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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1923

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Police Match

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 January 1923 · page 7

Constable J. V. Driscoll, secretary of the Maitland branch of the police Association, has received a command cation from the North Sydney branch…

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Alleged Murder. Youth Assaulted at Manly, Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 January 1923 · page 5

Stanely Johnson, aged 78, was assaulted by several man on the corso, Manly, early this morning, and, falling heavily, struck his head on the…

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Magistrate Congratulated

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 January 1923 · page 4

At the close of business at the West Maitland Licensing Court this morning, Mujor F. W. C. Crane congratulated Mr. J. W. Birkenhcad, a…

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The Swansea Murder Execution of Carpenter

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 2 January 1923 · page 2

George Carpenter, who was sentenced to death for the murder of Thomas Carpenter, his cousin, at Swansea (Tasmania), in October, was hanged…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 January 1923 · page 4

Before Mr. W. S. Bromnead, J.P.. at the West Maitland police court this morning. Gordon Frederick Appleton (29) was charged with…

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Police Art Union Hospital Carnival

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 January 1923 · page 4

A meeting of the committee or the above will be held in the School of Arts, to-morrow (Thursday) night at 17.30, when a full attendance of…

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Sent to Gaol. for Broaching Cargo

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 January 1923 · page 4

Three members of the crew of the Tekoa were sentenced at Auckland to a month's imprisonment for pillaging numerous pairs of socks from the…

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Fair Rents Court. Review of Year's Operations

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 January 1923 · page 3

There were 809 applications lodged with the Metropolitan Fair Rents Court during 1922, and [?] cases were Overcarried from the previous year…

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Seaman's Death. Charge of Murder

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 January 1923 · page 3

A sensation was caused in the Auckland police court on Thursday, when the police announced that a charge of murder had been prefored against…

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Alleged Murder. Hotel Licensee Charged

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1923 · page 11

The police investigations of the tragedy at Elaine (Vic.) whereby Michael Fahey was fatally shot, show that deceased had been…

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Polish Murderer. Sentenced to Death

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1923 · page 13

Reuter's Warsaw correspondent reports that Niewadomski, murderer of President Narutowicz, his been sentenced to death…

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Sent to Gaol. for Broaching Cargo

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1923 · page 1

Three members of the crew of the Tekoa were sentenced at Auckland to a month's imprisonment for pillaging numerous pairs of socks from the…

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Russian Murder Gang 116 Victims

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 January 1923 · page 4

A cable from Helsingfors (Finland) reports that Kotoff, a man of fine physique, and Vinolourova, a beautiful girl, are on trial before the Moscow…

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Police Statistics. Decrease in Crime

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1923 · page 14

Figures prepared for the 1922 annual report of the Police Department show that the crime average for the year was below normal…

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Murder Case. Sympathy for Condemned. London, Dec. 29

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1923 · page 13

Remarkable interest is felt in the fate of Bywaters and Mrs. Thompson. The cases present unusual features because it is recognised as…

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Cool Cheek. Stole the Court Clock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1923 · page 10

For cool check it would be difficult to beat the unknown man who walked into the Law Court one day with a ladder under his arm. An important…

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A Record Year. Supreme Court Statistics

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1923 · page 11

The past year in the common law branch of the Supreme Court in Sydney has been an unusually. busy one—in fact, has created a record…

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Fair Rents Court. Review of Year's Operations

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1923 · page 5

There were 869 applications lodged with the Metropolitan Fair Rents Court during 1922, and 68 cases were overcarried from the previous year…

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Alleged Theft. Arrest in Auckland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 January 1923 · page 2

Jane Andrews and Claude (Kine Smith, both 2s years of age have been arrested in Auekland in pursuance of a Sydney [?] message and charged…

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Licensing Court. (Before Major Crane and Messrs. Bowden and Birkenhead ) Renewals Granted

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 January 1923 · page 2

John Thomas Britten was granted a renewal of the license of the Carrington Hotel, West Maitland, to June 30, the fee being fixed at £1614/5…

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