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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1891

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Licensing Court. Thursday, January 22, 1891. Before Messrs. W. F. Parker, P.M., and F. A. Parbury, J.P., Licensing Magistrates

The Scone Advocate · Saturday 24 January 1891 · page 2

HENRY THALMBERG applied for a certificate granting a wine license for a house situated at Stewards's Brook. Mr. J. E. M'Intyre appeared for…

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A Nurse Charged with Stealing. (From the Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 January 1891 · page 7

Before Captain Fisher, S.M., in the Charge division of the Water Police Court on Friday, a nurse named Essie Grieves, 36, was charged with stealing £68 in gold, two pairs of gloves…

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Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, January 27, 1891. (Before Mr J. N. Brooks, P.M., and W. Dudding, J.p.) Assault

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 28 January 1891 · page 2

MARGARET M'CROWE was charged, on the information of her husband, Martin M'Cro[?], with having ass[?]ulted him. Mr R. V. Howe for defendant…

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Violent Assault at a Wedding

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 28 January 1891 · page 3

A WEDDING in Experimeat-lane, Ultimo last night, won marred by what appears to have been a cowardly assault. Some trouble arose about one of the young…

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Botany Council Clerk's Frauds Finn Dies in Gaol

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 28 January 1891 · page 3

AN inquest was held at the Darlingburst gaol on Saturday, relative to the death of a prisoner named Martin Patrick Finn, who died in the gaol…

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Shocking Murder near Melbourne Jealousy the Cause

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 28 January 1891 · page 3

A MURDER was committed shortly before midnight on Sunday at Clifton Hill near Melbourne. It appears that a domestic servant named Stella Louisa…

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Small Debts Court. Tuesday, January 27Th, 1891. (Before Messrs J. N. Brooks, P.M., and W. Dudding, J.P.)

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 28 January 1891 · page 2

Bailoy and Bailey v. Charles Hansell, goods sold and delivered, £2 18s 7S. Verdiet for amount and coats of Court. Same v. H. Daring, use of horse and…

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Murder of a Police Sergeant. Sentence of Death

Singleton Argus · Saturday 31 January 1891 · page 2

ROBERT KITCHING, 34, market gardener was tried at York assizes, on Tuesday, Dec. 16th for the wilful murder of James Weedy, at Leeming, on the 10th of…

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An Insurance Company Suspects Murder

Singleton Argus · Saturday 31 January 1891 · page 4

John Webster, hotel-keeper, Kirriemuir, was on Thursday Dec. llth, arrested by the Forfarshire county authorities on a charge of wife murder. In October last year…

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West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, January 29, 1891. (Before Messrs. Brooks, P.M., and J. D. Prentice, J.P.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1891 · page 7

ABSENTING HIMSELF FROM HIS HIRED SERVICE. —A youth, James Sweeney, was charged with having absented himself from his master's service. The complainant, Andrew Masterson, desired to…

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A Shocking Murder. a Jealous Husband Shoots His Sleeping Wife

Singleton Argus · Saturday 31 January 1891 · page 2

A man named Harvell, who is in business as a dealer in oils in Battersea, shot his wife dead on Wednesday morning, Dec. 17th, as she lay asleep in bed…

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Hypnotism and Murder

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1891 · page 5

On the resumption of the Gouffé murder case on Friday (Dec. 19) at the Cour d'Assises de la Seine Professor Liegeois, chief of the faculty of the medical college at Nancy, addressed the Court for four…

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Small Debts Court

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1891 · page 4

Application was made for a garnishee order to be directed against John Rigney in respect of a judgment obtained at a previous sitting of the court for £1 17s 11d against John Bussell, in the service…

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West Maitland Police Court. Monday, February 2. (Before Messrs. Brooks, P.M., J. Gillies, and J. W. Birkenhead, J's.P.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1891 · page 4

DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—John M'Donald was charged with having been drunk and disorderly in High-street, on the 30th instant. In consideration of the fact that he had been confined in the lockup…

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Clergyman Charged with Theft

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 3

At the Westminster Police Court, on Friday, the Rev. W. L. Loeman of Wellington-terrace, Willesden, and late curate of St. Mary's Church in that parish, was charged…

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Stealing a Sovereign

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 3

Henry Long, a Hatlor, was before Judge Edlin at the Sessions at Clerken well on Friday for stealing a sovereign. Robert Edwards, an accountant, was the prosecutor,…

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Alleged Murder in a Cab

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 3

At Liverpool Police Court on Thursday, Arthur Pinfold, a respectably-dressed man about thirty-five years of age, was charged with the murder of Margaret Stewart, allas…

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Land Court

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 2

Mr A. O. Canaway, Barrister-at-Law, has been appointed Counsel for the Crown at the sittings of the Land Court of Now South Wales during the current year…

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West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, January 5, 1891. (Before Mr. Brooks, P.M.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 6

CHILD DESERTION.—Robert Dixon was charged with having, on the 19th January, left his children Robert Percy, Henry Stewart, and Lilian Mary, without means of support. Mr. Young appeared for…

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Singleton Police Court. Wednesday, February 4Th, (Before Meesrs W. Dudding and It Waddell, J's.P.)

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 February 1891 · page 3

SUSAN RUSSELL, an [?]original, was charged with presenting loaded revolver at Harry Perry, another aboriginal…

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