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Mid North Coast · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1908

187 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 5 of 10

Police Court. Taree, Monday, June 22. Before MR. A. GATES, P.M. Alleged Abduction

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 4

Stanley Livingstone Ward (24) was charged that on the 19th day of June, 1908, he did take away Lillian Isabel Hatch well, a female under 21 years, of…

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Equity Court. a Bullahdelah Case

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 4

The hearing of the suit brought by Mrs. Emma Caroline Ellen Maiden against her son, Edwin John Maiden, with respect to the ownership of…

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A Court-martial Among Crows

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 9

That rooks are in the habit of holding court-martial on men own kind has long been Known to naturalists, [?] is [?] often that one witnesses…

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A Gaol Sensation

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 1 July 1908 · page 3

While Warder Brown was attending prisoners in the gaol yard, Cootam undra, a Chinaman awaiting trial on a charge of attampting to stab another Chinaman at…

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Stealing a Ring

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 2 July 1908 · page 4

Geo. Bennett, an attendant at the Hobart Hospital, was sentenced to 3 months imprisonment for stealing a ring from the body of a girl who died…

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Fewer Gaol Admissions

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 2 July 1908 · page 4

The Premier states that there were 3,300 fewer admissions to gaols last year than in 1903…

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The Allandale Murder

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 2 July 1908 · page 4

A special case was argued before the Full Court regarding the Allandale murder. Mr. G. H. Reid, for the prisoner Green, contending that…

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The Arbitration Court

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 2 July 1908 · page 4

The Arbitration Court sat to-day for the last time. The President made a strong appeal to the workers to give the new Industrial Court a…

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Charged with Stealing

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 16 July 1908 · page 6

William Stanley Forbes, the Sydney manager of the Scottish Union and National Insurance Coy., was arrested in the bush at Berry's Bay last night…

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Stealing Securities

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 18 July 1908 · page 4

William Stanley Forbes, the Sydney insurance manager of the Scottish Union National Insurance Company, was arrested on Monday night in the…

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Police Court. Monday July 13. Before Hon. A. E. T. Pery, P.M.

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 18 July 1908 · page 7

Two first offenders, one for being drink and the other for using obscene language, were dealt with—the one for being drunk was fined 1s, and the one for language 5s…

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MONDAY, [?] 13. Licensing Court. Before Messrs. [?] chairman), W. A. S[?] L.M.

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 18 July 1908 · page 5

Senior [?] inspector, submitted [?] quarter, and it showed that the [?] generally in the district were in a [?] both…

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Horse Stealing

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 25 July 1908 · page 10

Edward Thomas Donnelly pleaded guilty to a charge of having, on December 6, 1907, at Gloucester, stolen two mares and two geldings, the…

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Horse Stealing

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 5 August 1908 · page 4

At the Maitland Quarter Sessions last Thursday week, before ActingJudge Edmunds, Eiward Thomas Donnelly pleaded guilty to a charge of…

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The Allandale Murder

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 6 August 1908 · page 8

The sentence of death recently passed on Frederick Green in connection with the Allandale murder, has been commuted to imprisonment…

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Our Member at Work. Court House and Police Station, "Wingham

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 8 August 1908 · page 6

Mr. Price asked the Secretary for Public Works,—(1.) When will tenders bn invited for the construction of the Wingham Court-house and police…

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Indian Editor Sentenced

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 13 August 1908 · page 8

The editor of a native Indian paper has been sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for sedition…

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Assault Case Settled

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 13 August 1908 · page 8

When the case against Thomas Anderson, the well-known league footballer, charged with assaulting Harcourt Furze on Friday last was called…

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Women and Murder Trials

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 15 August 1908 · page 12

During the trial in Budapest of numerous gipsies for the murder of a young girl called Therese Szarvas, counsel asked the judge to end the case in…

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Police Court. Monday, August 10. Before Hon. E.A.T. Pery, P.M.

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 15 August 1908 · page 7

JAMES MATWELL was charged with using obscene language in Horton-street, Port Macquarie, on July 14th. Mr. Banks-Smith appeared for the defendant, who pleaded not guilty. The police then…

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