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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

2,204 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 24 of 111

Man Missing Explosion Sequel Police Inquire Grafton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 March 1935 · page 9

Fears are held for the safety of Malcolm McIntyre Campbell, 63, resident of Woolgoolga, for whom police and volunteers are searching in rough…

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Police Hoaxed Mysterious Message "In Bad Way" Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 March 1935 · page 1

About dawn to-day a mysterious voice over the telephone informed the Daceyville police that "a woman, and man" in a "bad way" at the…

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Ruse Failed Attempted to Steal Police Allegation Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 March 1935 · page 1

Arrested yesterday, George Henry Edwards, 29, a fruiterer was remanded at the, Central Police Court to-day on a charge of having attempted to…

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NO-TRACE Search for Scouts Police Active Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 March 1935 · page 1

Police from Katoomba, Wentworth Falls, Camden, and Yerranderie have begun, a systematic search for three Rover, Scouts who left Sydney 11 days…

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Police Moves Deputy Commissioner? SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 March 1935 · page 1

It is expected that when Superintendent Mackay takes up the position of Commissioner of Police on March 24, Superintendent Lynch will take his…

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Murder Intent Son in Dock Mother's Evidence Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 March 1935 · page 7

Henry Bernard Fulton, (23), was charged at the Central Criminal Court to-day with having feloniously wounded his mother, Mary Fulton, with…

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Dungog Police Court

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 2

At the Dungog Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. F. Grugeon, P.M., two cases occupied the greater portion of the day. A report of the…

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Alleged Threats Husband Charged NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 7

In a case in which a woman in the Summons Court this afternoon charged her husband with using threatening words, an…

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Burglary at Stroud Post Office. Safe Blown and Money Stolen

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 8

The Post Office at Stroud was broken into on Wednesday night and a small safe was carried away and blown open. The safe contained about £23 in money,…

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Sentenced for Housebreaking. Comments by Judge. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 6

At the Quarter, Sessions to-day William Thomas Silk and Richard Douglas Roberts, who pleaded guilty to housebreaking, were sentenced to six months'…

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New Police Chief

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 2

The new Police Commissioner, Mr. W. J. Mackay, was inundated by congratulatory messages from all over Australia and abroad. Mr. W. H…

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Trespassing on Railway Premises Magistrate Views Cases, Seriously

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 6

At the Singleton Police Court yesterday, before Mr E. A., Mahony, P.M., John Aitken, Leslie Moulds, and John Bunker, all strangers to the…

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High Court Griffin's Wish SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 1

Claiming that the only competent body to determine his appeal against his conviction as a prohibited immigrant was the High Court Gerald…

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Ayrfield Mine Statutory Declarations "Police Intimidation" Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 3

The secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. W. Orr) states that he has received two statutory declarations from members of the Federation at…

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A Question of Sobriety. Judge Prefers Police Opinion to That of Doctors

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 8

"I would rather have the opinion of a sergeant of police on whether a man is drunk that that of four doctors," said Judge Edwards in Sydney Quarter…

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Riding Bicycles Without Lights Council to Prosecute Six Offenders. Sequel to Police Report

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 5

When the question of present of certain persons who had ridden bicycles in Vincent-street at night without lights cropped…

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Impudent Theft Four Years' Imprisonment

Singleton Argus · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 2

A mail who obtained a key to the kitchen door of Mr R. H. Dureau's house in Hawthorn (Vic.) entered the premises and [?]id. under a table…

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Woman' Shot Incident in Car Police Story Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 1

Last night, a woman, who gave her name of Evelyn Hannan, was admitted to the Western Suburbs Hospital after having been shot with a…

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Struggle in Police Car Sergeant Badly Bitten on Thumb. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 2

During a struggle in the back of a P.D. car Sergeant Clarke, of North Sydney, had his right thumb badly bitten by his prisoner, and was also…

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Stealing Charge Remanded to Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 March 1935 · page 7

Arrested at West Maitland to-day by Plainclothes Constable C.E.D. Evans, Clarence Arthur Brain, (18), a labourer, was charged before Mr…

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