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

Courts & crime, 1914

537 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 8 of 27

Small Debts Court

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 1

Thomas Scott M'Dade v. John Higgins.—Money due, £4, which was owing for the rent of a bicycle. A verdict was given for the amount…

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Police Court. Thursday. (Before the P.M.)

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 4 April 1914 · page 2

John Benson pleaded guilty to drunkenness, and was fined 5s or 48 hours gaol. Arthur Mclnnes, who pleaded…

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Country News. Koorawatha. Police Court Thursday. (Before Messrs. M. J. Maher and D. Lynch Js.P.)

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 4 April 1914 · page 2

Charles Carey was fined 5s for riotous bhaviour. Bert Watmore for riotous behaviour and using insulting language…

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Licensing Court. Thursday. Before Mr. F. B. Treatt (chairman) and Dr. Foley (M.L.B.)

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 4 April 1914 · page 2

W. J. Bowen and Arthur Kelly were granted booth licenses for the Easter Faces from 10 a.m to 6 p.m. each day…

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Alleged Stealing

Forbes Times · Tuesday 7 April 1914 · page 2

Bourke was charged in company with George Reynolds with stealing one purse, one pencil and 10s 6d, of a total value of 25s 6d, the…

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Alleged Theft. Grabbing a £1 NOTE. Forbes Racecourse Incident

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1914 · page 1

At the Forbes Police Court yesterday before Messrs A. S. Wickham and W. G. Dowling, Js.P., John Francis Gerald Burke was charged…

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Supposed Murder Case. 17 Miles From Bimbi

Forbes Times · Tuesday 7 April 1914 · page 2

Late on Sunday evening the police at Eorbes received meagre particulars by telephone of a supposed case of murder from Bimbi. A white…

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A Chemist's Purse. Alleged Theft at Forbes. Two Racecourse Followers Dismissed

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1914 · page 4

George Reynolds and John Francis Gerald Burke were before Messrs A. S. Wickham and W. G. Dowling, Js.P., at Forbes Court yesterday. The…

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Forbes Police Court. Saturday, April 4Th. Before Messrs. A. S. Wickham and W. G. Dowling, J.s. DRUNKENNESS

Forbes Times · Tuesday 7 April 1914 · page 2

Sidney Thompson and Patrick Connelly, both first, offenders, pleaded guilty to being drunk and were each fined 2s 6d or "the…

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Police Ghost. Latest Phase of "Third Degree."

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 8 April 1914 · page 3

The use of a ghost by the Los Angeles police in working the "third degree' on a man accused, of murder has been denounced by the lawyers of4 the prisoner, who…

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Town Mourns Murderer. Hanged for Brutal Crime. March on the Gaol. One Youth Reprieved

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 8 April 1914 · page 10

Seldom, does the execution of a murderer evoke such a demonstration of indignation, on the part of the populace as occurred at Manchester, when Ernest Kelly, aged 20,…

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Convict Captain's Sin. Breaks Down in Court

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 8 April 1914 · page 10

Captain William H. Heal, formerly of Hills-road, Cambridge, who is now serving a sentence of three years' penal servitude, broke down in the Bankruptcy Court in making an application for his discharge…

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Girl Cashier and Man Friend Pathetic Scene in Court

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 8 April 1914 · page 10

Sobbing bitterly, Edith Overton, a girl cashier, pleaded guilty at Birmingham Quarter Sessions to stealing £350 horn her employer. She blurted out,"I was drawn into it by bad company."…

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Benton Murder

Western Champion · Thursday 9 April 1914 · page 20

Yet another story has been added to the many that have already been told of how William Benton was murdered by the Mexican rebels. The…

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Suffragette in Court

Western Champion · Thursday 9 April 1914 · page 11

There were exciting scenes on Monday at the Marlborough-street Police Court, where Mrs. Drumrnond, the notorious suffragette, who was…

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Wyalong Police Court. Tuesday, April 7th, 1914

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 11 April 1914 · page 4

Before Mr. H. Giles, Shaw, P.M. John Doran, pleaded guilty to drunkenness, at Wyalong, and was fined 5s, 111 default 24 hours…

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Municipal Court

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 11 April 1914 · page 4

Geo. Geollrich, appealed against the Municipal valuation of his property at Central Wyalong. He failed to appear, and the Council…

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Licensing Court. Tuesday, April 7th. (Before the Licensing Bench.)

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Saturday 11 April 1914 · page 4

The Licensing Inspector, Senior Sergeant Smith, presented a lengthy and comprehensive report of all hotels in the district…

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Link by Link; or the Chain of Evidence. a Great Detective Story. Chapter Iv. Murder and Mystery

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 15 April 1914 · page 4

I was a bachelor, but managed to maintain a cosy little household in a cottage near the water's edge, and a little east of the bridge that spans the Harlem at the head…

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Licensing Court

Western Champion · Thursday 16 April 1914 · page 18

At the Licensing Court on Wednesday, before Messrs. Holcombe and Boyd, applications by Mrs. M. Kerin and D. Quirke, for conditional…

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