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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

2,204 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 21 of 111

Shot Dead Mystery Affair Police on Job Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 March 1935 · page 1

Detective Sergeant James, of Sydney, and Detective Bodel, of Goulburn, have been sent to Burra, a village 17 miles from…

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Miners Meet Police Asked to Leave Boycott Threat Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 March 1935 · page 6

Miners attending an aggregate meeting at Swanson objected to the presence of two policeman, and, after getting them to leave, they carried a…

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Police Await Report on Bones Mystery Case One Theory Body of Infant? No Clue Yet Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 March 1935 · page 1

The report of the Government Medical Officer and Professor Burkitt, of the University, is awaited with…

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Had Revolver Police Allegation Men Charged Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 1

An allegation that James Lucas, 45, ordered to put up his hands was made at the Parramatta Court to-day, when…

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SACRILEGE! Man Charged SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 7

When he appeared at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day on a charge of sacrllege at the St. Alban's Liberal Catholic Church, City, Erskine King…

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Postal Employee Fined Theft of Letters

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 3

Leslie Howe, 19, postal employee, was charged, at Cessnock Police Court to-day, with having, at. Cessnock, on February 28, stolen three…

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Life Sentence Attempted Murder Food Poisoned Wollongong

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 2

At the Quarter Sessions, Leslie Eldred Keene, 18, was sentenced to penal servitude for life before Judge Nield when found guilty on a charge of…

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Police Auction To Be Held on

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 7

The courtyard of the West Maitland Police Station will be turned into an auction mart on Saturday morning next. When the annual auction sale of…

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"Did Wrong" Admission in Court Man for Trial Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 7

"I am not is the best of health and would like ball to be reasonable. I know I have done wrong, and I'm willing to take the penalty of It," said…

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Man Committed for Trial at Cessnock Struck on Head Dispute at Kearsley Court Story Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 March 1935 · page 7

Sidney Williams was charged at the Cessnock Court to-day with having inflicted srievous bodily harm upon Francis William Swan,…

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Attempted Murder Charge Youth Sentenced to Penal Servitude for Life

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 March 1935 · page 2

Leslie Eildred Keene, aged 18, was sentenced to penal servitude for life at Wollongong Quarter Sessions on Monday, before Judge Neild, when…

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SHOPLIFTING Women Fined Magistrate's Warning Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 March 1935 · page 2

There charges of shoplifting were preferred against Ellen Hazell, of Margaret-street, Cessnock, at the Kurri Kurri Police Court to-day…

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NEPTUNE Mr. Lyons "Sentenced" Otranto Ceremony at Sea, March 5

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 March 1935 · page 1

We crossed the Line with the [?] ceremonial of Father Neptune's court, and the Australian, Prime Minister (Mr. J. A. Lyons) and Mrs. Lyons did…

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Possessed of £1100 and Slept on Cobblestones Elderly Woman Charged with Vagrancy

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 March 1935 · page 3

When police searched the belongings of an elderly woman who had allegedly been sleeping on the cob-½ blestones in St. Andrew's Place,…

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Miners' Meeting Question in Assembly Police Presents Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 March 1935 · page 5

The attendance of police at an aggregate meeting of the Miners' Federation at Swansea last Sunday was the subject of a protest in the Legislative…

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Mother's Grit Great Fortitude Story to Police Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 March 1935 · page 1

Police investigating the finding of the body of a newly-born child on a golf links on the Blue Mountains on Monday, located the…

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Kurri Court Improper Language Fines Imposed Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 March 1935 · page 7

Leslie Riley; charged before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., at the Kurri Kurri Police Court to-day with drunkenness, and using indecent language, was fined…

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Appeal to Privy Council Full Court Grants Leave. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 March 1935 · page 2

The Full Court to-day gave the A.J.C. leave to appeal to the Privy Council in the-Rufus Naylor case. Mr Justice Boyce remarked that as…

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Youth Gaoled Petty Theft NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 March 1935 · page 7

On Monday Ronald Bradley (18), labourer, stole fishing gear, etc., valued at 14/, from the week-end dwelling of William Smith, at Swansea…

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Bandit King Sentenced to Death to Be Guillotined Bastia (Corsica), March 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 March 1935 · page 1

Andre Spada, for eleven years the bandit king of Corsica, was to-day sentenced to death on seven charges of murder and attempted murder…

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