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Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1914

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Police Court. THURSDAY, 29th JANUARY. Before Mr. Edwards, P.M. Riotous is Behaviour

The Picton Post · Wednesday 4 February 1914 · page 4

Reg Maithews pleaded guilty to behaving in a riotous manner on the 17th January and was fined 10s, 7s costs of court, and 5s witnesses…

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Laughter in Court

The Picton Post · Wednesday 4 February 1914 · page 7

The witness was being goaded almost beyond endurance. "How long have you been at your trade pi tin-roofing?" went on the…

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Police Court. Wednesday, 1st April. Before Mr. G. Bradhury, J.P.

The Picton Post · Wednesday 8 April 1914 · page 4

Robert Jackson, charged with vagrancy, was sentenced to one month's hard labour in Darlingburst Gaol. Tuesday. April 7th. Before Mr. R. H. Antill, J.P…

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

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 8 April 1914 · page 2

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

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Bowral Police Court. Seising a Horse

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 11 April 1914 · page 4

The attention of Mr. Edwards, P.M was occupied the whole after noon at the above court on Tuesday last in hearing a case in which Alick…

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Women A8 Police

The Picton Post · Wednesday 15 April 1914 · page 6

Chicago is greatly satisfied with its experiment with the police women, ten of whom were appointed last August to assist in reforming the morals and…

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Women As Police

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 18 April 1914 · page 2

Chicago is greatly satisfied with its experiment with the police women, ten of whom were appointed last August to assist in reforming the morals and…

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Little Girl's Travels. Mother's Right to See Her Child. Uncle Sent To, Gaol

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 22 April 1914 · page 2

A little blue-eyed girl of seven or eight, with flaxon curls and a large hat with blue ribbons, was brought into Mr. Justice Astbury's Court in the Chancery Division,…

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Camden Police Court. Friday, April 17, 1914. Before Messrs. John Lakeman and W. C. Furner, Js. P.

Camden News · Thursday 23 April 1914 · page 3

The chief leases before the magistrates, and unfortunately too many of them, were, for drunkenness and bad language. Fines for drunks reached 5s to 10s with costs 6s…

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With the North-west Police Tracking Fugitives. Hardships of the Journey

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 29 April 1914 · page 3

The authorities at Ottawa have received from Sergeant C. S. Harper an account of the journey made by a police patrol sent out from Lake Saskatoon early in…

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The Exeter Smash. Driver Irwin Acquitted. Scene in Court

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 2 May 1914 · page 4

The trial of Peter Irwin, driver of the Temora express, on a charge of having feloniously slain Alfred Charles Bray, was concluded at the Gonlburu…

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Police Women

The Picton Post · Wednesday 6 May 1914 · page 3

New York is to follow the example of Chicago, Phila Selphia, and other cities of America by creating force of women police. The New York State…

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Federal Arbitration Court

The Picton Post · Wednesday 20 May 1914 · page 3

The Federal Arbitration Court, during the time of my predecessor and myself has done a great and beneficial work for the people of Australia. It…

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Federal Arbitration Court

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 23 May 1914 · page 3

The Federal Arbitration Court, during the time of my predecessor and myself has done a great and beneficial work for the people of Australia. It…

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Case of Julia Decies. London's Sympathy with Girl Shot Sleeping Lover. Seven Years' Gaol

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 3 June 1914 · page 3

The plea that at the time she shot Basil Piffard—a man with whom she had lived—she was in such a state of exasperation, jealousy, rage, and hopeless despair that…

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Hon. W. McCourt Memorial

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 10 June 1914 · page 4

A meeting of subscribers to the above was h[?]ld at the hospital, Bowral, on Friday afternoon last. Mr. F. A Badgery, M.L.A., was [?] to the…

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Brave Girl of Fifteen. Assists Police Officer

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 10 June 1914 · page 3

Remarkable bravery on the part of Phoebe Shenton, a girl of fifteen, earned the compliments of the magistrate at Birmingham, when three brothers—Richard. Alfred, and Arthur Vic[?]…

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Chinese Police. Russians Mere Amateurs. Something Like Third Degree

The Wollondilly Press · Wednesday 10 June 1914 · page 3

The Chinese secret police are seldom talked of outside Yuan's Republic, yet it is said that they can teach even the Russian police a great many lessons in cruelty. The reason…

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Local Option Court at Goulburn

The Wollondilly Press · Saturday 13 June 1914 · page 4

The special court has just finished its sitings at Goulburn re the reduction of liqour licences, and as a result four hotels and one wins shop are to be…

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Camden Police Court

Camden News · Thursday 18 June 1914 · page 3

At the Camden Court on Friday two cases against Senior Cadets were stated for not attending the proper number of drill day. One was handed over to the custody of the…

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