Police Promotions
A number of police promotions, to take effect from January 1st, have been announced. To secure promotion, policemen have to pass an education test, and…
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Courts & crime, 1917
1,229 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 62
Licensing Court
At the Licensing Court on Thursday, William Wake was granted a renewal of his license for the Sedgefield Hotel, Sedgefield. Renewals of hawker's license were granted…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court. Tuesday, January 1, 1917. (Before Mr. Fincham, P.m.) Alleged Bigamy
Charles Thomas Spratt, carter, residing at Muswellbrook, was charged that on November 15. 1905, at Merriwa, he did marry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Thursday, January 4 (Before Mr W. H. Fincham S.m.) Inebriates
Two offenders pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness. They were fined 5/ and costs or two days, and 15/. and costs or seven days respectively…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mysterious Murder. Russian Tragedy. London
The "Times" correspondent at Petrograd states that the police have traced a blood-stained track from Prince Yusupoff's Palace to a newly-cut icehole in the Neva…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →West Maitland Police Court. Tuesday, January 2. (Before Mr. W. B. Geddes, J.p.). Remanded
Harry Smith (30) was charged with having at West Maitland on December 29, stolen the sum of £3/10/ from Leslie Stephen Carroll…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District Crime. Annual Police Report
The only serious crime committed in the Maitland district during 1916, and which bus not been satisfactorily cleared up in what is known as the Paterson River mystery, but…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Summer Hill Sensation. Attempted Murder and Suicide. Sydney
A sesational affair occurred at Summer Hill this morning, as the result of which Robina M'Leod (23) is in a critical condition with a bullet wound in her left…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waverley Contracts. Aldermen Before the Court
The proceedings arising out of the recent developments in the Waverley Council commenced at the Paddington Police Court on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Licensing Court. (Before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M.)
The transfer of the license of the Northumberland Hotel, Cessnock, from William Ward to William J. Collier was granted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West Maitland Police Court. "Monday. January 8. Chinaman Charged with Opium Smoking
Sam War, alias Jimmy Ah You, 60, ap-peared on a charge of smoking opium. Mr. J. H. F. Waller, who appeared for defendant, asked for a remand. The police…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Transfers
The vacancy in the West Maitland police force caused by the transfor of Constable Hill to Kempsey has been filled by the transfer of Constable Avery from Raymond Trrace…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder Mystic Monk. Further Particulars. London
The "Daily Mall's correspondent at Petrograd states that six peonle were pre-sent at prince Yusupoff's palace on the night when the notorious "mystle monk"…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Court
At the police court on Saturday, before Messrs. A. Simmons and J. W. B. Water house, Js.P., a half-caste [?] Peter Johnsione was charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stealing From the Person. Half-Caste Boxer Sentenced
At the local Police Court on Saturday, before Messrs A. Simmons and J. W. B. Waterhouse J's.P., Peter Johnstone, aged 28, was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Breaks Gaol
On Saturday morning a stranger describing himself as a returned soldier, arrived at the Royal Hotel, Uralla, where he had dinner. In the afternoon he sold his horse…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Monk Rasputin. Story of Murder
London, Sunday.—The "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspondent says that, despite the censorship, it has been revealed that the mystic monk and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Perjury. Eyles Before the Court. Sydney
William Evles whose conviction for alleged wife murder was set aside by the Criminal Appeal Court was charged at teh police court to-day with having committed porjury…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court
Annie May Lawler, 25, who was fined at the West Maitland Police Court Yesterday for assaulting a Chinaman, appoared before Mr. C. H. Gale, P. M., at the Police Court again…
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