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New England · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1904

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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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Summons Court

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 18 March 1904 · page 2

JOSEPH SENZ proceeded against F. King for wages due, £2 10s. Verdict given for plaintiff. £1 10s and costs. The secretary of the P. P. Board proceeded against Thomas Wilson for…

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Walcha Police Court

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 19 March 1904 · page 2

One offender, for drunkenness, was cautioned and discharged on Tuesday. The steamer Aramac was wrecked off the Queensland coast on Sunday…

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Police Court

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 March 1904 · page 2
Also in The Inverell Argus

AT the Police Court yesterday Thomas Neill and Harry Lewis were charged with having in their possession 10 bottles of whisky, reasonably supposed to have been stolen. After taking the…

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The Chippendale Murder. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 March 1904 · page 5

IT is stated that the man, alleged to have been associated -with Shaw in the murder of Constable Guilfoyle in July, 1902, was seen at Harden last Friday night…

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Supreme Court Action

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 22 March 1904 · page 2

In the Supreme Couts today, Hunry, Albert Miles secured a verdiet for L800 against the Commercial Banking Company, of Sydney for dishonoring two…

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TELEGRAMS. The Redforn Police Tragedy. Tracing a Suspect. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 22 March 1904 · page 2

INSPECTOR GENERAL GARVIN, on Saturday received a telegraphic report to the effect that the man, George Skidmore, who, with the criminal George Shaw, was…

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Police Court

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 23 March 1904 · page 2

At the police court yesterday before the P.M., Glen Innes Pastures Protection Board proceeded against W. T. Nichols for not forwarding returns of…

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

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 23 March 1904 · page 5

A drunk was fined 10s or 48 hours' imprisonment. Joseph Tolly was charged with using [?] languages in Byron-street on…

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Armidale Police Court. MONDAY.—(Before Mr. Corbett Lawson, P.M.)

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 23 March 1904 · page 5

Alexander Murtagh (on bail) was charged with stealing a macintosh coat of the alleged value of £2 5s, the property of Edward Finnelly, on…

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A Sensational Report. the Murder of Constable Guilfoyle

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 23 March 1904 · page 4

On Saturday evening news was received from Goulburn, by the Sydney police, that a person answering the description of George Skidmore, who…

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"Elijah" in Adelaide. a Noisy Demonstration. The Police Powerless

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 23 March 1904 · page 4

Dowie's meeting in the Town Hall, Adelaide, last night, was marked by a riot of unprecedented experience in that city…

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Armidale Police Court

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 26 March 1904 · page 4

Friday, 25th March.—(Before Mr. Corbett Lawson, P.M.) Alex Murtagh, laborer, was charged with stealing a macintosh overcoat, the…

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Murder and Suicide

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 26 March 1904 · page 4

William Henry Oats, a laborer, of Whittelsea, Victoria, murdered his wife by cutting her thoart with a carving…

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Telegrams Sydney, Friday. Brutal Murder An Old Man Done to Death

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 26 March 1904 · page 4

An elderly man named Chas. Smith, a fish-hawker, for 40 years a resident of Picton, was found on Douglas Park road, near Picton, last night, brutally…

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An Elephant Court-martialled. How the Sentence Was Carried Out

Bundarra and Tingha Advocate · Saturday 26 March 1904 · page 4

The court-martialling of an elephant isn't such an every-day occurrence as to pass unnoticed, even in Central India, where doings of the jungle folk are unusually…

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Police Court

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 March 1904 · page 2

YESTERDAY, Albert Conway was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Grey-street on Saturday night, and for the offence wan fined 10s, in default seven days. Conway was also fined £3 for…

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Brutal Murder

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 March 1904 · page 2

A GHASTLY murder has been committed on Douglas Park road, a mile from the railway station. The victim was an old man named Charles Smith, a fish hawker, and an old age…

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Police Court. MONDAY--(Before Mr. Piseley, P.M., and Mr. Strang.)

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 30 March 1904 · page 2

Police v. Edward Bennett.--Charged with using indecent language. Mr. Boyd, who appeared for defendant, pleaded guilty. Mr. Boyd explained that defendant had a dispute…

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