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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1914

1,594 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 44 of 80

Police Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 5 June 1914 · page 4

The fortnightly court on Tuesday Was the medium of small business. Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., occupied the Bench, and the following cases were…

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East Maitland Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 June 1914 · page 4

The bench at the East Maitland Police Court this morning was occupied by Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M. Peter Toohey, for being drunk and disorderly, was fined 10/ and 6/…

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Singleton Letter. Singleton, Friday, Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 June 1914 · page 5

At the police court yesterday the bench was occupied by Mr. R. H. V. Allnutt, P.M. Joseph La Hood was charged with having on or about May 1st, fraudulently…

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Warden's Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 June 1914 · page 4

At the Warden's Court, held at the East Maitland Courthouse this morning, before the Warden (Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M.), A. A. Holland applied for permission to enter…

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Police Assaults. a Magistrates Remarks

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 June 1914 · page 7

At the Port Adelaide Police court, before Mr. Sinclair, S.M., a tall young man appeared on a charge of drunkenness. The left side of his face was bruised extensively…

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Fire at Aberdeen. Presbyterian Church Saved. Good Work by the Police

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 June 1914 · page 2

THE Presbyterian folk . of Aberdeen can well thank the police that they had on Wednesday a church (says the Aberdeen "Advance.")…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 June 1914 · page 5

At the police court this morning, before Mr. J. Dill, J. P., Thomas Williams, for having been drunk in the bar of the Station Hotel, was fined 12-6, or the rising of…

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The Parramatta Tragedy. Accused Sentenced

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 June 1914 · page 6

The story of the tragedy on Good Friday at a house in Pennant-street, Parramatta, where a woman was found so badly battered about the head that she died later…

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Rose Bay Murder

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 June 1914 · page 2

The man who was arrested at Gun [?]ing on Tuesday morning on suspicion of being concerned in the Rose Bay murder has been proved not to be the…

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Police Court. Thursday, June 4. (Before Mr R. H. V. Allnutt, P.m.). Alleged Misappropriation

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 June 1914 · page 6

Joseph La Hood was charged with having, on or about May 1, fraudulently misappropriated, to his own use a cheque for £5, the property of Allan…

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Brutal Assault. Man Clubbed and Robbed. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 June 1914 · page 4

A man named Frederick George Gray, residing at Cleveland-street,' Redfern was clubbed into insensibility at the cornor bf Hart and CleVeland streets…

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The Court House Clock

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 June 1914 · page 4

The tender of Mr. D. M'Dougall for the repairing of the turret clock at the Court House has been accepted by the sheriff, and the work will be put in hand…

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Police Court Tuesday, June 2, 1914. (Before Mr. R. H. V. Allnutt, P.m) a Wages' Claim

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 June 1914 · page 8

A case of more than ordinary interest us affecting the administration of Industrial Court awards and matters incidental thereto was that in which Walter William Walsh…

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Alleged Murder. Case Prom Walgett. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 June 1914 · page 4

A report from Walgett states that James Davidson, driver of the mail between Walgett and Angledool, was murdered last night at a roadside hotel…

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Master of the High Court

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 June 1914 · page 7

Mr. Charles Henry Walton aged 78 years, of 53, Lower Belgrave-street, S.W., barrister-at-law, a former Master of the Supreme Court, who left estate of the value of [?]76…

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Villa, the Mexican General. Frightful Career of Murder and Torture

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 June 1914 · page 10

Francisco Villa was horn at Las Nieves in the State of Durango about the year 1868. He is wholly uneducated, being unable to read and barely able to sign his name. About the year…

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Case of Julia Decies. London's Sympathy with Girl Shot Sleeping Lover. Seven Years' Gaol

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 June 1914 · page 5

The plea that at the time she shot Basil Piffard—a man with whom she had lived—she was in such a state of exasperation, jealousy, rage, and hopeless despair that…

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Small Debts Court. Alleged Breach of Agreement

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 June 1914 · page 2

F. Budden versus A. W. Dennis.—This was an action for £ 10 damages for an alleged breach of agreement on the part of the defendant in…

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Barmaid and Tailor's Cutter Alleged Attempt to Murder. Verdict of Not Guilty

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 June 1914 · page 6

Alice Mabel Rankin, a young woman was placed on trial at the Control Criminal Cout, Sydney, on Thursday, charged with wounding Gilbert David…

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Stabbed to Death. Alleged Murder

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 June 1914 · page 5

Further particulars regarding the death of James Henry Davidson, which occurred at Weetalibah are to hand. It is stated that Davidson was driving the…

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