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Courts & crime, 1914

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Federal Arbitration Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 23 May 1914 · page 3

The Federal Arbitration Court, during the time of my predecessor and myself has done a great and beneficial work for the people of Australia. It…

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Twenty Years' Gaol. Murdered His Father. Paris, May 16

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 May 1914 · page 3

Benromdan Mohammed has been sentenced to 20 years penal servitude for murdering his father. (On October 18 last Mahomed Rhand, a…

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Police Eluded. London, May 16

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 May 1914 · page 2

Mr. Wood, who was imprisoned for damaging a picture in the Royal Academy, but was released after she had endured a hunger strike, cluded the vigilance of the police…

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Industrial Court. Brickmaker Fined

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 May 1914 · page 14

A sitting of the Industrial Court was held at the East Maitland Courthouse on Friday, before Mr. C. H. Gale, Industrial Magistrate…

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Strange Story. a Hindoo and the Police

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 May 1914 · page 10

Kissian Singh, a Hindoo charged with vagrancy, at the city court, Melbourne, told a peculiar stroy. A. H. Pritchard official Indian…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 May 1914 · page 6

The business at the police court on Thursday was light, and only occupied a few minutes. Mary Ann Frith was fined 5/ and 6/ costs for allowing five horses to stray in…

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West Maitland Police Court. Monday, May 25

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 May 1914 · page 6

The bench at the West Maitland Police Court to-day was occupied by Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M. MUNICIPAL CASES…

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Suicide or Murder

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 May 1914 · page 2

In this "Cat's Pilgrimage" (says " T. [?] Weekly") Froude represents the cat consulting the owl as to what was the question of questions. "Why there can be no…

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Stolen Code Book. Signalman Sentenced. London, May 23

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 May 1914 · page 8

Signalman Herbert Hulton was sentenced to four years imprisonment by court-martial at Sheerness in connection with the theft of a signal rode book from the safe on board…

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Children's Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 May 1914 · page 4

In the Children's Court at West Maitland this morning five boys were charged with damaging insulators on the telegraph line. They were released on probation for…

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Police Raid. London, May 24

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 May 1914 · page 5

The police yesterday raided the Women's Political Union offices and arrested the general secretary. Grace Rae, who was charged with conspiring with Nellie Hall to damage…

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Darlinghurst Gaol. Will Cease to Exist

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 26 May 1914 · page 4

The Government has perfected its plans with regard to the Darlinghurst gaol site. The building as a gaol will cease to exist by the end of July next,…

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Alleged Arson. Girl Charged at Brisbane

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 May 1914 · page 2

At the Supreme Court, Brisbane, before the Chief Justice and a jury, Jane Nightingale appears on a charge of having, on January 23, at Taringa, murdered Emily…

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Constables in Trouble. Charged with Assault

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 May 1914 · page 7

At the Sydney Quarter Sessions yesterday, Patrick Thomas McDonnell and Edward O'Donnell, police constables, pleaded not guilty to a charge of having assaulted John…

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Suffragettes Sentenced. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 May 1914 · page 5

Freda Graham has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for damaging five pictures in the National Art Gallery. She said it was done as a protest for the Kind not…

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Alleged Murder

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 May 1914 · page 2

The suspect Pierre, who has detained in connection with the murder of his partner, Paul Cadion, an engineer at Brest, has been provisionally released owing to lack of…

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The English Derby. Police Precautions London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 May 1914 · page 5

Kennymore is still a strong favourite for the Derby. Black Jester is next in demand, followed in the quotations by Durbar and Carancho, who are on the same mark…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 May 1914 · page 4

Before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., at the West Maitland Police Court this morning, three inebriates were dealt with. Two were each fined 2/6, with the alternative of five…

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Local News. Police Court

Singleton Argus · Thursday 28 May 1914 · page 2

There are some eighteen cases set down for Hearing at the Police Court this morning before Mr. R. H. V. Allnutt, P.M. The majority of these cases…

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Constables Convicted. Charges of Assault

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 May 1914 · page 2

The hearing of the charge of assault against Patrick Thomas M'Donnell and Edward O'Donnell, two policemen, the latter the lockup-keeper at Erskine-street police…

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