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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

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Damages Awarded Against Police As Sequel. to Irish Riots Dublin, April 5

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 1

Declaring that there was no justification for the police firing a fusillade at man huddled on a lorry and others running to escape Justice Hanns in…

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Alleged Stealing Charge £1500 Involved Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 2

Leonard Francis Hunt, 31, a trayelher, was remanded at the Central Court to-day on a charge of having stolen £1500 belonging to Ernest Edward…

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Circuit Court No Criminal Cases

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 7

Mr. Justice Maxwell will be the presiding judge at the Circuit Criminal and Causes Court to be held at East Maitland on April 18. There are no…

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Dole Frauds Cases At Kurri Court KURRI

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 2

Several persons were proceeded against before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at the Kurri Court to-day on charges of having received food relief…

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Made Bets Allegation at Kurri Court Greyhound Racing Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 7

Allegations that police had watched two men calling the odds at an unregistered greyhound meeting at Abermain on March 14, and that a constable had placed a bet with…

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Police Dog Causes Master's Death

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 8 April 1937 · page 3

Patrick Convoy, a policeman, was killed when demonstrating how he had taught a dog to disarm a gunman Conroy pointed a revolver at the dog…

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Hectic Life Madame de la Ferrieres Story in Court Paris, April 7

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 April 1937 · page 1

Madame do in Ferricres, who has been charged with shooting the former French Ambassador at Rome, Count…

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Maddocks Case Ex-Transport Chief on Trial Large Crowd in Court Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 April 1937 · page 1

Sidney Aubrey Maddocks, 56, Commissioner for Transport, appeared at the Quarter Sessions to-day on charges of having attempted to commit an unnatural offence with Mild el Jon Adams, at North…

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Savage Assault at Hamilton

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 5

Henry Skilton, aged 20, a cadet metallurgist at the steelworks, was victim of a savage assault at Hamilton a few nights ago…

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Murder Charge Marrickville Shooting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 7

The inquiry was resumed yesterday into the death of Frederick Hartup at marrickville on March 20. Robert Henry Gardner a laborer,…

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District Court Sitting

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 10

The District Court will sit at Muswellbrook on Tuesday next…

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Singleton Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.m.) Friday, April 9th, 1937. Driving a Car Without Authority

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 7

Ellen Louisa Prior was charged with driving a motor car in John-street contrary, to the disqualification order issued against, her whereby she was…

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Supreme Court Action Settlement on Undisclosed Terms Sydney

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 6

A settlement on undisclosed termes was announced in the action in which Winifred Constance Bates sued Aubrey Pierce Hosking executor of the will…

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Bonnie Legion for Denham Court H'cp. Unlucky Last Start

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 8

One of the most interesting races at Warwick Farm tomorrow insofar as class goes is the Denham Court…

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Trap to Catch Maddocks Is Allegation Police Visited Spot Before Raid Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 1

The statement that on the afternoon of the raid he had visited the spot where the car was ultimately found, accompanied by Mikiel Adams, was made by Detective John Gordon…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 2

At the Singleton Police Court, before Mr. Carr-Boyd, Douglas. Wesley Bourke, an old offender, was fined £5, with 8/ costs, in default 11 days' hard…

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Found Guilty Maddocks Sentenced 18 Months' Gaol Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 11

Sidney Aubrey Maddocks, 56, former Commissioner for Transport, at the Quarter Sessions was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment on each…

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Stealing Charge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 2

At the Singleton Police Court before Mr. Carr-Boyd, P.M., Walter Lyons Ford pleaded guilty to stealing a saddle, the property of T. M…

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Murder Charge Adelaide

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 11

At the inquest on Mrs. Erroll Elizabeth Brown, who died in the Adelaide Hospital about a fortnight ago, after she alleged that she had been…

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Angry Strikers Concentration of Police TORONTO (Canada), April 9

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 1

Fresh reinforcements of union pickets surrounded the General Motors Factory at Oshawa. The leaders shouted defiance at the rapid…

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