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Courts & crime, 1913

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The Oldham Murder. London, Dec. 18

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 December 1913 · page 3

Ernest Kelly was hauled at Manchester for the murder of a bookseller named Bardsley, at Oldham, in July last. Several hundreds of women and youths marched…

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Liverpool Murder. Arrest of Sumner London, Monday evening

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 December 1913 · page 3

George Sumner, for whom the police have been searching for some time in connection with the murder of Miss Bradford, whose body was discovered in a sack in the…

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Ritual Murder Case. Promotions and Dismissals. London, Dec. 20

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 December 1913 · page 2

The St. Petersburg correspondent of the "Standard" states that Beiliss, who was recently acquitted in the ritual murder trial, has been given a passport enabling…

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Massage Establishment. the Police Raid. London. Dec. 20

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 December 1913 · page 3

The police recently raided a message establishment in the West End and arrested the occupier a woman named Violet Gray, on several charges under the White Slave Act…

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Income Tax and Dividends. Full Court Judgment

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 December 1913 · page 12

The Full Court. (Mr. Justice Street and Mr. Justice Ferguson) delivered reserved judgment in Sydney on Friday afternoon in three appeals, in which the Commissioners…

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Police and the Unions. Not Allowed to Join. London. Dec. 22

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 December 1913 · page 2

The Commissioner of Police has notified that policemen will be liable to dismissal if they join a union or a federation of unions. Three constables who supported the…

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West Maitland Police Court. Monday, December 29

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 December 1913 · page 2

The bench at the West Mailand Police Court this morning was occupied by Mr. S. E. Beaver, J. P. DRUNKENNESS…

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Late News by Cable. Prisoner Denied Gaol. a Curious Incident. Walla Walla (Wash.), Dec. 28

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 December 1913 · page 2

When Mrs. Hazzard, the notorious "starvation doctor," failed in her appeal against the indeterminate sentence passed upon her in connection with the death of Claire…

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Stefansson Expedition. North-west Police Investigate. DAWSON(Yukon), Dec. 27

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 December 1913 · page 5

The Royal Noth-west Mounted Police have arranged an expedition to be undertaken in connection with the annual patrol from Dawson to Fort Macpherson, with the object of…

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City Burglary

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 30 December 1913 · page 2

Early on Mondlay morning, it was ascertained that burglars had broken into the premises of Messsrs A. Carter and Co., photographers and artware dealers,…

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Local and General. Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 December 1913 · page 4

At the West Maitland police court this morning before Mr. S. E. Beaver, J.P., Peter Coady was fined 5/, or 24 hours for drunkenness, and 10/, with the alternative…

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A Brutal Assault

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 December 1913 · page 5

A horrible outrage was perpetrated on a 14-year-old girl on Saturday night in a paddock half a mile fromthe centre of the town of Narradera. The victim was brutally…

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After Thirteen Years. Alleged Gaol-breaker

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 December 1913 · page 8

Edward O'Neill was charged at the Omen court, Victorian, on Monday with being identical with John Henry Speaks, who escaped from pentridge gaol in July, 1901…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 31 December 1913 · page 4

At Singleton Police Court last week, before Mr. R. H. V. Allbutt, P.M. James Chi[?]cott Noble and James Back were charged with stealing in company,…

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Ritual Murder Charge. Beiliss's Sufferings

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 31 December 1913 · page 7

A despatch from Kieff published here (says the New York correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph") gives a pathetic interview with Mendel Beiliss, whose…

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Questionable Advertisements. the Police Report

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 31 December 1913 · page 3

The Police Department, has furnished the Premier with a report regarding an advertisement which appeared in one of the Sydney papers for a lady typiste. The…

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Daring Gold Robbery. Theft From a Train. Mystery in France. Paris, Nov. 17

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 31 December 1913 · page 6

Great mystery is being observed by the police authorities at the Gare du Nord concerning the robbing of a car containing forty cases of gold coin and ingots from…

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Women in Opium Flats. Arrest of Doctor After Police Raid

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 31 December 1913 · page 2

Acting on information supplied by the Customs inspector, the police in New York raided two flats in a fashionable house in Twenty-second-street and arrested Dr. Herman…

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