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New England · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1904

538 stories in New England's papers · page 5 of 27

Small Debts Court

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 4 March 1904 · page 2

IN the above Court on Tuesday, before the P.M., F. King, auctioneer, proceeded against, E. G. Hei[?]richs Tor recovery of £3, commission due on sale of draught horses. Mr. Legit appeared for…

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Telegrams. Sydney. Friday. the Longreach. Tragedy. Prisoners Found Guilty of Murder. Both Sentenced to Death

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 4

Angus M'Donald and his wife were found guifty of the murder of their daughter at Rockhampton. Both were sentenced to death, the judge…

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Walcha Police Court. Friday, March 4. Before Messrs Seekold and Borthwick, J'sP

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 3

Chas. Wilson, charged with assaulting John O'Neill, was fined £2 or one mouth in Armidale gaol. The winner of the fat bullock…

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Small Debts Court. Friday, March 4.—(Before Mr. Corbett Lawson, P.m.) a Hining Matter

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 4

Jas. P. Bonnar, Secreatry of the Beaconsfield Sydicate, sued George H. Benning for £1 10s, duc on calls. Mr. S. J. Kearney, M.L.A., appeared for…

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Interceding with a Magistrate

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1904 · page 2

A young friend of mine (says a correspondent) unhappily fell into evil courses, and at last the law got hold of him. He was brought up at the police court, and…

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In a Chinese Gaol

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 March 1904 · page 2

THE following report by a Chinese or half-caste reporter in an English paper published in Shanghai gives a good insight into Chinese prison methods:—…

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Police Court. Small Debts Court. Friday, March 4.—(Before Mr. C. Lawson, P.M.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 March 1904 · page 4

A MINING CASE. —J. P. Bonnar v. G. H. Benning, calls on mining shares, £1 10s. Mr. Kearney appeared for piaintiff and Mr. Weaver for defendant, who pleaded never…

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Police Court

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 9 March 1904 · page 2

TUESDAY.--(Before Mr. Piesley, P.M., and Messrs. Strang and Witton, J's.P). Inspector of Stock v. Tutt--charged with crossing the tick line, at Bonshaw, contrary…

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Police Court

The Inverell Argus · Friday 11 March 1904 · page 3

In the police court on Tuesday, before Mr. Plesley, P.M., and Messrs. W. A. Strang and H. A. Witton, J's.P., the following cases…

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The Murder of Grace Macdonald

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 11 March 1904 · page 6

THE hearing of the case against Angus Randall Macdonald and Alma Macdonald, his wife, charged with the murder of Grace Macdonald, was…

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Land Court

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 11 March 1904 · page 2

THE Local Land Board will sit at the Court House to-day when the following cases will be heard viz.:- APPLICATIONS…

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Murder of a Servant. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 11 March 1904 · page 4

PRINCE PROSPER ARENBURG, who in October, 1900, was sentenced to death for the murder of a native servant, under peculiarly revolting circumstances, has been acquitted…

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Gaol and Genius. Convict Inven[?] a Wonderful Sewing-machine

The Inverell Times · Saturday 12 March 1904 · page 3

A new type of sewing-machine, which is expected to supersede everything of the kind now in use is, we hear, shortly to be placed upon the…

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Police Court. Thursday—Before the P.M.

Guyra Argus · Tuesday 15 March 1904 · page 3

Two young men, who were trying the pace of their neddies with the object of entering the better in the next Guyra handicap, were caught in the…

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Local Police Control

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 March 1904 · page 2

BY the departure of our respected Acting Sub-inspector Flynn, Glen Innes has been…

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Court Delays

The Inverell Argus · Tuesday 15 March 1904 · page 2

LOUD complaints are being uttered in many parts as to the serious delays to which litigants are subjected without the slightest…

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Land Court

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 15 March 1904 · page 2

The local Land Board (Messrs Finley, Chairman, R. H. V. Allnutt, and I. Whereat held a single day's sitting at the Court House on Friday last when the…

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Police Court

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 5

At the lnverell Police Court on Monday, before Mr. Piesley, P.M., the hearing of the charge against Patrick O'Brien for selling three horses, a dray, and harness, the same…

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Magistrate's Advice to Boys

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 7

Two respectable-looking boys appeared when sertain names were called during the summonses at Worship street police court recently, and Mr. Cluer looking surprised at…

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Quarrel in Court. Barristers Come to Blows

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 16 March 1904 · page 5

Jones and Levinson two leading barristers, after a wordy conflict in the Melbourne Insolvency Court yesterday, came to blows on leaving the…

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