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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

1,886 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 58 of 95

ASSAULTED R.S.P.C.A. OFFICER Sequel in Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 July 1939 · page 7

For assaulting Limberry Hooper, an inspector of the R.S.P.C.A., Leslie Manning, of Tudor-street, was fined £1/10/, with £2/10/ costs, in the…

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Scone Police Court

The Scone Advocate · Friday 14 July 1939 · page 2

Mr. G. J. Johnstone, P.M., occupied the Bench at the Scone Police Court on Wednesday last…

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Dungog Police Court

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 14 July 1939 · page 2

At the local Police Court on Tuesday last, before Mr. R. Soiling, P.M., Gordon John Harbridge and James Mervyn Doyle, strangers to the town…

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Free Train Rides Three Men Charged

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 14 July 1939 · page 3

At the Police Court yesterday, Mr. W. Blanden, representing the Railway Department, proceeded against Clare Edmund Kelly for having travelled in…

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Licensing Court

The Scone Advocate · Friday 14 July 1939 · page 2

An application for a hawker's license by T. G. Birrell was granted in the Licensing Court. C. Jarvis was granted a hawker's…

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Wrongly Charged Fine to be Remitted GOSFORD

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 14 July 1939 · page 9

When charged at the Gosford Police Court on June 30 under the name of Leslie Lee with having failed to send in an income tax return for 1937…

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Police Boys' Club to Be Formed at Merriwa

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 14 July 1939 · page 6

At a meeting of the Merriwa Cycle and Social Club on Tuesday night, in the School of Arts, Sergeant Fairlamb took the opportunity of addressing the…

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Police Appeals Board Minister Defends Right of Veto

Singleton Argus · Friday 14 July 1939 · page 2

The right of the Chief Secretary to veto decisions of the Police Appeals Board was questioned in the Legislative Assembly on…

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Car Stealing in Victoria Drastic Legislation Planned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 July 1939 · page 9

During the last six months 1000 motor vehicles were stolen In Victoria, and although nearly all were recovered, many were…

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Air Court Inquiry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 July 1939 · page 9

An error of judgment in an emergney by Pilot Officer Harness, 20, of Mordioalloc, was suggested at an Air Force Court of Inquiry as the probable…

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Traffic Cases Muswellbrook Court Speed Limit Muswellbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 July 1939 · page 10

Since the appointment of the motor traffic officers to control the area from Singleton to Werris Creek, many motor drivers have…

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Police Ball Kurri Scout Troop KURRI

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 July 1939 · page 6

Arrangements for the annual Police Ball to be held at Kurri Kurri on September 19, are well in hand, according to the secretary (Constable C. S…

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Dungog Police Court Malicious Damage Charge

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 18 July 1939 · page 2

Before Messrs. F. W. Aldis and H. E. Cox, J's.P., at Dungog Police Court this Monday morning, Alfred Edward Burns was charged with…

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A "White Glove" Day No Police Cases at Cessnock Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 July 1939 · page 5

In courts presided over by judges it has long been the custom, where there is a complete absence of criminal…

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Attempted Theft Alleged Tote Ticket Finder Acquitted AUCKLAND

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 July 1939 · page 5

When a charge of attempted theft was laid against a man who endeavoured to collect a £65 dividend on two winning totalisator tickets…

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District Court Judge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 July 1939 · page 4

Appointment of Mr. P. D. Shortland as a District Court judge was decided upon by Cabinet. Mr. Shortland has been acting in that capacity for…

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Milk Sample Adulteration Charge Maitland Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 July 1939 · page 7

Audley Reay, an officer of the Board of Health, proceeded against Woolf Browett, of High-st., West Maitland, at the West Maitland Court to-day, on…

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Speed Limit Five Motorists in Court Fines Total £9/10/

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 July 1939 · page 6

Five motorists appeared before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at the West Maitland Police Court to-day, charged with exceeding the…

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Stealing Charge Man Released on Bond

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1939 · page 7

Ordered by the Magistrate to kepe away for three years from a divorced woman with whom he was infatuated, Ernest Clifford Allen, of Moree, was…

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"The Midnight Murder Mystery" (Copyright) CHAPTER I.

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1939 · page 4

Parties, it occurred to Blackwood, not for the first time, were principally stupid. Not vicious. Not immoral. Just stupid. And he himself was a…

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