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

Courts & crime, 1917

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A Constable Charged Alleged Breaking and Entering. Coonamble

National Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 2

Constable Leslie was charged at the Police Court to-day with breaking and entering Jensen's jewellery shop. He pleaded not guilty…

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Taxi-Cab Fatality Soldier Killed. Taxi Driver Charged. Sydney

National Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 2

While motoring from the city to Randwick early this morning, Arthur Patrick Murray, a member of the A.I.F. attached to the Liverpool camp,…

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£10,000 Defalcations Navy Department Funds. Clerk Charged with Embezzlement. Melbourne

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 1

Six charges of embezzlement of Naal Department money, amounting to £2843, preferred against David Flyan O'Donoghuc, formerly a Staff…

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Military Money Officer Charged with Fraud. Living a Prosperous Life. Statement by Prosecutor Sydney

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 1

Lieutenant David Clayton Howell-Price (36), was yesterday arrested on the Victoria Park racecourse by two detectives, and appeared at the…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. C. Jennings, P.M.)

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 2

In the case of Eskbank Estate v. Charles Goodwin, a verdict was given by consent for plaintiff for the full amount, £5 10s 6d with 53 costs. Mr. Tartakover was for defendant…

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Housemaid Charged with Arson

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 17

Jemima M'Donald, a housemaid, has been committed for trial in connection with the recent suspicious fires on the premises of the…

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£50,000 Involved. Military Officer Charged

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 24

Lieutenant David Clayton Howell Price, 36, who was arrested at the Victoria Park racecourse on Monday afternoon, appeared on…

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Alleged Savage Assault Man's Ear Bitten. Sydney

National Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 3

Private Charles Ernest Clifton was admitted to the Sydney Hospital to-day with a deep gash in his head and a piece of his right car missing…

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Small Debts Court Verdict for Meagher and Co

National Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 2

The adjourned case in which John Meagher and Co. proceeded against Lazarus Michailides for recovery of £22 is 10d, for goods sold and…

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Soldier's Ear Bitten Off. Man Charged with Assault. Sydney

The Bathurst Times · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 1

At about 2 o'clock in the morning, Private Charles Ernest Crifton, who is in camp at Randwick, walked into the Darlinghurst Police Station, and told…

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Lieutenant Charged Heavy Defalcations Alleged Sydney

National Advocate · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 2

Lieutenant David Howell-Price appeared before Mr. Payton at the Central Police Court to-day on two charges of forging the name of W. T. Pridham…

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Farmer Charged with Incendiarism. Peak Hill

The Bathurst Times · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 3

At the Police Court, Karl Theodore Meigel, share farmer, was committed for trial at the Dubbo Quarter Sessions on a charge of maliciously setting…

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Wallerawang Police Court. Thursday, January 25. (Before Messrs. Sorrell and Lynch, Js.P.)

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 4

Thomas Patrick Whelan, arrested by Constable Cullen, was charged that he did at Normanlea, near Hampton, on the 20th January, 1917, steal 10s. 6d (recovered), the…

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Lithgow Police Court. Wednesday, January 25. (Before Mr. H. L. Meads, J.P.)

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 4

William Brenton was charged with having been drunk in Main-street and was fined 5s or 24 hours…

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Charged with Bigamy Ex-artilleryman Committed. Sydney

The Bathurst Times · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 1

Two young women who claimed that at different times they had gone through the form of marriage with Joseph Hoctor Gordon Ware, 21, gave evidence at…

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Quarterly Licensing Court. Wednesday. (Before Messrs. H. Malone, P.M., and J watcher, Licensing Magistrates.)

Molong Argus · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 4

[?] H. Stibbard, Intermediate [?]tel, Borenore, applied for a renewal [?] license. There were no police objections. Granted; annual rental…

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Woolahra Shooting Son Charged with Wounding Father Magistrate's Decision Sydney

The Bathurst Times · Saturday 27 January 1917 · page 4

The story of the shooting of Alfred John Toombs, at his home in Oxford St., Woollahra, on January I, was told to Mr. Barnett, at the Paddington…

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Deputy Licensing Magistrate

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 29 January 1917 · page 2

Mr. R. J. Cohen, J.P., has been informed that he has been appointed Deputy Licensing Magistrate for the Licensing Magistrate for the Licensing District of Mudgee to…

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Assault Case Dismissed

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 2

At the Bathurst Police Court yesterday, before Mr. C. Jennings, P.M., a case in which Sidney Charles Walsh proceeded against Thomas Walsh for…

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District Court

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 2

The District Court will be opened to-day, immediately after the business of Quarter Sessions is finished. There is only one case set down for hearing, it being a commission agens's claim…

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