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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1907

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Tom Mann in Court Fined for Insulting a Constable

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 April 1907 · page 3

Tom Mann, the labor socialist, appeared before the District Court, Melbourne, on Monday, charged with having used insulting words to…

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Maitland Circuit Court. Thursday, April 11. (Before His Honor Justice Pring)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 April 1907 · page 3

The Court resumed at 10 o'clock this morning. EMBEZZLEMENT. William Joseph Quinn was arraigned on a…

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Local News Mr. R. B. Carroll, R.D.S., Dentist, Jhn-street, opposite Mr E. K. Lambert's, bookseller.* Special Licensing Court

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 April 1907 · page 2

Yesterday at a Special Licensing Court held at Singleton Court House, before Messrs R. Faulkner and C. W. Doyle, Js.P., an. application, made in…

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"Murder Made Easy."

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 April 1907 · page 3

Among the prisoner sentenced by Judge Murray at the Sydney Quarter Sessions was on old man named Charles Wheeldon, who had been found guilty of having inflicted…

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The Land Cases. Crick and Willis Charged

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 April 1907 · page 4

AT the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, on Tuesday, before Mr. Justice Simpson, William Patrick Crick and William Nicholas Willis were…

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 April 1907 · page 2

A special licensing court was held at the West Maitland Courthouse yesterday, when the bench was occupied by Messes. Robert Scob[?]e and Elias Bowdon Js.p.Edwin…

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High Court Decision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 April 1907 · page 3

The High Court delivered its reserved judgment in the case of Merewether and others against the Scottish Australian Mining Company. The appeal was from the judgment…

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A Girl's Story. Her Betrayer Court-martialled

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 12 April 1907 · page 3

An extraordinary story was related in the Kilkenny Police Court on the 19th January, in connection with the attack on John Fleming, a Weterfard engineer,…

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Theft of Art Treasures

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 12

Nothing whatever has been discovered respecting the theft of pictures and articles of virtu from the house of Mr. C. Wertheimer. There is this negative fact, that the…

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Alleged Malicious Injury. a Constable Charged

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 1

A police constable named George Arthur Johnson was charged at the Central Police Court, Sydney, on Wednesday, with having maliciously…

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The Murder of Stanford White

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 2

Mr. Delmas, counsel for Harry Thaw, resumed his address in defence of prisoner at the trial at New York yesterday. Mr. Delmas made an…

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Murder Mystery Solved. After Three Years

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 6

A sensational murder mystery was partially solved this afternoon, (says a Berlin paper of February 28), when the body of a wealthy young man…

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The Divorce Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 5

Lieut. E. W. Chamberlain, of the Engineers, is applying for a divorce on the ground of his wife's alleged adultery with Sir Broderick Hartwell, with whom she eloped to…

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A French Tragedy. Trial at Varsailles. Daughter Charged with Patricide

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 3

The Paris correspondent of the "Dally Telegraph" writes on January 30th:—Zola might have added a chapter to "La Terre" with the story of a murder now…

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High Court Decision Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 5

To-day the High Court delivered its reserved judgment in the case of Merewether and others against the Scottish Australian Mining Company…

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Maitland Circuit Court. (Before His Honor Justice Pring)

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 6

The April sittings of the Maitland Circuit Court opened at the courthouse, East Maitland, on Tuesday morning last, before his Honor Justice Pring. Mr. R. Windeyer…

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Maitland Circuit Court. Thursday, April 11Th (Before His Honor Justice Pring) EMBEZZLEMENT

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 5

William Joseph Quinn was arraigned on a charge that he did, while employed in the capacity of council clerk for the Municipal Council of…

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Wollombi Small Debts Court. Friday, April 12, 1907. (Before Mr. W J. Fletcher, P.M., and Messrs. Geo. Chapman and Chas. Morley, Js.P.)TRES[?]ASS

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 13 April 1907 · page 2

Thomas D. S. Slack proceeded against Thomas Sylvester, jun., for trespass of stock on his pro[?]erty, and claimed £5 damages. Mr. Nardin,…

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Lord Nevill Sentenced

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 April 1907 · page 3

Lord william Nevill has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment for fraud upon a Pawnbroker Lady Nevill, in her evidence, stated that she had since repaid the…

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West Maitland Police Court. Monday, April 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 April 1907 · page 2

The bench at the West Maitland. Police Court this morning was occupied by the Acting Police Magistrate (Mr. J. W. Fletcher)…

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