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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1926

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Charged with Embezzling Lost It on Racehorses

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 March 1926 · page 4

Arthur Barnard was charged at Parramatta Police Court with embezzling the sum of £154/10/9 from Edward S. Adcock, for whom he had managed a…

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 March 1926 · page 11

Before Mr. M. H. Cleeve. P.M., at the Licensing Court yesterday, two booth licenses for Singleton Racing Club's meeting to be held on the 24th…

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 March 1926 · page 13

The license of the Grand Junction Hotel, West Maitland, was transferred from Annie Hannah to Thomas Hennessy…

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Small Debts Court

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 March 1926 · page 13

Fry Bros. proceeded against Essex Eveleigh, claiming £18/17/6. The claim was in respect to the funeral of his sister, Susan Eveleigh, Mr. C…

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Plea for Mercy. Rider to Murder Verdict

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 March 1926 · page 8

The trial of Martin Knapp on the charge of the murder of Walter Richards concluded in the Melbourne Criminal Court…

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Foreigner Committed. Alleged Assault and Robbery. Cessnock Case. Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 March 1926 · page 16

Giacomo Bonomini, a foreigner, was charged a the Cessnock Police Court to-day with having assaulted William Callaghan and robbed him of [?]…

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Police Mobbed. Riot in Melbourne

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 March 1926 · page 13

A mob of about 400 men and women surrounded two policemen who were endeavouring to arrest a man on an assault and robbery charge outside…

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Cult of Murder. Exalted by Soviet. London. March 14

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 March 1926 · page 2

News comes from Moscow that in celebration of the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Czar Alexander II. the Soviet has given life pensions…

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Solicitor's Conduct. Full Court Judgment

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 March 1926 · page 11

The State Full Court (Mr. Justice Gordon, Mr. Justice Ferguson, and Mr. Justice Campbell), gave its reserved judgment in the matter…

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Court Adjourned While Prisoners Have Breakfast

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 March 1926 · page 4

Two prisoners on trial at Darlinghurst on Thursday obtained an adjournment in order to eat, because they had chosen not to breakfast in accordance…

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Leacue or Nations House of Commons Debate. The World Court. LONDON, March 19

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 March 1926 · page 5

The debate on events at Geneva arising out of the Locarno treaties will begin in the House of Commons on Tuesday…

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West Maitland Court. Monday, March 15. (Before Mr. M. H. Cleeve, P.m.) Failed to Destroy Rabbits

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 March 1926 · page 13

Keeley Brothers were charged with failing to destroy rabbits on their property at Summer Hill. Mr. W. J. Enright, for the…

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Court Sequel. Two Persons Charged. Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 March 1926 · page 5

There was a sequel at the City Police Court to-day to the sensational affray at North Melbourne on Saturday night, when a man armed with a…

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Death in Surgery. Dentist Charged with Murder. Victim Chloroformed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 March 1926 · page 3

In regard to the death of Mrs. kathleen Loveday, of Maryborough, it is alleged that the police received a telephone message stating that a…

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Severely Injured. Motor Driver Charged Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 March 1926 · page 5

At the Central Court to-day, Neville Stowart Trefle, 18 a motor driver, was reminded until March 29 on £60 Ball on a charge of having wantonly driven…

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Two-up Cases. Fifty Nine Men Charged. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 March 1926 · page 5

Fifty nine men were charged at the Central Court to-day at the time, with being found in a two-up school. They were marched into court, and…

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West Maitland Court. Monday, March 22. (Before Mr. M. H. Cleeve, P.m.), Remanded

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 March 1926 · page 4

George Lonie was remanded for a week on a charge of stealing at Woodville, on March 12, a spirit level, plane, magneto, and watch, valued…

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Dentist Arrested. Charged with Murder Maryborough (Q.) Sat

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1926 · page 3

Open this door," shouted a po­lice official at the surgery of Mr. S. R. Turner, a well-known, dentist ot this town, last night…

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Story of Czar's Murder

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1926 · page 1

Because of numerous calculating in Russia that the Czar Nicholas and his family are sill alive and hiding in England,…

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Sequel at Police Court Two Accused Remanded (By Telegraph.) Melbourne

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 23 March 1926 · page 2

There was a sequel at the City Police Court to-day to the sensational affray at North Melbourne on Saturday night, in which a man armed with a clubbed…

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