in a box on the banks of a creek at Ponshurst to-day…

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Two Men Sent for Trial Following Cottage Fire £15 OFFER Police Story Wanted Cash Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 March 1934 · page 1

At the conclusion of the inquiry to-day into the destruction by fire of a weatherboard cottage at…

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Counter Charges of Assault

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 20 March 1934 · page 2

Counter charges of assault were levelled in a case at Cessnock Police Court today, in which a 79 year old man, and a…

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Scaled Wall Escaped from Gaol

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 March 1934 · page 8

Just as the Court of Criminal Appeal at Brisbane had decided to remit two of the five years' sentence for burglary passed on James Bates…

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Assault Case Constable Convicted Appeal Lodged

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 20 March 1934 · page 2

At the Dungog Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. Donaldson, P.M., Constable Hollingshead, of Dungog, was prosecuted for alleged unlawful…

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Police Remounts

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 20 March 1934 · page 2

Constable Bakes informs us that the Police Department are urgently in need of remounts. They desire them to be 15.2 or over, 3 to 5 years old, bay…

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Rioters Charged Kalgoorlie Fracas PERTH

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 March 1934 · page 4

Four of the 14 man charged will having taken part in the ri[?] at Kalgoorlia on January 29, stood their trial at the Criminal Court. They were…

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Father Robbed Son Sent to Gaol NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 March 1934 · page 7

Pleading guilty in the Police Court to having stolen two saws, a brace and his and a spanner, valued at 22/0, Arthur Allon Taylor (25)…

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