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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

1,824 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 92

Pyjama Girl Murder

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 2

Sydney detectives who have been examining the Victorian police files in connection with the Albury pyjama girl murder…

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Albury Murder No New Information MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 2

Sydney detectives who have been examining the Victorian police files in connection with the Albury pyjama girl murder, will leave for Sydney in…

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Court Statistics Local Figures

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 3

Mr. E. R. Hughes, C.P.S. has kindly supplied us with the following particulars of the business which came under his jurisdiction at Dungog…

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Engineers' Strike Court Case Adjourned SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 10

The application for the deregistration of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and the Australasian Society of Engineers, because of the continued…

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Lost Licence Motor Cyclist in Court Drunken Driving

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 6

In th West Maitland Police Court to-day Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., told a defendant that the amended traffic regulations provided for…

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New Speed Law. Federal Servants Exempt Magistrate's Ruling Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 2

In the City Traffic Court Mr. Farrington, S.M., held that the Motor Traffic Act did not apply to Commonwealth public servants on official duty…

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DISMISSED Poundkeeper Charged Alleged Cruelty

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 January 1938 · page 6

Charges of having cruelly ill-treated a horse and of having used obscene language were made against Francis Bede Twomey, of…

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Stolen Motors Engineer in Trouble Sent to Gaol Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 January 1938 · page 7

Employed by the New System Telephones Proprietary Ltd., James Lyons (19), engineer, had, after some time, his services dispensed…

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Stealing at Balls Prosecution for Future Offenders

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 5

"It is coming to something when people cannot go into the baths without having their property [?] said Ald. Dixon at the Cessnock…

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Prison and Fine. Share-hawking Case Magistrate's Remarks

The Scone Advocate · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 6

Arnold Lovell, 46, manager, was fined £100 and sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour by Mr. G. J. Johnstone, P.M., at…

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Sequel to Fight Singleton Police Court SINGLETON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 January 1938 · page 2

The sequel to a fight in Munro-street, Singleton, at 11.30 last night was the appearance in the Singleton Court this morning, before Messrs. J. W. B…

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Grim Story of Atrocities In China. Jap. Soldiers Looting, Murder and Outrage Huge Civil Deathroll London, January 28

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 January 1938 · page 1

The first authentic description of atrocities by Japanese soldiers at Nanking and Hangchow is contained in information compiled by the Hongkong correspondent of the "Daily…

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Alleged Stealing Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 31 January 1938 · page 4

In the Police Court to-day Vivlan Percival Carrington Charles Foale (23), wheeler, was charged that at West Maitland about August 30 he…

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Assault Charge Milk Vendor Fined NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 31 January 1938 · page 1

For assaulting a tram conductor, Claude Poole (27), milk vendor, was fined £5, with 10/ expenses, in the Police Court today…

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Bull Killed at Sandgate Charged Into Car

Singleton Argus · Monday 31 January 1938 · page 1

A bull saw the headlights of a car on Maitland-road, Sandgate, shortly after midnight last night and charged into them. He bounded…

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Bull Killed Charged into Car HEXHAM

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 31 January 1938 · page 6

Charging into a car on the Maitland road, at Sandgate, late last night, a bull was killed. The car was not being driven quickly,…

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Tragedy Near Tweed Heads Murder and Suicide

Singleton Argus · Monday 31 January 1938 · page 2

Incensed over a quarrel with his wife, Christopher Walker, three-quarter caste aboriginal, shot a man dead at Fingal, near Tweed Heads, on…

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Shot Himself Murder Attempt Sequel PERTH

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 31 January 1938 · page 3

A case of alleged attempted murder and suicide has been reported from Collie. Norman Lock arrived in Collie from…

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Singleton Police Court (Before Messrs J. W. B. Waterhouse and A. Simmons, Js.P.) Saturday, January 29th

Singleton Argus · Monday 31 January 1938 · page 2

Douglas Wesley Bourke, of Singleton, and James Austin, a stranger, appeared on charges arising out of a fight in Munro-street on Friday…

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"I Loved Her" Alleged Statement Murder Inquest Katoomba

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 31 January 1938 · page 5

The allegation that the accused had confessed to the crime was made to-day by Detective Sergeant Devine at the inquest on Jean Clemenger (20)…

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