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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1926

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Wholesale Murder. Death of Tzar and Family. Official Account. London

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 5

The Soviet authorities it Leningrad have published fur the first time the details of the murder of the Imperial family in 1913…

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Gaol Warders. Training School

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 16

The Minister for Justice (Mr McKell) proposes to establish a training school for those who desire to accept positions as warders in the…

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Ex-police Official Appears in New Role. Charged With Indecency. LONDON, Jan. 4

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 2

A huge crowd besieged Marlbrough Police Court on the appearance of Sir Basil Thomson, K.C.B., 64 years of age, and formerly Assistant…

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Assault Charge. "Drink, and Shake Hands."

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 5

"I plead guilty under strong provocation," said a defendant, a blacksmith at Weston, to Mr. M. H. Cleeve, P.M., at Kurri Children's…

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Police Returns

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 2

The returns of cases dealt with at Singleton during the year 1925, compiled, by the police show that during the year, for offences against the…

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Magistrate's Warning. an Englishman's Language. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 5

At the Central Court to-day, John Senior, 23, an Englishman, was fined £3 for offensive language. Evidence was given that…

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Brewarrina Murder. Searching for Aboriginal

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 7

A message which stated that a warrant had been issued for the arrest of Charles McDonald, alias Mackey, for the alleged murder of…

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Copyright Music. Performing Fees to Be Charged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 10

The Australasian Performing Right Association Limited, was registered in Sydney yesterday. The objects of the association, which is a…

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Brewarrina Murder Aboriginal Arrested. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 8

A telegram was received at police headquarters in Sydney this morning to the effect that the aboriginal McDonald, for whom the police have…

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Prahan Mystery. Murder Theory. Melbourne

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 6

Detectives who have been investigating the mysterious death of Thomas John Dorey, who was found dead in his rooms at Prahran on…

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Again Remanded. on Murder Charge. Melbourne

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 5

Douglas Robertson, charged with the murder of William Almeida, was again before the City Court this morning. As the police were not…

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Transfer of Court Officials

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 7

Mr. F. L. McNamara, for the past 12 months assistant to the Clerk of Petty Sessions at Singleton, has received notice of his transfer to the…

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Fruitless Search. Statement to Police. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 5

A man handed a bundle of boys' clothing to the Hurstville police last night. He said he had found it in the scrub near a swimming hole at…

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Fair Rents Court. Record Year's Work

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 6

The annual report of the Fair Rents Court, furnished yesterday by the Registrar (Mr. Hawthorne), showed that the number of…

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Quiet Day. at Cessnock Court. Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 16

There was only one case in the Police Court at Cessnock this morning. He was a young man who had spent the night in the lock-up for…

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Charge Denied. Director Before the Court. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 5

At the Central Court, Sydney, to-day, William John Beckett, 34, was charged by warrant with having, while a director of the Citizens and Graziers…

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The Mystery of Thorncliffe Hall. (Published by Special Arrangement). (Copyright). Chapter Xxvi. Murder Will Out

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 10

The morning following Mr. Harding's advent in the v[?]tage he had walked up the hill and through the lodge gates to the Hall considering…

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Motorist Charged. Obstructing Tram

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 January 1926 · page 2

Bruce P. Stokes, was charged at the West Maitland Police Court this morning before Mr. H. Cleeve, P.M., for negligently, obstructing the free…

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Critical Condition. Victim of Assault. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 January 1926 · page 5

Mrs. Emma Carroll, who was admitted to the Western Suburbs Cottage to the Western Suburbs Cottage Hospital yesterday with a fractured skull through being hit on the…

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Children's Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 January 1926 · page 4

At the West Maitland Chidlren's Court this morning before Mr. H. Cleeve, P.M. two boys, aged 13 and 11, were charged with breaking and…

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