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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1912

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Cessnock Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 May 1912 · page 6

At the Cessnock Police Court yesterday the bench was occupied by Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, P.M. OBSCENE LANGUAGE…

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Burglary near Thornton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 May 1912 · page 4

Early this morning the residence of Mr. Chas. Todd, at Woodbury, near Thornton, was broken into. In one of the rooms a portmanteau was forced open, and a quantity of clothing…

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Licensing Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 15 May 1912 · page 2

A sitting of the Licensing Court, Licensing Magistrates J. C White and C. H. Cox presiding, was held on Wednesday, the 4th instant, when the…

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Small Debts Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 May 1912 · page 6

In the small debts court Messrs. Lee and Co. sued Hilton Guest for £11/4/6 good supplied. David Wilson manager of Lee's branch at…

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A Girl Nihilist. Attempts Suicide Instead of Murder. St. Petersburg, May 14

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 May 1912 · page 5

A girl who had been chosen by let to kill M. Kasso, Minister of Public Instruction took poison in a cab. An antidote was administered and her life…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 May 1912 · page 4

Matters were remarkably quiet at the West Maitland Police Court this morning in fact only two cases were listed. One was withdrawn, and the other, a…

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Kurri Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 May 1912 · page 4

At the Kurri Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. E. J. Cutcliffe and E. Dickmore, J.P., William Ignatius Thrower was charged with being disorderly, nad with…

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Stealing Cargo

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 May 1912 · page 5

Charles Thomas, aged 23, captain of the hold of the steamer Yugilbar, was charged at the police court with having stolen a case of whisky, valued at £13 odd, belonging to the…

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Wilhelmshaven Police. Whole Force to Be Replaced

The Scone Advocate · Friday 17 May 1912 · page 6

The statement that the authorities at Wilhelmshaven have decided to replace the entire police force of the North Sen naval port from the highest official to…

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The Vend Case. Application to the High Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 May 1912 · page 7

An application was yesterday made to the High Court on behalf of the Shipping Companies interested to fix a date for the hearing of the appeal in the vend ease. The…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 6

Before Mr. G. H. Gale, P.M., at the police court on Thursday, William pearse, of Plashett was proceeded against in connection with the non-destruction of noxious weeds.—The shire…

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Kurri Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 4

At the Kurri Police Court this morning, before Mr. E. J. Cutcliffe, J.P., Samuel Walls, for having been drunk in the passage of the Kurri Hotel las night, was fined 2s 6d. or the…

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Brutal Assault

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 2

Constable T. Mullins was brutally assaulted and kicked into insensibility and left lying in a gutter battered and bleeding at the Glebe this…

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The Seddon Murder

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 9

The appeal of Seddon, condemned for the murder of Miss Barrow by the use of arsenic from fly-papers, brought out no new fact in the Criminal Appeal Court. Mr…

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Miss Malecka's Case. Accused Sentenced. Warsaw, May 11

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 3

The trial of Miss Kate Malecka, a British subject, on a charge of belonging to the Polish Socialist party, was resumed. The prosecution asserted that accused was…

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Theft of Postal Notes. Two Men Found Guilty

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 5

A three days' trial before Judge Nicholls and a jury, in the Hobart Criminal Court, Jno. Albert Smythe, who three years ago was elected for Hobart to the Assembly as…

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Police Court. Thursday, May 16th. (Before Mr C. H. Gale, P.M. Noxious Weeds Prosecution

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 6

William Pearse of Plashett, was proceeded against in connection with the destruction of noxious weel on that estate…

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Alleged Murder. Trial of William Ward. London, May 9

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 2

The trial was continued of William Ward on a charge of having murdered Edward Nixon Smith, at Chiswick, in November, 1908…

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Wilhelmshaven Police. Whole Force to Be Replaced

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 18 May 1912 · page 6

The statement that the authorities at Wilhelmshaven have decided to replace the entire police force of the North Sea naval port from the highest official to…

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Murder by Mohammedans. Governor and Magistrate Massacred. Peking

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 May 1912 · page 5

Mohammedians at Ili, flavouring a monarchy massacred the newly-appointed Governor and the district magistrate…

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