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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1915

1,163 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 53 of 59

The Petersham Murder. Conviction Set Aside

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 November 1915 · page 2

Argument was concluded before the Criminal Appeals Full Bench of five judges (the Chief Justice, Sir William Cullen, Mr. Justice Street, Mr. Justice Gordon, Mr…

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Maitland District Court

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 23 November 1915 · page 4

Before his Honor Judge Fitzhardinge, on Thursday last. The Carrington Motor Company, of West Maitland, brought…

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Cessnock Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 November 1915 · page 3

At the Cessnock Police Court on Monday, before, Mr. S. W. Snape, J. P., Thomas Duncan and John E. Atkinson were charged with being drunk and with using indecent language. They were…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 November 1915 · page 4

Mr. A. S. Gatos, P.M., occupied the bench at the, West Maitland Poilce Court to-day. Traffic-inspector C. R. Hughes proceeded against a person for allowing a horse to…

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A Violent German. £100 Fine and Six Months' Gaol

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 November 1915 · page 2

Ernest Hugo Seidel, carpenter, of Eastwood, was charged at the Porramatta Court with using language calculated to cause disaffection to his…

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Camden Haven Murder. Trial in Sydney. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 November 1915 · page 5

The story of the mysterious murder of William Parcell, a fisherman of Camden Haven, was told at the Central Criminal Court to-day, when James Piper, a…

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Police Court. (Before Mr. R. H. V. Allnutt, P.M.)

The Scone Advocate · Friday 26 November 1915 · page 7

In the local Police Court, this morning, Inspector H. G. Colli son proceeded against Samuel Coroneo, for allowing a horse to stray…

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Charge of Murder. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 November 1915 · page 5

John O'Brlen (36), a member of the Expeditionary Forces, was before the Newtown Police court to-day on a charge of having coloniously and maliciously murdered…

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A Violent German. £100 Fine and Six Months' Gaol

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 26 November 1915 · page 3

Ernest Hugo Seidel, carpenter, of Eastwood, was charged at the Parramatta Court, before Mr. Fitzhardinge, S.M. with using language calculated to cause…

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Police Sergeant Seriously Injured. While Arresting Prisoner. Gunnedah

The Scone Advocate · Friday 26 November 1915 · page 7

WHITE Sergeant Millane was taking a man named Cox to the Curlewis lockup this morning on a charge of drunkenness, it is alleged that the man suddenly, with…

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Sentenced to Death. West Melbourne Murder

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 November 1915 · page 14

At the trial in Melbourne of the young woman, Maria Black, on a charge of murdering Mabel Georgina Weston, at West Melbourne, on October 13th, by shooting…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 November 1915 · page 3

At the Police Court on Thursday before Mr. R. H. V. Allnutt, P.M., the hearing of the charge against Vincent Murnane, a cabman, of fruiously driving in…

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Melbourne Murder

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 November 1915 · page 5

John McNamara, who was arrested on Sunday on a charge of murdering Mrs. Johnson his wife's aunt, by stabbing her through the breast with a bayonet, was…

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Melbourne Murder. Shooting of Constable McGRATH

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 November 1915 · page 2

At the trial in Melbourne of John Jackson, Richard Buckley, and Alexander Ward, on the charge of murdering Constable David McGrath, at the Trades Hall, accused…

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Unsuccessful Litigant. Takes Poison in Court. London, Nov. 18

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 November 1915 · page 13

When judgment was given against Annesley Kenealy (novelist and writer on medical and ethical subjects), plaintiff in an action against Smiths, newsagents, she took, poison, in the…

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The Police Courts. West Maitland. Monday, November 22. Found on Licensed Premises

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 November 1915 · page 8

An elderly man pleaded guilty to being, without lawful excuse, on the licensed premises of the Exchange Hotel during prohibited hours…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 November 1915 · page 4

A very light sheet wan presented at the West Maitland Police Court this morning, there being only two inebriates. One was fined 2/6, or the rising of the court, and…

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Police Movements

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 November 1915 · page 7

Senior Sergeant Dolman, of West Maitland, who was relieving Senior-sergeant Donnelly here for some weeks past, returned to his customary duties on Friday…

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The Manly Riot. Men Charged. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 November 1915 · page 5

At the Water Police Court to-day, twenty-two soldiers were charged with having riotously and tumultously assembled together to disturb the public peree, also with having…

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The Melbourne Murder. Jackson Sentenced to Death

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 30 November 1915 · page 4

At the trial in Melbourne on Friday of John Jackson, Richard Buckley, and Alexander Ward, on the charge of murdering Constable David M'Grath, at the…

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