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

Courts & crime, 1914

2,268 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 5 of 114

The Chinee Cook and the Religious Porter. Assault Cask at the Obange Couet. the Celestial Wins

Leader · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 1

At the Orartge Court yesterday, before Mr. E. Marriott, P.M., Ah Sue proceeded against Alfred J. Smith, on a chargo of assault Mr…

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Bankruptcy Court. Monday, January 12. (Before T. W. Coben, J.P., Registrar.) Case From Portland

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 2

The single meeting of creditors in the estate of Thomas Kearns, lime burner, of Portland, was held at the Lithgow courthouse. Alter hearing evidence, the…

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Curate and Police sergeant Claim for Libel. Curate Awarded £1000 Damages. Misconduct with Defendant's Wife Aleged. London

National Advocate · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 3

The second hearing was concluded to-day of the libel action, in which Thomas Ghent, curate of St. Andrew's, Stockwell, proceeded against…

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Puffs in Court Magistrate and Solicitor Disagree. Warm Exchanges. Sydney

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 1

The prevailing sultry atmosphere conditions seemed to affect many of the persons whose business took them to the North Sydney Court yesterday morning…

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Forbes Police Court. a Cruel Bullock-driver. Forbes

National Advocate · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 3

At the Forbes Police Court, Leslie Dalton was prosecuted by the Jemalong Shire Council for wilfully damaging a culvert, and was fined 30s,…

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Macquarie Seat. Magistrate to Conduct Inquiry. Sydney

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 3

The inquiry into the allegations of fraud in connection with the recent election for the Macquarie seat, in which Mr. Thrower (Labor) was returned by a…

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Hanged. Westralian Murder. Shooting of a Woman. Fremantle

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 2

Charles Odgers was hanged in Fremantle gaol this morning at 8 o'clock for the murder of Edith, Molyneaux, a married woman, at Balgoblin, on…

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Fight in Gaol Violent Prisoners. Warder Attacked with Chise Wellington (N.z.)

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 2

At the Auckland gaol yesterday if [?]prisoners, named McLean and Wilkis assaulted Warder Anderson and a [?]soaer named Friskner…

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Cowboy Write Hope. Acquitted on Murder Charge. Los Angeles

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 2

josse Willard, cowboy white hope, has been hope, has been acquisted on the charge of murder arising out of the death of a boxer named Young after a contest…

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Police Court

The Carcoar Chronicle · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 4

Police v. Theodore Clarke, using ind cent langusge. Defendant pleaded gudty, and was fined £1; in default 14 days hard labor…

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Molong Police Court

Molong Argus · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 4

On Friday last, before the P.M., Augustus Charlson was charged with keeping a savage dog; also with using insulting language to Sergeant McCurley…

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Lithgow Police Court- Wednesday, January 14. (Before T. W. Cohen J.p.) a Mendicant Charged. Is Advised to Get Work

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 4

James O'Brien Was charged with begging in Main-street on the previous night. He pleaded not guilty, and said he earned his living by selling music…

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Summons Court

The Carcoar Chronicle · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 4

F.W.S. Cox, Inspector of Stock, v. P.T. Grady, travelling the p not branded with the letter T. The case was heard exparts. Fined 25/- and 6/- costs; in…

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A Good Jumper. Thief's Coolness. Three Months for Theft

The Bathurst Times · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 2

Thomas Bourke, of Kelso, owned a mare valued at £10 on January 12. On rising on the morning of the unlucky thirteenth he found the animal as well…

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Wallerawang Police Court. Wednesday, .January 14. (Before R. H. Bulkeley, J.p.) Remanded to Bathurst

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 4

George Harold Renwick Thomson was charged with stealing one mare, valued at £10, also one saddle and bridlevalued at, £5, the property of one Thomas Bourke,…

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At Johannesburg Strikers and Police in Conflict. Police Patrolling Thoroughfares. Johannesburg

National Advocate · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 2

As a contrast to yesterday, the police are swarming everywhere to-day. Armed mounted men are patrolling the thoroughfares, and none are…

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Wholesale Murder. Karl Hope on Trial. Berlin

The Bathurst Times · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 4

The case was continued to-day in which Karl Kopf is charged with the wholesale murder of his relations, by means of administering arsenic and infecting…

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Hunted by the Police. Sydney

Leader · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 3

W. J. Chidley, who have been in Newcastle for several days, wan before the local court to-day charged with obstruction and insulting…

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A Cool Theft Kelso Resident Robbed. Laborer Gaoled and Committed for Trial

National Advocate · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 2

On Tuesday last Mr. Thomas Bourke, who resides at the Melbourne Hotel, Kelso, placed his 14.2 pony, valued at £10, in a paddock close by,…

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Paymaster Court-martialled. London, Wednesday evening

National Advocate · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 4

Fleet-Paymaster John Moffatt Lavy, whose duty it was to pay gangs from the warships, is being court-martialled on a charge of having embezzlea…

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