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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1901

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District Court

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 December 1901 · page 2

The District Court will sit at Singleton on Friday, next. There will be very little business…

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Hobhouse Literature. Boer Delegates Agitation. Methuen's Manoeuvres. A Rebel Sentenced

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 December 1901 · page 3

Pamphlets containing the reports of Miss E. Hobhouse on the concentration camps of South Africa, are being distributed gratis from the Berlin…

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Woman Dies in a Police Cell

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 December 1901 · page 3

An unknown woman, who was last night locked up on a charge of drunkenness, was seized with a fit in the cell, during which she expired…

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The Charters Towers Murder. Brown Executed. [By Telegraph]. SYDNEY,Monday

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 December 1901 · page 3

DAVID ALEXANDER BROWN, late manager of the Charters Towers Pyrites Company, who shot Grahame Haygarth at Charters Towers recently,…

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Cold-blooded Murder. a Strange and Startling Sensation [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 December 1901 · page 3

NEWS has just come, to hand of a startling and cold-blooded murder, near Bendigo, Victoria, this morning. A grocer named Andrew Jones…

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Our Muswellbrook Letter. Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 December 1901 · page 5

At the police court, yesterday, before Messrs. E. Bowman, R. T. Keys, and C. E. Doyle, Js.P., A. J. Boiarry, a Syrian, was charged with the larceny of a piece of paper,…

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Police Court. Tuesday, Dec. 10, 1901

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 11 December 1901 · page 2

(Before Messrs. E. Bowman, C. E, Doyle, and R. T. Keys, J's.P.) HAWKER'S licenses were granted to Louis Nicay and Joseph Nicay…

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Maitland District Court. Wednesday, December 12

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 December 1901 · page 2

The December sittings of the District Court opened this morning before His Honor Acting Judge Harris at the Court House, East Maitland. Mr. A. B. C. Burke acted as Registrar. The legal profession was…

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Military Court Martial

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 December 1901 · page 3

The military authorities to day are making a preliminary investigation into the extraordinary shooting affray on board the submarine miners steamer Miner…

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West Maitland Police Court. Thursday. December 12, 1901. Before Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M.]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 December 1901 · page 2

ALLEGED STEALING-Adam Johnson, a Gourka, on remand from Newcastle was charged with having stolen one Chinese gold ring, valued at £2 the property of Ah Pan, of Louth Park-Acoused pleaded…

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Assault on a Girl. Judge Docker's Remarks. [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 12 December 1901 · page 2

FREDERICK ALBERT GOVENLACK was committed at the Sessions yesterday of a common assault on a girl under 14 years of age…

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Maitland District Court. Wednesday, December 11. (Before His Honor Actng-Judge Harris.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 December 1901 · page 4

The following cases were dealt with yesterday after the report which appeared in last night's issue closed:- LASHMAN V. CONLIN…

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Police Court

Singleton Argus · Saturday 14 December 1901 · page 4

At the Courthouse yesterday an offender pleaded guilty to being drunk the previous day. Constable Turner explained that the defendant was riding a horse in…

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Licensing Court

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 14 December 1901 · page 2

It is announced in our advertising columns that a quarterly [?]ng court for the district of Mur[?]di will be held at the Court Hours on Saturday, 18th January…

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District Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 December 1901 · page 5
Also in Singleton Argus

The December sittings of the District Court were held at the Courthouse before Acting-Judge Harris. The list was a very light one. A. C. Robinson v. Frederick Puxty. Claim for…

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Maitland District Court

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 December 1901 · page 4

The December sittings of the District Court opened on Wednesday before His Honor Acting Judge Harris, at the Court House, East Maitland. Mr. Henry Dufour Clark, Belford, was sworn in as…

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An Actor in Distress. Found Exhausted by the Police

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 December 1901 · page 2

The many friends of Mr. Charles Perry, a capable actor formerly with Messrs. Williamson, Garner and Musgrove, and a star performer in some of the largest circuses we have seen, will read with interest of…

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Alleged Wholesale Thefts of Stock. Accuse Before the Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 December 1901 · page 2

The Bowral police court was crowded yesterday, when Mr. W. S. Caswell, police magistrate, and eleven justices heard the alleged horse and cattle stealing cases, in which Schofield and several…

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West Maitland Police Court, Monday, Dec. 16th, 1901. (Before Mr. G.F. Scott, P.M.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 December 1901 · page 2

INEBRIETY.—An offender against sobriety, whose first offence it was cautioned and discharged. ALLEGED ILLEGALLY USING.—James Grillin, on hall was charged with having on te 15th December taken for use, one…

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