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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1908

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Women Attack Police Station

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 February 1908 · page 2

More than 1000 women workers who are on strike at Hyeres (France), attacked the police station there. They smashed the windows, broke in…

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Quarterly Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 February 1908 · page 4

The Quarterly Licensing Court for the licensing district of Matland will be held at the Courthouse on Monday, April 6. Those interested should make a note of the date…

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Latest Cables London, Friday. Monte Carlo Murder

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 February 1908 · page 4

Vere Goold, the Monte Carlo murderer, will shortly be sent to Cayenne, where his wife is imprisoned…

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Singleton Police Court Friday, February 14th, (Before Mr T. H. Wilkinson, P.M.). Unlawfully on Licensed Premises

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 February 1908 · page 3

Alfred Perrett and Frank Joseph O 'Connor were charged with being on the premises of the Agricultural Hotel on the 31st December, contrary to the…

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Scientist's Crime. Seized with Murder. Wife's Heroic Struggle

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 15 February 1908 · page 7

From New York on 17th November the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote:—Mr Lucian Marcus Underwood, an…

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The Venice Crime. a Charge of Murder. Countess Tarnowska

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 15 February 1908 · page 7

The trial (writes "Lloyd's Weekly" on 24th November) begins shortly, at Venice, of Countess Maria Nicolaevna Tarnowska, who, with two of her lovers,…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 February 1908 · page 2

There was little doing at the West Maitland Police Court this morning, when the bench was occupied by the Police Magistrate (Mr. T.H. Wilkinson). Two inebriates…

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Special Minim Court. Dudley Resumes. Situation Temporarily Saved. Court Proceeding. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 February 1908 · page 3

The resumption of work this morning at Dudley colliery unconditionally by the boys who had been on strike there during the greater part of last week, together with the…

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The Ballarat Murder

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 18 February 1908 · page 1

Dr Mollison has made a post-mortem examination of the exhumed remains of the woman. Mary Graham, found in an abandoned shaft at Vale Park, near…

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Supreme Court Judge. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 18 February 1908 · page 3

Justice Sly was sworn in this morning as Supreme Court Judge, and received the congratulations of the Bar and the Attorney-Genral…

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Special Mining Court. Further Evidence

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 February 1908 · page 7

following evidence was tendered at the Spe[?]ning Court in Newcastle yesterday after [?]ort closed :— Hughes, miner at Rhondda Colliery,…

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Riots in Bombay. Police Officers Fire on Mobs. London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 18 February 1908 · page 2

Serious street rioting has occurred in Bombay. The arrest of several of the Sunni section of the Mohammedans who were…

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Dudley Colliery Resumes. Mining Court at Work. Newcastle

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 18 February 1908 · page 3

The Dudley Colliery resumed work this morning, and the summonses against the wheelers who went on strike have been withdrawn. Every colliery in the…

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Special Mining Court. the Teralba Cases. (Continued from page 7.) NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 February 1908 · page 5

When the Court resumed at 11 o'clock this morning Mr. J. A. Neilson, late manager of Pacific Colliery, continued his evidence. In answer to Mr. Lewis, witness said that in…

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Special Minim Court. the Teralba Cases. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 February 1908 · page 5

The hearing of the Teralba cases was resumed this morning in the Special Mining Court. Mr. D. Sneddon (manager of Northern…

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Stock Stealing Prevention Association

Singleton Argus · Thursday 20 February 1908 · page 2

The annual meeting of the Singleton and District Stock Stealing Prevention Association was called for 2 p.m. yesterday at the Mechanies' Institute. At…

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District Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 February 1908 · page 8

'According to the calendar, the Maitland District Court was to have been held to-day, to be presided over by his Honor Judge Fitzhardinge, but there was a clean…

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Singleton Police Court Tuesday, February 18. (Before Mr P. E Eldershaw, J.P.)

Singleton Argus · Thursday 20 February 1908 · page 3

William Johnston, an elderly man, who gave his age as 73, was charged with having no lawful visible means of support…

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Arbitration Court. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 20 February 1908 · page 2

Business at the Arbitration Court, which has been suspended during the long vocation, was resumed this morning…

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Labour Troubles the Timber Strike. Arbitration Court Intervenes

Singleton Argus · Thursday 20 February 1908 · page 2

The dispute in the sawmill trade was to all intents and purposes settled on Monday, and the strike is over. During the morning representatives of the…

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