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Mid North Coast · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1908

187 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 8 of 10

Special Licensing Court

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 10 October 1908 · page 4

The Local Option Court for Gloucester Electorate sat at Taree last week The members of the Court were His Honor Judge…

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Licensing Court Taree, October 12

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 14 October 1908 · page 3

Before Messrs. A. Gates, H. Flett, H. Gollan, [?] s.M. Mr. Gates said at the Quarterly Licensing Court, that the result of his…

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Police Offences Bill

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 15 October 1908 · page 4

In the Assembly the Premier moved the second reading of the Police Offences Amendment Bill. The measure contains drastic provisions…

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After Thirteen Years. Murder Will Out

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 17 October 1908 · page 3

A mystery that puzzled the French police 13 years ago has been revived by the discovery of the skeleton of an evidently murdered man near Breteuil,…

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Police Court. Monday, October 12. Before Hon. A. E. T. Pery, P.M., and Mr. F. Hayward. J.P.

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 17 October 1908 · page 2

BREACHES OF THE EDUCATION ACT. The following parents were fined 1s, and 6s costs, for failing to send their children to school the number of days required…

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Special Licensing Court. Taree Monday. 12

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 17 October 1908 · page 13

Mr. A. Gates, P.M., gave a report of the decision of the Special Licensing Court and the result of his own inspection of the licensed premises in the…

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The Gayndah murder

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 24 October 1908 · page 4

Latest advices concerning the Gayndah murder state that the suspect das been traced by the police to Idera-way. It has been ascertained that…

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Gayndah Bank Murder. a Suspect Arrested. How the Capture Was Effected

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 24 October 1908 · page 10

Telegrams received from Gayndah on Tuesday afternoon report that a young man, aged about 20, has been arrested on suspicion of shooting Muir,…

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Murder As an Art

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 29 October 1908 · page 2

We have in this country, states an American criminologist, and especially in Chicago and New York, more murder mysteries than in any other part…

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John Ryan Goes to Gaol

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 November 1908 · page 4

John Ryan, secretary of the Rock Choppers Union, was fined £30 or 6 week's imprisonment before the Industrial Disputes Court for instigating a…

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The Murder of Miss Duffy

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 November 1908 · page 6

A TELEGRAM from Brisbane states that Mrs. Wilson, wife of Mr. H. C. Wilson, manager of Carpentaria Downs Station, has been arrested on a charge…

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The Murder of Miss Duffy

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 November 1908 · page 4

Mrs. Wilson was charged at Georgetown, Queensland, with the murder of Miss Duffy at Carpentaria Downs station…

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Police Sent to Broken Hill

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 November 1908 · page 4

News that fifty police have been forwarded to Broken Hill has caused consternation and an angry feeling amongst the miners, which way…

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Police Court. Wingham, Wednesday, Nov.4

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 7 November 1908 · page 6

Before Messrs. A. Gates, P.M., F, Dimond and J. Cochrane, J.s'P. The case against Andrew Peter Gillogly, of Cedar Party for alleged…

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Gaol Governor Found Dead. Shot in the Heart

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 7 November 1908 · page 10

At 8.30 on Monday night, Mr. Walter Jay, the governor of Maitland Gaol, was found lying dead on the lawn at the rear of his official…

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Short Story. [Published by Special Arrangement.] the Burglary at Azalea Villa. [Copyright.] Chapter I.

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 7 November 1908 · page 10

[?] when the Hon, Augustus Champion was recovering from a sunlit touch of influenza that the set want came to announce that Lord…

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Scot's Murder Trial. Ancient and Picturesque Highland Ceremony

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 7 November 1908 · page 14

Inveraray, the pretty little burgh at the head of Loch Fyne, and at the castle gate of the Duke of Argyll, has recently been the scene of a quaint…

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Sentenced to 15 Years

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 12 November 1908 · page 4

Charles Morse, the New York banker who was yesterday convicted of the misapplication of funds, and of making false entries in the banking…

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The Luard Murder. Police Reward of £1000

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 14 November 1908 · page 4

The police have offered a reward of £1000 for information leading to the conviction of the person who murdered Mrs. Luard, the wife of Major-General…

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Short Story. [Published by Special Arrangement.] the Burglary at Azalea Villa. [Copyright.] (Continued.)

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 14 November 1908 · page 9

"I suppose your house is called alter the azzalea[?] I see you have in your garden. What fine ones they are."…

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