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

Courts & crime, 1907

394 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 12 of 20

Blunder in Identity. Seven Against Ten. Police Prove Accused Innocent

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 27 July 1907 · page 4

A remarkable instance of mistaken identity was revealed at Clerkenwell Sessions yesterday, April 26th. For the prosecution seven youths and…

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Licensing Court. Wednesday, 24Th Instant. Before Messrs. Byrnes, P.M., and Sloan and Wordsworth, J’s.P.)

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 27 July 1907 · page 4

The Licensing Bench had before them petition from a number of residents of Koorawatha, requesting that it be recommended to his Excellency the Governor,…

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Police Court

Western Champion · Friday 2 August 1907 · page 15

At the Police Court on the 29th ult. James Smith, for drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d or 3 hours. On the 30th ult. the same defendant was fined 20s…

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Stealing Rabbit Skins

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 2 August 1907 · page 17

AT the recent Dubbo Sessions Judge Balaton sentenced two men to five years each for stealing rabbit skins. During the hearing of the case the…

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Police Court. Saturday, 27Th July (Before Mr. Miller, J.P.)

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 3 August 1907 · page 4

Daniel Bergin was charged with using obscene language at Koorawatha, and was fined 20/- or 14 days. For resisting the police he was mulet in 20/- or 14 days…

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Trail of Haywood. Governor's Murderer in Court. Sensational Evidence. Charges Against the Miners' Secretary. Planning the Crimes

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 3 August 1907 · page 6

To-day Harry Orchard, the informer in the Idaho mining murder trial, took the witness-stand at Boise City, and the case against William D. Haywood, of…

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Trial of Haywood. Governor's Murderer in Court. Sensational Evidence. Charges Against the Miners" Secretary. Planning the Crimes

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 3 August 1907 · page 6

To-day Harry Orchard, the Informer in the Idaho mining murder trial, took the witness-stand at Bolse City, and the case against William D. Haywood, of…

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A Gaol Romance

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 18

A STRANGE romance at Ypres, Brussels, culminated there recently in the marriage of a convict, who is undergoing life imprisonment in the local…

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London Policemen. a Magistrate's Praise

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 3

Mr Edmund Charles D'Eyncourt. Metropolitan magistrate, giving evidence before the London Police Commission, said he was strongly of opinion…

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Litigation and Revenge. Young Woman Sentenced

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 4
Also in The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette

Another acid-throwing case was heard at the New Bailey yesterday, when an attractive-looking young woman named Lilian Sarah Woodcock,…

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Police Court. Saturday 3Rd Inst. (Before Mr. Byrnes, P.M.)

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 4

Emily Talbot was charged with stealing at Morongla a number of articles valued at £1/15/-, the property of [?] Herbert Fowler…

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Police Intrigues. Millionaire's Wife Persecuted

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 7

From New York, on 25th May, the correspondent of the "Daily Mail" wrote:—Mrs Howard Gould's revelation of the…

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Special Licensing Court FRIDAY, 9th INST. (Before Messrs. Byrnes, P.M., and W. H. Wordsworth, J.P.)

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 4

The P.M.: There is an application for a transfer of the license of the Fitzroy Hotel from Peter Links to William H[?]ilstone. Mr. [?] appeared for the…

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Merit Rewarded by Court of Justice

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 14 August 1907 · page 2

In an action, the cause of which was flagrant misuse of our firm name and other gross misrepresentations by an imitation company which was tried before his Honor…

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Powers of the Police

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 16 August 1907 · page 3

A RATHER important point of law as affecting the powers of the police arose in a case heard at the Narrabri Court, before Mr. Robertson, P.M., recently…

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Canowindra Police Court. (Before T. Finn and C. L. T. McDonagh Esqs, J.P.) Monday, AUGUST 12

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 16 August 1907 · page 7

James Halliday, under arrest was charged with having on the previous day broken into and entered the premises of Charlie Ah Hop and stolen…

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Police Intrigues. Millionaire's Wife Persecuted

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1907 · page 3

From New York on 25th May, the correspondent of the "Daily Mail" wrote:— Mrs Howard Gould's revelation of the…

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Spank Those Girls. the Magistrate Objects

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 23 August 1907 · page 5

Recently a jury in a Judges' Court in Aurora, U.S., returned a verdict as follows:—"We, the jury, find that Miss Hat[?] Briggs and Miss Dorothy…

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The Police Force

The Peak Hill Express · Friday 23 August 1907 · page 10

THE Premier has a very good word to say about the Police Force of New South Wales, and favors paying them fortnightly. The members of the…

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