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

Courts & crime, 1919

491 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 19 of 25

Licensing Court

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 19 August 1919 · page 2

Mr M. J. Lynch was granted a renewal of the Royal Hotel license. E. E. Richardson was given permission to conduct booths at the…

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Police As Acting Stock Inspectors

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 19 August 1919 · page 2

The inspector General of Police has notified the Stock Branch of the Department of Agriculture that in view of the large amount of time…

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Forbes Court Matters. Drunk and Language

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 19 August 1919 · page 2

William Clement Hodge, was before Mr C. A. Arnold, J.P., at Forbes Court yesterday, the charge being that he was found drunk in…

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Forbes Court Matters Alleged Insulting Words

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 22 August 1919 · page 3

Charles Curry v. John Robinson, alleged insulting words in a shop in Lachlan Street, was a case which occupied a good deal of time at…

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Police Court. TUESDAY. (Before Mr. Jennings, S.M.)

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 23 August 1919 · page 6

John Willis was found 20/- with 6/- costs, ou a charge of using indecent language. On a like charge, at Woodstock,…

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Double Tragedy at Monteagle Two Men Found Dead. Apparently No Motive for the Murder and Suicide

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 23 August 1919 · page 5

A man named Leslie Thomas Darveil, aged about 50 years, and a much younger man, whose name is unknown, were found dead, each shot through…

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Monteagle Tragedy. Two Men Foudn Dead. Supposed Murder and Suicide

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 26 August 1919 · page 4

A sensation was caused in the district on Wednesday when it was reported that two men were found dead at the Government dam about…

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Forbes Court Matters Transfer of License

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1919 · page 2

On Friday afternoon the license of the Commercial Hotel, Forbes, was transferred from Mrs Mary Fogarty to R. W.Dowland…

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The Police & Firemen's Art Union

Cowra Free Press · Wednesday 27 August 1919 · page 2

The proceeds of the recent Police and Firemen's Art Union, amounting to £119 9a 9d (being the efforts of the Police aud Firemen at Cowra, and the…

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Police Court

Western Champion · Thursday 28 August 1919 · page 15

At the Police Court on the 20th inst., before Mr. C. J. B. Helm, P.M.. a prohibition order for 12 months was granted against James Cairns…

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Police Court MONDAY. (Before Mr. Chas. Coghlan, J.P.)

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Friday 29 August 1919 · page 2

Joseph Brown, 44, charged that on the 16tth day of August, 1919, he did steal one ten shilling note, the property of Patrick Michael Tunney, at…

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Gundagai Murder Case

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 29 August 1919 · page 3

Frederick John Smith, committed for trial by Police Magistrate, Holcombe, at the Gundagai Police Court returned home to Gundagai on…

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Tragedy at Young. Murder and Suicide. Head Blown Off

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 29 August 1919 · page 4

The mystery concerning the discovery of the bodies of a man and boy,, the former had his head blown off, and the latter having a wound in…

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Income Tax Prosecutions at the Local Court

Canowindra Star and Eugowra News · Friday 29 August 1919 · page 5

A number of local residents appeared before Mr. Jennings, S.M., at the Courthouse on Wednesday morning last, charged with having failed to…

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Cowra Sensation Body of Babe Found in River Young Woman Arrested [?] a Charge of Murder

Forbes Times · Friday 29 August 1919 · page 4

On Sunday afternoon last, about 2 o'clock (says the "Guardian"), two boys playing about the bank of the Lachlan River at the bottom end…

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Forbes Police Court Monday, September [?], 1919. (Before W. T. Gil[?]hrist, J.p.) Drunk

Forbes Times · Tuesday 2 September 1919 · page 3

Arthur Allport, who was charged with having been dru[?]k in Lachlanstreet, did not appear. His bail of 5/was ordered to be estreated…

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Forbes Court Matters Remanded

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 2 September 1919 · page 2

Before Mr W. T. Gilchrist, J.P., at Forbes Court yesterday, Alfred W. Blume was charged with inciting a prisoner to resist Constable…

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Tuesday's Court

Cowra Free Press · Wednesday 3 September 1919 · page 3

John Connolly, licensee of the Imperial Hotel, was granted a publican's booth license, on Tuesday, for the following:—Cowra Trots,…

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Police Raid at Burrowa

Cowra Free Press · Wednesday 3 September 1919 · page 4

Suspecting that gambling had been carried on in the premises occupied by Constantine Pappas, in Marsden street, Burrowa, Senior-Sergt. Rose,…

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Police Court. Wednesday, September 3rd. (Before Mr. C. J. B. Helm, P.m.) Alleged Embezzlement

Western Champion · Thursday 4 September 1919 · page 11

George J. Whittaker was charged with embezzling the sum of £1 4/the property of Atcherly & Dawson. Mr. McIntosh for the defense…

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