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

Courts & crime, 1931

510 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 13 of 26

Court Shorts Many Minor Cases Liquor- Traffic- Health

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 22 May 1931 · page 1

Magistrate C. A. Arnold dealt offences at Forbes Court on Tues ocences at Forbes Court on Tuesday morning…

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Egg-stealing Iguanas

Western Champion · Monday 25 May 1931 · page 6

Tichborne folk being noted for their veracity, some credence must be placed on this story from that progressive centre. A man had been…

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Police Scare. Business Elsewhere

Western Champion · Monday 25 May 1931 · page 1

Something akin to is scare was created when Sergt. Ferris paid a dudden visit one of the local billiard rooms on Saturday…

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Solicitor and Lady Clerk Charged with Misappropriation (By Wire) Sydney, Monday Afternoon

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 26 May 1931 · page 1

At the Central Police Court to-day, William Carnege Clegg, aged 58, a solicitor, was charged, with having fraudulently ommitted to account for…

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Bee Stealing

Western Champion · Thursday 28 May 1931 · page 8

Some little time ago Mr. A. E. Cheney had two hives of bees stolen from his apiary in Mr. J. Dempsey's paddock, Coobang. He offered a…

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Alleged Theft. All Amongst the Hay. Man Arrested

Western Champion · Thursday 28 May 1931 · page 8

When Mr. J. H. Warby paid a visit to a haystack which he owns, on the Billabong Creek, the other morning, he found that a…

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Venue Changed. District Court Case

Western Champion · Thursday 28 May 1931 · page 10

On the application of Mr. W. E Matthews (Matthews, Connellan and Pearce), venue was changed in a case before the District Court…

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SETTLED. Claim for Commission. District Court Case

Western Champion · Thursday 28 May 1931 · page 8

A commission case was settled at the District Court yesterday by judgment being entered up by consent…

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Wheat Case. Before District Court. Mungo Scott Advance

Western Champion · Thursday 28 May 1931 · page 8

Before His Honor Judge Thomson and a jury of four, at the District Court this afternoon, Mungo, Scott Ltd. sought to obtain from…

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Commission District Court Claim. Property Sale which Fell Through

Western Champion · Thursday 28 May 1931 · page 11

A lengthy case was heard before the District Court, His Honor Judge Thomson presiding, yesterday and to-day, when Francis Robert Martin and Frederick James Skinner (trading as the Parkes Land, Stock and Finance Company) proceeded against…

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QUANDIALLA Stealing Case Rain Spoils Ball

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 29 May 1931 · page 3

Rainfall observations registered show a further 122 points. In comparison with last May, nearly two inches more have fallen. At the time of…

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FLOGGING And Four Years' Gaol Youths' Crime

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 29 May 1931 · page 6

Allen Esdaile Davis Ward and Leslie Charles Lewis, the two Coburg youths who were convicted of the manslaughter of Arthur Nelson Head, a…

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PILFERING Thefts on Railway Employee Before Court

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 29 May 1931 · page 3

"Your punishment in losing your employment will in your circumstances, be severe. Your wages may have been very low, but now…

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Flood Threat Heavy Rains -- Swollen Streams Police Send For Boats

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 29 May 1931 · page 1

AS reports from Cowra and other centres along the Lachlan River continue to reach Forbes, the probability of a flood grows ever stronger. The heavy rains on Wednesday and Thursday were general throughout the West, the headwaters of…

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That Wine License Canowindra Transfer Application Again Before the Court Mr. R. B. Phillips Objects to the Court’s Jurisdiction. As a Notice with Regard to the Holding of the Special Licensing Court Was Not Exhibited. and the Objection Is Upheld

Cowra Free Press · Friday 29 May 1931 · page 1

The application of Richard Phillip Donaldson for the removal of the wine and spirit merchant's license held by him at Canowindra to Cowra, was again mentioned before Mr. Bromhead in the Licensing Court on Wednesday, when an adjournment was…

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Moratorium. Applies in Wheat Case. District Court Application

Western Champion · Monday 1 June 1931 · page 1

After.the Jury, under direction of His Honor Judge Thomson, had returned a verdict for plaintiffs for the full amount claimed…

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Wheat Advances Case Before District Court. Mungo Scott Again

Western Champion · Monday 1 June 1931 · page 2

A case of considerable interest to wheatgrowers was heard before His Honor Judge Thomson and a jury of four a the District Court on Wednesday and Thursday, when Mungo Scott Limited, flour millers, proceeded against Arthur William C[?]ckram, and Edison…

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Partnership Dispute Case from Cargellige In Equity Court

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 2 June 1931 · page 3

In the Equity Court, Sydney, last week, before Mr. Justice Long Innes: Mr. Selwyn F. Betts asked his Hon or to grant an injunction to restrain…

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£200,000 INVOLVED City Solicitor and Clerk Before the Court (By Wire) Sydney, Monday Afternoon

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 2 June 1931 · page 1

The case in which William Carnegie Clegg, aged 50, solicitor, and Leila Beryl Smith, aged 33yrs Law clerk, are changed with having frauduilently…

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Police Court Another Dole Offender

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 3 June 1931 · page 2

At the local police court on Friday last (before G. W. Brown, J.P.) John McLean, aged 26 years, was charged with falsely receiving a dole order to…

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