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Courts & crime, 1914

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Charge Against Police

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 June 1914 · page 5

A charge of assault preferred against Constable George Louis was investigated at the police court to-day. The prosecutor, John Peck, a jeweller, of Ultimo, who…

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The Suffragists. Incendiary Sentenced. Blames the White Slave Trade. London, June 24

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 June 1914 · page 5

Frances Gordon, a women's suffragist, has been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment at Glasgow for for fire-raising at Ruthergien. It appeared from the evidence that a…

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Father Shoots Son. Strange Story to Police

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 June 1914 · page 3

Further particulars of the tragedy at Tennessee, in Western Australia (brief particulars of which appeared in our last issue), state that the accused…

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Sale of Boorabil Estate. Action in Banco Court

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 June 1914 · page 2

An action was heard before Sir William Cullen, Chief Justice, and a jury of four, in the Banco Court, Sydney, on Monday, in which John Percy Osborne…

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Licensing Court. (Before Messrs. C. H. Gale, P.M., and E. Bowden, L.M.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 June 1914 · page 2

Joseph Bridge, Ellalong, and Margaret O'Brien, Bishop's Bridge, were granted renewals of colonial wine licenses. Renewals of licenses were also granted to…

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Singleton Letter. Singleton, Friday. Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 June 1914 · page 4

Mr. R. H. V. Allnutt, P.M., occupied the bench at the police court yesterday. Albert Dowd was charged, on the information of Charles King, with entering on the…

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Theft and Recovery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 June 1914 · page 5

Another daring visit has been made by thieves on the Colonial Sugar Company's works, Pyrmont. The intruders got away with six 70lb, bags of sugar, which they…

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Colliery Employees in Court. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 June 1914 · page 5

Before Judge Edmunds in the Industrial Court this morning forty-nine colliery youths, employed chiefly as clippers at Pelaw-Main Colliery, were each fined 10/6,…

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Woman Poisoner Sentenced

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 June 1914 · page 12

Octavie Lecompte, the woman accused of having poisoned her father and brother at Clary, in the Department of the Loire, has been found guilty by the jury and…

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Policeman Charged. Early Morning Visit

Singleton Argus · Saturday 27 June 1914 · page 5

A charge of assault preferred against Constable George Edward Louis was investigated at the Central Summons Court, Sydney, on Thursday…

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Stealing From the Railway. Two Men Fired On

Singleton Argus · Saturday 27 June 1914 · page 4

About 2 o'clock on Thursday morning Constable Bryson, of the Pyrmont Police Station, noticed two men acting suspiciously in Harvey-street, Pyrment…

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Industrial Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 June 1914 · page 3
Also in Singleton Argus

A sitting of the Industrial Court was held on Thursday, before Mr. R. H. V. Allnutt, P.M. Walter Smith was charged with employing George King as a…

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Welcome to Police Officer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 June 1914 · page 3

Before the ordinary business of the police court commenced on Thursday, the police magistrate (Mr. R. H. V. Allnutt) extended a welcome to Senior-Sergeant…

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Police Court. Thursday, June 25. (Before Mr. R. H. V. Allnutt, P.m.) Information Dismissed

Singleton Argus · Saturday 27 June 1914 · page 1

Albert Dowd was charged, on the information of Charles King, with entering on the enclosed land of complainant, without his consent on June 10…

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Football Riot. Mob Rush the Police

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 June 1914 · page 14

Another disgraceful ending to a football match, this time at Glenferrie, Victoria, on Saturday, occurred. The competing teams were Hawthorne…

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Horses for the Police. Venture T Be Launched

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 June 1914 · page 6

Having secured a number of good mares, and several serviceable stallions, the Inspector-General of Police (Mr. Ernest C. Day), intends to start a police stud farm…

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Paris Day by Day. Murder on a Railway. Paris, May 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 June 1914 · page 6

An extraordinary crime was committed this morning, on the Nord railway, when a signalman was shot and killed in his box a few hundred yards from the station of Saint…

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Italian Countess Murder Case. "To Save Her Honour." Prisoner's Plea. Oneglia, May 1

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 June 1914 · page 14

To-day's proceedings in connection with the trial at the Assize Court of the Countess Tiepolo for the murder of her husband's servant, a young soldier named Polimanti…

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Faking a Pearl. an Indian Charged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 June 1914 · page 2

An Indian well-known in the pearl trade in Paris has been charged, in a report drawn up by eminent experts, with falsifying a pearl of high value by adding colouring…

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