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Central Coast · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1920

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A Liquor Case. Magistrate's Decision Upset

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 20 May 1920 · page 18

Mr. Justice Ferguson, in Chambers, Sydney, made absolute a rule nisi for a prohibition to restrain Mr. F. W. C. Crane, late magistrate af Grafton, from…

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Police Court. Thursday, May 13. Before the P.M., Mr. F. W. Clegg

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 20 May 1920 · page 7

J. A. Beattie pleaded not guilty to a charge of persons being found on his licensed premises. Fined £2 and 6/ costs. Notice of appeal was given…

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Police Court. Friday, May 14. Alleged Charges of Robbery and Inflicting Grievous Bodily Harm. All Cases Dismissed. One Defendant Fined for Common Assault. Before the P.M., Mr. F. B. Clegg

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 20 May 1920 · page 18

Ernest Keith White was charged with unlawfully assaulting Eric Sherd thereby occasioning him actual bodily harm, and was also charged on…

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Appeal Court. To the Editor

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 20 May 1920 · page 8

Sir,—I have read Mr. M. Smith's letter in your last issue, but hardly think that Mr. S. read same before signing. It is clearly a case of "the voice of…

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Tuggerah Racecourse. Case in Newcastle District Court

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 27 May 1920 · page 8

In the Newcastle District Court on Monday, a claim was made by William Smith, of Tuggerah, against R. J. Campbell, of Gosford, for the recovery…

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Police Court. Friday, May 28

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 3 June 1920 · page 4

Thomas Regan pleaded guilty to larceny of jewellery and other articles, valued at £14, in a dwelling house, the property of Frank Hillberg. He also…

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Rival Storekeepers at Ettalong Beach. Fined for Assault

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 3 June 1920 · page 3

Last Friday, at Gosford Police Court, "William Allard, a storekeeper at Ettalong Beach, pleaded not guilty to the charge of assaulting Herbert Baldock,…

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Wyong Court News

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 3 June 1920 · page 1

At the Wyong Police Court on 27th May, before Mr. T. B. Clegg, P.M., I. Mulcahy, for wilfully trespassing on the railway premises at Wyong, was…

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Divorce Court. Lynam v. LYNAM

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 10 June 1920 · page 10

Alice Mary Lynam (formerly Crawford) proceeded for a divorce from Frederick Lynam on the grounds of desertion…

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Science Notes & News. Cinematic and [?] Police

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Wednesday 16 June 1920 · page 4

The police authorities of Chicago have instituted a system under which each one of the criminals in custody must walk before a' motion-picture…

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Divorce Court. Sheridan v. SHERIDAN

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Wednesday 16 June 1920 · page 15

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, locomotive driver, petitioned for dissolution of his marriage with Lilian Sheridan (formerly Ryan), on the ground of her…

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The Brooklyn Burglars. Sentenced to Three Years

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 1 July 1920 · page 11

Donald John McDonald and Ernest Kenneth Drury were on Monday sentenced to three years' penal servitude by Judge Backhouse at the…

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Darlinghurst Gaol in 1865. Wanted to See Gardiner, the Bushranger

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 1 July 1920 · page 11

Looking over the Manning's first paper, dated April 29th, 1865, I struck the following from the pen of a Victorian visitor:—…

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Theft at Dora Creek. a Bogus Soldier

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 8 July 1920 · page 16

At Newcastle Police Court on Tuesday Eric Hodges (19), laborer, and Mathew Paul Kelly (20), motor driver, in soldiers' uniforms, appeared upon a…

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A Police Union

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 8 July 1920 · page 16

There was a rumor that the Police were going to form a union, but the rumor has been denied. We hear on good authority from one of the Force…

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Court News

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 8 July 1920 · page 4

At the Police Court on 1st July, before Mr. Clegg, P.M., and Mr. H. Street, J.P., Allan Duncan pleaded guilty to fishing in closed waters, and…

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Gosford Court News

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 8 July 1920 · page 5

The following is a list of cases heard at the Court House, Gosford, on Friday, 2nd July, before Mr. T. B. Clegg, P.M.:—…

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Brooklyn Safebreaker. McDONALD SENTENCED

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 29 July 1920 · page 10

Donald John McDonald, 40, who was arrested at Brooklyn, Hawkesbury River, a couple of months ago, under sensational circumstances, appeared…

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Local Cases. Liquor Amendment Act. Court Proceedings Quashed

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 29 July 1920 · page 10

In the Supreme Court on Tuesday last, before Mr. Justice Wade in Chambers, argument was concluded in the applications of Mr. J. A. Mould, of the…

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Wyong News. Wyong Police Court

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 5 August 1920 · page 4

At Wyong Police Court, before Mr. T. B. Clegg, P.M., on Thursday last, Charles J. Duffy charged Harry Lythall and Emma Davis with having…

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