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Mid North Coast · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

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Taree Police Court Wednesday, March 22. (Before Messrs. H. L. Sargeson and A. T. Saxby, Js.P.) Assault at the Follies

The Northern Champion · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 8

John Hoskins was charged with that on March 21, at Taree, he did unlawfully assault Harold Walsh Brown. Defendant pleaded guilty…

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Scooterised Police

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 3

Policemen on the beat in lng[?]ewood, California, are to be provided with small motor scooters to save their feet and make them more mobile…

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Wingham Police Court Friday, March 24. Before Mr. R. Soiling, P.M.

The Northern Champion · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 6

Percy Newman was charged with being on licensed premises (the Wingham Hotel) at prohibited hours on January 8…

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Police Court. Maitland, Tuesday, March 28. (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M. Charge Against Motorist Fails

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 8

Wallace Samuels, 38, was charged at the West Maitland Police Court with having driven a motor car while under the influence of drink, at…

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Revision Court. Wingham, Friday, March 24. Before Mr. R. Soiling, P.M.

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 8

Six appeals against the rating of land in the Municipality of Wingham were heard and determined…

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Small Debts Court. Wingham. Friday, March 24. Before Mr. R. Soiling. PM

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 8

Kenneth Harold Watt, Judgment Creditor, and S. Mumford, Judgment Debtor. Eriksson Bros., Garnishee. Mr. E. R. Stack, Solicitor, of…

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Small Debts Court Wingham, Friday, March 24 Before Mr. R. Soiling, P.M.

The Northern Champion · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 7

Kenneth Harold Watt, Judgment creditor, and S. Mumford, judgment debtor. Eriksson. Bros. garnishee. Mr. E. R. Stack, solicitor, of…

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Kempsey Police Court. Monday, 3rd April, 1939, before Messrs. G. A. Jeffery and R. L. Walker, J.'sP. Greenhill Fowl Stealing

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 3

Albert Holten was charged with stealing four fowls, the property of Charles Edward Beckenham, at Greenhill, on 1st April…

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Taree Police Court Saturday April 1. Before Mr. H. L. Sargeson J.P.

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 4

William Jackson pleaded guilty to a charge of being found drunk on the river bank on 31st March. The police stated that Jackson had…

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Police Court. Taree, Saturday, April 1. (Before Mr. H. L. Sargeson, J.p.). Drunkenness

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 6

William Jackson pleaded guilty to having been found drunk on the 100ft. reservation on March 31. The police stated that defendant…

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Woolcott-forbes Case. Man Charged in London. LONDON, April 2

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 3

A man charged, as a fugitive offender, at Bow Street, on Friday in the name of John Woolcott-Forbes, with conspiracy to defraud in Sydney,…

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Small Debts Court Taree, Monday, 3rd APRIL. Before Mr. R. Soiling, P.M.

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 4

Trustees of estate of Harriett Taylor v John T. Elliott (C. S. McLaren, garnishee). £1 paid into court to be paid to judgment creditor…

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Small Debts Court. Tares, Monday, April 3. (Before Mr. R. Soiling, P.M.)

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 4

Trustees of estate of Harriett Taylor v. John T. Elliott, C. S. McLaren garnishee. It was ordered that the amount of…

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Taree Police Court. Saturday, April 1. (Before Mr. H. L. Sargeson, J.p.). Drunkenness

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 3

William Jackson pleaded guilty to having been found drunk on the 100ft. reservation on March 31. The police stated that defendant…

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License Swallowed. Man Accused in Court

The Gloucester Advocate · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 1

Said to have swallowed the license about which a constable was questioning him, a man was given the benefit of the doubt at Croydon Police…

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Kempsey Police Court. P.m.'s Pre-easter List

Macleay Argus · Friday 7 April 1939 · page 4

Before Mr. R. Soiling, P.M., at the Kempsey Police Court on Wednesday the following cases were dealt with:…

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Licensing Court

Macleay Argus · Friday 7 April 1939 · page 4

Before the Licensing Court Joseph Addersley was granted the transfer of the license of the Pelican Island Hotel (Jerseyville) from John…

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Acquittal in Murder Trial. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 7 April 1939 · page 5

At the Ballarat Criminal Court, Frank Moate Comino, 38, an Italian labourer, who was charged with having attempted to murder Frank…

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Police Court. Port Macquakie, April 4. Before Mr. R. Solling, P.M.

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1939 · page 5

A batch of dairymen were before the court for failure to renew their dairy registrations prior to Novem-ber 15th, 1938…

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The Motor World Scooterised Police

The Northern Champion · Saturday 8 April 1939 · page 4

Policemen on the beat in Inglewood, California, are to be provided with small motor scooters, to save their feet and make them more mobile…

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