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

Courts & crime, 1913

576 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 6 of 29

Alleged Assault

Forbes Times · Saturday 8 March 1913 · page 6

Walter James Pritchard was charged with assaulting Frank O'Neil at Farkes on January 18th, 1913, thereby occasioning him…

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Police Court. Wednesday, March 5Th. (Before Mr H. Giles Shaw, P.M.)

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 8 March 1913 · page 4

PAUL, BEGHAM was charged with behaving in a riotous manner at West Wyalong on 18lh February last…

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Woman Sentenced to Death. But Recommended to Mercy

Forbes Times · Saturday 8 March 1913 · page 6

At the sitting of the Supreme Court at Horsham (Victoria), on Tuesday, before Mr. Justice a'Beck[?] ett Agnes Ferry pleaded not…

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Forbes Police Court. Before Mr. A. Gates, Relieving P.M. Driving Without Lights

Forbes Times · Saturday 8 March 1913 · page 3

Wm. Rath (Inspector of Nuisances) v. Geo Dalton, driving a waggon without lights. Defendant did not appear…

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The Bankstown Murder. a Suspect Arrested Sydney

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 8 March 1913 · page 4

A man has been detained at Balmain on suspicion, in connection with the Bankstown murder…

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The Parkes Conspiracy Case. the Palmers Before the Court. Accused Acquitted

Forbes Times · Saturday 8 March 1913 · page 8

The Forbes Court of Quarter Sessions was opened on Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock before his Honor Judge Scholes, when the…

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Sale of a Heifer. Forbes Appeal Case. Police Court Conviction Quashed

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 11 March 1913 · page 4

On November 5, 1912, William Barton, poundkeeper at Forbes, was fined for selling a heifer from the poundyard, the heifer being the property of…

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The Bankstown Murder. Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 11 March 1913 · page 2

The Government has offered a reward of £ 250 for the arrest of the perpetrator of the Bankstown murder…

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Licensing Court. Tuesday, March 11

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 11 March 1913 · page 2

Before Messrs Gates and Dowling, Licensing Magistrates, Alfred Stokes applied for permission to make alterations and additions to the…

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The High Court Appointments. Sydney

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 11 March 1913 · page 2

The N.S.W. Bar Council yesterday discussed the most recent High Court appointments, but the decision was kept a profound secret…

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Feminine Football. Police Stop Game

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 12 March 1913 · page 4

Feminine football elevens are barred in Chicago (says the Chicago "inter Ocean" of November 25). The police of the Town Hall station…

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Local and General. Licensing Court Business

Forbes Times · Wednesday 12 March 1913 · page 2

"The local Licensing Court (Messrs. A Gates, Relieving P.M., and W. G. Dowling, J.P.) yesterday morning granted permission…

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Mystery of an Ex-m.p. Sudden Departure. Wife's Application in Court

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 12 March 1913 · page 4

An extraordinary story of the disappearance of Captain James Archibald Morrison, who was until a few months aero. M.P. for East Nottingham, was…

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Rooming-house Murder

Western Champion · Thursday 13 March 1913 · page 12

Charles Conway, the professional high diver, who was charged with the murder of a young unmarried woman, Sophia Singer, whom he strangled in…

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District Court

Western Champion · Thursday 13 March 1913 · page 10

The March sittings of the District Court was held on Saturday, before [?]is Honor Judge Scholes. The legal profession, were…

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MILITANTS in COURT

Western Champion · Thursday 13 March 1913 · page 21

The women who were arrested on Monday for breaking through the cordon of soldiers and endeavoring to present a suffragette petition to the King…

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Lady's Necklace. Count Charged with Theft

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Friday 14 March 1913 · page 7

From Paris on 18th September the correspondent or the London "Daily Mail" wrote:— Count Hubert Cahen d'Anvers, a…

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Gloucester Gaol-breaker's Recaptured. Tracked by Police

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Friday 14 March 1913 · page 7

A Gloucester correspondent telegraphed to the "Dublin Warder" on 2nd November:—The four convicts who escaped from Gloucester on Thursday…

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A French "Ogress." Charged with Murder. She Is Acquitted

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Friday 14 March 1913 · page 5

One of the most extraordinary trials the Paris courts have known came to an inconclusive end recently, wrote the Paris correspondent of the…

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Murder Temptations

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Friday 14 March 1913 · page 7

Murders of children for the sake of the ornaments with which fond but foolish parents deck them is a crime so common in India that it passes almost…

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