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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1899

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East Maitland Police Court Friday, August 18. (Before Mr. J. Cunningham, J.P.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 August 1899 · page 3

STEALING.—Edward Fletchex and William Charles Evans Morgan, on remand, were charged with stealing a billy-can and two sacks, the property of John Leggett, ef Richmond vale.—…

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Police Court

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 19 August 1899 · page 2

At the local Police Court on Wednesday last the Inspector of Nuissanes proceeded against Mrs. Alford, senior, for allowing two cows to stray. The defendant was fined 5s…

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Murder on the High Seas

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 19 August 1899 · page 1

There are countless graves without the pale of any churchyard green, There are tombstones and memorials which no human eye hath seen;…

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Dreyfus Court-martial. London, Aug. 11

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1899 · page 5

The Times contains a report to-day stating that Major Esterhazy find the late Colonel Henry supplied Count Schwartzkoppen, the German military attache at Paris at the time of the first…

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West Maitland Courts. Monday, August 21. Police Court. (Before Messrs. G. F. Scott, P.M., H. Crothers, and G. Maher, J's.P.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 August 1899 · page 4

DRUNKENNESS.—One inebriate explained that he had a few drinks, and then he "fell into Mr. M'Clean's hands."—He was fined is, or till the rising,—A young fellow pleaded guilty to taking…

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Latest News by Wire. Sydney. the Divorce Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 August 1899 · page 3

Judge Simpson opened the divorce court this morning. There was a long list of causes down for beating…

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Dungog Police Court. 18Th August, 1899. Before Dr. Finlay and Messrs. Piper and G. A. Mackay, J'sP. Geo Eason v. Joseph Bignell

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 22 August 1899 · page 2

The summons in this case was issued under the Towns Police Act, and was for the illegal detention of a horse. Mr. Chidley appeared for…

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A Precocious Prisoner. a Youth Aged Seventeen Charged with Extensive Forgeries. Heavy BAlL ALLOWED. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 August 1899 · page 3

This morning at the Water Police Court,, before Mr. Mair, S.M., a lad, seventeen years of age, named Arthur Campbell, was charged with forging and uttering a series of cheques bearing the…

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The Dreyfus Case. Examinations Before the Court-martial. Nothing Suggestive of Treason. Esterhazy in London. London, Aug. 22

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 August 1899 · page 3

M. Gribelin, recordkeeper of the War Intelligence Department, who has been examined at the Court-martial, admitted having helped the late colonel Henry and Colonel du Paty de Clam in favour of…

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Murder of Two Military Officers. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Thursday 24 August 1899 · page 3

Later particulars are to hand concerning the murder of Colonel Klobb and Lieutenant Meanier in the French Souden Colonel Klobb was…

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A New Rule of the Court

Singleton Argus · Thursday 24 August 1899 · page 2

District Court Judges have issued a new rule, in the form of a reminder, respecting the filing of District Court plaints. Formerly it was only necessary to file…

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Our Sydney Letter. Then Brinton Burglary

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 26 August 1899 · page 2

One of the [?] plays that has been seen for a long time is that recently running at the Theatre Royal, a aged by the only Brough. The story is that a young Doctor…

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Ruined by Drink a Sydney Police Court Scene

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 August 1899 · page 4

A CROWDED court. In a prisoners box stands a Forbon and desperate looking woman-a poor creature to whom one blushes to give the name of…

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A Youth Charged With Forgery

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 August 1899 · page 7

At the Water Police Court, Sydney, before Mr. Mair, S.M., a lad, seventeen years of age, named Arthur Campbel1, was charged with forging and uttering a series of cheques bearing the…

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The Murder of French Officers. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 August 1899 · page 5

Further particulars concerning the murder of Colonel Klobb and Lieutenant Meunier, in the French Soudan, state that Captain Voulet…

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Dreyfus Court-martial. London, Aug. 17

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 August 1899 · page 3

Captain Dreyfue, in a letter to Colonel Jouaust, the president of the Court, declared that the absence of Maitre Laberi from the Court-martial has disorganised the defence, inasmuch as each…

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Land Appeal Court. Tuesday, 22Nd August. (Before the President and Commissioners Freeman and Brandis)

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 26 August 1899 · page 2

Bernard Haydon appealed against the decision of the Murrurundi board that he was not entitled to compensation in respect of land taken for road purposes…

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A Sad Story. Told in the Divorce Court

Singleton Argus · Thursday 31 August 1899 · page 4

Agnes Lilian Carew Molyneux, formerly Collins, petitioned for a dissolution of her marriage with Percy Stuart Molyneux on the grounds of…

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The Dreyfus Court-martial

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 September 1899 · page 3

The evidence given by the experts at the Rennes Court-martial has caused the prospects of Dreyfus's requitial to look brighter., M.de Freycinet and other snticipate that there will be a majority in…

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Our Singleton Letter. Land Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 September 1899 · page 3

The local Land Board concluded its sittings yesterday, when the following cases were considered and dealt with;— Perpetual Trustce Company, 1 acre 8 porches for…

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