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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1900

218 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 9 of 11

Kiama Police Court

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 8 September 1900 · page 2

AT the above Court on Wednesday last, before Mr. T. W. Cohen, J.P., Alexander Young Dickinson, charged on warrant (issued at Gunnedah) with wife desertion,…

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Police Court. Thursday, September 6. (Before Lieut.-Col. Chisholm, P.M., and Mr. J.J. Robertson, J.p.) Alleged Illegal Use of Mare

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 8 September 1900 · page 2

Edward Rowles, on remand, was charged with illegally using a mare, the property of Albert Joseph Skarratt Mr. Cox for the prosecution, Mr. Lysaght…

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Police Court. Monday, September 10. (Before Lieut.-Col. Chisholm, P.M. and Mr. J. A. Beatson, J. P.) Drunk

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 11 September 1900 · page 2

John Hastings, for drunkenness and disorderly conduct, was fined 5s, or imprisonment till the rising of the Court. NEGLECTED EDUCATED…

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Kiama Police Court Tuesday, September 11Th

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 12 September 1900 · page 2

BEFORE the police Magistrate. NEGLECTED EDUCATION. Mary Campbell (Jamberoo), as guardian of Stanley Wenham, pleaded guilty to…

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Kiama Police Court. TUESDAY, 11th instant, before the Police Magistrate

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 13 September 1900 · page 2

THE following persons were each fined 5s, with tie 2d costs, for neglecting to send their children to school for the requisite number of days during the half-year…

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Small Debts Court

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 13 September 1900 · page 2

George Knight sued H. B. Crook for recovery or the sum of £2 16s 4d on account of certain goods. The defendant did not appear, and a verdict was given for…

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Small Debts Court

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 15 September 1900 · page 11

In the Wollongong Small Debts Court, on Thursday, R. Jolliffe jun. claimed from J. Joliffe £21 5s 6d, for work and labor done, and R. Jolliffe…

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Police Court. Thursday. (Before Lieut.-Col. Chisholm, P.M., and Mr. D. Williams, J.P.)

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 15 September 1900 · page 2

Robert Jolliffe sued John Jolliffe, his brother, to re[?]over £2 15s 6d, for extra work in connection with the erection of two cottages at Balgownie. After hearing the…

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Kiama Police Court Tuesday, September 18Th

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 19 September 1900 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate A YOUTHFUL THIEF. Claude Miller, aged 15½ years, appeared in answer to a charge of…

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Kiama Police Court. Tuesday, 18th instant, before the Police Magistrate

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 20 September 1900 · page 2

CLAUDE MILLER, a youth, was charged with stealing three gold rings and some money from the dwelling of John Honey, jun., of Spring Bill, Kiama,…

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Small Debts Court

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 22 September 1900 · page 10

To the Small Debts Court, on Thursday, the only case dealt with was that of Bodimeade v. Waters, claim of £1 4s 4d, goods sold; a verdict was…

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Court Delays. (To the Editor, South Coast Times.)

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 22 September 1900 · page 16

SIR.—I protest against the insinuations it the writer of the letter "P.B." in last Saturday's edition of "South Coast Times." The manner in which…

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Police Court

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 2
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

At the Police Court on thursday, before Lieut.-Col. Chisholm, P.M., J. J. Robertson and J. Hart, J's.P. Michael Looney, charged with wide desertion, was ordered to…

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Kiama Police Court. Monday, 1st instant, before Mr. R. O Kendall. J.P.

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 4 October 1900 · page 2

SYDNEY TURRELL for being drunk in Wentworth street, Shellbarbor, on the 29th September; was fined [?] or imprisonment till the rising of the Court; and for…

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A Veteran Police Officer

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 4 October 1900 · page 2

CONSTABLE BEATTY, of Shellharbor, who has had a turn of sickness lately, and whose duties have been taken for some tittle by Constable Pickering, of Kiama, has been…

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Police Court

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 6 October 1900 · page 11

In the Wollongong Police Court, on Tuesday, William Broughton, Harry Mathews, Alex. Henderson, and John Campbell, Eight Hour Day "drunks"…

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Police Court. The Duty of the State to the Subject. An Old Identity Before the Court

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 6 October 1900 · page 2

At the Police Court, on Thursday, before Lieut-Col. Chisholm, P.M., and Mr. J. Hart J.P , John Henry, formerly of Wollongong, appeared in custody charged with…

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Kiama Small Debts Court. Tuesday, 9th instant, before the P.M. and Mr. T. Armstrong. J.P.

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 11 October 1900 · page 3

JOHN McCAFF[?]EY, proprietor of the Kiama Brighton Hotel, sued William Skelton for recovery of the sum of £4 17s. Mr. Kieran Ryan appeared for the plaintiff The…

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Police Court

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 13 October 1900 · page 10

During the week the following cases were dealt with:—A. Lewis v. W. Lewis, wife and child desertion; defendant consented to order for 12s a…

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