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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1936

1,908 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 30 of 96

Unmarked Case Orchardist Charged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 April 1936 · page 6

In December last year P. C. Bird. of Gresford, forwarded a quantity of apples to the Maitland union for sale…

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Sheep Stealing Many Complaints MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 April 1936 · page 3

Complaints of the prevalence I sheep stealing were made at a meeting of the Ballarat Agricultural and Pastoral Society…

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Three Months Magistrate 's Comment "Usual Trickery"

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 April 1936 · page 7

Five £ 1 notes were handed over by a north Rothbury dairy farmer for an advertisement for the film "Brewster' s Millions" at…

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Young Man Faces Court on Charge of Murder REMANDED! Bail Unsought Qld. Case Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 April 1936 · page 1

"He admitted that he had come from Sydney disguised as a woman," said Senior Detective Sloan, in the City…

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Charge of Murder After Six Years Arrest in South Australia

Singleton Argus · Monday 6 April 1936 · page 1

On a six-year-old murder charge; Eric Ronald Ivor Bowman Tapley, aged 27 fisherman, of Dutton Bay, near Port Lincoln, South Australia, was…

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Arrest in Melbourne for Train Murder Man in Woman's Clothing

Singleton Argus · Monday 6 April 1936 · page 1

Go-operation between police in three States led to the arrest yeserday afternoon of a man, who has been charged with having committed the Rockhampton mail murder…

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Riverina's Mystery Man Police Know Little About Him

Singleton Argus · Monday 6 April 1936 · page 3

While news of the exploils of a "mystery man" in the Riverna have been telegraphed to all parts of the Commonwealth the police actually…

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Jury Acquits Woman of Murder "Man Was Her Lover." New York

Singleton Argus · Monday 6 April 1936 · page 3

A jury to-day acquitted Vera Stretz, 31, on a charge of having murdered Dr. Fritz Gebhardt, formerly a professor at Frankfurt University, Germany…

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Last Chapter of Lindbergh Baby Murder Bruno Hauptmann Pays Penalty. Trenton (New Jersey)

Singleton Argus · Monday 6 April 1936 · page 2

Bruno Hauptmann wont to the electric chair at 8.45 p.m. last night. Thus was the last chapter written of the dark story of the murder of the…

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Man Before the Court. Remanded Until April 14th. MELBOURNE

Singleton Argus · Monday 6 April 1936 · page 1

At the City Court to-day, Herbert Kopet, aged 23, a labourer, was charged with having murdered Edward Spooring on the Rockhampton train,…

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Thefts From Telephone Booths and Weighing Machines Police Chase After Youths. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 6 April 1936 · page 2

While a police patrol was investigating a report that several telephone booths and weighing machines had been robbed at Dee Why, they noticed six…

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Police Court

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 2

At the local Police Court this Monday morning before Messrs. J. T. Williams and F. W. Aldis, J's.P., a stranger, John Joseph Ryan, with…

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Cross Cases Alleged Assault Cessnock Court Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 7

At the Cessnock Court before Mr B. A. Mahony, P.M., to-day, Oswald Leslie Keith King proceeded against Thomas John Frederick King,…

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Brothers at Loggerhead Charges and Counter-charge of Assault. Cessnock Court Case

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 3

Among the matters dealt with at Cessnock Police Court today was a case in which Oswald Leslie Keith King charged Thomas John Frederick King,…

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Police Co-operation

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 2

As soon as the Brisbane detectives entered N.S. Wales, the whole of the resources of the State police force were placed at their disposal. Men…

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Rude Shock for Assailant. Beaten and Taken to Police. Brisbane

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 2

Patrick Laughlin, a resident of Burleigh Heads, was awakened this morning by the sound of screws being turned in his room at the rear of a…

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No Appeal Custoday of Children High Court's View Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 1

The High Court to-day, by majority, refused special leave to appeal against the judgment of the Full Court of Queensland reversing the decision of…

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Faked Books Sentenced to Gaol GRAFTON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 April 1936 · page 4

John Hayes Campbell, 48, whose defalcations were said to have been in the vlclnity of £3700, in Grafton Sessions, changed his plea of not…

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"BURGLARY!" Water Pipe Maintenance New Proposal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 April 1936 · page 2

Speaking at the West Maitland Council meeting last night upon a resolution submitted to a conference of council at Hamilton in…

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Betting Case Magistrate Explains SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 April 1936 · page 3

At the Quarter Sessions Appeal Court on Monday, Judge Sheridan held that where no ready, money passed the taking of bets over the…

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