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Mid North Coast · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1910

284 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 9 of 15

Licensing Court

Macleay Argus · Friday 15 July 1910 · page 18

The P.M. and Messrs. J. W. Wilson and C. Sutherland also sat as a Licensing Court. Renewals of licenses were granted…

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Kempsey Police Court. Friday, July 8 -- Before the P.M., Messrs. J. W. Wilson and C. Sutherland, Js.P

Macleay Argus · Friday 15 July 1910 · page 18

Charles Bowen, charged with being drunk and disorderly in Belgrave-street, was fined £1. Arthur Bowen was charged by…

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Charge of Murder. Child's Throat Out

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 16 July 1910 · page 2

The resumed inquest into the body of the child found at Turon River, near Capertee, with its throat cut, was held before the coroner (Mr. W…

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Kempsey Police Court

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 20 July 1910 · page 5

Charles Bowen for being drunk and disorderly was fined £1. In the Children's Court, Percy Harvey was ordered to pay 7s 6d per…

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A Baby Charged

Nambucca News · Friday 22 July 1910 · page 7

"YOU don't say this baby is charged?" said Mr. Plowden, the well-known Police Magistrate, in astonishment at Westminister Children's Court on…

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The London Cellar Murder. Cripien's Whereabouts

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 23 July 1910 · page 9

The Government has offered a reward of £250 for information which will lead to the apprehension of Crippen, who is suspected of having…

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Police Court (Before the P.M. and P. Lamph, J.P.)

Nambucca News · Friday 29 July 1910 · page 3

Augustus M'Kay charged with being drunk and disorderly, pleaded guilty and was fined 10s with 6s costs, in default 14 days in Bowraville lock-up…

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Small Debts Court. Before the P.M. and P. Lamph, J.P. Tuesday, July 26Th

Nambucca News · Friday 29 July 1910 · page 3

Kolb and Trees obtained verdicts against the following for goods sold and delivered. Alfred Norman Parkins, £2 15s, and 16s costs; R. A. Carey, £3 15s, and 6s costs;…

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The Man Without a Name. a French Police Mystery

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 30 July 1910 · page 2

In a modest, even humble, form, the first volume at the memoirs of ex-Chief Inspector Jaume, of the Paris Detective Service, has just…

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A Serious Assault

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 3 August 1910 · page 5

Word was received in Wingham early on Monday morning last that a serious assault had taken place at the Washpool, which is about 15 miles…

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Kempsey Police Court. Yesterday, before the P.M.

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 3 August 1910 · page 5

A first offender (a female) for drunkenness, was fined 2s 6d, in default 4 hours. A hawker's license was granted to…

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Burglary at Dubbo. £60 Worth of Coin Taken

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 3 August 1910 · page 5

During Friday night, evidently in the small hours, the promises of Mr. G. H. Taylor, the well-known auctioneer, were entered, and the safe and…

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The Crippen Murder. Suspects Arrested

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 3 August 1910 · page 5

The captain of the liner Montross sent a wireless message from mid-ocean stating that Crippen and his companion were on board. Other…

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Murder of a Child. School Porter Arrested

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 3 August 1910 · page 5

The body of Alla Kellar, the eight-year-old daughter of a wealthy brewer, was found in May, buried in a celler below St. John's School, Louisville,…

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Kempsey Police Court. Tuesday, August 2 -- Before the P.M.

Macleay Argus · Friday 5 August 1910 · page 8

George Selman was granted a hawker's license. Mrs. Alice McDonald, who bad been arrested by Constable Coates…

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Late Cablegrams. Camden Road Murder. London

Nambucca News · Friday 5 August 1910 · page 3

Crippen declined to make any public statements. The statement obtained by the police from Miss Le Neve includes…

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The Crippen Murder. a Second Deeming Case

Macleay Argus · Friday 5 August 1910 · page 14

CRIPPEN is an American dentist, about 50 years of age, who has practised in London, and lived with his wife at Hilldrop-crescent,…

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News by Wire. Sydney, Wednesday night. Supposed Murder

Macleay Argus · Friday 5 August 1910 · page 11

Owing to rumours the body of George Moore, who was reported to have been kicked to death by a horse at Ulah bore, near Coonamble,…

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Gaol for "Faith-curist." a Father Sentenced

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 6 August 1910 · page 6

James Cook, a disciple of the "Peculiar People," was convicted at the Old Bailey yesterday of the manslaughter of his two children, Dorothy Mary and…

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Boy Brigands. Rob and Murder

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 6 August 1910 · page 12

Two boys (wrote the Rome correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" on 23rd July) in a village near Naples, Giovanni Giambartolmeo,…

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