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New England · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1921

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Questions at the Land Court

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 5 August 1921 · page 7

A land agent was asking a certain celient some leading questions at the Moree Land Board last week. "Did you put in a crop this year?" "Yes,"…

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Armidale Small Debts Court. Wednesday, 3rd August.—(Before the P.M.). Stud Services Rendered

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 5 August 1921 · page 2

Peter Short proceeded against Claude Clark to recover £2/10/ for stud services rendered by plaintiff's stallion. Each party conducted his own case…

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Armidale Police Court Fine for Embezzlement

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 6 August 1921 · page 2

At the Armidale Police Court on Wednesday morning before Mr. W. M. Kincham, P.M., John Willoughby was charged that…

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No Hope in Gaol

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 6 August 1921 · page 1

According to statements made by Mr. J. W. Abigail at the Lismore Quarter Sessions on Wednesday, a fitting inscription to place over the…

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Woman Charged with Forge[?]

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 6 August 1921 · page 4

Julia Theresa Commens, Who pleaded guilty at the Darlinghurst Sessions to live charges of forgery and uttering, was bound over to come up for…

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Small Debts Court

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 6 August 1921 · page 2

Peter Short sued Gcorge Clarke for the sum of £2/10 for services rendered. Defendant admitted the debt, but…

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Pistolling the Police. (Published by arrangement) WOMEN " BOOTLEGGERS."

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 8 August 1921 · page 6

The latest phase of the degrading results of Prohibition in America is reported in the New York Tribune. Says the paper:--Women…

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Eager Fish-eaters. the Weekly Scramrle. Police Assistance Necessary

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 8 August 1921 · page 4

The weekly scramble took place in the Town Hall on Friday morning, when 21 cases of trawled fish, which arrived by the mornign train, were…

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Doctors Charged with Manslaughter

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 9 August 1921 · page 2

A remarkable development has followed the inquest on Cecil Webb, when a verdiet of suffocation while undergoing an operation at Adelaide…

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Armidale Police Court. Friday, Augnust 5.—(Before Mr. E. M. Cohen). Drunk and Disorderly

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 August 1921 · page 3

Cyril Thompson, 23, was charged with being drank and disorderly the previous day, and pleaded guilty. Supposed Stolen Property…

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Alleged Postal Theft

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 11 August 1921 · page 3

A young man named Robert Hern Rolson lately postal assistant at the Glen Innes post office, was charged with the theft on November 13 [?]…

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The Arbitration Court

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 11 August 1921 · page 4

The Federal Executive Council has decided to appoint Justices Duffy and Rich Deputies of the Arbitration Court to sit with the President in…

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Armidale Police Court. Tuesday, 9th August.—(Before Mr. E. M. Cohen, J.P.). Drunk and Disorderly

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 August 1921 · page 6

Douglas Starr, 35, was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Beardy-street the previous day. Defendant pleaded guilty…

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Deputies to Arbitration Court

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 12 August 1921 · page 4

Sydney, Thursday.—The Federal Executive Council has decided to appoint Justice Duffy and Justice Rich as deputies in the Arbitration Court to sit…

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"One Sea-Grass Lounge." Basis of Police Charge. Case Dismissed

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 13 August 1921 · page 2

In the Armidale Police court on Wednesday morning, before Messrs. E. M. Cohen and P. G. Hipgrave, J's.P., Lallan Jane Milen was charged…

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Appeal to High Court

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 15 August 1921 · page 6

The question of the State Fall Court's right in holding that stamp duty was payable on share rates was raised in the Hi…

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Divorce Court. Armtdale Resident's Petition

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 August 1921 · page 2

Mr. Justice Gordon was on Thursday engaged in the Divoree Court with a contested suit in which Stuart George Cumberland, an employee of W. Curtis…

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Soldiers' Tennis Court

The Inverell Times · Friday 19 August 1921 · page 4

The tennis court recently erected in Victoria Park by the members of the Soldiers' Club will be officially opened at 3 p.m. to-morrow afternoon…

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Shearers' Manu. an Interesting Court Case

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 August 1921 · page 7

Mr. Canning gave judgment in the Perth Local Court last week on a peculiar shearing case, in which a shearer named McKelvie sued Lund,…

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