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Mid North Coast · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1902

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An Owner and His Jockey. Peculiar Charge of Assault

Macleay Argus · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 7

AT the Kempsey Police Court on Tuesday last before the P.M, and Messrs. John Clarke, P. O' Halloran and W. G. Trees, Js. P., Thomas Matthews was charged with…

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Police Court. Wingham, Wednesday, March 5. Before Messrs. W. N. Dove, P.M., and J. Cochrane, J.P. Insulting Language

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 4

J. Halford pleaded guilty to making use of insulting language to Francis Dimond, and was fined 10s, with costs 68 8d, one witness 4s, and professional…

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Kempsey Police Court. Tuesday, March 4.--Before the P.M., Messrs. Jno. Clarke, P. O'Halloran and W. G. Trees, Js.P

Macleay Argus · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 6

A case in which Thomas Matthews was charged with assault will be found fully reported in another column of this issue. Mohamed Mooser was granted a hawker's…

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Small Debts Court. Wingam. Wednesday, March 5

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 4

Before Messrs. W. N. Dove, P.M., F. Dimond and J. Cochrane, J's.P. Mahomed Arbie, and Indian hawker sued W. Schroeder for the sum of £3…

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The Joss: a Reversion; Or, the Strance Story of Police Blyth. (Copyright.) Chapter Xiii. a Vision of the Night

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 7

In a second pollie was across the room, through the door, and on the landing. Before I could stop her she was tearing down the stairs, crying :…

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The Towitta Murder

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 12 March 1902 · page 3

The trial of Mary Augusta Schippan on a charge of murdering her sister, Bertha Elizabeth, at Towitta on New Year's Night, was proceeded with…

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Police Court. Taree, Tuesday, Mar. 11. Before Messr. W.N. DOVE, P.M., J. ABBOTT and G. BOYCE, J's.P

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 12 March 1902 · page 3

DBUNK. "Jack," an aboriginal from the Upper Manning, was charged with being drunk in Taree, and pleaded guilty…

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Divorce Court. MOWLE v. MOWLE

Macleay Argus · Saturday 15 March 1902 · page 7

IN the Divorce Court, Sydney, Ellen Elizabeth Mowle, formerly Ellis, petitioned for a divorce from Albert Arthur Mowle, on the grounds of desertion, drunkenness,…

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Gladstone Police Court. Wednesday, March 19--Before the P.M.

Macleay Argus · Saturday 22 March 1902 · page 9

JOHN McKENNA, charged by Constable Lawler with being drunk, was fined 1s, or imprisonment till the rising of the court. Frederick Hilliar was charged by…

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Police Court. Nabiac, Thursday, Mar. 20. Before Messrs. W. N. DOVE, P.M., and Hugh M'kinnon, J.P.

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 26 March 1902 · page 3

POLICE v. T. MIDDLEBROOK. This was a charge of stealing a whip and ring belt, valued at 6s. Mr. Cowan appeared for defendant…

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Special Licensing Court. Taree, Tuesday, Mar. 25. Before Messrs. W. N. Doye and John Abbott, L.M's

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 26 March 1902 · page 2

HOTEL AT HARRINGTON. WILLIE George Fox applied for the confirmation of his conditional publican's license, for an hotel at Harrington…

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Sentenced to Death

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 27 March 1902 · page 4

Three men, Donald, McKay, William Cullen, and John Campbell were sentenced to death at Rerth to connection with the Haystreet, tragedy…

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The Arbitration Court

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 27 March 1902 · page 4

The Government, yesterday, invited a number of representatives of employers and employees to meet the Ministers of the Court of Arbitration. Mr. Wise suggested…

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The Joss: a Reversion; Or. (Copyright.) the Strange Story of Police Blyth by Richard May Book Ii. the God of Fortune

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 27 March 1902 · page 7

(MR. FRANK PAINE TELLS THE STORY OF HIS ASSOCIATION WITH THE TESTAMENTARY DISPOSITIONS OF MR. BENJAMIN…

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Kempsey Police Court. Friday, March 21.--Before the P.M.

Macleay Argus · Saturday 29 March 1902 · page 9

Constable Hanney v. Samuel Taylor, drunk on Show Ground. Fined £1 or 14 days. Fine paid. Constable Hanney v. Billy Holten…

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A Police Court in Panorama. the Badness of the Show and Its Sumoul

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 29 March 1902 · page 7

"You have missed your veceation in life. You ought to have been an actor or a writer for the Daily Telegraph' "This was the somewhat disconcerting…

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The Arbitration Court. a Harbour Excursion. Sydney, Wednesday afternoon

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 29 March 1902 · page 4

A WATER picnic, to inaugurate the coming into force of the Arbitration Court, was held yesterday. Mr. B. R. Wise, Attorney-General, suggested that the Court should at first confine itself to the…

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Forage for Police

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 2 April 1902 · page 2

THE tenders of the undermentioned persons have been accepted for supplying the police stations named with forage from the first April, 1902, to March 31st, 1903:--…

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Kempsey Court. POLICE

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 3 April 1902 · page 4

Tuesday, April 1st—Before the Hon. E. A. T. Pery, and C. Sutherland, J. P. D. McRae was fined 10s for obscene language…

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A Police Court in Panorama. the Sadness of the Show and [?] Humour

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 3 April 1902 · page 7

"You have missed your [?]tion in life. You ought to have been as actor or a writer for the "Daily Telegraph" This wa the somewhat discou[?]ting…

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