Pages from our Past PAPER No. 6. Cessnock Court House, Etc. Copyright: All rights reserved by the author
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 5 March 1915 · page 4
The old Court House, which at the end of January last was sold to a local resident for £29 and removed by him, was built by Contractor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court
Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 March 1915 · page 6
The business at the Police Court on Thursday, before Mr R. H. V. Allnutt, P.M., was very light; and the precincts of the Court presented a sombre and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Singleton Letter. Singleton, Saturday. Police Court
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 March 1915 · page 6
Mr. R. H. V. Alinutt, P. M., presided at the police court on Thursday, but had little to occupy his attention. A prohibition against liquor being supplied to Arthur…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Sergeant Fined
Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 March 1915 · page 5
Sergeant Sheehy was, at the Bathurst Police Court on Wednesday, fined 1/-, with 6/- costs, for having used insulting words to Charles Henry Hall, owner of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Russian Socialists. Charged with Treason. Petrograd, Feb. 25
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 March 1915 · page 12
The trial has begun of five Socialist members of the Duma and six other Socialists, on charges of treason and conspiracy. The evidence shows that they started an…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Police Court Tuesday March 2, 1915 (Before Mr. R. H. V. Allnutt, P.M.)
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 March 1915 · page 8
This was a case in which Herbert Robert Fianders charged, Herbert Stern beck with negligently driving a motor car in Bridge Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Police Force. New Regulations
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 March 1915 · page 7
Also in Singleton Argus
A new code of rules for the government and discipline of the members of the Police Force of the State has been issued. The regulations embody the police, evolved by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Local News. New Police Regulations
Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 March 1915 · page 6
The titles of sub-inspector and seniorconstable are abolished by the new police regulations, which came into force on March 1st. Sub-inspectors will now…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court-martials. Debate in the Lords. London, Feb. 25
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 March 1915 · page 7
In the House of Lords, the Earl of Selborne moved motion affirming the expediency of maintaining court-martials in is in the best interests of the navy and public. He said that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Court
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 March 1915 · page 4
Mr C. H. Gale, P.M., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police Court this morning. James Andre was fined 5/, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pilfering From Cargo. Raid by Police
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 March 1915 · page 7
In consequence of serious complaints made in Melbourne by importers and exporters in regard to pilfering from cargo, a police raid was carried out on a steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Kojunup Tragedy. Husband Charged with Murder
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 March 1915 · page 2
In the Criminal Court, Perth (W.A.), John Henry Eatt, selector in the K[?] was arraigned on a charge of mur[?] his wife, Mary Anne, on February [?] The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Island Murder. Chinese Victims
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 March 1915 · page 2
The Fiji "Times" received by the steamer Levuka states that mysterious disappearance is reported from Kadavu, which seems to point to a crime of a particularly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Station Manager's Conviction. Appeal to High Court
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 March 1915 · page 5
The High Court heard an application by Mr. Cussen that an order should be made for expediting the hearing a special case stated by Judge Murray, of P[?] for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Question of Titles. Judge of the Industrial Court
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 March 1915 · page 6
A pronouncement was made in the Industrial Court by Mr. Justice Heydon on the subject of the use by [?] Honor of the title of "Mr. Justice," and reference was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Imposition—man Sentenced
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 March 1915 · page 5
At the Sydney Police Court a man named Charles Williams was sentenced to six months' gaol for imposing on Violet Mountain by representing himself as the landlord…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, March 11. a Railway Cask
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 March 1915 · page 2
Frank Waight, a youth, pleaded guilty to having, at High-street railway station on February 7, alighted from a train on the wrong side of the railway carriage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charge of Theft. Large Sum Involved
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 March 1915 · page 4
In the Cairns (Q.) police court, Duncan Cameron Miller, formerly shipping manager at the Cairns branch of Burns, Philp, and Co., and James Joseph Lynch and James…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Indian Fanatics. Conflict with Police. Madras, March 10
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 March 1915 · page 2
Some fanaties at Calicut, concerned in an attempt on the life of an official, took refuge in a temple, and resisted arrest for two hours. The police than stormed the…
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