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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

1,824 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 92

False Pretences Twelve Months' Gaol BATHURST

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 10

Sentencing Ernest James Brooks, 32, to 12 months' Imprisonment, with hard labour, on each of two charges of false pretences, Mr. W. S…

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Theft From Magician Man to Be Deported on Release From Gaol

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 8

Described as a Polish citizen, Julius Bellovitch, aged 38, was sentenced at Bow-street (London) to three months' imprisonment for…

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Pyjama Girl Murder Police Following Another Clue

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 3

Goulburn police are investigating a report made to them by a woman visitor that the description of the victim of the Albury murder four…

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Theft of Motor Car Moss Vale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 4

Eric Stanley Pears was sentenced, to 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour at the Moss Vale Police Court for stealing a motor car, the property…

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Alleged Assault Gunnedah Case Ends GUNNEDAH

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 9

The hearing of the case in which Patrick Corrigan, farmer, was charged with drunkenness, indecent language and resisting the olice, and in which…

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Merriwa and District News (Reprinted from the Merriwa and Cassilis "News.") Police Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 5

At the Merriwa Police Court on the 21st. instant the following cases were dealt with:—Police v. Angus Everard Scott, for…

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New Governor At Maitland Gaol Fine Public Spirit

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 6

Mr. Chas. H. Graham, erstwhile assistant superintendent of the State Penitentiary, has been promoted to Maitland Gaol as…

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Drover Charged Ill-Treatrnent of Horse Case Dismissed Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 2

In the Singleton Court of Petty Sessions to-day, Frederick Brosi, a drover, of Singleton, was charged with suffering a horse to be…

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City Over-run by Beggars Magistrate Says Drastic Action Is Necessary

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 1

Declaring that the city was overrun by drink-sodden, itinerant beggars, Mr Arnold, S.M., at the Central Police Court, Sydney, on…

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Warden's Court Action Adjourned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 5

The Mining Warden, Mr. F. R. Hynes, had before him at the East Maitland Courthouse, an action brought by John Joseph Stauffer, of…

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Police Forces Minister Pays Tribute Historic March

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 8

"Now that the first intensive period of the 150th Anniversary celebrations has been completed I should like to pay a cordial tribute…

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New South Wales Police. the Celebrations and Earlier Years

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 5

Now that the first intensive period of the 150th Anniversary Celebrations has been completed I should like to pay tribute to the work of our police…

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For Civic Honours Statement in Court NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 1

When a defendant in the police court to-day was called, Mr. J. K. Williams, who appeared for him, said "he is a candidate for civic honours and I…

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Woman's Dying Depositions Taken. Special Court at Hospital. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 2

A special court was held at Sydney Hospital last night to take the dying depositions of Nellie Donoghan, who was alleged to have been assaulted…

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Had £2000 and Starved Police Break Into Cottage and Find Mans Body

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 1

Police who broke into his cottage found the partly frozen, emaciated body of a man who left £2000 two years ago…

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Nine Months' Gaol Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1938 · page 9

James Gardiner, 61, a ship's fireman, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, at the Quarter Sessions on a charge of manslaughter arising out of…

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Police Part Sydney's 150th. Celebrations SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1938 · page 6

As part of the 1938 celebrations 1000 policemen from all States and New Zealand will march through the city next Friday…

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Truck Murder Grown Case Ends to Go to Jury Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1938 · page 11

Mr. Justice [?] refused a request by the counsel for the defence in the Demsey murder trial that the case should be taken from the jury on…

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Court Trial Debating Club Case St. John's Society

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1938 · page 11

The weekly meeting of St. John's Debating Society, West Maitland, took the form of a court to enquire into a charge of robbery…

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Mad Drunk Assault on Policeman Story in Court Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 February 1938 · page 1

After it had been stated that he was a good living citizen when sober, Norman Bruce Murray, 51, a joiner, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of…

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