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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1907

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Alleged Timber Stealing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 3

Austin Fitzpatrick was charged, on the inormation of John Messman Atkinson, with laving, since the 1st day of January, 1904, stolen parts of certain trees, growing in…

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Tragedy at Sea. Alleged Murder of a Chinese. Engineers Charged. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 3

At the police court this morning, before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M., James Robert Jeffrey, aged 41, engineer, and John Black, 34, engineer, were charged on remand that they…

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East Maitland Police Court. Friday, January 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 3

The: Acting-Police Magistrate (Mr. J. W. Fletcher) occupied the bench at the East. Maitland Police Court this morning. LIQUOR ACT CASES…

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Last Assault on Ladysmith

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 4

The decisive moment had arrived. The crisis had come. The day was closing in, and as the sun's rays waxed more dim, so the storm became more terrible…

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Forage for the Police

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 2

Tenders are invited by advertisement in our business columns of this issue for the supply of forage to the police stations throughout the State for a period of twelve…

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Electoral Revision Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 2

An electoral Revision, Court was held at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday afternoon. Mr. J.W. Fletcher, acting P.M., occupied the bench. The number of names…

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Where Etiquette Is King. Mediaeval Pomp and Ceremony of the Spanish Court

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1907 · page 3

When Princess Ena of Battenberg becomes Queen of Spain she will find herself mistress of no fewer than half-a-dozen magnificent palaces, veritable…

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East Maitland Police Court. Alleged Timber Stealing. Case Dismissed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 3

In the case of Austin Fitzpatrick, who was charged at the East Maitland Police Court yesterday on the information of John Messman Atkinson, of Sydney, with having, since…

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West Maitland Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 4

Joseph Whitfield, on remand, was charged at the West Maitland Police Court this morning, with having, on the [?]7th instant, been drunk in a Government railway…

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Local Police Court Business

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 2

The business transacted at the Cessnock Police Court for the year 1900 is as follow:— “Drunks” dealt with, 61; arrests,…

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Burglary in Girls' School. a Firelight Interview

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 3

One of the most remarkable burglary stories ever heard in a police court was related before the Batt County justices last month, by Miss Edith Fox, assistant mistress at the Royal School for Army…

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Cessnock Police Court. Dec 29th, 1906. (Before Mr. W J Fletcher, P.M.)

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 3

Michael Meagher was charged with riotous behaviour in main st., Cessnock, on 15th Dec., 1906. Defendant pleaded guilty, and was…

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Alleged Murder. Accused Remanded. Newcastle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 7

At the police court, this morning, before Mr. S. Love, S.M., James Robert Jeffrey (41) and John Black (34), engineers, were charged with having on December 23 last…

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Murder by a Woman Alleged Breach of Promise. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 4

Fraulein Betsy Schulz, daughter of a lawyer, committed suicide at Lubeck, Germany, after killing Herr Stiller, a millionaire, and an ex-member…

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Suffragists and Police. a Day's Proceedings Ladies Prefer Prison

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 5

There was as much excitement this morning (reports the "Westminster Gazette" of 24th October) in the Westminster police court and its neighborhood as…

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West Maitland Police Court. Monday, January 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 January 1907 · page 8

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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Small Debts Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 January 1907 · page 8

Thomas Chamberlain v. Samuel Kelton, claim for £13 5s 7d.—Mr. Jas. H. F. Waller appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. W. T. Lindsay represented defendant…

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Athletes in Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 January 1907 · page 3

Robert Malloch, labourer, and Joseph Wolcott, negro, pugilist, were to-day committed for triol on a charge of assaulting an Indian named Dleepa and robbing him of a purse…

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Presentation to a Police Officer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 January 1907 · page 2

Sanior-sergeant Coady, who retires from the police force at the ent of the present month, after 47 years' service, 27 of which were spent in Scone, was presented by the local bench of magistrates with a…

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Tragedy at Sea. Alleged Murder of a Chinaman. Accused Discharged. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 January 1907 · page 5

The hearing of the charge of alleged murder against James Robert Jeffreys and John Black, first and second engineers respectively of the British steamer Ardmount, was…

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