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Mid North Coast · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1901

324 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 13 of 17

Ways of the Czar. a Peep at His Court Life

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 12 October 1901 · page 2

So little is known about the private life and personal habits of Czar Nicholas of Russia that a volume on this subject, which has just been published in Germany, is…

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Quarterly Licensing Court. Taree, Tuesday, Oct. 8. Before Messrs. W. N. DOVE, H. J. CORNISH and J. ABBOTT, L.M's. Publicans' Conditional Licenses

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 12 October 1901 · page 5

Mr. James Hogan, of the Upper Myall, applied for a publican's conditional license, for a house to be erected at Nabiac. The Licensing Inspector (Sergeant Hogan) lodged…

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Police Court. Taree, Saturday, Oct. 12. Before Mr. W. N. DOVE, P.M. Alleged Breaking and Entering

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 16 October 1901 · page 2

Andrew Bailey and James Baggot (generally known as Jimmy Brackett), both aboriginals, were brought up on demand from the 10th instant, charged with breaking and entering, and stealing from the…

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Licensing Court. Taree, Saturday, Oct. 12

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 16 October 1901 · page 2

Before Messrs. W. N. DOVE, H. J. CORNISH, and JOHN [?]OTT, L.M'S CONDITIONAL PUBLICAN'S LICENSE. The adjourned application of Mr. W. G. Fox, for…

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Attempted Wife Murder

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 17 October 1901 · page 4

A man named Rickards, who had just completed a sentence of two months gaol, attempted to murder his wife at Ballarat yesterday. He fired four shots at her, one…

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Ways of the Czar. a Peep at His Court Life

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 17 October 1901 · page 2

So little is known about the private life and personal habits of Czar Nicholas of Russia that a volume on this subject, which has just been published in Germany, is…

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Kempsey Court. Oct. 11—Before the P.M. and S. Band, J.P.

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 17 October 1901 · page 3

Daniel Hickson, James Lanigan, Owen Richardson and Samuel Skimmings, were charged with riotous behaviour in Smith st., on Saturday night, Oct. 5. Skimmings…

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Police Court. Taree, Thursday, Oct. 17. Before Mr. C. BOYCE, J.P. DRUNKENNESS

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 19 October 1901 · page 5

C. W. SEAGER was charged with being drunk in Taree on Wednesday night last. Plea, guilty. Fined 5s, or 48 hours' imprisonment…

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Hotelkeepers and the Police

Macleay Argus · Saturday 19 October 1901 · page 4

IN view of the recent prosecution of Grafton hotel keepers by the police, it may interest readers to know that under the Licensing Act (Sec. 51) the [?]rnvamen of…

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Kempsey Police Court. Friday, October 11.--Before the P.M. and Mr. S. Bond, J.P.

Macleay Argus · Saturday 19 October 1901 · page 11

JAMES LANIGAN, Daniel Hickson, Owen Richardson, and Samuel Skimmings were charged with riotous conduct in Central Kempsey on Saturday, the…

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Small Debts Court. Nabiac, Thursday, Oct. 17. Before Mr. W. N. DOVE, P.M. James Smith V. Albert Hardy

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 23 October 1901 · page 2

CLAIM £4 8s 9d, for wharfage on logs, piles and girders. Defendant paid £1 8s into court, and pleaded not indebted as to the balance…

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Death of the Grafton Police Magistrate

Macleay Argus · Saturday 26 October 1901 · page 8

Mr. John F. Kenyon, police magistrate and coroner for the Clarence River district, died suddenly on Sunday morning at the age of 57 years…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing

Macleay Argus · Saturday 26 October 1901 · page 7

AT the Gladstone Police Court on Wednesday last, before the P.M. and Messrs. Lee and Connors, Js.P., John Garnett Hibbard, on remand, was brought up on a charge of…

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Tragic Sequel to a Burglary

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 26 October 1901 · page 11

Frederick Frewer, lately employed as manager to a pawnbroker, of Clarence-road, Hackney, has died in a London hospital under tragic…

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Baring Burglary in Chicago. London, October, 22

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 26 October 1901 · page 7

Burglars dug a tunnel into a post [?] at Chicago, and from it stole coin and stamps to the value of 76,000 dol. £15,200…

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Theft from a Bank. London October 22

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 26 October 1901 · page 6

It is reported that the teller the book-keeper of the Merchants' National Bank Lowell, Massachusetts (U.S.A.) have absconded with 115,000…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 31 October 1901 · page 4

A case was hoard before the P.M., Meters. H. W. T. Lee, and J. S. Connors, J's P., on Wednesday last, at Gladstone, in which John Garnet Hibbard was charged with…

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Kempsey Court. October 25—Before the Hon. E. A. T. Pery, P.M.

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 31 October 1901 · page 3

Charles Waller Farrell was charged with neglecting to send his four children to school the required number of days. Mr. Rudder appeared for Farrell, who…

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Tragic Sequel to a Burglary

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 2 November 1901 · page 4

Frederick Frewer, lately employed as manager to a panworker of Clarence road Huckney, has died in a London Hospital under tragic circumstances. At…

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Was It Murder

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 2 November 1901 · page 7

On the 8th instant, some neighbors of a Mrs. Laffy, residing on a small farm two miles from Currabubula, near Tamworth, heard great noise and…

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