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Mid North Coast · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1919

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Alleged Stealing from the Person

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 2

Robert Adams was before the Macksville Court charged, on the information of Sergeant Morgan, with stealing form Charles…

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Police Court. Port Macquarie, January 8. (Before A. O. Butler, Esq., P.M.)

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1919 · page 4

R. CAMTBELL, school teacher at Hibbard Public School, was charged in the Children's Court with unlawfully assaulting a boy named William Thomas Masters. The…

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No Police

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 15 January 1919 · page 1

Mike was home wounded from the front, and he was stopped by a friend one day as he was hobbling down the street on his newly acquired crutches…

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Australian Major Shot a Fatal Interview. Lieut.-col. Charged with Murder. London

Macleay Argus · Thursday 16 January 1919 · page 5

Major Miles Seton, of the Australian Army Medical Corps, was shot, dead at the house of his cousin, Sir Malcolm Seton. Lieut.-Col. Rutherford, of the…

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Licensing Court

Macleay Argus · Thursday 16 January 1919 · page 4

The quarterly licensing court was held at Kempsey on Monday before Messrs. A. O. Butler, P.M., and Dr. Lancaster and Mr. Noonan, Js.P., when…

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Taree Police Court. 14th January, 1919. Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. Bulter, P.M.)

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 17 January 1919 · page 7

Albert Alcorn v. Henry Gore, Senr. Theist case, which were heard together were hits an assault case, in which Albert Alcorn complined that…

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Police Court

The Northern Champion · Saturday 18 January 1919 · page 5

At the police court on Tuesday cross-summonses for assault, etc., on December 30, at Oxley Island ferry, issued by Edward Schmitzer against…

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Police Court Gloucester, Wednesday Jan. 15 (Before Mr. Butler, P.m.) Police v. HOKORAM

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 18 January 1919 · page 3

This was a charge that defendant, having advertised in a newspaper that he cured diseases at a certain place, to wit, the Commercial Hotel,…

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R. J. FAIRBAIRN v. H. J. Green Assault

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 18 January 1919 · page 3

Mr. Borthwick for plaintiff, Mr. Carlton for defendant. Case withdrawn…

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Small Debts Court

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 18 January 1919 · page 3

Several cases in the Small Debts Court were also dealt with. It is now permissible to mention the elaborate system of trenches…

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Taree Police Court Tuesday, January 14. (Before Mr. E. O. Butler, P.m.) Albert Alcorn v. Henry Gore

The Northern Champion · Saturday 18 January 1919 · page 5

Mr. D. Cowan for plaintiff, and Mr. L. O. Martin for defendant. The plaintiff had issued two summonses against the defendant—one…

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Charged With BreaKing and Entering

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 25 January 1919 · page 4

AT the Port Macquarie Police Court on Wednesday last, before Messrs. F. Hayward and G. Lindsay, J.'sP., Hedley Donohoe and Albert W. Smith, coloured men, were charged with breaking and…

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General News Court Anecdotes

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 29 January 1919 · page 1

A lawyers' club once recused one of its members of having acted unprofessionally in taking less than the usual fee from a client. "I took all…

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Police and Firemen's Hospital Carnival

Macleay Argus · Thursday 30 January 1919 · page 4

Again this year the Police and Firemen are combining to help the Public Hospitals of the State of New South Wales by holding their Eighth Annual…

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Telegrams. New District Court Judges. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Thursday 30 January 1919 · page 4

Messrs. Lawrence Armstrong and J. J. Cohen have been appointed District Court Judges…

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Assault

The Northern Champion · Friday 31 January 1919 · page 6

Upon a charge of assault brought by John Durrington against Constable W. L. C. Alford—in which plaintiff stated that the constable…

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Stealing a Coat

The Northern Champion · Friday 31 January 1919 · page 6

On Wednesday, before Mr. Fletcher, P.M., Joe Burns, a colored man, was arrainged on a charge of stealing on oilskin coat from Ralph…

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Police V. Durrington

The Northern Champion · Friday 31 January 1919 · page 6

John Durrington pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly in Victoria-street, Taree, on January 26th, 1920. He was fined £3; in default…

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Taree Court John Dowseet v. Frank Small

The Northern Champion · Friday 31 January 1919 · page 6

At Taree Court on Tuesday last, John Dowsett, shiral health inspector, proceeded against Frank small, Oxley Island, for keeping an…

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Firemen and Police Carnival

The Northern Champion · Saturday 1 February 1919 · page 4

The meeting called by the Mayor (Alderman Wrigley) fir the purpose of considering what steps should be taken to assist in making the…

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