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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1905

355 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 16 of 18

Cattle and Sheep Stealing

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 10 November 1905 · page 4

IT is a well-known fact that in ninety nine cases out of a hundred, persons charged with sheep or cattle stealing, are acquitted. If persons suspected of…

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Canowindra Court Day. Police Court. Wednesday, November 8Th. Before H. Byrnes, P.M.

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 10 November 1905 · page 3

Police v D Perry and Thomas Curry, charged with aiding and abetting in a certain offence to wit fighting between two persons (already convicted) during…

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Wardens Court. (Before Warden Byrnes.)

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 10 November 1905 · page 3

Frederick Perry, Lomsa Perry, and W Pendall were called. The Warden: Is there any application in the case…

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Divorce at Seventy-five. Court Beauty and Bandmaster

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 10 November 1905 · page 16

A remarkable romance, writes the New York correspondent of the London "Daily Mail," has been revealed in the hearing of the divorce suit brought in…

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Police Court MONDAY. Before Messrs. Taylor and Cousins

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 11 November 1905 · page 2

HUBERT WATT, charged with being drunk and disorderly, pleaded guilty, and was fined 20s, or 7 days.Same defendant, charged with assaulting…

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Police Court Tuesday Nov, 14th. (Before Messrs W. Maitland and R. J. Parker J's.P.)

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 15 November 1905 · page 1

Police v James Hughes, for stealing a bay gelding, the property of Joseph E. Rawsthorne of Forbes. Sergt, Cahalan gave evidence as to…

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Police Court

Western Champion · Friday 17 November 1905 · page 12

At the Police Court on Wednesday before Mr W R Dove, acting P M. Ernest Foster was charged with disobeying a maintenance order for the…

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Police Court. Friday, November 10. (Before Mr S E Close J.P.)

Western Champion · Friday 17 November 1905 · page 4

Thomas Doyle appeared, on remand, on a charge of stealing a certain valuable security the property of John Keating…

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Peak Hill Police Court. Thursday, November 16. BEFORE the P.M., Mr. Dove

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 17 November 1905 · page 10

Reginald Willoughby, on remand, was charged with carnally knowing one Phyllis Lampe, a girl under the age of 10 years, to wit 8 years and 3…

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Socialists and the Poor Law. Fear of Disfanchisement. Verdict of Wilful Murder

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 17 November 1905 · page 6

At an inquest held at Edmonton yesterday on the body of Constance May Gammon, aged four months, a verdict of wilful murder was returned against the…

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A Moorland Murder

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 18 November 1905 · page 7

George Smith, forty-eight, plasterer, of Wakefleld, was arrested in that city on September 14th in connection with the murder of his wife, Martha…

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Police Court. Tuesday, November 21St. (Before Messrs. R. J. Parker and W. Maitland, J's.P.)

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 22 November 1905 · page 9

E McKenzie v W. J. Jones. and W. H. Hughson v W. J. Jones. Claims for £1 10s wages in each case. Mr Driffield, for the defendant applied for…

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Peak Hill Police Court

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 24 November 1905 · page 9

AT the Police Court on Friday and Saturday, befor the acting P.M., Mr. Dove, Reginald Willoughby, aged 29, a pianoforte tuner, was charged with…

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Alleged Stealing

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 24 November 1905 · page 10

AT the Forbes Quarter Sessions on Tuesday, Thomas Doyle, of Peak Hill and Parkes, was charged with stealing a valuable security, to wit, a beating…

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Twenty-five Years in Gaol

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 24 November 1905 · page 7

AT Cootamundra Quarter Sessions, Thomas O'Shea, an ex-member of the Gardiner gang of bushrangers, was brought up for sentence on a charge of…

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Warden's Court

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 24 November 1905 · page 2

At the Wyalong Warden's Court on Tuesday last, a further suspension (two months) of labour conditions wat granted to Grace and Party's claim at Barley's…

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Appeal Court

Western Champion · Friday 24 November 1905 · page 12

At this Court at Forbes on Tuesday Mr Acting Judge Browning presided. J P Beckett (Inspector of Nuisance for the Municipal District of Forbes)…

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Wyalong Police Court. Wednesday, November 22. (Before Mr F. Neeld, sen., J.P.)

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 24 November 1905 · page 3

George Hicks, appeared to answer a variety of charges. For assaulting Esther Van Lewin, he was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment…

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Forbes District Court

Western Champion · Friday 24 November 1905 · page 12

At the above Court on Monday, before His Honor Acting-Judge Browning, the following cases were dealt with:…

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Anarchists Sentenced. Incitement to Murder. What Is Seditious Libel?

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 25 November 1905 · page 7

A cable message on the Sept. 18, announced that two Italian anarchists had been sentenced to terms of imprisonment at the Old Balley. Further…

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