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Courts & crime, 1905

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Police Court. Friday, Feb. 17Th. (Before Messrs. W. L. Davis and J. A. McGregor, J's. P.)

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 21 February 1905 · page 2

Warialda Pastures Protection Board versus II. Bowman Claim 2s 4d stock assessment made in August, 1904…

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Police Court

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 22 February 1905 · page 5

At the Police Court on Monday before the P.M. Henry Buness, who appeared in Court with a broken arm, is charged with soliciting alms. Mr…

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Reward for Sheep Stealing

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 22 February 1905 · page 5

A meeting of selling agents, buyers, and others at Homebush resolved to offer a reward of £50 to any person securing a conviction of sheep-stealers…

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Theft of a Lugger

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 22 February 1905 · page 5

The luger Tanumi belonging to the Straits Trading Company at Thursday Island, was stolen yesterdat by-thirteen Japanese, who were mostly…

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The Murder of Sergius. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 22 February 1905 · page 3

Further details of the murder of the Grand Duke Sergois, uncle of the Czar, states that at 3 o'clock in the afternoon the Grand Duke Sergins…

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Murder on the Scaffold. by Slaying His Hangman

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 22 February 1905 · page 8

Murderers in most countries shorten their lives by their crimes, bat Stanislas Leikin, a notorious Siberian criminal, managed to save his neck by…

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Police Court. Wednesday, FEB. 22 — (Before Mr. E. M. Coheon.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 February 1905 · page 4

DRUNKENNESS.—Edward Anderson, in custody, was charged with being drunk and using indecent language in Jessic-street on Tuesday evening. For the first offence he…

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Police Court. Tuesday, February 21. (Before Mr. R. H. V. Allnutt. P.m.) Claim for Wages

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 24 February 1905 · page 7

HANS HOLLEN proceeded against T. Ford for recovery of £1 17s 6, wages due for stack building. Mr. W. M. Legh. appeared for plaintiff arid Mr. H. R. Crossman for…

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Local and General News. Licensing Court

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 24 February 1905 · page 2

AT the Lieensing Court on Tuesday, Mr. H. R. Crossroad, on behalf of Mr. V. Sachs, mentioned that o latter gentleman bod found it necessary to proceed to Europe and for this reason he…

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Sentenced to Death

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 4

James Rouhan was sentenced to death at Ballarat yesterday for murdering his sweetheart, Kate Beachley. The Judge held out no hope of…

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Assault and Robbery

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 4

Edward Carey Dixon, aged 85, was proceeding towards his home at Ashfield, when ho was struck en the bead with a stick, and rendered insensible…

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Alleged Murder

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 2

A somewhat mysterious case is being investigated at Toowoomba by the police. It appears that a selector named Walter Benton, whose holding…

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Licensing Court. Thursday, Feb. 23

The Uralla News · Saturday 25 February 1905 · page 2

A billiard licence was granted to Sydney Gillis…

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Judge's Confession of Murder

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1905 · page 5

A SENSATIONAL [?] was [?] Barlin police [?] day of the old [?] dent of the [?]…

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Police Court. (Before Mr. W. L. Davis, J.p.) Wednesday, Feb. 22Nd

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1905 · page 2

John Dunn, charged with having been drunk and disorderly, was fined 5s or 3 days' imprisonment. Thos. Robertson, for drunkenness…

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District Court

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1905 · page 2

THE District Court opened yesterday before Judge Heydon. Messrs. R. J. Browning, C. White, E, A. Warren (barristers), P. P. Abbott, H. R. Crossman. W. M. Legh…

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The Arbitration Court

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 March 1905 · page 4

Members of the Arbitration Court retire by effluxion of time at the end of March. Mr. Justice Cohen will not seek re-appointment as President, and…

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Chapter Xviii. Gas[?]igne Hears the Story of the Murder

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 March 1905 · page 7

About half an hour after the prisoner had been taken away from the hotel, the omnibus from the station lumbered up to the door, and from it descended a solitary figure, that…

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Brooker's Last Burglary

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 3 March 1905 · page 8

For some considerable time I had known that old Joe Brooker was a retired burglar. I don't think anyone else in our sleepy little villege…

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Arbitration in Court

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 3 March 1905 · page 4

IN this State the Arbitration Court system is still largely in its experimental stages, and it remains to be seen…

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