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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1915

1,163 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 23 of 59

Miracle Men Charged. Alleged Fraud

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 May 1915 · page 2

Andrew Scott Page, aged 38, and John William Hinton, aged 34, came before Mr. Acting Justice Docker at the Central Criminal Court charged with having conspired to cheat…

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Outrage and Murder. Park Mystery

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 7 May 1915 · page 10

About 12 o'clock on Monday night George Watson, a railway porter, after leaving work, found the dead body of a woman lying on…

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Dairymen at Court. Breaches of the Pure Foods Act

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 May 1915 · page 2

Before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., at Cessnock police court last Tuesday, F. Wirgan, Inspector under the Pure Foods Act, proceeded against John…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 May 1915 · page 4

An inebriate, who had ten previous convictions against him, was fined £1, in default seven days' imprisonment, by Mr. C. H. Gale, P. M., at the West Maitland Police…

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Military Court-martial. Private Charged

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 May 1915 · page 7

Private Ernest Low, a member of the 15th Battalion of the Australian Imperial Forces was before a military court-marital in the Central Court, Brisbane, on Friday, charged…

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Supreme Court Action. Higgens and Another v. BROWN

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 May 1915 · page 14

In the Supreme Court, Sydney, last week, Mr. Mocatta, instructed by Messrs. Piggott and Stinson (agents for Messrs. Fitzgerald and Melntyre, of Muswellbrook) appeared…

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News by Wire. Police Sergeant and Doctor Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 May 1915 · page 5

While searching the grounds of the Children's Hospital late last night at Camperdown, for a man who was reported to have been worrying and…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 May 1915 · page 4

The business at the West Maitland Police Court this morning was very light. One drunk was fined 2/6 and two others 10/ each, of three days' imprisonment. Against…

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Very Latest War News SYDNEY, Monday Lusitania Murder. Hill 60 Again

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Monday 10 May 1915 · page 2

A Times correspondent, refering to the loss of the Lusitania, Says that the appalling facts must be accepted, that 1400 persona have been sacrificed to…

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Military Court-martial. Alleged Misdemeanours at Rabaul

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 May 1915 · page 7

A notification is published in the Commonwealth "Gazette" constituting a military court-martial to try the following officers and men with alleged misdemeanours…

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Alleged Misconduct at Rabaul. Court-Martial Appointed

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 11 May 1915 · page 1

A notification appears in the Commonwealth "Gazette," constituting a military court-martial to try. Colonel Paton, officer commanding the Fourth…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 May 1915 · page 2

At the police Court on Monday Stephen Timothy Houlahan and William Edward Houlahan were presented on a number of charges. According to the evidence ,…

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Police Promotion

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 May 1915 · page 4

Superintendent John Roche, Who has been in charge of the Detective Branch of the Police Force for a number of years, has been promoted to a first-class superintendency, and…

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"Greatest Murder the World Has Ever Known."

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 12 May 1915 · page 2

George Kessler, the so-called Champagne King, and host a freak dinners at the Savoy, states that he saw the trail of a torpedo thirty feet away,…

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The Lusitania. the Captain's Story. Wholesale Wilful Murder. London, May 10

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 May 1915 · page 5

At the inquest as to the loss of the Lusitania, Captain Turner, who was in charge of the liner, in his evidence stated that when he approached the danger zone the…

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Military Court Martial. Charges of Looting. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 May 1915 · page 4

A special Court Martial constituted by the Commonwealth Military to try several officers and of the Australian Naval and Military expedition to German. New…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 May 1915 · page 4
Also in Singleton Argus

Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., occupied tho bench at the West Maitland Police Court this morning, but the only case was that in which an old-age pensioner, 73 years…

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The Inquest. Verdict of Murder Against Kaiser

Singleton Argus · Thursday 13 May 1915 · page 4

London, Tuesday.-inquest in to the deaths of the victims of the Lusitania disaster was opened yesterday. Captain W. T. Turner, commander or…

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Murder on the High Seas. United States Pilloried. New York

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 May 1915 · page 5

Ex-President Roosevelt, in an article in a magazine, entitled "Murder on the High Seas," states that the United States is neutral as Pontius pilate was neutral…

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