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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1906

1,185 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 16 of 60

A Frenzied Lover Charge of Attempted Murder

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 April 1906 · page 3

As the redult of a recent fracas at Day's Bay (N.Z.) a waiter named Boquet has been committed for trial on a charge of attempted murder of a…

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Fooling the Police a Search on April 1st

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 April 1906 · page 4

The Sydney Water Police dragged in the waters of Port Jackson from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m. on Sunday for the body of a young man, who was…

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Maitland Circuit Court. Wednesday, April 4. (Before his Honor Justice Cohen.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 April 1906 · page 2

The following business was transacted at the Maitland District Court after the report which appeared in last evening's issue closed:—ALLEGED ROBBERY IN COMPANY…

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Thursday, April 5. The Court opened at 10 o'clock this morning. an Application

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 April 1906 · page 2

Mr. W. J. Enright said, he wished to make an application on behalf of the jury. It was the desire of the majority of the jurors to adjourn the Court from Friday evening until Monday. Many…

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East Maitland Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 April 1906 · page 2

In the Small Debts Court, before Mr. E. A. L. Sharpe, P.M., a case of Edward Tyler v. J. Murphy, for wages due was heard. Mr. J. H. F. Waller appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. T. A. Hill for…

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Police Superannuation

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 6 April 1906 · page 4

The number of police in the service at the present time 'eligible to retire, but who are kept on the active list because of the exhausted state of the police…

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Late News by Wire. Sydney. Assault by a Mother

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 April 1906 · page 3

A married woman named Susan Stannard pleaded guilty at the Quarter Sessions to-day to a charge of maliciously wounding 'Albert Stannard, on February 9th last. It…

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The Royal Hotel Murder. Quinlan's Death Sentence Commuted

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 6 April 1906 · page 3

The Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has decided to com-mute the sentence of death which was passed upon the boy Thomas Quinlan for…

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The Police and the Liquor Act

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 April 1906 · page 1

A certain amount of odium has been cast upon the police for their methods of enforcing the provisions of the recently- amended Liquor Act…

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Maitland Circuit Court. Thursday, April 5. (Before His Honor Justice Cohen.) Alleged Perjury

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 April 1906 · page 2

After the report of the proceedings of the Maitland Circuit Court which appeared in last evening's issue the following evidence was taken in the case then proceeding, in which Harry James…

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Friday, April 6. (Before His Honor Judge Cohen.) The Court opened at 10 o'clock this morning. SENTENCES

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 April 1906 · page 2

Charles Warby, who pleaded guilty on Wednesday to two charges, first of stealing a gelding, the property of John Farrell, and the second of breaking and entering the dwelling of Mary…

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Confession of Murder

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1906 · page 5

[?] Clive a Royal Artilleryman [?] has been arrested. He has [?] to the murder of Miss Camp in…

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Police Horses

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1906 · page 9

The public admiration for the horses of the Sydney Mounted. Police is proverbial, and a finer equine sight can hardly be imagined than a troop of these well-groomed horses mounted by the well-equipped…

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Police Promotion

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 April 1906 · page 4

The police force of this, as well as the other States of the . Commonwealth, is suppose to be a safeguard to life and property, and it has proved…

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Student's Revenge. Murder of a Professor

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 7 April 1906 · page 6

According to the Lisbon correspondent of the London "Daily Mail":— A sensational incident in Coimbra, the seat of the Portuguese university where…

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A Frenzied Lover. Charge of Attempted Murder

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1906 · page 16

As the result oE a recent fracas at Day's Bay, New Zealand, a winter named Becquet has been committed for trial on a charge of the attempted murder of a labourer named Reille…

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Maitland Circuit Court. Wednesday, April 4

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1906 · page 5

April sitting of the Maitland Circuit Court [?]at the Courthouse, East Maitland, this [?]ing before his Honor Justice Cohen. Mr. [?]Whitfield acted as Crown Prosecutor…

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Gold Ingots Mystery. Police Fail in a Charge

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 7 April 1906 · page 5

"Having in his possession and not giving a satisfactory account of the same, five ingots of gold and some scrap gold, valued at L[?]09."…

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West Maitland Police Court. Monday, April (Before Messrs. Sharpe, Henry Crothers, and Relert Scobie, Js.P.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 April 1906 · page 8

Drunkenness.—An individual, charged with being drunk in Sempill-street, stated that he was suffering from paralysis on one side and it affected his…

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Maitland Circuit Court Monday, April 9. (Before His Honor Justice Cohen.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 April 1906 · page 4

The Court re-opened at the Courthouse, East Maitland, at 10 o'clock this morning. SENTENCES. Anthony Moore, who found guilty of a…

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