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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1915

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Police Court. Thursday, January 7. (Before Mr R. H. V. Allnutt, P.m.). Alleged Horse-stealing

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 3

Alfred James Jobson, on remand, on bail, was charged with having stolen a horse at Gilendonbrook on or about 16th December, 1913, the property of…

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Police Promotions

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 2

Promotions in the New South Wales Police Force are under consideration and according to Mr. Cann. Acting Premier these concern two sup[?]…

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Prisoner of War. Sentenced to Death. Amsterdam, Dec. 31

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 12

Lonsdale, a prisoner of war at the Doeberitz camp, who was recently sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for assuming a threatening attitude and refusing to obey…

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Broken Hell Tragedies. Findings of Murder

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 5

The inquest on the bodies of the four persons shot at Broken Hill by Turks was held on Thursday. Lengthy evidence was taken, giving the details of…

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The Toolern Tragedy. Murder and Suicide

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 6

The Melbourne coroner held an inquest on Saturday concerning the deaths of Mary. Isabel Wynne, 18, and Peter Michole, a young French-Canadian, who was a deserter…

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Police Administration. Proposed Reforms

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 14

Mr. Ca[?] the [?] Secretary is having [?] the administrative [?] of the Police Department, in which [?] the Minister [?]. Some one age [?]…

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Licensing Court. Thursday, January 7. (Before Messrs R. H. V. Allnutt, P.M., A. Simmons, and W. Bailey Js.P.) Sedgefield Hotel

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 January 1915 · page 3

An application was heard from William Wake, junr., licensee of a boarding house at Sodgefield, to which a conditional hotel license had been granted,…

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Bishop Sentenced

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 January 1915 · page 5

The Roman Catholic Bishop at Coiffa has been sentenced to death "In absentia" for preaching in favour of the Allies…

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Local and General News. Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 January 1915 · page 4

The business sheet presented at the West Maitland Police Court this morning was a very light one for a Monday, and the cases of an unimportant nature. An…

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Maitland Coalmines. Children's Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 January 1915 · page 2

At the Children's Court, Kurri, on Satur-day, before Messrs. E. Bickmore and W. Gillon, Js.P., James Morgan (27) was charged with disobeying an order of the…

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Singleton Letter. (From our Representative.) Police Court. Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 5

Messrs. A. Simmons and J. W. B. Waterhouse occupied the bench at the police court yesterday. Three young men were formally charged…

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An Obstinate German. Sentenced to Imprisonment

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 2

Sydney, Monday.—Frederick Muller, a German, subject, who refused to take the oath of neutrality and to report himself to the police, was sentenced to…

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News by Wire. Theft of Jewellery. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 5

A thief entered Horton's jewellery es-tablishment at Marrickville in broad daylight yesterday afternoon, and, despite the presence of an usually watchful dog, got…

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Police Court. Monday, January 11th. (Before Messrs A. Simmons and J. W. B. Waterhouse, Js.P.). VAGRANCY

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 3

Three young men were formally charged with having no legal means of support. Two pleaded guilty, but said they had only been in the town about…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 January 1915 · page 6

Don Ord, one of three men who were remanded for eight days on Monday on a charge of vagrancy, was again brought before the police court on Tuesday…

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Alleged Murder

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 January 1915 · page 5

An inquest was held concerning the death of Gertrude Spratt, aged 21. Her husband. Chas. James Spratt (24) was present in custody. George Sullivan deposed that he…

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Note Robbery. Federal Clerk Charged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 January 1915 · page 7

Solley Burvill, a clerk in the Pensions Office of the Commonwealth Treasury, Sydney, appeared in the Melbourne City Court on a charge of having stolen, on…

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Police Changes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 January 1915 · page 4

Constable Stinson, who has been stationed at East Maitland for the past three years, has been transferred to South Singleton, to which place he goes to-morrow. Prior to…

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Superintendent of Police

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 January 1915 · page 4

After a term of slightly over three years in charge of the North-eastern police district, with headquarters at Maitland, Superintendent MeVane to-day terminated his…

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