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Blue Mountains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1916

8 stories in Blue Mountains's papers

Carriers in Court

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 18 February 1916 · page 5

On Wednesday morning, W. Dixon sued W. Jenkins for using obscene language to him in the railway yard. Mr. M'Intosh appeared for the…

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Local and General. Appeal Court

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 7 April 1916 · page 4

A Court of Appel, to hear and determine appeals against the Council's valuations in the recent rating will be held in the local Court-house at 12 noon on…

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Alleged Assault. Stretton M'lachlan Case Adjourned

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 12 May 1916 · page 4

A case which has occasioned considerable local interest was listed for hearing before Mr. T. B. Clegg, P.M., at the local Court yesterday, but, much to…

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Alleged Assault. Justifiable Action. Straight Talk by P.M. CLEGG

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 23 June 1916 · page 8

It was thought by many that George Charles Stretton would have been well advised to have kept away from his adjourned case, when he sued Jack…

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Alleged Assault

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 7 July 1916 · page 6

On Thursday morning, before Messrs. J. M. Power and R. V. Smythe, JJ.P., Alfred Stanley, 47, was arraigned on a charge of assaulting one Hannah…

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Meldale Again in Court

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 29 September 1916 · page 3

Bernard Meldale, known to most MOuntaineers as a strolling singer, bobbed up at North Sydney Court again last week, when he sued a commercial traveller…

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"Skinny" Smith and "Rockie" Hayes Again Before the Court

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 3 November 1916 · page 5

On Tuesday morning, before Messrs J. F. Tabrot and J. M. Tower, the above pair of local notorieties looked shameracedly from the dook at the presiding…

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The Exemption Court

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 24 November 1916 · page 6

P.M. Clegg took a sympathetic view of the difficulties of local tradesmen and employees at the above Court on Thursday. It was shown that hardships would…

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