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Courts & crime, 1908

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Latest News by Wire. Sydney. Alleged Assault

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 5

Constable Grigor, of Parramatta, found a man named William McLeod about 11 o'clock, last night lying insensible in a pool of blood, outside Tattersible's Hotel,…

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Quarterly Licensing Court

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 4

At the quarterly meeting of the Singleton Licensing Court on Thursday, before Messrs C. H. Gale, P.M.. and R. Faulkner. J.P.. the only business was…

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Morpeth Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 January 1908 · page 4

At the Morpeth Police Court, yesterday, before Messrs. T. H. Wilkinson. P.M., Matthew Murphy, J. McCarthy, and J. E. Wolfe, Js.P., the adjourned case, in which…

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Man Charged with Electricity. the Human Voice

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 January 1908 · page 6

The world is amazed when it stops consider how things have been revolutionised by electricity. We have not only the telegraph and the telephone, but the wireless…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 January 1908 · page 4

Before Mr. J. W. Birkenhead. J.P., at the West Maitland Police Court this morning, Richard Walton was charged with having made use of improper language in High-street, and…

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West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, January 23

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 January 1908 · page 4

The bench at the West Maitland Police Court this, morning was occupied by Messrs. T. H. Wilkinson, P.M., and Elias' Bowden, J.P…

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Supreme Court Bench

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 January 1908 · page 3

A rumour is again current to the effect that Sir Frederick Darley, Chief Justice, and Sir William Owen, the senior Puisene Judge of the Supreme Court, intend to retire from the…

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Charges of Murder. Four Persons Committed. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 23 January 1908 · page 2

As the result of the inquest concerning the death of Emily Pilgrim, a single woman, 19 years of age, which took place in the hospital on January 12th,…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 January 1908 · page 5
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[?] the police court yesterday a lad of 18 [?] named Edward Corrigan appeared on [?] of having forged two cheques for [?] and £4 15s respectively, by…

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German Court-martial

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 January 1908 · page 5

The court-martial of Lieutenant-General Count von Hohenhau and Count von Lynar [?] a charge of scandalous conduct is proceeding in camera…

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Sent to Gaol

Singleton Argus · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 3

Sir John Marwiek was before the court at Melbourne on Thursday on a charge of having obtained goods by means of felse verbal representation…

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Crime and the Paris Police

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 13

I was privileged a few mornings ago to have a chat with the famous M. Lepine, who for eight years has filled to the satisfaction of everybody the difficult post of Prefect of…

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Murder by a Lover. Girl's Mother Tells the Story

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 3

A coroner's jury at Slough returned a verdict of wilful murder and felo-dese on 13th November against Charles Ernest Squire, aged twenty-three,…

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Singleton Police Court Thursday, January 23. (Before Messrs D. M'Dougall and W. Bailey, Js.P.) Charges of Forgery

Singleton Argus · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 6

Edward Corrigan, a young man (18), was charged that he did at Singleton on 21st January, forge a certain order, and ropiest for payment of money,…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Messrs D M'Dougall and W. Bailey, Js.P.)

Singleton Argus · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 6

Sham Singh v. Edniund Barry.— Claim for goods sold. £5/12/7. The Bench gave a verdict for the amount claimed…

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Supreme Court. Bathurst, 30th October. Special Commission. (Before His Honor the Chief Justice and a Jury of Military Officers.)

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 11

Ralph Entwistle, William Gahan, Michael Kearney, Patrick Gleeson, Thomas Dunn, and John Shepherd, were indicted for the wilful murder of John, alias James…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 January 1908 · page 2

Before Mr. Jas. E. Wolfe, J.P., at the West Maitland Police Court this morning, Florence Robbing was fined 5s, or the rising of the court, for using indecent language on…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 January 1908 · page 4

At the West Maitland police court this morning, before Mr. J. B. Wolfe, J.P., William Skinner was proceeded against for drunkenness, and fined 2s 6d, with the option of the rising of the court, while for…

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Assault on a Woman

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 January 1908 · page 5

Thomas Kennedy was committed for trial on a charge of having inflicted grievous bodily harm on Marion Dawbarn. Prosecutrix, a boarding-house keeper, stated that…

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