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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

1,886 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 70 of 95

Darwin Police Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 22 August 1939 · page 2

A message from Darwin described the reported "menial duties" imposed on members of the police force as absolutely unfounded and a figment of the…

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False Pretences Posed As A Jockey Six Months' Gaol

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 August 1939 · page 7

Alleged to have posed as Jockey A Stanton and introduced a confederate as Jockey Duncan, Robert Finlay Johnson, 36, was sentenced to six…

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Police Transfers Sergt. Wenham for Goulburn

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 August 1939 · page 7

Superintendent H. Wenham, in charge of the northern police administrative district, received word at Tamworth yesterday of his transfer to…

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Death Sentence Tenterfield Murder Mr. Lang's Motion Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 August 1939 · page 7

Immediately the Legislative Assembly resumed this afternoon the leader of the Opposition, Mr. Lang, secured a suspension of standing…

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Bail Doubled [?] Walker in Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 22 August 1939 · page 1

[?] Ronald Bruce Walker, [?] a[?]red at the Central [?] Court on Friday on a charge [?] racy, his hail was doubled…

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Darwin Police "Menial Duties" Not-True SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 August 1939 · page 6

A message from Darwin describes the report of "menial duties" Imposed on members of the police force as absolutely unfounded, and a figment of…

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Cycling Race Cancelled Police Objected To Course SYDNEY"

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 August 1939 · page 9

The Goulburn-Sydney cycling race which web to have been held in three weeks has been cancelled. The Dunlop-Perdrian Rubber…

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Ownership of Money Held by Police Magistrate's Doubts

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 August 1939 · page 2

A difficult point came before Mr. Harrison, S.M., in Central Police Court, Sydney on Monday, but he refused to decide the issue…

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Country Visitor Tricked Two Men Charged

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 August 1939 · page 1

At the Central Police Court, Sydney, on Monday, police gave evidence that a country visitor was induced to pay £13 for a watch worth 7/6 as the…

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Back to Magistrate Decision in Cessnock Case Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 August 1939 · page 1

Mr. Justice de Baun, of the Industrial Commission, to-day referred the case of Geoffrey Sanderson back to the Industrial…

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Offence for Drunken Man to Sit at Wheel Magistrate's Ruling

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 August 1939 · page 3

Mr Sheridan, S.M., ruled at the Kogarah Police Court yesterday that if a man under the influence of liquor sits at the driving wheel of a motor…

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Coroner's Murder Verdict Man Now in Asylum

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 August 1939 · page 2

Now certified insane, Jack Tanner was found by the City Coroner (Mr E. T. Oram) on Monday to have feloniously and maliciously murdered…

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Women's Day Sydney Traffic Court SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 August 1939 · page 1

It was Womon's Day at the Traffic Court to-day, when 57 members of the fair sex were charged with various breaches of the law, including jay…

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Goulburn to Sydney Cycling Race Cancelled Police Object to Course

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 August 1939 · page 2

The Goulburn to Sydney cycling race has been cancelled. It was to have been held in three weeks…

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Alleged Stealing Car Missing From Tamworth NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 August 1939 · page 7

John Hugh Hoskins (20), labourer, and Cecil Roy Bourke (18), electrician, charged in the Police Court to-day with having at Tamworth on…

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Warden's Court Inspector's Complaint Mining Lease

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 August 1939 · page 6

The Mining Warden, Mr. F. A. Hynes, presided ai the Warden's Court held at East Maitland to-day, to inquire into a complaint…

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Murrurundi Police Court Train Jumping

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 August 1939 · page 4

At the Court of Petty Sessions, at Murrurundi, on Thursday, 17th August, before Messrs T. J. Towns and G. W. Kilminister, J.'sP., Alec Lusac…

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Police Court Carried Firearm On Sunday SINGLETON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 August 1939 · page 2

In the Police Court, before Mr. G. Johnston, P.M., Frank Mannix, of Preston-street, Gessnock, was fined 5/, with 8/ costs, for carrying a firearm…

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Death of Lad Motorist Charged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 August 1939 · page 7

In the police court to-day Alex Walker (21), shop assistant, was charged that, on August 24, by wanton driving of a motor car on Maitland road, Isling…

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Kurri Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd). Offensive Behaviour

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 25 August 1939 · page 1

William Edward Etherington, 19, and Athol Allan Taylor, 20, pleaded guilty at the Kurri Police Court on Wednesday to a…

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