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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

1,886 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 45 of 95

No Instructions Solicitor Gets Remand Assault Charge Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 7

Owing to solicitors not having Instructions, two charges before Mr. Soiling, S.M., in the Police Court to-day were held over for a fortnight…

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Youth Before Court

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 4

Alan Roy Brown, a youth, was charged at the Kempsey Police Court on Monday with having, on May 27, at Lauricton, while armed with a…

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Court House Hotel

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 2

Mr. Cohen stated that he had lodged an application for permission to make alterations and additions to the Court House Hotel, having in…

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Prices Charged for Bricks State Cabinet Decides to Prosecute

Singleton Argus · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 4

In announcing that the State Cabinet would launch a prosecution under the Monopolies Act against the Council of Brick Manufactures (as…

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Arson and Interference with Human Remains McKAY and Talbot Sentenced

Singleton Argus · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 6

Gordon Robert McKay (48) was sentenced to four years' gaol, and James Arthur Talbot to two years gaol, by Judge Fair in the…

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The Police, and Juvenile Delinquents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 6

FOR a considerable time the police of Sydney have done a splendid work in caring for the young people, for whose abstention…

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Bones Case Accused Sentenced. McKAY, Four Years. Judge's Severe Comment Wellington

The Scone Advocate · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 1

Gordon Robert McKay (43) was sentenced to four years gaol, and James Arthur Talbot to two years gaol, by Judge Fair in the Supreme…

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Alleged Murder Neardubbo Further Evidence At Trial SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 1

When the case in which Albert Andrew Moss, charged with having murdered an old-age pensioner, Thomas Robinson, was resumed at…

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District Court Four Claims Listed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 7

Only four claims are listed for hearing at the District Court, to be commenced at the East, Maitland Courthouse on Monday…

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Acquitted of Cabaret Murder Judge's Advice To Jury SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 1

When the trial of Leslie Cornelius Wilson, 29, labourer, charged with having murdered Stanley James Leonard, at the Pirate's…

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Acquittew on Murder Charge. Pirates' Cave Cabaret Case. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 2

When the trial of Leslie Cornelius Wilson (29), laborer, who is charged with having- murdered Stanley James Leonard at the Pirates' Cave Cabaret,…

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The Dubbo Murder Charge Alleged Admissions by Moss Sydney

Singleton Argus · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 6

When the case in which Albert Andrew Moss is charged with having murdered an old-age pensioner, Thomas Robinson, at Dubbo, was…

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Man Acquitted of Murder Charge "Repelling Force by Force." Sydney

Singleton Argus · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 6

When the trial of Leslie Cornelius Wilson, 29, labourer, who was charged with having murdered Stanley James Leonard at the Pirates Cave…

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"Legal Corpse" The Abattoir Board Court Contention Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 7

The legality of a prosecution by the Newcastle Abattoir Board was challenged in the Summons Court to-day, and after argument…

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Licensing Court Sitting in Dungog Alterations to Two Hotels

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 2

Two matters, concerning extensive alterations and improvements to the Bank and Court House Hotels at Dungog, came before Mr. W. C…

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Early Married Discord Bride of Six Weeks Goes to Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 9

Most of us have heard Albert Chevalier's classic coster song "My Old Dutch." In One line it says: "We've been together now…

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Detective's Evidence at Narromine Trial. Alleges Accused Admitted Killing Robinson. Police Efforts to Locate Body. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 2

When the case in which Albert Andrew Moss was charged with having murdered an old age pensioner, James Robinson, was resumed at the…

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Car Driver Charged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 June 1939 · page 11

At the Cessnock Police Court Thomas Roddom, 47, of Paxton, was charged with having driven a car on the Neath road on Thursday night…

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Man Sentenced for Assault Cursed the Judge

Singleton Argus · Monday 5 June 1939 · page 1

When he was sentenced at the Darlinghurst Quarter Sessions to three years' imprisonment for assault, Frederick Joseph Gorman, 26, cursed…

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Singleton Police Court Police Secure Conviction on Amended Charge. Legal Argument in Stealing Case

Singleton Argus · Monday 5 June 1939 · page 3

In the Singleton Police Court this morning before, Messrs E. Forrest and J. W. B. Waterhouse, Js.P., John Albert Howard, 48, war pensioner,…

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