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Mid North Coast · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1923

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A Secret of the Woods Complete Short Story. a Shropshire Murder Mystery, Which Has Never Yet Been Solved

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1923 · page 7

A riderless horse, wildly careering down the lonely country road, with empty stirrups dangling at its sides, and its bridle loose in the wind, was…

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Kempsey Police Court. Alleged Stealing

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 1 May 1923 · page 2

At the Kempsey Police Court on Monday, before Messrs. E. P. Noonan and N. L. Parker, J's.P., John Joseph White was charged allegeing that he…

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Police Court

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 1 May 1923 · page 2

At the Kempsey Police Court this morning, before Mr. P. J. O'Neill and Mr. Brewer, J's.P., James Carson was charged with being found drunk in…

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Licensing Court

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 1 May 1923 · page 2

Before the Licensing Court, composed of Messrs. E. P. Noonan and P. J. O'Neill, an application was granted transferring the license of the…

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Police Court

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 2 May 1923 · page 4

On Thursday last, before Messrs E. P. Noonan and P J O'Neill, J s P, Basil Henry King (26), pleaded guilty to entering the premises of Henry…

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Alleged Stealing

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 2 May 1923 · page 4

On Wednesday last, before Mr. Brewer, J P, at the Kempsey Police Court, John Joseph White was brought up on a charge alleging that he did in…

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Police Court

Macleay Argus · Friday 4 May 1923 · page 4

At the Kempsey Police Court on Thursday, before Mr. Brewer, J.P., James Walker was charged with being found drunk and was fined 5-, in…

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Small Debts Court. Taree, 30th APRIL, 1923. (Before Mr. Potts, P.M.)

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 4 May 1923 · page 2

George Beattie against Manning Shire. In this case the plaintiff sued the defendant for trespass to certain stock, alleging that the Council, by…

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Taree Police Court. False Pretences and Abetting

The Northern Champion · Saturday 5 May 1923 · page 4

At the Taree Police Court on Wednesday last before Mr. F. Potts; P.M.; John Thomas Robinson (42) appeared on two charges of false…

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Police Court

Macleay Argus · Friday 11 May 1923 · page 4

At the Kempsey Police Court on Wednesday afternoon, before Mr. F. F. Potts, P.M., William Brown, of near Kempsey, was committed to stand his…

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Kempsey Police Court

Macleay Argus · Friday 11 May 1923 · page 4

At the Kempsey Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. F. F. Potts, P.M., George Henry Crayn was charged with being found on the premises of…

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Cable News Germans Sentenced —

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 11 May 1923 · page 2

Int[?] excitement marked the closing seems of the trial of the directors of Krupp's. They were charged with having…

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Alleged Contempt of Court. a Lismore Case

Macleay Argus · Friday 11 May 1923 · page 5

This was an application before the Full Court, on Monday, for an appropriate rule calling upon Augustus Joseph Stokes, of Lismore, publisher of…

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Krupp Sentenced. to Fifteen Years' in Gaol

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 12 May 1923 · page 4

ACCUSED of responsibility for disturbances in Werden some months ago, Here Krupp von Bohlen, the chief director of the Krupp concerns in…

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German Deserter Sentenced. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 15 May 1923 · page 3

At Adelaide Frederick Kammerer, a German deserter from the Hanover, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, pending deportation…

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Small Debts Court

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 15 May 1923 · page 2

In the Small Debts Court. George Boustead, for the Triangle Picture Co. proceeded against John McGovern, for the recovery of £5/13/ claimed as…

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District Court Postponed

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 15 May 1923 · page 2

The Attorney-General's Department has notified the C.P.S. here that the judge will not be able to sit at Kempsey on the 17th of this month as…

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Police Court Monday 14th APRIL (Before Mr. F. F. Potts, P.M.) W. A. PHILLIPS v. MISS E. JENKINS

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 15 May 1923 · page 2

This was a complaint against the defendant, that being an employee of the plaintiff under an agreement,she left his employ without giving the…

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POLICE v. Henry Chapman and George Stephen Roy

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 15 May 1923 · page 2

In this case, which was adjourned from a previous Court, the accused were charged with conspiring to defraud the Ocean Accident Assurance Co…

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Gloucester Police Court. Monday, 14th MAY, (Before Mr. F. F. Potts, P.m.) Stock Inspector Moore v A. HAMBURGER

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 5

Augustus Hamburger was proceeded against by the Stock Inspector for failing to destroy rabbits on his property at Baker's Creek, between the 6th and…

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