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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

1,824 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 22 of 92

Disturbance at Wedding Breakfast Sequel in Police Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 8

Evidence about a disturbance at a wedding breakfast at the Masonic Hall, Bulli, was given by police witnesses at the Wollongong Police…

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£10 STOLEN Theft from Cash-Box

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

A report has been made to the West maitland police that a sum of about £10 was stolen from a. cashbox in the shop of the Vogue Lingerie Co., of 364…

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The Police

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

The show crowds wore orderly are did not call for much supervision on the part of the police. Visiting officers for the occasion were First-class…

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Alleged Murder Sydney

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

A verdict that Albert Ernest Hedges, 64, a musician. of Merrylands, had been .murdered by Eric Alexander Smith 20, was returned by the…

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Girl's Theft at Bridge Party. Jealousy the Motive

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 2

Jealousy, it was stated at West London, was the reason why Ruth Muriel Heath-Haines, aged 20, stole a £15 gold cigarette-case. She…

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Windsor Murder Case. Alfeed Spicer Found Guilty

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 1

At the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, yesterday the Crown Prosecutor, Mr M'Kean, K.C., during the trial of Alfred Spicer, 65, gardener, on a…

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Three Youths for Trial Charge of Murder

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 5

A verdict of murder was returned in the inquest at West Maitland Courthouse yesterday into the death of Cyril Clive Maher, 36, railway…

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Terror in Austria Dukes in Gaol. Jews' Appeal to League. Prison for Work Seekers

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 2

The Vienna correspondent of the "News-Chronicle" says that almost the entire directorate of Austria's monarchist movement occupy cells in…

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Police Court Unregistered Cycle SINGLETON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 2

The following cases were heard by Mr. Soiling, P.M., in the Court of Petty Sessions at Singleton. Ivan Fischer, of Singleton, was…

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A Mayfair Notebook Court Costume in Paris—Princess Juliana in Pictures—The Origin of the Crepe Suzette

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 5

QUESTIONS of etiquette which arise during the planning of a function at which Royalty are to be…

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Vicious Assault Organiser Attacked BRISBANE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 8

Mr. Everett Graham, of Wilston, campaign organiser for the Protestant Labour Party in the Kelvin Grove electorate, was attacked and injured at…

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Damage to Pram Cessnock Court Claim CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 6

In the Small Debts Court at Cessnock to-day, Alfred Gordon Sams, a hairdresser, of Westcott-street, Cessnock, claimed from George Frederick…

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Motorist Asleep at Wheel. Appeal to Higher Court

Singleton Argus · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 2

An important ruling was given by Mr Arnold, S.M., at the Paddington Court, when he overruled a contention that a motorist who became…

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£1022 INVOLVED Clerk on Stealing Charge SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 1

On a charge of having stolen £1022 from Wilcox-Mofflin, Ltd., Noel Me-Kenny, 22, a clerk, was remanded at the Central Court to-tlay. Bail was…

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Historical Crimes the Murder of Mr. Gold

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 4

On a cold afternoon in January, a young man called at the London office of an editor to make enquiries of some manuscript he had sent in. He had been rather persistent in his calls, but, being quite unknown in literary circles, had received…

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Crops That Went Bad Injured Farmer's Claim for Compensation. Echo of Assault Case

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 3

Echoes of an assault case which came before the court early in February last, in which the Complainant was…

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Police Chief Seeks Higher Pay SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 5

Mr. Mackay, the Commissioner of Police, who receives a salary of £1500 a year, has applied to the State Government for an increase…

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To Be Reprinted Kendall's Biographies Court Judgment Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 1

By a judgment of Mr. Justice Long-Innes in the Equity Court to-day three biographic of the late Henry Clarence Kendall, Australian poet, are to be…

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Charged with Assault Storekeeper Fined

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 1

Thomas Copland, storekeeper, of Broome's Head, was charged at the Maclean Police Court with having assaulted Isabella May Sheehan, 33, on…

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Police Probe Youth's Story Court Proceedings Taken

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 2

Following a report that an R.A.A.F. 'plane had made a forced landing in Pilliga Scrub, and that one of the occupants was lost, Constable Black led…

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