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Courts & crime, 1907

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Police Promotions

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 January 1907 · page 3

The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Thomas Garvin, has approved the following promotions in the New South Wales police with increasing pay, to take effect from…

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Theft at a Railway Station. London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 1 January 1907 · page 3

The Terrorists attacked the station at Miedzyrzen, on the Vistula railway, in Russia, and ordered the employees to stand up…

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In Court

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 1 January 1907 · page 3

Prosecutor (to card-sharper who has just been sentenced to fourteen days): "And now, my friend, to show that you bear no malice, would you mind saying why you…

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Tragedy in the West Murder and Suicide

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 1 January 1907 · page 1

A murder, followed by a suicide, took place at Beaumont, Bear Perth, on Friday afternoon. Visconvitch, who was the keeper of dining-rooms…

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West Maitland Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 January 1907 · page 4

Before Mr. George Maher, J.P., at the West Maitland Police Court, this morning, Arthur Frazer Cassin, who was fined yesterday for drunkenness, was proceeded against…

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Soldiers Sentenced

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 January 1907 · page 5

Seven soldiers at Tiflis, Asiatic Russia, have been sentenced to from four to seven years' penal servitude, while 142 uinor sentences have been passed on others fer…

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Police Promotions. Etc

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 January 1907 · page 4

Among the police promotions published last evening will be observed those of Sergeant Robert Brown, of Newcastle, late of Maitland, and Sergeant Whitfield, of Singleton,…

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Latest News by Wire. Press Association. Sydney. Burglary in a Church

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 January 1907 · page 5

St. Thomas' Roman Catholic Church at Lewisham was broken into by burglars during the night, and a large iron safe blown open With dynamite. The discovery was…

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Court in a Cemetery. Bodies Exhumed and Photographed

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 2 January 1907 · page 7

The remarkable spectacle of a Court of Inquiry sitting and taking evidence in a graveyard, among the tombstones, was witnessed on Wednesday afternoon…

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Murder Frustrated Mutineers Sentenced [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 3 January 1907 · page 2

A plot to murder a member of the Imperial Financial Council at St Petersburg has been accidentally discovered, and an intended meeting has…

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West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, January 3, 1907

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 January 1907 · page 3

The Bench at the West Maitland Police Court this morning was occupied by the Acting Police Magistrate (Mr. J. M. Fleteher.) LARCENY OF A PURSE…

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 January 1907 · page 3

Jane Ferguson applied for and was grante a peddlar's license…

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Latest News by Wire. Sydney. Assault on a Woman

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 January 1907 · page 3

Yesterday afternoon a women living in Kent-street named Melinda Violet Swinson, was struck in her house with a stick by a boy, and fell senseless on the floor. She…

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West Maitland Police Court. Disturbance at Sawyer's Gully

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 3

At the West Maitland Police Court yesterday afternoon, further evidence was taken after our report clased in regard to the cases arising out of the disturbance at Sawyer's Gully…

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Plajntted His Own Murder. an Indian Police Inspector

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 4

From Lucknow on 14th October the correspondent of the London "Express" wrote:—A murder which reads like a page from…

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Impersonating a Constable a Cingalese Sentenced

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 3

At the police court, Tweed Heads, oil Wednesday, George Silva, a Cinga lose, was charged that he told N. G. Brazil, public school teacher of…

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Assault on a Woman Salutary Sentence

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 5

On Wednesday afternoon a woman living in, Kent-street, Sydney, named Melinda Violet Swinson, was struck in her house with a stick by a boy, and…

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Police Promotions

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 2

The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. The mas Garvin, has approved the following promotions in the New South. Wales police force, with increased pay, to take effect from…

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Cessnock Police Court. Dec. 29th, 1906. (Before Mr. Geo. Brown, J.P.)

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 2

Walter Page was charged with stealing the sum of £2 10s from the person of John Roberts on or about the 28th inst. On the application of the police…

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Affairs in Russia Another Murder. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 4

Router's correspondent telegraph that General von der Launitz, Perfect of St. Petersburg, was assassinated this morning…

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