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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1918

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Life Prisoners Escape. From Bathurst Gaol

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 December 1918 · page 6

A desperate escape from Bathurst. Goal wa successfully performed by two life-sentence prisoners on Saturday night. The escapees, one a blacksmith, and the…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 December 1918 · page 4

At the West Maitland Police Court to-day, before Mr. T. M. Connell, J.P., Alfred Davies, 28, was fined 5/, in default 24 hours, for having been drunk in the bar of the…

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Bathurst Gaol Escapees Warders Suspended

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 December 1918 · page 4

The two life-sentence prisoners, Frederick Steiner and Frank Leigh, who escaped from Bathurst Gaol under somewhat sensational circumstances on Saturday night or early…

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Light Police Work

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 31 December 1918 · page 2

As is invariably the case here at Christmas time, the duties of the police were of an exceptionally light nature, good order being a marked feature of…

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Jack's Day Fund. Police and Firemen's Art Union

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 December 1918 · page 2

In handing over to the Jack's Day Commttee a cheque for £2199/77, the result of the police and firemen's act union Mr. Fuller, Chief Secretary yesterday stated that the…

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