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Illawarra · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1904

159 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 4 of 8

Kiama Police Court

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 29 April 1904 · page 3

A Chinese vegetable hawker named Jack Won was charged with being drunk whist in charge of a horse and cart at Shellharbor. After the hearing of evidence…

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Police Court

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 2

Small debts, before the P.M., and W. H. Roses, J.P.:—R. Osborne v. John Sharman, claim £2 1s, goods sold and delivered. Verdict for amount claimed and 3s costs…

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Police Court Reports. (To the Editor, South Coast Times.)

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 13

SIR,—With your kind permission, I would like to take exception to the publication in the press of Police Court reports. When a person has been dealt…

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Court Cases

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 30 April 1904 · page 9

In the Wollongong Court, on Thursday, Catherine Downs and Frank Brogan had nominal penalties infficted on them for drunkenness. Annie…

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Police Court. Monday, May 2. (Before the P.M )

Illawarra Mercury · Wednesday 4 May 1904 · page 2

D.P. Dear (manager for M. G. Casey dentist) v. E. W. Fieldhouse, dentist. Mr. Lysaght for plaintiff and Mr. W. Owen for defendant…

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Kiama Police Court. Tuesday, 2nd May. before the P.M. and Mr. R. O. Kendall, J.P.

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 6 May 1904 · page 2

ALFRED NORMAN; alias Collins, alias Schmidt; was charged with indecently assaulting Violit Smith, a girl of 13 years of age, at Long Point, Shellharbor, on the…

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Rival Dentists in Court

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 7 May 1904 · page 14

In the Wollongong Police Court, on Monday, David Philip Dear charged Eustace Warwick Field house with maliciously damaging abottle of mercury…

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A London Magistrate. Philosopher and Philanthropist. Mr. Plowden

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 11 May 1904 · page 5

Probably the best known, certainly the best-hearted, magistrate in the whole of London is he who has for the past eight years tempered justice not…

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Police Court

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 2

At the wollongong Police Court on Thursday, William Mather was charged with leaving a railway carriage elsewhere that at a place appointed by the Railway…

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Alleged Horse-stealing

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 28 May 1904 · page 16

In the Wollongong Police Court, on Monday, Herbert James Chippindall was charged with having in February, 1903, stolen a brown mare branded G L…

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Appeal Court

Illawarra Mercury · Wednesday 1 June 1904 · page 2

The Appeal Court for the Borough of Wollongong was hold in the Courthouse on Monday morning before the P.M. A number of appellants appeared, and in the…

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Police Court

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 4 June 1904 · page 2
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

At the Police Coort yesterday, a well-dressed young man named Hmyas Arundell Olasson was charged with larcency as a bailee, of a "Speedwell" bicycle, the…

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Police Court

Illawarra Mercury · Wednesday 8 June 1904 · page 2

A. A. Glasson appeared before the P.M. on Friday and was fined £10 or four months for larceny, as a bailee of a Red Bird Bicycle, property of R. Lindsay of Dapto,…

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Military Murder Trial As in Germany

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 8 June 1904 · page 6

An extraordinary military trial has just been concluded at Gumbinnen, after occupies one of the newly-instituted Courts-mantal for five days…

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Court Cases

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 11 June 1904 · page 10

In the Wollongong Court, on Thursday, the Coastal Farmers' Coy. got a verdict against William Bonnor Renton, for £13 8s 11d, with 4s costs.—An…

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Quarter Sessions. Tuesday, June 7. (Before His Honor Judge Fitzhardinge.) ASSAULT

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 11 June 1904 · page 16

Walter Cambourne was charged with having, at Nowra, on 28th April, inflicted grievous bodily harm on Joseph Banks. He was further charged with…

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Kiama District Court Friday, June 10Th

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Saturday 11 June 1904 · page 2

BEFORE His Honor Judge Fitzhardinge. J. T. BOLES V. ESAU LONGBOTTOM. Plaintiff claimed £3 0s 2d, for meat sold and delivered…

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Kiama District Court

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 14 June 1904 · page 2

Friday. June 10th, before His Honor Judge Fitzhardinge. J. T. BOLES, of Daplo, sued Esau Long-bottom for the sum of £6/0/2, for meat sold…

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Police Court

Illawarra Mercury · Wednesday 15 June 1904 · page 2

Angus Arundal Glassen, on remand from Wollongong, was charged at the Nowra Police Court on Thursday, with the Iarcency of a bicycle, the property of F. W. Rogers,…

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