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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

2,204 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 111

Only One Case Kurri Krri Court [?]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 2

To day proved to [?] very [?] for Mr. E. A Mahon, P.M [?] Kurri Kurri Police Court [?] court case being that of Samue[?]…

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Cricketer Charged with Manslaughter Youth Gives Evidence From Stetcher. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) LONDON

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 1

V. Jupp, the Northants cricketer, stands charged with the manslaughter of Denis Moysey aged 19, one of two youths who were struck by his car…

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Two Charged Singleton Thefts NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 1

Arising out of alleged thefts at Singleton, two men appeared at Newcastle Police Court to-day. John Frederick Williams (19)…

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Herr Kisch Sentenced

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 2

At the Central Police Court on Tuesday, a sentence of three months' hard labour was imposed on Herr Egon Kisch by Mr. Shepherd, S.M.,…

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Assault Case Correction

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 5

In our report, in last Tuesday's issue, of the case in which Ellis Howard Lomas was charged with assaulting John Orchard with intent…

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Car Chase on Uralla Road Sequel in Police Court

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 6

Henry Edward Simmons pleaded guilty at Armidale Police Court yesterday to a charge of stealing 23 gallons of petrol to the value of £2/0/10 the…

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Singleton Robberies Charges of Stealing and Receiving. Men Remanded at Newcastle

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 6

Arising out of alleged thefts at Singleton, two men appeared at Newcastle. Police Court yesterday. John Frederick-Williams (10)…

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Kisch Case High Court Hearing SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 5

Before Mr. Justice Evatt in the Court to-day, Mr. Piddington, K.C., for Egon Kisch, the Czecho-Blo-vakian novelist, renewed his…

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S.M.Refuses to Allow Case to be Withdrawn DISMISSED Alleged Theft Motor Car Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 1

When Alfred Leadbeater, motor trader, said, in the Police Court to-day, that he did not wish to proceed in a…

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War on Crooks Police Activity New Department Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 1

Criminals will find matters much harder in future owing to the formation of a new department in the Victorian police Force. Records will…

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Scone Court House Returns of Business for 1934

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 6

Charge cases 96, summons cases 93, committals 2, shire and municipal appeals 6, applications for auctioneers' and second-hand dealers' licenses 27…

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Lindbergh Baby Trial Ladder in Court. Flemington (N.j.)

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 5

The trial of Bernard Richard Hauptmann in connection with the kidnapping and death of the Lindbergh baby was continued to-day…

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Nine Months Cricketer Sentenced LONDON, January 25

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 1

V. W. C. Jupp, the prominent Northants cricketer, was sentenced to nine months for manslaughter, arising out of the death of a youth named…

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Shocking Double Tragedy on Kempsey Station Two Dead Murder—Suicide Girl and Man Kempsey

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 1

Entering a room at the Austral Eden Station homestead, near Kempsey, early this morning, David Geddes…

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Links with Early Days Extracts From "Mercury" Files Hunter Valley History Attempted Escape from Maitland Gaol—"Life" Sentences Imposed by Judge at Maitland—Education agitation Sustained in Newcastle—Extending the Historic George-street, Sydney. Attempted Escape

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 2

On Monday morning last, when Lackey, the turnkey on attendance upon the prisoners who had been brought up from Newcastle for trial,…

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Tragedy in Kempsey District Murder and Suicide

Singleton Argus · Monday 28 January 1935 · page 2

After they had been [?] happily together in a motor bus only two hours before, Joyce Eggins, aged 16 and David Geddes Tayler, aged 28,…

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Sales Tax Court Judgment

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 January 1935 · page 6

An Important judgment was recently, delivered by the High Court of Australia to the effect that secondhand goods that is, goods that have…

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Keeping Criminals, Records New Department. in Victorian Police Force

Singleton Argus · Monday 28 January 1935 · page 2

Criminals will find their work harder in future owing to the formation of a new department in the Victorian Police Force…

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Lost Gold Fell from 'Plane Police Search London. Jan 27

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 January 1935 · page 1

The police are now carrying out a treasure hunt in Essex, Kent, and Sussex for gold in a box which fell from the Hillman Airways plane while it…

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Stealing Charge Magistrate's Comment Perjury Alleged Cessnocic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 January 1935 · page 5

Commenting upon the evidence of three witnesses for the defence in a stealing charge case at the Cessnock police court to-day, the magistrate,…

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