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New England · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1906

689 stories in New England's papers · page 6 of 35

Police Court

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 March 1906 · page 4

THE first case in Armidale Under the NewLiquor Act was heard on Friday by the P.M. The police proceeded against D. M'Knough, licensee of the Federal Hotel,…

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Brutal Wife Murder

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 March 1906 · page 3

GEORGE SMITH, 50, bricklayer (reports the 'Daily Telegraph' of 8th December) was indicted before Mr Justice Jeff, at Leeds Assizes, for…

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Frightful Murder. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1906 · page 2

A frightful murder was committed at Raeburn, West Australia, on Saturday. A Chinaman cook at the Commercial Hotel pulverised the head of a Siameso…

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Charge of Assault

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 7 March 1906 · page 4

Phillip Henry Evans, aged 47, who was arrested in Melbourne on two charges of assaulting little girls in Carlton Gardens, turns out to be a…

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Forty years In Gaol

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 9 March 1906 · page 4

HENRY PRIMOSE, alias Andrew White, Andrew Forgason, etc., who was before the Aulbury Court on a charge of false pretences, has a remarkable criminal record. The Victorian police chronicles…

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Telegraphic. [From Our Metropolitan Agents.] North Court Railway. [?],Thursday

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 9 March 1906 · page 5

[?] [?] Government [?] [?]…

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Tingha Police Court, Wednesday March 7Th. (Before A. J. peisley P.M.)

The Tingha Miner and North Western Advocate · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 2

JOHN COWIE, Sergeant of Police.; stationed at Inverell, proceeded against G. H. Parker for the alleged [?]elling of light-weight bread . Deposed that the saw a number of…

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Licensing Court

The Tingha Miner and North Western Advocate · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 1

IN the Licensing Court,. Henry Alfred Witton applied for a hawker‘s licence. Applicant never appeared and the case was struck out…

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Tingha Police Court Interpleader Case. Tuesday, March 6Th. (Before A. J.;:Peisley, P.M.)

The Tingha Miner and North Western Advocate · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 1

EMILY BRIDGET QUINN v. the Copes Creek Central Tin Dredging Co., N.L. Mr. Avern appeared for the…

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The Arbitration Court

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 4

THE milk-carters recently brought a case before the Arbitration Court, and it was sought to show that only one delivery of milk need the made…

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Warden‘s Court

The Tingha Miner and North Western Advocate · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 1

THE application, No. 78, for a dredging lease by Frederick Stephen Thomas and Alfred Allan Thomas was adjourned to the 10th inst.,…

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Police Court

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1906 · page 2
Also in The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser

AT the Police Court yesterday, George Gordon Fishburn, on warrant from Iuverell, was charged with stealing 69lbs of tin, the property of Josiah Penberthy and another. The accused was…

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Burglary

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 4

The residence of Arthur Foss, at Homebush, was burgled to-day, and jewellery valued at —80 stolen…

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A Burglar Sentenced Edward [?]

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 4

Edward [?] convicted of breaking and entering a shop at Redfern, was to-day sentenced to 5 years penal servitude…

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Armidale Police Court. Saturday (Before Mr. W. Corbelt Lawson, P.M)

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 5

Michael Ryan, an old age pensioner, was fined 2s 6d for drunkenness and 10s or 48 hours for using indecent language in Beardy street…

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Sentenced to Death. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 5

GHERAKARIS, who assassinated M. Delyannia, Premier of Greece, on Jane 13 last, has been found guilty of murder at Athens, and has been sentenced to death…

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Sentenced to Death. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 5

THE boy Quinlan was to-day found guilty of the murder of Mrs. Gregory, and recommended to mercy on account of his youth. Death sentence was then passed. The boy…

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Gregory Murder Case. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 2

THE youth Thomas John Quinlan, was placed on his trial at the Criminal Court to-day, charged with the murder of Mrs. Mercy Gregory, at the Royal Hotel,…

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The Royal Hotel Murder. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 16 March 1906 · page 5

THE trial of the boy Quinlan, who is channel with the murder of Mrs. Gregory at the Royal Hotel, was commenced at the Criminal Court to-day. Quinlan looked much…

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