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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1890

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Police Court. Tuesday, July 1. Before Mr. W. F. Parker, P.M. ASSAULT

The Scone Advocate · Saturday 5 July 1890 · page 2

William Cundy was charged with assaulting John Isaac on the 1st June at Tumully. Defendant pleaded not guilty…

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West Maitland Police Court. (Thursday, July 3, 1890.) (Before Mr. Brooks, P.M.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1890 · page 4

DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—Sarah McGniness was charged with having been drunk and disorderly in High-street on Wednesday morning. She pleaded guilty, and was ordered…

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Double Murder in Cheshire

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 July 1890 · page 3

A shocking double murder was committed early on May 25 at New Brighton, near Liverpool. A woman, named Mary Spicer, carried on business as a refreshment-house keeper, in the Victoria Road,…

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West Maitland Police Court. Monday, JULY 7. (Before Messrs. Brooks, P.M., J. Gillies, and Jno. Pearse, J's. P.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 July 1890 · page 4

DRUNKENNESS.—An inebriate, who was arrested early on Sunday morning, was sentenced to pay a penalty of 10s, in default to be imprisoned for twenty-four hours…

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Singleton Police Court. Monday, July 7Th. (Before Mr W. Dudding, J.p.) Drunk

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 July 1890 · page 2

ANDREW LAWSON pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, and was fined ls, or to be imprisoned until noon, the defendant having been in the lockup since the previous…

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Threatened Strike of London Policemen. Tradesmen and Householders Warned. a Mob Charged London

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 July 1890 · page 3

IN connection with the friction existing between the Chief Commissioner of Police in the metropolitan district and the men, 90 Bow-street constables have…

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Charged with Bigamy. (By Telegraph to the Herald.) Albury

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 10 July 1890 · page 2

At the police court, yesterday, Edward Frederick French, a young man, was committed for trial to the Circuit Court on a charge of bigamy. The case presented some remarkable features. The accused…

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The London Police

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 July 1890 · page 2

Nothing further has transpired in connection with the difficulty among the metropolitan police, and no further disturbances have taken place In the vicinity of the…

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The London Police. Great Diturbances. London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 July 1890 · page 4

AN immense mob assembled at Bowstreet, in the vicinity of the police barracks again this afternoon and jeered the police. The latter arrested…

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Murder Discovered by a Dream

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 July 1890 · page 2

About a year ago a young man at Fulham, Canada, dreamed that his father, who was absent on a journey, had been murdered, and he saw himlying dead and two men were bending over the…

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West Maitland Police Court. Monday, July 14. (Before Messrs. Brooks, P.M., J. Rourke, and J. W. Pender, J's.P.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 July 1890 · page 4

DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—William Neddrie was charged with having bean drunk and disorderly in High-street, on Saturday evening. He pleaded guilty, and was fined 10s, in default to be…

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Murder Will Out

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 July 1890 · page 4

At Presburg, in Hungary, two men have been sentenced to imprisonment for life for having been concerned in the murder of the wife of one of them. The…

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King Milan in the Divorce Court

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 July 1890 · page 4

A telegram from Belgrade published in the Dix-Ne[?]vieme Si[?]cle states that M. Christich, formerly Servian Minister, is bringing an action for divorce against…

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Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, July, 15th. (Before Messrs J. N. Brooks, P.M., G. T. Loder, and J. C. S. M'Douall, J's.P.) Breaking and Entering

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 July 1890 · page 3

Frederick Paton, on remand from the previous Tuesday, was brought up on a charge of breaking and entering the dwelling-house of George Hopkins…

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Finding not Stealing

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 July 1890 · page 2

ONLY amongst the extremely ignorant and those whose intelligent perceptions are blunted by a depraved corruption of moral sense can the notion prevail that…

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Stealing From a Ship

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 July 1890 · page 3

At the Water Police Court to-day Mr Addison, who yesterday reserved his decision in the case of a man charged with stealling a packet of tea on board a steamer,…

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West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, July 17. (Before Mr. Brooks, P.M.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 19 July 1890 · page 4

DRUNKENNESS.—An inebriate, who was apprehended on the previous day, was punished. WAGES CASE.—Joyce Alexander Steel sued H. W. Low to recover the sum of £2 for…

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Scene in an Irish Court

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 July 1890 · page 6

AT a Crimes Act Court at Waterford on Saturday, June 7, an extraordinary scene was witnessed in the forcible removal from the court by the police of…

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East Maitland Police Court. Friday, June 18. (Before Messrs. Brooks, P.M., J. Cunningham, and Dr. Wright, J's.P.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 19 July 1890 · page 7

ALIGHTING FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE IN MOTION.—Charles Phipps, the elder, was charged that he, on the 24th June, at the Victoria-street platform, East Maitland, did leave a carriage…

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Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, July 22Nd. (Before Messrs J. N. Brooks, P.M., and Geo. Loder, J.P.)

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 July 1890 · page 2

THE case, William Dries v. Philip Wagner, for fraudulently appropriating certain tools, the property of complainant, was struck out, there being no…

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