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New England · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1920

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Gaol Without the Option

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 3 September 1920 · page 9

On a charge of selling adulterated milk, Arthur Taylor, of Mosman, was convicted on one charge and fined £20, and on a second charge he was…

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Divorce Court

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 3 September 1920 · page 10

Thomas George Wilson, medical practitioner, was the petitioner in a suit for divorce, which came before Mr. Justice Gordon on Wednesday…

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Armidale Small Debts Court. Monthly Sitting

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 3 September 1920 · page 3

Wednesday, 1st September.—(Before Messrs. E. M. Cohen and P. C. Hipgrave, Js.P.). A case in which Savage and Sons were…

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Midnight Murder. New Zealand Settler's Fate

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 6

The mysterious murder of Sidney Claymore Eyre, a returned soldier and steep farmer, of Pukekawa, near Auckland, on Tuesday, August 24, at…

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Small Debts Court

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 10

In the Armidale Small Debts Court on Wednesday before Messrs. E. M. Coben and P. C. Hipgrave, Js.P., the following business was dealt with:—…

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A Wayward Youth Sentenced to 12 Months. Case of Leslie Stocks

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 7 September 1920 · page 2

At the Quarter Sessions yesterday morning, before His Honor, Judge White, Federick Arthur Stocks, a youth about 17 years of age, pleaded…

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New Judge. Mr. James and Supreme Court

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 8 September 1920 · page 4

It is generally believed in political circles that Mr. James, former Minister for Education, will accept the vacant Supreme Court Judgeship…

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Guyra Police Court

Guyra Argus · Thursday 9 September 1920 · page 5

On Friday, before Mr. A. Bowen, J.P. Micheal Ward was fined 10s or 48 hours in the lock-up on a charge of drunkenness…

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A Postal Official Charged. £170 Missing

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 9 September 1920 · page 4

Newcastle detectives have arrested Joseph Cox, postmaster in charge of the Catherine Hill Bay post office, and charged him with having maliciously…

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Guyra Police Court

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 11 September 1920 · page 10

In the Guyra Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. A. Ormonde Butler, P.M., and Messrs. J. Pringle and J. M'Mullen, Js.P.,…

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A Wayward Lad. the Fruits of Idleness. Incorrigible Sent to Gaol

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 11 September 1920 · page 6

At Inverell Quarter Sessions, the first case was that in which Frederick Arthur Stocks, an Inverell youth of 17 summers, appeared on remand from…

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Municipal Appeal Court. Reductions in Values

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 11 September 1920 · page 3

A Municipal Appeal Court sat on Wednesday morning, the P.M., Mr. A. Ormonde Butler, presiding. Mr. L. J. Biddulph appeared for…

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Guyra Police Court a Varied Case List

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 September 1920 · page 2

At the sitting of the Guyra Police Court last week, before Mr. A. Ormonde Butler, P.M., and Messrs. J. Pringle and J. McMullen, Js.P., Agnes Drew,…

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Saturday Night Incident Alleged Assault and R[?]y a Commital

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 16 September 1920 · page 4

At Tuesday's Police Court William Pe[?]son [?]ell and Haroki Lar[?] chard were were charged, on remand with having rubbed and [?]…

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Armidale Police Court. Brief Sitting

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 17 September 1920 · page 2

The weekly sitting, on Wednesday, of the local Police Court, under the presidency of the P.M.. Mr. A. Omonde Butler, occupied exactly three minutes,…

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Alleged Wife Murder. Death of Mrs. Hubert

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 17 September 1920 · page 10

Sydney Hubert, a railway employee, was placed on trial at the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday, on a charge of wife murder…

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Drink Easy to Procure. Supreme Court Ruling Ignored. All You Want is Cash. (Published by Arrangement.)

Tingha Advocate and North-Western Journal · Friday 17 September 1920 · page 3

The New York correspondent of Montreal "Star," writing on Jane 12th last said:—In the middle of the week we reported that within a few…

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Hillgrove Police Court. a Botcher and His Pigs

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 18 September 1920 · page 6

In the Hillgrove Police Court Tuesday, before Mr. A. Ormonde Butler, P.M., Mr. Richard James, butcher,…

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Murder Charge. Hubert on Trial

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 18 September 1920 · page 9

On a charge of wife murder, Sydney, Hubert, aged 39, a railway employee, was placed on trial at the Central (Sydney) Criminal Court on Wednesday,…

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