A Strange Assault. Woman's Clothes Saturated with Iodoform
An extraordinary assault case was heard at the Central Police Court, Sydney, on Tuesday. The accused was George Walsh, and…
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Courts & crime, 1912
1,635 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 77 of 82
Police Court. Tuesday, December 3. (Before Mr. R.H. V. Allnutt, P.m.) Neglecting to Destroy Rabbits
C. Brooks v. Martindale White Bros for having failed to comply with the Act with reference to the destruction of rabbits…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →High Court Judge Attacked Mr Cook and Justice Higgins. (By Telegraph.) Melbourne
In the House of representatives, duing the debate on the Railway Disputes and Referendum Bill, to-day, Mr Joseph Cook (Deputy-leader of the Opposition)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Small Debts Court. Tuesday, December 3rd. (Before Mr. R.H. V. Allnutt, P.M.)
H. E. Sternbeck v.J. W.:,McLanchlau, jnr., claim £14 5s for work done. Mr. Mclntyre appeared for complain ant, and Mr. Bamber for defendant…
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At the Kurri Police Court this morning before Mr. E. J. Culcliffe, J. P. Dennis Murphy (77) and old-age pensioner, was charged with stealing a horse bit valued at…
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The Queens Hotel, Woollahra, was entered by thieves last night and about £80 removed from the cash box…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West Maitland Police Court. Monday, December 9
The bench at the West Maitland Police Court this morning was occupied by Messrs. C. H. Gale, P.M., J. W. Pender, and John Rourke, Js.P…
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The inspector-General of Police has announced that extra pay for members of the force from July 1 to the end of November is now available, and will probably be paid…
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In the Children's Court the same accused was committed for trial at the Newcastle Quarter Sessions on a charge of indecently assaulting a boy 12 years of age, at Kurri,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Licensing Court
Phillip Jenkins was granted a renewal of the license of the Criterion Hotel, Weston. The transfer of a colonial wine license…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fiendish Torture. the Ducret Murder, Paris, Dec. 7
Before The anarchist. Lacombe shot his fellow-anarchist. Ducret, last week, he subjected the latter and his wife to an amazing torture…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Murder. Accused Husband's Sad Story, Sydney, Monday afternoon
At the Central Criminal Court to-day. William Gordon Hardie, a commercial traveller, was charged with having wounded Joseph Thos. Leo with intent to murder him…
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At the West Maitland police court this afternoon, before Messrs. C. H. Gale, P.M., John Rourke, and J. W. Pender, Js.p., Frank Allen pleaded guilty to having on…
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At the police court yesterday, William J. Melville was fined £1, or 14 days' imprisonment, for using indecent language. Walter Hickey was fined 10/, or seven days,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →East Maitland Police Court. Cask Further Adjourned
The adjourned case in which Patrick Bourke was charged with having, on November, 11, stolen from enclosed land at Bolwarra a quantity of onions valued at…
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A robbery of a rather serious character is reported to have taken place between Friday at dinner time and Saturday morning from a residence in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Annandale Murder
[?] was placed on his trial at the Criminal Court on a charge of murdering his wife and her 18-months'-old child at Annandale. Accused gave…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder in Paris. Amazing Torture
Paris, Saturday.—A murder was committed in the house of M.- and MdmeDneret, in Paris, by a man named Lacombe…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gruesome Theft. Royal Grave Rifled, Home, Dec. 9
Thieves rifled the grave of the late Duchess Elizabeth, the mother of Queen Margherita in the Basiliea, Superga, near Turin. They first cut the telephone and telegraph…
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