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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1901

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Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, January 8Th 1901

Singleton Argus · Thursday 10 January 1901 · page 1

(Before Mr G. F. Scott, P.M., and Messrs R. Faulkner and St. Thos. Loder, Js.P.). Thomas Edwards, on bail, pleaded…

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Jimmy Governor His Condition in Gaol

Singleton Argus · Thursday 10 January 1901 · page 1

THE absorbing events of the past few weeks have altogether withdrawn public attention from the man whose leeds attracted to himself such, a large…

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West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, January 10. (Before Messrs. G. F. Scott, P.M., and H. Crothers, J.P.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 January 1901 · page 2

ADJOURNED.—The case of William Fitzgibben, who, it is alleged, maliciously damaged certain property at East Greta coalmine on November 22, again came on for hearing. Mr. W. J. Enright, who…

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Attempted Murder in Sydney. a Visiting Detective Stabbed. By a Well-known Criminal

Singleton Argus · Thursday 10 January 1901 · page 1

A SENSATIONAL incident occurred in Sydney od Monday night. Detective Michael Toomey, of Brisbane, being stabbed in front of the General…

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Murder in Queensland

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1901 · page 4

A telegram has been received from Ayr, fifty miles from Townsville, that a foreigner named Alfred Burnstead had…

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Attempted Murder in the City. Visiting Detective Stabbed

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 January 1901 · page 4

A SENSATIONAL incident occurred in Sydney on Monday night, Detective Michael Toomey, of Brisbane, being stabbed in front of the General Post…

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Murder by a Mother

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1901 · page 10

A woman named Mary J. C. Drummond, residing at Naranghin, near Berrigan, killed her three-year-old boy with an axe. When asked why she did it she replied that she did not know. It was…

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Attempted Murder and Suicide. a Jealous Husband

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1901 · page 11

On Sunday morning a man named James Day, aged 54 years, residing at 254 Lygon-street, Carlton, made an attempt on the lifo of his wife, Ellen Day, aged 25 years, and then cut his own throat. The affray…

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Terrible Tragedy Near Hobart. Double Murder and Suicide

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1901 · page 11

A double murder and suicide occurred at Kettering, Little Oyster Cove, "Tasmania, on Saturday. James Whyte, a State school teacher, of Mathinna, who was spending his holidays at Kettering, shot Miss…

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A Sensational Elopement. Wife Desertion by a Supreme Court Judge

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 15 January 1901 · page 2

The community of Wellington, N.Z., has boon greatly startled and scaudnlised by the sudden disappearance of a Supreme Court Judge of that colony…

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Our Singleton Letter. Police Court—tuesday. {Before Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 January 1901 · page 5

A NEEDED EXAMPLE.—Oliver Thomas Denny proceeded against Arthur Juratowitch for un-lawful assault, on Sunday, 6th instant. Mr. Cragg appeared for the complainant, and Mr…

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A Charge of Theft

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 January 1901 · page 3

Reginald H. Slightholme, aged 40, who was engaged two months ago as salesman by Messrs. Lassetter and Co. at a salary of £4 a week, and who exhibited such remarkable industry and capacity…

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Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, January 15Th, 1901. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M.)

Singleton Argus · Thursday 17 January 1901 · page 2

Arthur Jurratowitch was charged with unlawfully assaulting Oliver Thomas Denny. The complainant said that he went…

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West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, January 17. (Before Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M., and W. R. Sulivan, J.P.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 January 1901 · page 4

DRUNKENNESS.—One man who had "put them down" too often pleaded guilty, and was fined [?], or till the rising of the court. AFFILIATION—James Muldrancy was charged, on the…

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Murder and Attempted . Suicide. a Mother Poisons Her Child. And Jumps From a Balcony

Singleton Argus · Thursday 17 January 1901 · page 3

THE usually quiet suburb of Alexandria was startled on Tuesday by the news of. murder and a deliberate attempt at suicide at 145…

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Murder ana Attempted Suicide. a Mother Poisons Her Child

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 January 1901 · page 4

THE usually quiet suburb of Alexandria was started on Tuesday by the news of murder and a deliberate attempt ai suicide at 145 Wyndham-st.,…

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Thirteen Years' Gaol. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 4

Avard, the defaulting cashier of the First National Bank of Now York, whose onrmous defalcations caused a great sensation, has been setencd to…

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Police Forage

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 2

Tenders are invited in our advertising columns for the supply and delivery of forage for the Police throughout the colony for a period of twelve months from 1st April…

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Murder in a Train

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 3

A terrible tragedy occurred in a train on the London and South-Western line yesterday. Just as the train had left-Surbiton one of the passengers, an ex-soldier, named Hill, shot at and killed an elderly…

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Glamorgan Police Force

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 3

At the Standing Joint Committee of the Glamorgan Quarter Sessions and Country Council held to-day at Card[?], Mr. O. H. Jones presiding the Chief…

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