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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1915

1,163 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 42 of 59

Charged with Imposition

Singleton Argus · Saturday 11 September 1915 · page 5

A Maori, accompanied by a woman, whom he states is his wife, has been travelling about Wollongong lately, and it is alleged that he has been soliciting…

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Shooting Case. Gaol for Four Years

Singleton Argus · Saturday 11 September 1915 · page 5

William Lovern was charged at the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, on Thursday with feloniously wounding Ethel Holden with intent to murder her…

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A Disloyal Shearer. £100 Fine or Six Months' Gaol

Singleton Argus · Saturday 11 September 1915 · page 5

Police Court on Thursday afternoon, a man giving the name of Percy William Hobden, a shearer at Edgeroi Station, was charged with…

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Police Court. Thursday, September 9. (Before Mr R. H. V. Allnutt, P.m.) Cruelty to Calves

Singleton Argus · Saturday 11 September 1915 · page 5

George Burston, for having caused calves to be carried) in a cart in such a manner as to have entailed unnecessary suffering to the animals, was fined £1,…

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Darling Theft

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 September 1915 · page 5

While Reginald Trimmington was travelling in a tram yesterday, two women, between whom he sat, daringly ent out his trousers pockets and secured £13 in notes…

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Singleton Letter. Police Court. Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 September 1915 · page 3

At the police court yesterday, before Messrs. A simmons and J. W. B. Water-house, Js. P., a German named Anton Welton, alias Anthon Wagenbaur, aged 23,…

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Dungog Police Court Friday, Sept. 10, 1915. Before Mr C. H. Gale, P.M.

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 14 September 1915 · page 4

H. Simmonds v. C. N: Coombes assault Messrs Elliott and Waller appeared for plaintiff, and Mr J. R. Carlton for defendant…

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Small Debts Court

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 14 September 1915 · page 4

M. E. Redman v. J. Chudu Khan Mr Waller appeared for plaintiff, and Mr Carlton for defendant £3 17s 2d was claimed for…

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Police Court. Monday, September 13. (Before. Messrs A. Simmons and J. W. B. Waterhouse, J's.P.) a German in Trouble

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 14 September 1915 · page 4

Anton Welton, alias Anthon Wagenbauer, a German, aged 23, was charged with having, on September 3, at Ravensworth, broken and entered the…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 September 1915 · page 4

Before Mr. W. B. Gaddes, J.P., at the West Maitland Police Court this morning, Patrick Joseph Keating was fined 5/, or 24 hours' imprisonment, for being drunk in…

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Suspected Murder

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 September 1915 · page 7

William Parcel, 43 years of ago, by occupation a fisherman, and a native of Hunter's Hill was not-fishing at Lauricton for some time. He disappeared on or about…

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News by Wire. Cowardly Assault. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 September 1915 · page 4

Four men went to the house of Ained Abdulla in the city late last night and called him outside. Then they set upon him. One man beat him about the head with a bottle,…

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Brutal Assault. a Woman the Victim. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 September 1915 · page 4

Mrs. Lily Stephens was the victim of a brutal assault while proceeding homeward, to Erskineville late last night. She was walking along Coulson-street when a man…

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A Brutal Assault Woman's Unknown Assailant

Singleton Argus · Thursday 16 September 1915 · page 3

Sydney, Wednesday.- Mrs Lily Stephens, residing at Newtown, was waylaid and brutally assaulted at Erskineville late last night by a man…

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Great German Move Poland to France. Important Assault Presaged

Singleton Argus · Thursday 16 September 1915 · page 2

London, Tuesday Night.—The French War Department announces the information that the Germans are transporting great numbers of troops, with…

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East Maitland Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 September 1915 · page 4

Before Mr. C. H. Cale, P.M., at the East Maitland Police Court this moraine, Mr. R. T. Sarginson, traffic inspector to the East Maitland municipality, proceeded against eight…

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West Maitland Police Court. Friday, September 17

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 September 1915 · page 6

The bench at the West Maitland. Police Court this morning was occupied by Mr. W. B. Geddes, J.P. VAGRANCY…

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Moonan Flat. Police Court. (Before Mr. E. E. Campbell, J.P.)

The Scone Advocate · Friday 17 September 1915 · page 8

Proceedings by summons were taken against George Arthur Tanner, on a charge of larceny, the evidence being as follows:—…

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News by Wire. Solicitor Before the Court. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 September 1915 · page 5

Frederick Sydney Gannon, a well-known Sydney solicitor, was before the Police Court to-day charged with having converted to his own use, with intent to defraud, the sum of…

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The Very Latest. Contraband. Admiralty Court Judgment. 42 Cargoes Affected. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 September 1915 · page 5

In the Admiralty Court, Justice Sir S. T. Evans gave Judgment on four Scandinavian vessels that had been detained carrying cargoes to Copenhagen…

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