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Mid North Coast · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1911

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Municipal Appeal Court

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 15 April 1911 · page 4

(Before the Hon. E. A. T. Pery. P.M.and Frederick Hayward [?] J.P) G.R. Bennett, appeal for [?] Ten notes red[?] from £10lb per annual…

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Police Court. Port Macquarie, April, 10. Before the Hon. F. A. T. Pery, P.M.

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 15 April 1911 · page 4

Police v. Thomas Coogan.—Charged with alleged stealing of goods ana money from D. Stewart's store. Senior constable Lawler conducted the case on…

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Wauchope Police Court. Tuesday, April Ii. (Before the Hon. K A. Pory, P.M., and Frederick Hayward, Esq., J.P.

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 15 April 1911 · page 4

JOHN WARLTERS [?]James Warrall.—This was a case in which plaintiff sought to oust Cr. Jas. Warrall from his position on the Hastings Shire Council, on the ground that certain rates were due…

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Betrayed by Bullet-Hole. Husband Kills Wife and Child. Fires House to Hide a Murder

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 15 April 1911 · page 4

An extraordinary murder of a woman and a baby, alleged to have been committed by the woman's husband, who was infatuated with a girl, has…

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The Tennis Court

Nambucca News · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 4

Work in connection with the new Tennis Court is nearing completion. The individual members are each doing their part in clearing, burning off and fencing…

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Alleged Brutal Assault. Three Women Injured

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 22 April 1911 · page 8

Mr. John Newman, of Charlotte Bay, rode in 10 miles on Saturday evening and reported that Mrs. Gogerly, her daughter, and…

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Alleged Attempted Murder. THE [?] Lake Occurrence

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 22 April 1911 · page 6

In regard to the alleged attempted murder at [?] Lake, it is stated that Alexander[?] hnson, a young man, employed on [?] dredge Theta,…

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Cattle Stealing

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 26 April 1911 · page 4

Henry Edwards, a selector on the Upper Hastings, and manager for Mr. W. A. Andrews, was charged with stealing, about the 12th June, 1909…

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Assault Case

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 26 April 1911 · page 4

Percy John Rowsell, teamster, of Telegraph Point, was charged with assaulting and occasioning actual bodily harm to Patrick Keough, of…

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Divorce Court

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 26 April 1911 · page 4

John Watt, petitioner; Maud Watt, respondent; Norman Eckersly, correspondent. Grounds of adultery. After hearing the evidence the…

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District Court

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 26 April 1911 · page 4

Geo. Henry Costello, builder and contractor at Dorrigo, v. Robert S. Lonsdale. Claim for work and labor and goods supplied—£28 8s 5d…

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Missing Hieress. Police Abandon the Search

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 26 April 1911 · page 3

Apparently the mystery of Miss Dorothy Arnold, the beautiful heiress, who disappeared after a shopping expedition in Fifth Avenue, New York,…

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Blackmailing Police Officer Bluffed His Captors. and Then Committed Suicide

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1911 · page 8

M. Raskaltoff, chief of the Russian, secret police at Archangel, on the Dvina, has committed suicide in somewhat extraordinary circumstances…

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District Court. Wednesday, April 26th, before His Honor Judge Gibson. Slanger Case

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 3 May 1911 · page 5

ANDREW WHALEN claimed £400 damages from James Crawford for alleged slander. Plaintiff, who conducted his own…

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District Court. J. B. REEVES v. A. G Grant

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 4

£13 balance of sale of horse, interest, and money lent. Agreed to take a verdict for £5 5s in addition to £17 14s 6d paid into Court…

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District Court. Port Macquarie, April 28th, 1911. (Before His Honor Judge Gibson.)

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1911 · page 5

THE legal profession was represented by Messrs. Browning Crown Prosecutor) and Cowan barristers), and Messrs. Gilfillan and Rudder (solicitore)…

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The Dungog Murder

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 10 May 1911 · page 5

Mr. J. V. Tillett, the Grown Solicitor, last week addressed an inquiry to the German Consulate in Sydney, to ascertain the result of the trial in…

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Police Courts. Port Macquarie, May 8Th, 1911. (Before the Hon. E. A. T. Pery, P.M. and Messrs. F. Hayward J. E. Flynn, J. L. Ruthven, and W. A. Spence, Js.p)

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 13 May 1911 · page 4

A. E. Johns y,. John Hibbard, junr.—Breach of the Truck Act. Mr. Hardiman appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Gilfillan for defeandant. This was a cass in which Mr. Johns, as…

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Nabiac Police Court

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 20 May 1911 · page 6

At the Nabiac Police Court held on Tuesday last before Mr. H. Malone, P. M, the following cases were dealt with:—…

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Special Licensing Court

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 20 May 1911 · page 6

The Gloucester Special Licensing Court sat at Taree on Friday morning. His Honor Judge Fitzhardinge presided, and with him on the bench…

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