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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1915

1,163 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 59

News by Wire. New Zealand Arbitration Court. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 March 1915 · page 5

Opposing an application to the New Zealand Arbitration Court to resume the hearing of industrial disputes, the employers emphasised the fact that they kept their full staffs…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 4

At the West Maitland Police Court this morning, before Mr. W. B. Geddes, J.P., for being drunk a first offender was fined 5/, or the rising of the court, while another…

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East Maitland Police Court. Resisting the Police

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 2

Before Mr. J. S. Browne, J. P., yesterday, Wm. Ashman was fined 2/6 or 24 hours' imprisonment for drunkenness, and £1 or seven days for having resisted. Constable Maples…

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Singleton Letter. Police Court. Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 7

Before Mr. Allnutt, P.M., at the police court yesterday, William Smith pleaded guilty to having been found on the premises of the White Swam Hotel on Sunday March 14 at…

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Burglary at Molong. Woman Shot At

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 8

About 11 o'clock on Wednesday night Mrs. Kiernan, who was alone in an isolated house near Cumnock, was startled to see two strange men enter her room. They…

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Tried by Court-martial. the Machinery of Army Law

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 5

When Mr. Atkins first puts on His Majesty's uniform he not only enters a new world, full of strange customs and observations, he has to submit to…

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Tried by Court-martial the Machinery of Army Law

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 5

When Mr. Atkins first pass on His Majesty's uniform he not only enters a new world, full of strange customs and observations, he has to submit to…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 4

Mark Mason (37), on remand from Newcastle, appeared before Mr. W. B. Geddes, J.P., at the West Maitland Police Court this morning, charged with stealing on…

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Sentenced to Death

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 13

In the Perth. (W.A.) Criminal Court, George Snellgrove was charged with the wilful murder of Sarah Bourke, at Perth, on February 8. The case for the Crown…

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Alleged Theft. of Military Stores

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 15

A case of alleged theft of military stores was heard at the Water Police Court, Sydney. John Gribble, aged 42, Thomas Leslie Milford Kirby, 52, and William Poole, 38,…

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Charge of Theft. Large Sum Involved

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 11

In the Cairns (Q.) police court, Dunean Cameron Miller, formerly shipping manager at the Cairns branch of Burns, Philp, and Co., and James Joseph Lynch and James…

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English Prisoner. Sentenced by Germans. Amsterdam, March 14

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 12

The British prisoner John Bramble, who was remanded to Spandau, a fortified Prussian town, for assaulting a German sergeant, who struck him with a whip, has…

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German Governor. Supposed Murder. London, March 15

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 2

The "Daily Chronicle's" Athens correspondent states that General von der Goltz, the German military governor, with a large staff, recently went to Smyrna to…

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Intent to Murder. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 7

Thomas Carrington Tansley was charged at the Criminal Court to-day with having, on October 6, feloniously wounded Violet Warner, his sister, at…

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Indian Fanatics. Conflict with Police. Madras, March 10

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 7

Some fanatics 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 then stormed the…

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Tried by Court-martial. the Machinery of Army Law

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 5

When Mr. Atkins first puts on His Majesty's uniform he not only enters a new world, full of strange customs and observations, he has to submit to…

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Earle Hermann Sentenced

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 March 1915 · page 5

Earle Hermann has been sentenced to three years' hard labour on each charge of [?]ttering, the sentences to be concurrent. His Honor said he had taken notice of the jury's…

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Passport Conspiracy. Germans Sentenced. New York, March 19

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 March 1915 · page 2

Richard Stegler, a German reservist, has been sentenced to sixty days's imprisonment. His accomplices—Richard Nodden and…

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German Brutality. Pillage and Murder

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 March 1915 · page 6

The Boulogne correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" writing on February 2, states:—The Germans are now showing considerable…

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West Maitland Police Court. Monday, March 22. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.m.) Drunkenness

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 March 1915 · page 2

Two first offenders were fined 2/6, or ten minutes' imprisonment for being drunk. SHIRR PROSECUTIONS. Mr. J. E. B. Wynn, inspector to the…

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