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

Courts & crime, 1921

379 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 16 of 19

Forbes Court Matters Cases This Morning

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 27 September 1921 · page 2

Before Mr. Helm, P.M., at Forbes Court this morning, the matter in which Beatrice Ashcroft was listed to proceed against R. J. M'Govern,…

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The Week's Police Court. (Before. Mr. Longfield S.M.)

Cowra Free Press · Wednesday 28 September 1921 · page 2

Ada Ann Laura Muir. Allowing liquor to be supplied to an aboriginal-Adjourned, on Mr. Montgomerie's application, to Oct. 5th…

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Shocking Murder and Suicide

Western Champion · Thursday 29 September 1921 · page 8

A shocking tragedy occurred on Friday morning at Mann's farm, between five and six miles from Parkes, on the Bogan road, when William…

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Forbes Court Matters. Charges Under Liquor Act. Cases Dismissed

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 30 September 1921 · page 9

William Rufus Hudson and James Ashworth were before the P.M. on Tuesday, charged with being found on the licensed premises of the Club…

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Forbes Police Court

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 4 October 1921 · page 2

At the Forbes, court this morning Eugene John Leader, of the South Forbes Hotel, was charged with supplying liquor after hours. The liquor…

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Alleged Horse Stealing. Charge Reduced to Illegally Using

Cowra Free Press · Wednesday 5 October 1921 · page 3

A young man named Herbert Stanley Jenkins was on Monday charged with stealing a horse, the property of Alfred Ernest Collins…

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A Complicated Case Over a Couple of Sets of Harness Ex-Woodstock Hotelkeeper Charged with False Pretences

Cowra Free Press · Wednesday 5 October 1921 · page 2

It will be remembered that some months ago a young man named Chas. McCabe was charged with stealing two sets of harness, the property of…

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THE Western Champion AND Parkes and District Representative. Thursday, October 6, 1921. Licensing Court

Western Champion · Thursday 6 October 1921 · page 13

The Quarterly Licensing Court was held on Wednesday, before Messrs. C. J. B. Helm and J. D. Boyd. The quarterly report of the Licensing…

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Forbes Court Matters Riotous Behaviour

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 7 October 1921 · page 4

At the Forbes Court on Tuesday, before Mr. Helm, P.M., James Martin and James Campbell pleaded guilty to a charge of behaving in a rlotious…

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Wholesale Thieving. A Young Man Sentenced

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 8 October 1921 · page 5

A young man, who gave his name as Ambrose Mainey, appeared before Mr. Longfield, S.M., on Wednesday to answer several charges of petty…

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Supplying an Aboriginal with Liquor. A Cowra Hotelkeeper Charged. Case Again Adjourned in Spite of Defendant's Attorney's Protest

Cowra Free Press · Saturday 8 October 1921 · page 4

Ada Muir, licensee of the Great Western Hotel, was charged before Mr. Longfield S.M, on Wednesday, with allowing liquor to be supplied to…

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Licensing Court

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 11 October 1921 · page 4

The quarterly licensing court for the Licensing District of Wyalong will be held at the Court House, Wyalong on Thursday next,…

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Forbes Court Matters

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 11 October 1921 · page 2

At the Forbes Police Court yesterday before Mr. W. F. Britz, J.P., John Edward M'Grath pleaded guilty to a charge of using indecent…

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Quarter Sessions and District Court

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 11 October 1921 · page 4

The Quarter Sessions and District Court commence at the Court, House, Wyalong, at 2 p.m. on Monday next. One ease from Temora…

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Alleged Horse Stealing

Cowra Free Press · Wednesday 12 October 1921 · page 2

Before Mr. Longfield S.M. on Tuesday a teamster named William Thomas Hetherington was committed for trial at next Cowra Quarter Sessions on a…

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Alteration of Court Days

Cowra Free Press · Wednesday 12 October 1921 · page 2

In future sittings of the Police Court will be held here on the first, second, third and fourth Tuesdays, and Small Debts Court on the first and third…

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Alleged Stealing. a Long Chase

Western Champion · Thursday 13 October 1921 · page 15

On Sunday last a rug was reported stolen from one of the bedrooms at the Commercial Hotel. As the man who had occupied the room had also…

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Supreme Court Action. Egan V. O. J. HOWARD, T. Howard and McFADDEN

Western Champion · Thursday 13 October 1921 · page 11

This case as tried in the Supreme Court on Friday, 7th inst, before Justice Pring. Mr. Gunn appeared for the plaintiff and Mr F S Boyce for the…

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Forbes Court Matters

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 14 October 1921 · page 6

At the Forbes court this morning before Messrs J. W. Mills and H. K. Ford, J's.P., two men named Read and M'Grath were charged with…

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Divorce Court Case Desertion From Goolagong

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 14 October 1921 · page 1

This morning Judge Bevan heard a petition from a young man named George Henry Day for a divorce from his wife Ada Day (nee Scott, of…

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