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Mid North Coast · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1910

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The State Court. MILLER v. MAHON. Before Mr. Justice Sly and a jury of four

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 11 June 1910 · page 8

Charles Alfred Miller was plaintiff in an action against William Mahon, claiming £200 as damages for alleged wrongful entry and seizure…

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A Horse-Stealing Specialist

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 15 June 1910 · page 3

A man named John Froat, who has just received a sentence in Victoria for horse stealing, was an adopt at the game. At the Young quarter sessions three years ago…

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Kempsey Police Court. On June 7th, Before the P.M.

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 15 June 1910 · page 4

John Lyons, Alfred Serjeant and James Jones, for drunkenness, were each fined 2s 6d or 4 hours. Reginald Young, drunk ,and disorderly,…

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Shocking Murder at Rockhampton

Macleay Argus · Friday 17 June 1910 · page 14

A terrible murder occurred at Rockhampton (Queensland) last night. A young woman named Emily Salisbury was staying with…

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Kempsey Police Court. Friday, June 10 -- Before the P.M. and Mr. J. W. Wilson, J.P.

Macleay Argus · Friday 17 June 1910 · page 15

George Cook (groom) who on the previous day had been sentenced to four day's imprisonment on a charge of drunkenness, was brought up in custody…

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Gaol Governor Sentenced. Five Years' Penal Servitude, Keeping Time Expired Prisoners in Gaol

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1910 · page 3

An extraordinary trial, details of which were brought to Sydney on. Monday by the F.M.S. Pacifique, was held in Noumea on May 30 and 31…

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Lake Como Murder. a Tragic Honeymoon. Where Is the Husband? Italian Police Searching

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1910 · page 2

Mrs. Critenden Castle, the American actress, whose body was found in a box in Lake Como, and who is believed to have been murdered, was…

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Murder of an Infant

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1910 · page 9

Justice Cohen, in the course of his summing up in the case of Peter Brady charged with the murder of an infant (Roma Mitchell) said if there…

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Ferocious Assault. Man Dreadfully Wounded and Maltreated

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1910 · page 10

A shocking affair was reported from Hunter's Hill on Tuesday morning. A night watchman named John Heath, aged 47, residing a Woolwich, and…

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The Police and the Census

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 22 June 1910 · page 3

Owing to the large number of duties which the police are now called upon to perform, the Governments of New South Wales and Victoria have…

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The Phonograph in Court

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 22 June 1910 · page 6

The phonograph is now employed to assist the official shorthand writers recently appointed to the Supreme Court in Sydney in their work of…

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Alleged Stealing. Accused Discharged

Nambucca News · Friday 24 June 1910 · page 2

John Ryan, a tall thin dark young fellow, was charged before Messrs. C. Moseley and G. May, Js.P. at the local court on Monday afternoon with…

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Sentenced to Death. Sydney

Nambucca News · Friday 24 June 1910 · page 3

The three woman, who some time ago were committed for trial on a charge alleging they performed an illegal operation on a young…

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Three Women Sentenced to Death

Macleay Argus · Friday 24 June 1910 · page 14

At Melbourne yesterday, Elizabeth Downey, Clara Pennington and Minnie Long were found guilty of the murder of a young woman…

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Kempsey Police Court. Tuesday, June 21 -- Before the P.M.

Macleay Argus · Friday 24 June 1910 · page 3

ALBERT LONG (on remand) was charged with stealing a razor the property of John Woodland, the selling value of which was put down…

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Charge of Child Murder. Young Man Found Not Guilty. Sentenced for Illegal Burial

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 25 June 1910 · page 9

Frederick George Beeton, a railway clerk, charged with the murder at Letchworth (Eng.) of the infant daughter of Rose Young, has been…

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A Criminal Band. at Their Guilty Work. Burglary, Fires, Wrecking

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 25 June 1910 · page 12

The "Express" reports that the extraordinary series of outrages, including burglary, incendiarism, and attempted train-wrecking, which has occurred in…

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Brutal Murder in Sydney. Little Girl's Throat Cut

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 25 June 1910 · page 10

Lying on her right side in a pool of blood, and with her left arm twisted behind her back, was the body of a little dark haired girl, of about 11…

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Police Court

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 29 June 1910 · page 3

Mr. A. Malone, P.M., presided over the Police Court on Friday last. A charge of alleged stealing, the hearing of which occupied nearlp all…

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Sentenced to Death

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 29 June 1910 · page 2

The trial of three women in Melbourne, for the murder of Isabella McCullum, who died after an illegal operation, has just been concluded in…

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