West Maitland Police Court. Monday, April 15
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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Courts & crime, 1907
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Small Debts Court
Derenda, Mabel Ledsam v. Frank Anderson, claim for £1 10s. services as a nurse. It was stated that 10s had been paid. Verdict for £1, and 5s court, together with £1,…
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IN the local Police Court, yesterday, before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., Bertram W. Jewell was charged with stealing three shirts of the value of…
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The Inspector-General of Police has written to the Tarro Shire Clark (Mr. P. J. Martin), in reply to the council's letter respecting the proposed appointment of certain police as Sanitary Inspectors…
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The jury in the Thaw murder case in Now York were unable to agree, and have therefore been discharged. Seven of the jury were in favor of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Court for Child Offenders
Children offenders in New York are taken to a special building erected in connection with the Children's Court, where they are looked after with the utmost care. They…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Seaman's Sensational Story. Murder on the High Seas. Sydney
Joseph Newsome was charged at the Quarter Sessions to-day with false pretences. A confession, written by accused in Maitland Gaol, was road to the effect that while a…
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A man named William Ellis was committed for trial at Perth on Tuesday on a charge of stealing 15 bicycles, the property of various owners…
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Thomas Porter, an old age pensioner, pleaded guilty to being drunk. He was fined 5s or 24 hours, and ordered to forfeit the next two months instalments of his…
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The Criminal Court, Perth, was crowded on Monday when. Alice Mitchell, who was found, guilty of manslaughter of a child (as reported in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Singleton Police Court Tuesday, April 16Th. (Before Mr. J. W. Fletcher, P.M.)
Thoms Porter, an old age pensioner, was charged with drunkenness. Nonstable Chegwidden gave evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Affairs in Russia Mutiny in a Gaol LONDON
Thirty-three criminals in Riga gaol attacked and disarmed the super [?] tendent of the gaol and four wardors. A company of soldiers was summoned,…
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The prisoner Thos. Cant, who escaped from Berrima Gaol yesterday is still at large. It transpires that he scaled the high wall which surrounds the prison with…
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THE Criminal Court, Perth, was crowded on Monday when Alice Mitchell, who was found guilty of manslaughter of a child, was brought up…
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Sir Lawson Walton, the Attorney-General has introduced into the House of Commons a Hall to establish a Court of Criminal Appeal, coasisting of seven High Court Judges, to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Was It Contempt?" a County Court Incident
Recently an unusual and amusing incident occurred at County Court. According to the London "Times," owing to the early portion of…
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Before Mr. J. W. Fletcher, P.M. at the West Maitland Police Courts this morning, John Soorley, was charged that he did at West Maitland on or about the 11th instant, steal four sash weights of…
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Among the prisoners sentenced by Judge Murray at the Sydney Quarter Session was an old man named Charles Wheeldon, who had been found guilty of having inflicted…
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At the Kurri Police Court on the 17th inst., the Bench was occupied by Mr. J. W. Fletcher, P.M. John Hyndman, on bail, was charged…
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A prisoner named Thomas Cant escaped from berrima gaol on Wednesday, and is still at large. It transpires that he scaled the high…
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