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Mid North Coast · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1908

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Police Court. Coopernook, Monday, 1st JUNE. Before Messrs A. Gates, P.M., and T. Johnston, J.P. Supplying Cream From Diseased Cows

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 6 June 1908 · page 4

Henrietta Allan, of Jones' Island, was charged by Sergeant Hogan with supplying cream produced from three diseased cows, suffering from…

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The Divorce Court

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 11 June 1908 · page 4

"Eighty-one cases are set down for hearing during tho present sittings in the Divorce Court, and only 26 are defended…

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Latest Cables. LONDON, Monday , 10 Years for Murder

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 11 June 1908 · page 4

A man who murdered a youth in Berlin and than dis[?] the body, was sentenced to ten years imprisonment…

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Police Court Stroud. Stroud

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 13 June 1908 · page 9

William Donnelly, alias Jones, of Gloucester, was charged with stealing several horses belonging to different owners from a paddock in Gloucester…

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Alleged Horse Stealing

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 13 June 1908 · page 7

On Wednesday, William Donnelly, of Gloucester, driver of Mr. O. Doust's horse team (Booral-Gloucester) was detained at Stroud on suspicion of…

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Innocent Girl Sentenced

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 13 June 1908 · page 14

Rosa Knopfel, who has been in a reformatory at Magdeburg for five years for setting fire to a farm, is proved to be innocent. A farm…

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Murder by an Emigrant

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 13 June 1908 · page 14

John D. Tearse, an English emigrant, formly on Newcastle-on-Tyne has been found guilty at Brampton, Ontario, of murdering on Christmas…

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Woman Charged with Manslaughter. Stroud

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 13 June 1908 · page 9

An inquiry was held before Mr. District Coroner McIntyre on Wednesday into the cause of death of two infants, male and female, born on…

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Green Found Guilty, and Sentenced to Death. Sydney

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 13 June 1908 · page 9

Frederick Green was found guilty of the murder of Lily Bridge with a strong recommendation to mercy on account of his former mental weakness…

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Allandale Murder. Evidence for the Defence. Hereditary Insanity Urged

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 13 June 1908 · page 9

The trial of Federick Davies Green, charged with the murder of Lily Bridge, at Allandale, near West Maitland April 14 last, was commenced…

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Police Court. Monday, June 8. (Before the Hon. A. E. T. Pery, P.M., and Mr. W. Cutler, J.P.)

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 13 June 1908 · page 7

A hawker's license was granted to Mr. W. Cuttriss. [?] Hyde was charged with riotous conduct in a licensed 'bus on Saturday, 30th ult. Hyde…

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Small Debts Court. Monday, June 8. (Before the Hon. A. E. T. Pery, P.M., and Mr. W. Cutler, J.P.)

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 13 June 1908 · page 7

William Stevens v. A. B. Lush.—Claim £3 17s 6d for shifting certain blocks at Ballengarra. Plaintiff alleged a contract was made at 5s per hundred, and he called witnesses to corroborate his evidence…

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The Allendale Murder

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 17 June 1908 · page 3

At the Central Criminal Court on Thursday, before Mr. Justice Sly and is jury, the trial of Frederick Davies Green (28) to answer an indictment…

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Murrurundi Smash. Railway Officials Charged

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 20 June 1908 · page 14

William Gibson and James Bede Dwyer were charged, on remand, at Murrurundi, on Tuesday, before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., with negligently…

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Great Theft of Jewellery. £15,000 Worth Taken

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 20 June 1908 · page 5

A man named Saunders, who was formerly in the employ of Messrs. Abrahams Bros., jewellers, of Bingham, and another salesman, of Jamaica, have…

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An Alpine Murder. a Death Trap. at the Summit of a Pass

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 20 June 1908 · page 10

Sentence of imprisonment for life was passed at Martigny last evening (14th March), on the shepherd Joseph Michaud, who committed a murder on the…

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A Coroner's Court. Parents in Prison. Possible Miscarriage of Justice

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 20 June 1908 · page 15

An inquest held on 23rd March by the Westminster Coroner on the body of a three-months-old child revealed a great deal of evidence which was…

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The Trentham Murder

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 25 June 1908 · page 7

The inquest on the body of Harold Robinson, lay reader of the Anglican Church, who was shot at Trentham on Friday, was…

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Sentenced to Death. Murderers Who Loved Their Victims

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 12

When William Alfred Hancocks was sentenced to death at Chester Assizes on July 1, for the murder of his daughter, Mary Elizabeth, aged fifteen, he saluted…

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Russian Police Methods

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 6

An interpellation in the Duma showed that the police at Ekaterinoslav, South Russia, discovered a plot among the political prisoners to…

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