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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1889

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West Maitland Police Court. Monday, December 23, 1889

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 December 1889 · page 8

DRUNKENNESS.—Three inebriates were fined— two in the sum of 5s, or twenty-four hours' imprisonment, and the third 10s, or in default forty-eight hours' gaol…

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A Doctor Says he Will go to Gaol

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 24 December 1889 · page 2

DR GOODE, late visiting surgeon to the Orange Hospital, who was proceeded against by Miss Davis, the matron, who obtained a verdict for £200 at the…

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The Surry Hills Murder. the Prisoners Committed

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 24 December 1889 · page 4

AT the Central Police Court on Saturday the hearing of the charges against Frank Smith and George Paxton of having murdered Henry Blackburn on…

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Dodging the Police. Four Play Expeoted. London, Sunday Night

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 24 December 1889 · page 2

IT is understood the pugilists, Paddy Slavin and Jem Smith, who are both on the Continent, will meet secretly to-day, but the time and place are…

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The Alden Murder

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 December 1889 · page 1

Hamilton Reid'a connection with the atrocious Alden murder case, although the crime was committed many years ago, is a theme still often revived in quite old…

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The Arran Murder

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 28 December 1889 · page 4

The trial of John Watson Laurie, who was accused of the murder of Edwin RobertRose, of Upper Tooting, by throwing him over the precipice near the head of Glen Sannox…

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Tragedy in Newcastle. Attempted Murder and Suicide

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 December 1889 · page 2

ONE of the most terrible tragedies which has ever occurred in Newcastle took place in Hunter-street on Christmas night, when a man named William…

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Attempted Murder of a County Court Judge

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 31 December 1889 · page 7

Mr. Samuel B. Bristowe, Q.C., Judge of the Nottingham County Court, was shot at and dangerously wounded at the Great Northern Railway Station at that town on the evening of November 19. His…

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West Maitland Police Court. Monday, December 30, 1889. (Before Messrs. J. Gillies and J. W. Pender, J's.P

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 31 December 1889 · page 4

DRUNKENNESS.—An inebriate, who had been confined in the lockup since Saturday, was admonished and discharged. PROTECTION.—John Doncaster, an aged man, was…

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