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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1917

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Alleged Murder. a Mock Duel

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 26 February 1917 · page 2

Stella Hines was arrested In Melbourne on Sunday. evening, and charged with the wilful murder of Eric Mcintosh. The couple lived together at 319 [?] road East…

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Revision court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 26 February 1917 · page 4

The Electoral Registrar (Mr. W. B. Geddes) intimates by advertisement in this issue that a revision court to revise the supplemental roll for each polling place in the electoral district of…

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Murder Plot. Against President Wilson. Vancouver

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 26 February 1917 · page 6

Evidence is accumulating of far-reaching conspiracles engineered by German agents. The "Providence Journal" says that the Government officials have…

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Mock Duel Ends Fatally. Woman Charged with Murder

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 27 February 1917 · page 3

Stella Hines was arrested at Melbourne on Sunday evening on a charge of wilfully murdering Eric M'Intosh. The couple lived together at East…

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Industrial Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 27 February 1917 · page 5

in the Industrial Court this morning, Justice Heydon dealt with the stated case of Wolstenhole v. the Australian Gaslight Company, in which he was asked to decide…

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Solicitors of Supreme Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 27 February 1917 · page 4

The Full Court in Sydney yesterday, on the motion of Mr. Young, admitted Mr. Cool Bernard Fenelcy, of West Maitland, as a solicitor of the court: and Mr. James Clement…

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Kurri Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 28 February 1917 · page 4

At the Kurri Police Court yesterday, fore Messrs, J. Forster and G.M. tom Js. P. James Darcy (34), was fined [?] the rising of the court for drunkenness…

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Cessnock District. Police Court. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 28 February 1917 · page 2

At the Cessnock Police Court yesterday, Messrs. H. E. Southwell and J. Robertson, Js. P. ordered prohibitions to issue for twelve months against Robert craig and…

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Court-martial. Honourably Acquitted

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 28 February 1917 · page 7

The charge of malingering, by [?] against Acting-Sergeant Tereace Hamilton Cleen, of the A.I.F. by District Court, Martial, was continued at Victoria…

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Country Builders. Amputation to Industrial Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 28 February 1917 · page 3

Mr. Richards, on behalf of the Building Trades Group, asked Mr. Justice Heydon in NO. 1 industrial Court for leave to serve short notice of an application to…

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West Maitland Police Court. Thursday March 1. (Before Mr. C.H. Gale, P.m.) Drunkenness

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 March 1917 · page 7

a married woman, who stated that her. husband was at the front, was lined 10/, in. default 45 hours' Imprisonment, for drun-­ kenness. Defendant was allowed 21 hours…

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Maitland District Court. Thursday, March 1

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 March 1917 · page 6

The Maitland District Court was opened at the Courthouse, East Maitland, to-day, be-fore his Honor Judge Fitzhardinge. PROMISSORY NOTE CASE…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 March 1917 · page 4

Before Mr. W. B. Geddes, J.P., at the West Maitland Police Court this morning Charles Kemp (60) was proceeded against for being drunk in High-street last evening and…

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Alleged Stealing

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 2 March 1917 · page 2

At the Quarter Sessions Maitland on Tuesday last, Francis Patrick Keegan and Albert Keegan were charged with having, on February…

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The Police Force. Two Hundred Men Short

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 March 1917 · page 2

The Premier (Mr. Holman) announces that at the commencement of the new financial year the police force in New South Wales will be augmented by 25 mounted and 50 foot…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1917 · page 4

Walter Barfoot, 27, a dealer, appeared before Mr. W. B. Geddes, J.P., at the West Maitland Police Court this morning on a charge that on May 16, 1916, at Sydney, he…

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Singleton Letter. Police Court. Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1917 · page 3

Mr. R. H. V. Allnutt, P. M., occupied the bench at the police court on Thursday. Joseph Robert Cockbaine, licensee of the Percy Hotel, applied for a reduction in the…

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West Maitland Police Court. Monday, February 26

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1917 · page 10

The bench at the West Maitland Police Court on Monday was occupied by Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M. ALLEGED VAGRANCY…

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Ex-pay Clerk Charged. Over £7000 Involved

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1917 · page 10

Arthur Charles Strutt, ex-pay clerk at the Port Melbourne works of J. Kitchen and Sons, Proprietary, Limited, was charged at the Port Melbourne police court with…

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Murder Plot. Against President Wilson. Vancouver

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1917 · page 12

Evidence is accumulating of far-reaching conspiracies engineered by German agents. The "Providence Journal" says that the Government officials have…

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