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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1904

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Murder of a Woman

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 June 1904 · page 3

Victorine Girant and her lover, Henri Bassot, have been found guilty of the murder of the mistress of the former, Madame Eugenic Fougere, at Aix-les-Bains, on September…

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Police Court. (Before C. H. Gale, P.M.)

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 8 June 1904 · page 2

JAMES PEARCE, William Pearce, Ernest Pearce and Herbert Carroll, on remand from Narrabri, were charged with breaking and enter…

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Police Court—tuesday. (Before Messrs. Robert Fanlkuer and C. W. Doyle, J's.P.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 June 1904 · page 6

Hawker's License.—John Albert Bartrop applied for, and was granted a hawker's license. Indecent Language.—John Simpson was…

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Municipal Appeal Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 8 June 1904 · page 2

A Municipal Appeal Court was held in the local Court House yesterday, before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M. Mr. J. E. McIntyre (Mayor) represented the…

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Small Debts Court. (Before C. H. Gale, P.M.)

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 8 June 1904 · page 2

At the local Small Debts on Tuesday the following cases were dealt with:— Martin Markham v. W. Ham, Settled out of Court…

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Charge of Stealing Documents [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 June 1904 · page 3

AT the Criminal Court to-day, Mr White, a solicitor, was charged with stealing certain documents', the property of the Registrar-General. The…

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Court Versus Court. [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 June 1904 · page 2

THE Federal High Court to-day granted leave to appeal against the judgment of the Victorian Full Court, holding that Messrs Deakin and Lyne…

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Verdict of Wilful Murder. Sydney, Wednesday

Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 June 1904 · page 3

At the inquest upon the body of an infant found strangled in a room at Devonshire-street last Friday, the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder…

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Municipal Appeal Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 June 1904 · page 4
Also in Singleton Argus

The South Singleton Council sat as a Friendly Appeal Court on Tuesday night. There were 11 appeals lodged. In the following five cases, a reduction was…

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Friendly Appeal Court

Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 June 1904 · page 2

AT the Friendly Appeal Court held at the South Singleton Municipal Chambers on Tuesday night for the purpose of appealing against values…

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Muswellbrook Letter District Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 June 1904 · page 2

The periodical sitting of the District Court was held here yesterday, his Honor Judge Gibson presiding The cases dealt with were us follow :-…

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Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, June 7th. (Before Messrs. R. Faulkner, C. W. Doyle, Js P.). Indecent Language

Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 June 1904 · page 2

JOHN SIMPSON was charged with using indecent language in the yard of the Mechanics Institute on Saturday evening, 28th May…

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West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, June 9, 1904. (Before Messrs. E. A. L. Sharpe. P.M., and Henry Crothers, J.P)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 June 1904 · page 2

Inebriety.— An individual who had taken more than was good for him was fined 2s 6d, with the optien of the rising of the court. Breaches of the Municipal By-Laws.—For…

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The Norbiton Mystery Its Police Court Outcome

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 June 1904 · page 6

In the Kingston police court, on 11th March, Mary Davies, aged thirty, a well-dressed, good-looking young lady, residing at Brighton, was charged on a…

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Murder or Suicide

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 June 1904 · page 2

THE discovery of the bodies of a young man and a young woman dead in bed in a house in Castlereagh-street has se the morbid section of the public…

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Attempted Murder

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 June 1904 · page 12

A bomb outrage was perpetrated at Redan, near Ballarat, early on Saturday morning. William Harrison, a well-known mining prospector, had been living apart from his wife. At 10 o'clock on Friday…

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The Waiwera Murder

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 June 1904 · page 5

At the Thames Police Court yesterday John Sullivan, aged 40 years, a seaman of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's steamer Waiwera, appeared on remand on a…

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Police Court. Wednesday, June 8Th, 1904. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, P M.)

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 11 June 1904 · page 2

Ernest Pearce, Herbert Carroll, William Thomas Pearce, and James Pearce, on remand, were charged with breaking and entering the premises of…

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Quarterly Licensing Court

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 11 June 1904 · page 2

It is notified in our business columns that the Quarterly Licensing Court for the Licensing District of Murrurundi will be held at the local Court House on…

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