Court Proceedings
A very heavy sitting at the local, police court took place on Tuesday, as will be perceived by reference to this issue. The principal case, which lasted for some time,…
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Courts & crime, 1904
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Singleton Police Court. Tuesday, March 22Nd 1904. (Before Mr E. A. L. Sharpe, P.M., and Mr R. Faulkner, J.p.) Destroying Fruit
E. Eveleigh, G. Eveleigh, E. Butler, and V. Morrison (four boys) were charged with maliciously destroying melons, the property of Benjamin B…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dowie at Adelaide. Scenes of Wild Disorder. Conflicts with the Police
IN consequence of Mr Dowie's severe denunciation of the churches, doctors, Freemasons, the Press, and everything in general at his meeting in the Town…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Murder of an Old Man. a Cowardl1y Crime. Police in Search of a Tramp. Campbelltown
News came to hand to-day of a ghastly murder having been committed on Douglas Park-road, about one mile from the railway station, in a cutting near the hill known as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dungog Police Court. Tuesday, March 22nd, 1904. Before G. Atkin, Esq, P.M.
George Henry Lawson was charged with that he did, on March 13, commit a rape on Edith Rowney. Sergeant Preston and Mr J. M…
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The prisoner Harribean, who has been arrested in connection with the Picton murder, was brought down from Picton district to Parramatta. this morning by train. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder and Suicide
Crossman, a ticket of leave man, living in a flat at, Kensal Rise, a suburb of London, committed suicide in the street in sensational circumstances yesterday, suggest that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Guilfoyle Murder. Skidmore Reported to Have Been Seen
The Inspector-General of Police (Mr. Garvin) received a telegraphic report from one of the country centres on Saturday which, if the information proves correct, is likely to lead…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A Ghastly Murder. An Old Man Butchered. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
A GHASTLY murder is reported at the Douglas Park Road, a mile from the railway station. The victim is an old man named Charles Smith, a fish…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gas Mains Ratable. a High Court Decision
The Federal High Court has delivered its reserved decision in respect to the appeal by the Borough of the Glebe against the decision of the New South Wales Full Court. The…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Wholesale Murder
Radical hatred between Europeans and regrocs is rife in the State of Arkansas. U.S.A. Major Braithwaite an United States officer, reports that 18 nogroes were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Brutal Murder. Sensational Capture
PICTON, Friday.—All doubts as to the way in which Charles Smith, whose dead body was found yesterday near Douglas Park, met his death have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Douglas Park Murder. An Assyrian Hawker Arrested
AN Assyrian hawker has been arrested near Cedar Creek in connection with the murder of the old man Smith at Douglas Park, as reported in our last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Foul Murder. Woman's in a Trunk. LONDON
A TICKET-OF-LEAVE man named Cro[?]man, lately living in a flat at Keneal Rise, committed suicide in the street yesterday in sensational circumstances…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Douglas Park Murder. Arrest of the Suspect
Now that the facts of the rnurder of Charles Smith, an aged hawker, who was done to death near Douglas Park, have been gathered the deed is shown…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Singleton Letter Police Court, Tuesday. (Before Messrs. E. A. L. Sharpe, P.M., and Robert Faulkner, J.P.)
Indecent Behaviour.—Enoch Winsor pleaded guilty to being of indecent behaviour in John-street. Fined 5s, and 4s 10d court costs. Fine paid…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Murder of a Vice-consul
An Italian beggar has been arrested on a charge of murdering Herr Fay, the German Vice-Consul at Salta, Argentina. The murder was due to a matter of personal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Licensing Court
Transfer of License,—An application for [?] transfer of the Licence of the Wentworth Hotel, [?]hop's Bridge, from Richard Moore to James. [?] of Sydney, was [?]ranted. Mr. W. J. Enright…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Barque Earl's Court Dismasted
The British barque Earl's Court, while bound from Wallaroo, South Australia, to Falmouth, encountered stormy weather, during which she lost her mainmast and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →West Maitland Police Court. Thursday, March 31. (Before Messrs. E. A. L. Sharpe, P.M., and HI Crothers, J.P.)
Assault.—John Boyle was charged with having at West Maitland, on March 28, assaulted George Morgan, thereby occasioning him actual bodily harm. Later, the charge was reduced to one of…
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