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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1904

1,472 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 6 of 74

Tenders for Police Forage

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 25 January 1904 · page 2

Tenders are invited for the supply of forage for all police stations. For some time now the police have been buying their forage in the open…

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Arrested on a Charge of Murder. Sydney

Leader · Tuesday 26 January 1904 · page 3

A man named James Crowe has been arrested (by warrant from Brisbane) on a charge of murdering John Cole in December last. He was found…

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A Queensland Murder. Arrest in Sydney. Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1904 · page 2

The police acting upon a warrant issued in Brisbane arrested a man named James Crowe on a charge of the murder of John Cole last December…

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Where Are the Police? [To the Editor.]

Leader · Tuesday 26 January 1904 · page 4

Sir,—The question is often asked. “Where are the Police ?” and I think the answer may readily be given by saying ”looking after the fair instead…

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Orange Police News. Saturday, January 28. (Before Mr. E. Marriott, P.m.) Alleged Child Desertion

Leader · Tuesday 26 January 1904 · page 2

John Riley, on remand, was charged with deserting his three children at Springuide,” near Orange, from the 1st December to 31st December, 1903…

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Transvaal Train Robbery. the Culprits Sentenced. London

National Advocate · Wednesday 27 January 1904 · page 3

The two men who were arrested on a charge of being implicated in the train robbery which occurred between Nylstroom and Pietersburg in No…

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Latest Cables. Whitaker Wright Dead. Tragic Ending to His Trial Sentenced to Penal Servitude. He Fall Down and Expires London, Tuesday Afternoon

National Advocate · Thursday 28 January 1904 · page 3

The trial of Whitaker Wright, in connection with the London and Globe Corporation frauds has had a sensationally tragic ending, The charge was…

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Lithgow Police Court. Wednesday, January 27. (Before the Relieving P.m.) Charge of Stealing Buggy. Lamps

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 29 January 1904 · page 6

Alexander Campbell and Samuel Graham in custody, were charged with in company stealing two buggy lamps, of the value of 7s 6d, the property of Joseph…

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Wallerawang Police Court. Tuesday, January 26. (Before B. H. Bulkeley, J.P.)

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 29 January 1904 · page 5

George Phillips in custody, was charged with stealing by finding a hat, the property of Livingstone Hall. Sergeant Cade deposed: From information…

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A Brisbane Murder. Sydney

National Advocate · Friday 29 January 1904 · page 2

At the Central Police Court to-day James Crowe was charged with murdering John Cole at Brisbane in December, He was remanded to…

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Revision Court

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 29 January 1904 · page 6

Fifteen names were added to the monthly provisional list…

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To Be Tried for Murder. Melbourne

National Advocate · Friday 29 January 1904 · page 2

Richard McCann was committed for trial to-day on a charge of wilfully murdering Louis Seiffer…

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A Native Revolt Murder of German Residents London

Leader · Friday 29 January 1904 · page 3

Natives revolting in Damaraland, German South-West Africa, murdered 16 Germans. Seventy others are missing…

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A Brutal Assault

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 5

A BRUTAL assault was perpetrated at Bulgandramine Station, near Peak Hill, on Saturday night Use. It appears that a man named Stevens, who is employed on the Estate…

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Assault and Robbery. Sydney

Leader · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 3

The Sydney police have been informed that Mr H Allen, of Wentworth Falls, was assaulted and robbed by four young men on Wednesday…

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Free Fights Over a Murder

The Blayney Advocate and Carcoar Herald · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 4

We British, whether in Australia or England, take our tragedies more or less phlegmatically, but an English paper says that folk in Madrid are so enthusiastically divided on the subject of…

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Presentation at the Court House

National Advocate · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 2

Mr. Joseph Wilson, late C.P.S. at Guyra, who has been appointed Q.P. Inspector in the Bathurst Land District, was yesterday, at the Court House, presented…

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Bathurst Recreation Reserve. Application to the Land Court

National Advocate · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 2

At the Bathurst Land Board yesterday the question of the disposal of the public recreation reserve, portion 189, city of Bathurst, came up for consideration. This…

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Police Court. Monday, February, 1. (Before the Police Magistrate and Mr. P. Matthews, J.P. Summons Casks, muds' protection act

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Monday 1 February 1904 · page 2

Constable Rowe v. George Hill and Ernest Saville. Defendants were charged with having in their possession, during the close season certain schedaled…

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The Dubbo Baby Murder. The Moother's Confession

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 1 February 1904 · page 2

The inquest into the circumstances of the death of a newly-born infant, found buried in a hotel yard at Dubbo, was resumed on Friday…

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