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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1918

1,004 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 51

Railway Employees Charged. Alleged Larceny of Samples

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 January 1918 · page 8

Joseph Edward Walton and Frederick James Mepstead, young men described as railway employees, were charged at the Central Police Court, Sydney, with stealing on or…

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Country Police Grievances

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 January 1918 · page 3

In connection with the police examinations it is considered that improvement could be brought about so us to place the country candidates more on a level with…

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Dressmakers' Award. Variation by the Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 January 1918 · page 3

The dressmakers' award, which was gazetted on September 14 last, has been varied by the Court of Industrial Arbitration. This variation affects dressmakers and blouse and…

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Lease of a Racehorse. Small Debts Court Action

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 January 1918 · page 8

9In the West Maitland Small Debts Court Monday, over which Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., presided, Francis Holdcroft, of Miller's Forest, sued James Graves, of East Maitland,…

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Alleged Assault on State Boy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 January 1918 · page 2

The case, in which the guardian of a State boy is charged with assaulting the lad, which was adjourned in the Children's Court until to-day, has been further…

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Cessnock Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 January 1918 · page 3

At the police court on Monday the bench was occupied by Messrs. G. Drown and J. Doyle, Js.P. William Mooney, on bail for…

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Children's Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 January 1918 · page 3

In the Children's Court five boys, ranging from 12 to 13½ years of age, were charged, that in company, at Cessnock, on January 23, they did steal six rifles,…

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Huns Court Bolsheviks

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 January 1918 · page 5

The Petrograd correspondent of the "Daily Express" describes the elaborate German amiability at Brest-Litovsk. Prince Leopold of Bavaria and Herr…

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Dreadful Assault. Mother and Children Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 January 1918 · page 2

An attempt to kill a whole family appears to have been made at an early hour yesterday morning in a little, ramshackle house situated in the bush midway between…

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Police Benefit for Hospitals

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 January 1918 · page 5

The police at Kurri have sold about £15 worth of tickets for the police and firemen's sports and art union, to be held in Sydney, the proceeds of which are to go to…

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Warden's Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 February 1918 · page 4

In the Warden's Court held before the Warden, Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., at the East Maitland Courthouse to-day, James Edwards, Edward kelly, W. P. Fowler, and E. J…

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Cheers Before Court

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 1 February 1918 · page 7

At Gloucester on Friday, Jan. 25, before Mr F. F. Potts, P.M., W. J. Cheers was before the court on a charge of forging a cheque for £35…

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Admiral in Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 February 1918 · page 5

The Bradford on Avon Court fined Admiral Richard Poore £30 for food hoarding…

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Dreadful Assault. Mother and Children Injured

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 February 1918 · page 5
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An attempt to kill a whole family appears to have been made at an early hour on Wednesday morning in a little, ramshackle house situated in the bush…

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Police Count

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 February 1918 · page 6

A number of landholders were before the police court on Thursday to answer charges of neglecting to suppress and destroy rabbits, and were fined in sums ranging from £1 to…

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Police Court Thursday, January 31. Before Mr R. H. V. Allnutt, P.m.) Drunkenness

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 February 1918 · page 8

An offender who pleaded guilty to having imbibed over-well was fined 10/, with 5/ costs; in default, 3 days. BREACHES OF RABBIT ACT…

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Soldier in Court. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 February 1918 · page 5

The Court at Old Bailey accepted a plea of manslaughter in the case of Henry Canham, a soldier, 22 years of age, charged with wife murder. He returned home from the front…

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Dressmakers' Award. Variation by the Court

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 February 1918 · page 14

The dressmakers' award, which was gazetted on September 14 last, has been varied by the Court of Industrial Arbitration. This variation affects dressmakers and blouse and…

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Small Debts Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 February 1918 · page 2

In the Small Debts Court, at the Courthouse, West Maitland, to-day, Perey G. S. Eggins sued L. McMaugh of Ward's River, cleaning £9/19/6 commission on sale of stock…

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