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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1911

1,511 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 39 of 76

Local and General News. Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 June 1911 · page 4

At the West Maitland Police Court this morning, before Mr. T. C. K. McKell, P.M., Walter Peddle was fined 40 together with 6/ costs of court in default a month's…

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Theft in Military Camp

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 June 1911 · page 5

Two regular non-commissioned officers have been sentenced to two months' hard labour for stealing money and jewellery from the tents of Colonial officers at…

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Murder in Paris

Singleton Argus · Thursday 29 June 1911 · page 4

Parl, Tuesday.-M. Vernarsen, a wealthy Beglan ecceritrle, disappeared from his villa three months ago. He has now been discovered, burled in his…

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The Milk Trade. Deputation to Mr Flowers. Gaol for Bad Milk-Vendors

Singleton Argus · Thursday 29 June 1911 · page 3

The Northern Milk Vendors' Association, which includes the Newcastle, West Maitland, and Cessnock districts, waited on Monday afternoon' on the Acting Chief…

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Quarter Sessions and District Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 June 1911 · page 4

The next Court of Quarter Sessions will be held at East Maitland on Tuesday, July 18, and the District Court will follow on Thursday, July 20…

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East Maitland Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 June 1911 · page 4

The bench at the East Maitland Police Court this morning was occupied by Mr. T. C. K. McKell, P.M. Hen[?]y Porter, alias Roy Williams, was charged with having at…

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Our Singleton Letter. Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 June 1911 · page 2

Before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., at the police court, yesterday, D. Ryan pleaded guilty to carrying on dairy premises at Scott's Flat without being registered, and was fined 10/,…

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Fur-stealing. New York, June 29

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 June 1911 · page 5

At the Pelagic Sealing Conference, which is attended by representative of Britain, the United States, Russia, and Japan, a complete agreement has been arrived at on…

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Murder on the High Seas. Stewardess a Victim. London, Thursday evening

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 June 1911 · page 5

A Lascar steward on board the P. and O. R.M.S. "China" stabbed to death Miss Alice Brewster a stewardess, [?]ter the vessel left Colombo…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 July 1911 · page 4

At. the West. Maitland Police Court, this morning, before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, P.M.. a stranger named Alfred Cunningham was charged with having obtained the sum of…

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Police Court. Thursday, June 29, 1911. (Before Mr C. H. Gale, P.m.). Inebriates

Singleton Argus · Saturday 1 July 1911 · page 8

Two persons charged with being found drunk were dealt with in the usual way. REGISTRATION CASE. D. Ryan, pleaded guilty to an…

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Police Co years of [?]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 July 1911 · page 4

At the Kurri police, [?] before Mr.E.J. Cutchfie [?] the cathy, for having been [?] the meisily in the bar of the [?] unheard…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 July 1911 · page 4

There was little doing at the West Maitland police court to-day, Before the Police Magistrate, Mr. T. C. K. Mckell and Mr. J. W. Pender, J. P., an incbriate was…

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The Maitland Coalmines. Kurri Kurri Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 July 1911 · page 4

At the Kurri Police Court this morning before Mr. E. J. Cutciffe, J.P., William Newitt. Henry Dempsey, and William Allasaon were charged with playing…

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Alleged Assault and Robbery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 July 1911 · page 4

It was pay-day last week on the dupucation railway works at East Mailand, and the occasion was not allowed to pass, it would seem, without a crime having been…

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The Police Dog

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 July 1911 · page 6

The police dog movement, says "Chambers's Journal," had its origin in the employment of a dog by a night walchman in a quaint, old world town in Hanover, and the man's…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 July 1911 · page 4

At the West Maitland Police Court this morning Joseph Farrell, Jun. was charged with having at Rutherford on the 30th inst., incited Edwin Apthorpe to resist…

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"Blackmailed Employers." Union Agents Charged

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 July 1911 · page 4

The allegation that union agents have gone round the country blackmailing employers by threat of proceedings for breach of the law was repeated in the…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 July 1911 · page 4

At the West Maitland police court this morning, before Mr. S. E. Beaver J.P., a female inebriate, who had been locked up or protection, was fined 5s, on the rising…

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Ex-police Inspector's Sentence

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 July 1911 · page 5

Ex-police inspector Symol who was charged with sending a letter [?] Ramsay McDonald. M.P., in which [?] to make an attack in public…

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