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Courts & crime, 1896

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East Maitland Small Debts Court. Friday, March 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 March 1896 · page 4

Messrs. A. G. Cullum and J. Ewing, Js.p., occupied the bench at the above Court this morning. The following case were dealt with:— Robert Sucker, Morpeth, v. New South Wales…

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The Week's Police News

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1896 · page 6

On Monday at the West Maitland Police Court, several persons were fined for allowing horses to stray. On Tuesday, Annie Bowman was fined 10s or 24 hours for drunkenness, and £2 or one month…

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Small Debts Court

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1896 · page 12

The following small debts cases were dealt with at the West Maitland Police Court on Monday:—Percival Moore Waddy and James Downs Prentice (as trustees in the assigned estate of Henry…

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Dean and Meagher's Appeals to the Full Court

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1896 · page 3

The appeal by George Dean against his conviction for perjury came on for argument before the Full Court on Wednesday, the bench consisting of the Chief Justice and Justices Stephen and Owen. Mr…

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A Cowardly Assault

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 March 1896 · page 5

In connection with a brutal assault at North Sydney on Saturday night, when a waterman named Edward Geezer had an arm broken and his skull fractured by blows from stones, the police to-day…

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West Maitland Police Court. Monday, March 9

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 March 1896 · page 5

Messrs. H. Crothers, J. Gillies, J. Rourke, and M. Murray, J's.P., occupied the Bench at the above court this morning. LOCKED UP FOR PROTECTION.—An old man…

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Raymond Terrace Police Court. Saturday, March 7, 1896

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 March 1896 · page 6

The hearing of the charge preferred against Michael Angelo Stub Monteagresti, late manager of the A. J. S. Bank at Raymond Terrace, was continued on Saturday…

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District News. Raymond Terrace. Police Court. Friday, 6Th March, 1896. (Before G. F. Scott, P.M. (Maitland) and C. Upfold, J.P.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 March 1896 · page 4

M. S. Monteagreati late manager A.J.S. Bank, was charged that he on or about March in the year of our Lord 1835, at Raymond Terrace, being then a cleric in the Australian Joint Stock Bank,…

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A Cowardly Assault

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 March 1896 · page 5

A drover named Herbert John Percival, who lately arrived from Bourke, was brutally assaulted by some men about two o'clock this…

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Raymond Terrace Police Court. Monday, March 9, 1896. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 March 1896 · page 6

On the Court resuming this morning in re case M. S. Monteagresti, charged with making a false entry in the pass book of Bichard Mayo with intent to defraud, the case for the prosecution was…

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Clarence Town Police Court. March 5Th, 1896. (Before F. W. Garstang, Esq. P.M., J. Lawrie and V. Carlton, Esqs., J.'sP.)

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 10 March 1896 · page 3

John Trapple proceeded against one Banister for assault by striking and knocking down complainant at the front of Pearson's hotel, Clarence…

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Dungog Small Debts Court. March 6Th, 1896. (Before F. W. Garstang, Esq., P.M., and G. S. Waller, Esp, J.P.)

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 10 March 1896 · page 3

A number of cases were postponed to 17th instant, by consent of parties of in consequence of illness. Skillen & Walker v. W. Newton,…

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Perils of Sydney Streets, Brutal Assault and Robbery. [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 11 March 1896 · page 2

A DROVER named Herbert John Percival, lately arrived from Bourke, was brutally assaulted and robbed of £17 by some men at 2 o'clock this morning…

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Singleton. Police Court, Tuesday, 10Th March. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, Acting P.M., and Mr. C. H. Dight, J.P.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 March 1896 · page 3

MALICIOUS INJURY TO PROPERTY.— Colin Saubuer was charged with maliciously injuring 90 loaves of dough, the property of Mr. John Walkeor, Dungog, and valued at £1 2s 6d. On the…

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Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, March l0TH. (Before Messrs G. F. Scott, P.M.), and C. H. Dight, J.p.) Malicious Injury

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 11 March 1896 · page 4

C. SAUBUER was charged with having maliciously injured property at Dungog. Senior-constable Turner dposed to…

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The Woolloomooloo Assault

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 March 1896 · page 3

Taking advantage of a lucid interval, David Rae, who was found unconscious in Woolloomooloo several weeks ago, has been questioned by the police regarding the manner in which he received his…

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West Maitland Police Court, Friday, March 13

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 March 1896 · page 4

Messrs J. W. Birkenhead and S. S. Moore, J's.P., occupied the bench at the above court this morning. REMANDED.—The old man John Murray, who…

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East Maitland Police Court, Friday, March 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 March 1896 · page 4

Mr, G. F. Scott, P.M., presided at the above court this morning. LUNACY —The old woman, Mary Ann Lattimore, who was under remand for medical treatment, was…

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A Cowardly Assault

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 March 1896 · page 10

A drover named Herbert John Percival, who lately arrived from Bourke, was brutally assaulted by some men about two o'clock on Tuesday morning in Elizabeth-street. Constable Cook…

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The Week's Police News

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 March 1896 · page 7

At the East Maitland Police court on Saturday, Mary Ann Lattimore, a widow, was remanded for medical observation. On Tuesday at the gaol, a boy named Sydney Cotter, under remand for horse…

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