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

Courts & crime, 1912

515 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 19 of 26

Government Charged. Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 6 September 1912 · page 4

At a meeting of the plasterers' union, the Government was charged with assisting employers to fight the union…

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Alleged Wilful Murder. Brisbane

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 6 September 1912 · page 4

Peter Cameron has been committed. for trial at Brisbane for the alleged wilful murder of Albert Oxtoby, at Mayne…

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Small Debts Court. an Interesting Case. John Meagher & Co. v. The Forbes Freezing Co

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 6 September 1912 · page 7

Before, Mr J. J. Jamieson, P.M., in the Small Debts Court, Forbes, on Tuesday, Messrs John Meagher and Co. sought to recover a sum of £ 30…

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Police Court

Forbes Times · Saturday 7 September 1912 · page 5

At the Forbes police court on Thursday, before Mr. J. Jamieson, P.M., Robert Howe was charged by warrant with being a person…

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Forbes Police Court. Tuesday, September 10 Before Mr J. J. Jamieson, P. M.

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 10 September 1912 · page 2

Pearce Sutton was charged with riding a bicycle on a footbridge leading into Wombat-street. Sutton said he only rode the bicycle on the…

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Stealing Newspapers

Cowra Free Press · Wednesday 11 September 1912 · page 2

We are continually being informed by subscribers that their papers are stolen from their verandahs or gardens before they are up and about in the morning…

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By-law Cases. at the Police Court

Forbes Times · Wednesday 11 September 1912 · page 2

Several cases of infringement of by-laws were heard by Mr. J. Jamieson, P.M., at the Forbes police court yesterday (Tuesday)…

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A Blackfellow's Assault. Melbourne

Forbes Times · Wednesday 11 September 1912 · page 3

A girl 17 years of age has been issaulted by a blackfellow at Healesville. He sprang out of the bush and clapped a handful of mud over…

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Murder of Five Years Ago. Disappearance of Will

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 11 September 1912 · page 3

The little, town of Pauillac, in the Medoc wine country, is excited over the strange developments of a crime committed there five years ago (said…

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One Against the Magistrate

Western Champion · Thursday 12 September 1912 · page 28

Of the mighty oaths that golfers are said to have sworn there are many accounts. Perhaps the following is the most amusing. A caddie on the…

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Polite Gaol Breakers

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Friday 13 September 1912 · page 3

That the great Russian drama does not lack in comic opera elements is exemplified by an occurrence that happened last week at Ostrolenka…

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Devon Love Tragedy. Murder and Suicide

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Friday 13 September 1912 · page 6

A terrible crime was committed on the [?] at Barnstaple, where a single young woman, named Lydia Brown, under 30 years of age, was…

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Forbes Police Court. Tuesday, September 17 (Before Mr. J. J. Jamieson, P.M.)

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 17 September 1912 · page 2

William Joseph Hill was charged with having insufficient means of support. Mr. D. J. Moloney said arrange ments had been made for defendant…

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Forbes Police Court. Monday, September 16th. Before Mr. J. Jamieson, P.M.

Forbes Times · Wednesday 18 September 1912 · page 2

Arthur Dixon, pleaded guilty to having been drunk on Saturday, and also to having used obscene language…

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Forbes Lincensing Court

Forbes Times · Wednesday 18 September 1912 · page 2

At the local Licensing Court yesterday (Tuesday), Louis Laneyric for whom Mr. R. E. B. Reymond appeared, applied for booth licenses…

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Police Court

Western Champion · Thursday 19 September 1912 · page 19

At the Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. J. Jamieson, P.M., C. Criffiths, charged, at the instance of the Inspector of Nuisances, with allowing…

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Warden's Court

Western Champion · Thursday 19 September 1912 · page 19

At the Warden's Court on Wednesday, before Warden Jamieson, V. G. Townsend was granted authority to enter A. Hall's holding, parish…

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[?] Western Champion and Parkes and [?] Representative Thursday, September 1,9 Licensing Court

Western Champion · Thursday 19 September 1912 · page 19

At the Licensing Court on Wednesday, before Messrs. J. Jamieson, P.M., and J. D. Boyd, L.M., W. H. Haddon was granted a booth license for the…

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Police Court. Thursday. Before Mr. F. B. Treat, P.M.

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Friday 20 September 1912 · page 2

Maulice Hart, charged with stealing a one pound note, the property of Allan Archibald Lynch. Mr. Bertie appeared for defendant…

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Gaol-bird Novelist. Again in the Dock. His Strange Adventures. the Paris

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Friday 20 September 1912 · page 5

correspondent of the "Daily Mail'" wrote:— The police have discovered in the rooms of a convict named Sporn, who came up for trial to-day, a manuscript entitled…

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