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Courts & crime, 1911

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Police Court. Thursday, January 19, 1911. (Before Mr C. H. Gale,. P.m.). Straying Cattle

Singleton Argus · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 6

Several defendants pleaded guilty to allowing cattle to stray on the-streets, and were lined 5/-, 10/6 professional costs, and 3/6, costs of Court in each case…

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Flooded Out. Police Help with Boats

Singleton Argus · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 6

The storm which, between 9 and 10, on Tuesday night inundated Sydney and suburbs, was severely felt in the lowlying parts of Tempe. At this point it…

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Licensing Court. Thursday. January 19, 1911. (Before Mr C. H. Gale, P.m.). a License Transferred

Singleton Argus · Saturday 21 January 1911 · page 6

W. J. Campbell applied for the transfer of the license of the Caledonian Hotel from Mrs C. Strain to himself. Mr Cohen, of Newcastle, appeared for…

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West Maitland Police Court. Monday, January 23

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 January 1911 · page 4

The bench at the West Maitland Police Court this morning was occupied by Messrs. J. McKensey, P. M. and Elias Bowden, J. P. ASSAULT…

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Arrest at Durban. an Australian Charged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 January 1911 · page 5

A cable from Durban to Perth notifies the arrest of Status Black on a charge of being a fraudulent insolvent. Black disappeared some time ago, and…

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 January 1911 · page 4

Randolph Baldwin, applied for the transfer of his license of the Federal Hotel, Homeville, to James Charles McIntyre, formerly of Stroud Mr. W. J. Enright appeared in…

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Small Debts Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 January 1911 · page 4

William Dillin made application to set aside judgment and execution on a default summons in which J. H. Carroll was the plaintiff.—M. Jas. H. F. Waller appeared for…

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Murder and Retribution

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 2

Four robbers, armed with hunting knives, entered a house near Krasnoyursk. Russia, murdered four members of the household, and bound a fifth a girl…

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Riots at Hankow. British Police Blamed. Hankow, Jan. 23

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 5

There has been rioting among the Chinese owing to the belief that British police killed a coolie on the British gunboat Thistle…

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The Houndsditch Murders. Burials and Court Trials. London. Monday evening

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 January 1911 · page 5

The bodies of Fritz and Joseph, who were killed in the recent street siege, have been [?] in the Hford cemetery in unconser craded ground without, religious ceremony…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 4

At the West Maitland Police Court, this morning before Mr. S. E. Beaver, J.P., a female, who had taken more than was good for her, was fined 5s, or the rising of the…

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A Narrabri Case. Bank Manager Charged with Embezzlement

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 3

A case if much local interest was heard before Mr. W. F. Robertson, P.M., at Narrabri, when Henry S. M. Hutchinson, up till six months age, and for twelve years' manager…

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Resisting the Police. Rights of Citizens. Berlin

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 5

Judge Unger in delivering judgment in further cases arising out of the disturbances in the Moabic quarter at Berlin, declared that citizens were justified in shooting…

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The New York Murder

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 January 1911 · page 3

Mr. David Gra[?] Phillips. the editor and novelist. who shot in New York by a Harvard man, has succumbed to his injuries…

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Latest Cables London, Wednesday the Murder of Ketchel

Singleton Argus · Thursday 26 January 1911 · page 2

A jury at Marshfield, after 17 hours' deliberation, returned a verdict of guilty in the first degree against Dipley Smith for the murder of Stanley Ketchel, the…

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A Paris Murder, Sentence of Acquittal. Paris

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 January 1911 · page 3

Facinda the Halian, who is in business in Glasgow, and who in September last killed his wife's paramour and seriously injured his wife, has been acquitted…

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Clapham Common Murder "You Are Taking My Life." London, Jan. 25

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 January 1911 · page 3

Further evidence has been given in the case of Steiner Morrison. charged with murdering a miser named Beron on Clapham Common. Eva Flitterman, described as Morrison's…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 4

At the West Maitland police court this morning, before Mr. S. McKensey, P.M., six inebriates were fined 5s, in default 24 hours. Grace Penrose alias Mrs. Harrop…

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Boys Sentenced to Death

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 7

Paris, Wednesday.— The two youths, Tissier and Desmarest, aged 17 and 16 respectively, who murdered a bank messenger named Andre in October last, and…

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Clapham Common Murder

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 January 1911 · page 7

London, Wednesday.— Further evidence has been given in the case of Steiner Morrison, charged with murdering a miser named Berou on Clapham Common…

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