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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1909

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Strikes in the Air. Men Assaulted at Clifton. The Police and the Labor Leaders

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 October 1909 · page 2

At Clifton, on Tuesday, the two men Phillips and Williamson made no at tempt to resume work. A rumor was circulated that Phillips intended going…

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Cessnock District News, Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 October 1909 · page 2

At the cessnock police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. G. Brown, J.P. Herbert Scotman pleaded guilty to having made use of indecent language in Vincent—street,…

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Legation Crime. German Diplomat Sentenced to Death

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 October 1909 · page 7

Wilhelm Beckert, ex—Chancellor of the German Legation at Santiago de Chili has been found guilty of "murder, arson falsifying bills of exchange and the Legation…

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Suffragettes Sentenced. Gaol Hunger Strike. London, Oct. 12

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 October 1909 · page 2

Pour suffragettes were sentenced to 11 days' imprisonment for breaking the windows of the Liberal Club at Newcastle, and Lady Constance Lyttleton was arrested for breaking the…

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Cessnock Police Court. TUESDAY, October 12. (Before Mr. Geo. Brown, J.P.)

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 16 October 1909 · page 3

Abdul Azis (62), hawker, was charged on remand from Newcastle, with stealing at Cessnock, on October 6, nine silk blouses, valued at £5 12s…

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Police Court. Thursday, October 14. (Before Mr C. H. Gale, P.M.). Drunkenness, etc

Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 October 1909 · page 3

Dudley Nowland pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly In Bourke street on Saturday night, October 9th, and was lined 10/- and 6/- costs of Court;…

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Licensing Court. Thursay, October 14

Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 October 1909 · page 3

(Before Mr C. H. Gale, P.M. Dr. Pent land and Mr Robert Faulkner, Js.P.). Renewals of publicans' licenses were grunted as…

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Branxton Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 4

At the police court, Branxton, on Friday, before Mr.J. McKensey, P.M., Constable Corner proceeded against William Robert Matthews, charged with being found on the…

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Embezzler Sentenced

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 5

W. B. Wright, chief accountant of the Canton Kowloon Railway, who embezzled 22,000 dollars (£4,400). has been sentenced to two years' hard labour…

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Rent Collector's Escapade. Edwards Sentenced

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 1

At the Sydney Quarter Session, Austin Edwards, who had been convicted an assault on a married woman at Leich hardt, by catching Hold of her and…

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Police Telephone

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 3

A petition was recently forwarded to Mr. Brown, member for the district, praying that the police station, Dungog, might be connected with the telephone exchange. The…

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Betrayed by a Button. Remarkable Unravelling of a Murder Mystery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 5

An ordinary coat button has just lest to the capture of a murderer in Paris after a search of many months. On March 29 last a postcard publisher…

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Murder in New Caledonia. a Father Convicted by His Son

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 5

Files which have arrived from Noumea contain an account of a dramatic trial for murder in which two and two woman were the accused…

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Police versus Soldiers. Pitched Battle in the Centre of a Town

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 4

(Almost by a miracle has this normally peaceful seaport escaped the fate of Cas[?]blanca (says a Mogador message of October 19). Provoked by a quarrel in the…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 October 1909 · page 2

At the West Maitland Police Court this morning, before Mr. T. J. Ribee, J.P., Allen Brown was fined 5/-, together with 6/1 costs of court, in default three days, for riotous behaviour in the…

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Letter-carrier Charged with Stealing. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 October 1909 · page 2

At the police court this morning Clarence Allbert Adam, 25 yeare of age, lettor-carrier, was charged with stealing six letters, the property of the…

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Deputy Licensing Magistrate

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 October 1909 · page 2

Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., Scone, has been gazetted Deputy Licensing Magistrate for the Licensing Court for the licensing district of Maitland for a period not exceeding one month from yesterday,…

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Revolutionary Murder

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 October 1909 · page 3

Federoff, a police spy at St. Petersburg, who wormed himself into 'the confidence of the Revolutionists, has been murdered for treachery…

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Police Charge the Socialists. London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 October 1909 · page 3

Mounted police several times on Sun day afternoon charged the Social demon strators who were marching, to the Span sh Embassy, in Grosvenor Gardens, in…

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Murder in New Caledonia. a Father Convicted by His Son

Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 October 1909 · page 1

Files which have arrived from Noumea contain an account of a dramatic trial for murder in which two men and two women were the accused…

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