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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1911

1,511 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 32 of 76

Small Debts Court

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 23 May 1911 · page 2

Executors of the late Dr. H. J. H. Scott (represented by Mr. E. C. Lukey) v. Wm. Calister; claim, £8 6s, for professional attendance. Defendant…

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Boys' Events. Police Court. Friday, May 19Th, 1911. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, P M.)

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 23 May 1911 · page 2

GEORGE CHALLIS was charged with, at Wingen, being a registered dairyman, selling cream produced from a diseased cow, suffering from…

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Police-court. Monday, May '22, 1911.. (Before Mr A. Simmons and Mr D. M'Dougall, Js.P.). Drunkenness. and Language

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 23 May 1911 · page 2

A defendant who pleaded guilty to being found drunk, and using indecent language, was ordered to be imprisoned till and rising, of the Court on the first…

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Attempted Murder and Suicide. a German's Crime in Russia. St. Petersburg

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 May 1911 · page 5

Kurtz, a German, who married Madame Marosoff, a wealthy widow, in 1909, after a number of quarrels, on Monday shot his wife three times with a revolver. the injured…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 May 1911 · page 4

Little of interest transpired at the West Maitland Police Court to-day, when the bench was occupied by Mr. A. Gates, reliving P.M. An inebriate was fined 2s 6d,…

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Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, May 23rd, 1911. (Before Mr P. A. Bennett, J.P.). Drunk and language

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 May 1911 · page 4

A young man named Joseph Foley was charged with being drunk and disorderly in John-street on Monday evening, 22nd inst., and with using indecent language…

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Local and General News. East Maitland Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 May 1911 · page 4

At the East Maitland Police Court this morning before Mr. W. B. Pryor. J.P., Walter Hewitt, who was charged with having stolen a sulky, was remanded to…

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Present at Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 May 1911 · page 5

Sir Newton Moore, Agent-General for western Australia, and Lacy Moore, and Mr. A. A. Kirkpatrick, Agent-General for South Australia, and Mrs. kirkpatrick, at…

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Cessnock Appeal Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 May 1911 · page 2

A friendly appeal court to deal with appeals from A and B Ridings of the Cessnock Shire was held at the shire offices, Cessnock, on Wednesday and Thursday, Mr. S. Snape…

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"Medical Practitioner." Banco Court Defines the Term. Sydney, Friday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 May 1911 · page 4

An application was made to Justices Pring, jussive Sly. and Justice Gordon in Banco this morning on behalf of Augustus Erasmus Oscar Walker, of Greta, to make absolute a rule by which Moreton…

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Presentation to Police Magistrate

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 May 1911 · page 4

Prior to his departure for Maitland, to which district he has been transferred, Mr. T. C. K. MeKell, police magistrate, was p[?]sented at the Bathurst police court, with a…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 May 1911 · page 3

Before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., at the Police Court on Thursday, Frank Smith, a stranger, was charged with illegally using the return half of a first-class return ticket from…

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Sentenced to Death. Scenes at a Murder Trial

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 May 1911 · page 9

Details of an awful tragedy enacted at North Melbourne on March 9, when William Thomas Smith stabbed his little daughter, Hetty, aged 4½ years, to death, were…

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The Perth Murder. Accused Remanded

Singleton Argus · Saturday 27 May 1911 · page 3

David Smithson was brought before the Perth Police Court, on Wednesday, charged with murdering Frances Compton at Woodlupine on May 13th. When Mr Roe,…

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Police Court. . Thursday, May 25, 1011. (Before Mr C.' H. Gale, P.m.). an Inebriate

Singleton Argus · Saturday 27 May 1911 · page 6

A defendant, charged with being drunk, was lined 1/-, or six hours imprisonment…

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Our Singleton Letter. Shire Appeal Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 May 1911 · page 3

Two appeals against assessments by valuers of the Patrick Plains Shire Council were heard at the Courthouse on Thursday. Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., occupied the bench,…

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Shire Appeal Court. Thursday, May 25th. 1011

Singleton Argus · Saturday 27 May 1911 · page 7

The P.M. (Mr C. H. Gale) held a Court on the above date for the purpose of hearing appeals against the assessments made by the valuers of the…

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Attempted Murder and Suicide. a German's Crime in Russia. St. Petersburg

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 May 1911 · page 3

Kurtz, a German, who married Madame Marosoff, a wealthy widow, in 1909, after a number of quarrels, on Monday shot his wife three times with a revolver. The injured…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 May 1911 · page 2

Cross cases of alleged insulting words constituted the only business listed at the West Maitland Police Court this morning. The parties concerned were Phillip Joseph Akers…

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Gaol-breaker's Humour. Returns to His Prison Cell

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 May 1911 · page 2

The doings of Charles James Lavelle, alias Miller, aged 23, Two escaped from custody at Zeehan (Tas.), on Thursday evening last while serving a month's…

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