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Courts & crime, 1900

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Police Court. Monday.--(Before the P.M.)

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 4 April 1900 · page 2

Robert Wilson was charged, in company with another man, with robbery with violence. Accused was undefended. John MGuire gave evidence to the effect…

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Police Court. Tuesday, April 3

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 6 April 1900 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Messrs. W. Reid, and E. W. Whereat, J.J.P. DRUNKENNESS…

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Alleged Murder. Sydney

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 6 April 1900 · page 2

A MAN named James Lawson was shot dead near Ke[?]sey yesterday. It appears Lawson was playing a violin in his hut, when it is alleged a man named Hancock,…

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Licensing Court

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 6 April 1900 · page 2

THE Quarterly meeting of the Licensing Bench was held on Tuesday when there wero present: Messrs. M. H. Fitzhardinge (Chairman), W. Reid, and E. W…

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A Glen Innes Court

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 6 April 1900 · page 2

ONE of the most progressive moves made by our local P. and A. Society during the year is, no doubt, the securing of ample space at the Royal Agricultural Grounds with a…

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Tingha Police Court. Thursday.---(Before the P.M.)

The Inverell Times · Saturday 7 April 1900 · page 2

George Eisenmonger, of the Glen Innes Inverell road, was charged with having sold a quantity of colonial wire in less quantities than two gallons at a time…

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Walcha Police Court. Monday, April 2nd. Before Mr. G. H. Er[?]att J P.

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 7 April 1900 · page 2

John Roy, charged with drunkenness was cautioned And discharged, and for obscene language was fined £1 or 7 days…

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Small Debts Court

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 7 April 1900 · page 4

Racbel Gardener, cook and laundress, sued L. G. Mallam and wife for breach of agreement, claiming £10 damages…

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Armidale Police Court. Friday, 5Th APRIL,—(Before Mr. Stephen Murphy, Acting P.m) Alleged Larcent

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 7 April 1900 · page 4

George Faning, a youth about 20 years of age, was charged with stealing a sovereign-case, £2 in gold, and £2 in silver, from the residence of J. S…

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Murder at Kempsey

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 April 1900 · page 2

PARTICULARS have now been received regarding the shooting at Smith's Creek. On Tuesday night Lawson and his wife, with a three-months-old baby, went to a house…

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Police Court

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 11 April 1900 · page 2

Monday.(--)(Before the P.M.). Robert Wilson and John Malone were charged, in company, with robbery with violence from the person of John MacGuire,…

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Murder Sentences

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 13 April 1900 · page 2

Samuel Ensor, was sentenced to death it Broken Hill last night for the murder of Ellen Jonsen. The Judge said he could hold out no hope of reprieve…

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Sentenced to Death. Sydney, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 13 April 1900 · page 5

SAMUEL ENSOK was sentenced to death at Broken Hill, to-day, for the murder of a woman named Ellen Jensen, which took place a little while ago…

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A Curious Police Force

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 13 April 1900 · page 2

Mrs. Casey--' And phat was the strangest thing ye see in Paris, Mrs. Rooney ?' Mrs. Rooney--' Frinch polacemin!' Mrs. Casey--' And phat was there…

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Wilson's Downfall. Land Court

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1900 · page 3

A TWO days' sitting of the local Land Board took place on Wednesday and Thursday last, before Messrs. F. G. Finley (Chairman), I Whereat, and M. H…

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Sentenced to Death. Melbourne

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 5

AT the Bendigo Assizes, Ebenezer Miller has been found guilty of a criminal assault on a little girl named Margaret Kennedy, at Bayneton, to…

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Police Court. Thursday, April 19.—(Before Mr. Jas. M'Lean.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 20 April 1900 · page 5

CHARGED WITH ROBBERY.—An aboriginal named William Beck and a half-caste woman named Ellen Bloomfield were charged conjointly with the robberty of £25, the…

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Murderous Assault

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 5

During a quarrel on board the barque "Ellen," at Newcastle, today, an Italian seaman in alleged to have attacked the chief mate with a…

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Police Court. TUESDAY.—(Before the P. M.)

The Inverell Times · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 2

John Brown, charged with stealing two fowls the properly of Thomas Mather, Was sentenced to one month in Inverell gaol. (Before the P. M., and Messrs Mather and…

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Armidale Police Court. THURSDAY, 19th APRIL.—(Before Mr. James M'Lean, J.p.) Alleged Robbery

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 4

William Beck, a "colored gentleman," and Ellen Bloomfield, a half-caste, were charged with stealing £25, the property of William Smith, of near Armidale…

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