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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1909

1,426 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 72

Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 January 1909 · page 2

An application for the transfer of a wine license at Laguaa, was transferred from George Hockey to Lyall Frederick Hockey…

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Broken Hill Trouble. Police Court Proceedings

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 26 January 1909 · page 2

The hearing of the charges or riot against Tom Mann and 27 others was resumed at Broken Hill Police Court on Saturday morning. Mr. J. C Gannon…

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A. Ghastly Murder Woman's Head Battered

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 26 January 1909 · page 3

Full particulars are to hand in connection with the murder of Mrs Evitts, at Jundah, Queensland. As already stated, she went to look for stock in a small…

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Mrs. Carrie Nation's Adventures Surprise Lecture for a It Magistrate

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 January 1909 · page 7

Mrt. Carrie Nation, the well-known American temperance advocate and "saloon smasher," had two surprises in store for the Glasgow public recently…

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Charge of Stealing Money a Clerk Arrested. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 26 January 1909 · page 2

A clerk was arrested this morning on a charge of stealing money, extending over a long period, from David Jones and Company. It is alleged that the thefts…

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Great American Murder Trial Crowd of 50,000 Would-be Spectators. New York, December 14

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 January 1909 · page 8

Amid scenes of frenzied excitement the ti[?] opened to-day at Flushing of Mr. T. Jenkins Hains, the novelist, for the murder of Mr. Annis, the publisher…

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West Maitland Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 4

At the West Maitland Police Court this morning, before Mr. J. E. Wolfe, J.P., Frank Monaghan was charged with drunkenness, and having made use of indecent language, and was remanded…

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Contempt of Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 5

Mr. T. Neild, M.P., has been fined £100 and costs, for contempt of court, for commenting in an after-dinner speech upon the strangeness of the Bottomley prosecutions synchronizing with…

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"My Trial for Murder." Prisoner's Impressions in the Dock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 5

Mr. Jenkins Hains, the novelist who is supplying the public daily with an account written in fluent journalese of his own trial for the murder of Mr. Annis (who was shot…

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A Savage Assault

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 January 1909 · page 3

While May Byron, aged 18, a visitor from the country, who was spending holidays in Sydney, was walking along the footpath at Circular Quay last night, a black man pushed up against her…

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West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, January 28

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 January 1909 · page 4

The bench at the West Maitland Police Court this morning was occupied by Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, P.M. DRUNKENNESS AND LANGUAGE…

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Fight with the Police. Man Escapes Wounded

Singleton Argus · Thursday 28 January 1909 · page 3

Plain-clothes Constables Williams and Lynch visited a house in Regent-street, Sydney, on Monday night, where they believed stolen property was hidden…

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The Mining Situation. Trouble Feared. the Special Court Killed. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 January 1909 · page 3

Troubles is brewing at Wallsend Colliery. The dispute is between the miners and management. A special meeting of the men to-night will be addressed by the…

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London Police Murder

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 5

There was a great concourse at the funeral of the policeman Tyler, who was killed by that Russian street robbers, including a company of 5000 policemen…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 4

At the West Maitland Police Court this morning, before Mr. Robt. Waddell, J.P., James Lawler and John Skinner were charged with having, at Campbell's Hill…

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Hindu Students Sentenced

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 5

Three Hindu students of Kolhapur, a native State of Bombay, have been sentenced to four years' imprisonment for stealing explosives and making bombs…

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After the Earthquake. Crowds Charged by Police. (By Cable). London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 2

Crowds of people who paraded the streets of Calabria shouting "We want shelter!" were charged by the police. Several of the demonstrators were either…

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A Ghastly Murder

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 10

Full particulars are to hand in connection with the murder of Mrs. Evitts at Jundah, Queensland. As already stated, she went to look for stock in a small paddock…

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A Modern Borgia. French Prisoner Sentenced. (By (Cable). London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 2

For poisoning four of her relatives, and attempting to poison four others, a French farmer's wife has been sentenced to penal servitude for life…

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Russian Revolutionaries Murder and Suicide. London, Jan. 23

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 2

Two Russian workmen held up a motor car at Tottenham, in Middlesex, seized the bag of sovereigns which it contained, and then ran amok, firing with army revolvers…

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