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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1901

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Friday. September 27. The court re-opened at 9 o'clock this morning

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 September 1901 · page 4

Joseph Canningham the defendant, recalled, was cross-examined by Mr. windoyer. After Mr. Moore's death is 1896, he and Mr. Cullum advised Mrs. Moore to place some loose cash she had in the…

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Maitland Circuit Court. Thursday, September 26. (Before His Honor Justice Cohen.) Alleged Breaking and Entering

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 September 1901 · page 4

In the case in which Prank Leo and Fabio Farnie were charged with breaking and entering and stcaling from the warehouse of the Caledonian Coal Company, Wallsend, a chisel and boring bit, the…

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Sentenced to Death. Saved by a Daughter

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 4
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

The Earl of Aberdeen, speaking at the dinner of the United Kingdom Postal and Telegraph Service Benevolent Society, at Aberdeen, recently, said…

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Maitland Circuit Court

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 4

The September sittings of the Maitland Circuit Court opened at the Courthouse, East Maitland, on Tuesday, before Mr. justice Cohen. Mr. C.E.B. Maybury, the Sheriff, was in attendance…

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Stipendiary Magistrate Resigns. Nine Months' Leave. [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 5

MR MAIR, slipondary magistrate, announced from the Bench this morning his retirement from the Bench with nine mouths' leave of…

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Men who Assault and Rob in Sacramento. Dealing It Out to Them

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 13

According to the Sun Franciseo Chronicle, there is a judge in Sacramento who is determined to put down the individual who seeks to gain a livelihood by assaulting and robbing peaceable citizens. A…

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The Late President M'kinley. Czolgosz Sentenced. Death by Electrocution. Prisoner Emotionless. London, Sept. 27

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 3

Czoigosz, who was found guilty at Buffalo, New York State, on Tuesday, of the murder of President M'Kinley, was brought before the Court for sentence yesterday…

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Divorce Court. Lane V. Lamp and Davis

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 4

Joseph Lane Bought a divorce from Grace Lane, formerly Harrigan, on the issues of adultery and desertion. John Davis was joined as co-respondent. The appellant stated that he was married to…

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Mercury Junior. at the Court of Spring

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 14

"Tell me, ye pussies, in soft grey gown, Who is the notable coming to town ? And why do you sit in this satin array, On the willow bough, by the broad highway,…

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Singleton Revision Court. Date Fixed. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 5

A GOVERNMENT Gazette announces that a Revision Court under the Parliamentary Elections Act, will be held in Singleton before Mr G. F. Scott,…

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Maitland Circuit Court. Friday, Sept. 27. (Before His Honor Justice Cohen.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 2

At the conclusion of the Civil business of the court, his Honor Justice Cohen again sat in divorce to try the issues in the case, Young v. Young, in which the petitioner, Frances Young, of Newcastle,…

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Mrs Maslin Improving. Accused Before the Court. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 5

Mrs Maslin was slightly better today. The accused, Maslin, was bofore the Court this morning, and was remanded…

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A Baby from the Sea. [All Rights Reserved.] [Being a narrative of adventure, compiled from the diary of Richard Brice, Esq., H.M.S. Consul at Malaga, to the Court of Spain.] Part Ii.—a Tack to Windward. (Continued.)

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 6

I stepped into the canoe, and, alter I had lain down in the bow to avoid the notice of any inquisitive early risers who might be afloat, Runa…

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Latest News by Wire. Sydney. This Wyalong Murder

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 September 1901 · page 3

Detective Fullerton yesterday arrested an Indian hawker on suspicion in connection with the diabolical murder of a Chinaman near Wyalong last June…

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Maitland Circuit Court. Saturday. September 28. (Before his Honor Justice Cohen.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 September 1901 · page 2

The court opened at 9 o'clock, when the case of Young v. Young, in which the petitioner, Frances Young, of Newcastle, sought judicial separation from her husband, James Ellick Young, on the…

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The Singleton Police Magistrate. Question in the House?

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 1 October 1901 · page 2

IN the Assembly on Tuesday lsat Mr Dight asked the Colonial Secretary, (1) In view of the large number of courts of potty sessions which the…

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Our Muswellbrook Letter. Police Court—larceny Near Quirindi

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 October 1901 · page 5

At the local police court, yesterday morning, before Mr. G. R. Evans, P.M., three youths, Wm. McDougall, Thomas Edwards, and James Lane, appeared to answer the…

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Attempted Murder. Live Madness and Music. A Girl's Throat Cut

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 1 October 1901 · page 2

AT liorsham on Saturday night a buloler named John Sloane, employed tempirarily by a Mr Beaumont, attempted to take the life of a girl…

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Alleged Attempt to Poison a Young Lady. a Commercial Traveller Charged. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 October 1901 · page 3

At the Redfern Police Court to-day, Carl Kuhnell, aged twenty-three, commercial traveller, was charged with feloniously administering poison to Florence Ellen Smith, with intent to murder her. Accused…

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