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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

2,204 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 111

Machine-Gun Battles in America Bandits and Police in Conflict New York

Singleton Argus · Friday 18 January 1935 · page 1

Killings by gangsters and reprisals by police officials in several parts of the United States to-day assumed interesting proportions. Fred Barker, who has long been sought for the kidnapping of Edward…

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In Bad Way Victim of Assault SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1935 · page 1

A remand to January 25, with ball of £100 in each case, was granted to-day at the Centra1 Court, when Frank Deardon and Frederick Charles…

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Police Called Bankstown Council SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1935 · page 2

It was decided by the Bankstown Council after one of the stormlest meetings in the history of the municipality, by seven votes to…

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A Clue? Police Hopeful Inverloch Crime Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1935 · page 1

Believing they have a clue which will lead to the solution of the Inverloch crime, police are making a search for a…

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Budget of News From Upper Hunter and Northern Districts MUSWELLBROOK Sitting of Court Liquor Cases Muswellbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1935 · page 4

At the periodical sitting of the Police Court yesterday, Mr. Johnston, P.M., occupied the bench, when the following cases were…

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Inverloch Murder Clue

Singleton Argus · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 1

Believing that they have a clue which, will lead to a solution of the Inverloch (Vic.) crime, police are making a search for a young man,…

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Wife Charged Death of Husband

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 6

Giving evidence at Richmond, North Queensland, in the case in which Louisa Banfield is, charged with the wilful murder of her husband, Henry…

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3 Months' Gaol Goods in Possession

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 4

Murty Clarence Sullivan, of Wickham, who was convicted at the West Maitland Police Court last week of having stolen goods in his possession…

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Train Theft Traveller Loses £416 SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 3

Tho police have been informed by Norman Athol Towle, of Wauchope that during the trip from Wauchope to Sydney he was robbed of a wallet…

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Girl Swoons in Court

Singleton Argus · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 2

While being charged at Central Police Court, Sydney, on Saturday with the theft of money totalling £20/14/, Sonis Ada Wyatt, aged 20, domedstic,…

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Kisch Case Resumed Magistrate Gives Ruling on Point of Law. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 2

When the case against Herr Egon Kisch was resumed to-day Mr Pid dington, K.C., contended that the defendant-could not be tried twice for…

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Traffic Breaches East Maitland Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 5

Two offenders against the Transport Act were dealt with by Mr. R. A. Mahony, P.M., at the East Maitland Police Court to-day…

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Girl Injured When Trying to Break Gaol in Hospital Condition Improved Broken Foot Dubbo

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 1

The seventeen-year-old girl who was injured when trying to escape from Dubbo Gaol yesterday, was reported…

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Two Remanded Sequel to Robberies Court Story

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 4

Property, alleged to be the proceeds of several robberies, was in the West Maitland Police Court Room to-day, when William…

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Court Outburst Hauptmann's Trial More Evidence Flemington (New Jersey) Jan. 20

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 1

At the trial of Bernard Richard Hauptmann on a charge of the murder of Colonel Lindbergh's baby, the prosecution developed one of its most…

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Sent to Gaol. Kisch Sentenced. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 2

Egon Kisch, who was convicted yesterday on a charge of being a prohibited immigrant, was to-day, at the Central Police Court,…

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Scone Police Court Detention of Property

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 2

Walter Henry Skaincs v. Theodore C. Doring, on a charge of detaining property, to wit, a Cooper hand-shearing machine and wire strainer…

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Theft in Train

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 2

Norman Athol Powle, who is employed at the Wauchope post-office, informed the Sydney police on Sunday, that he had been robbed of a wallet…

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Heavy Bail Alleged Murder Report to Police Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 1

Bail of £500 was granted Cyril Pearson, of Yarra Bay, now a prisoner at Long Bay, who is under remand on a charge of having murdered William…

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Police Court. Unregistered Car. Young Man Fined

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 3

At the Dungog Police Court on Tuesday last, before Mr. G. S. Goldie, relieving Police Magistrate, Francis B. Smith, Dungog, was charged with…

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