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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1898

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Police Court. MONDAY, 17th INST. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, P.m.) Charge of Sheep Stealing

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 January 1898 · page 2

Gwydir Balford Parry was charged with having stolon a ram, the property of P. C. Watt, at Goonal. Senior Constable Riley, of the Meroe…

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NOTES & Comments. a Law Court Force

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Tuesday 18 January 1898 · page 2

The great M'Sharry case, which has been a perfect windfall for the legal profession, still winds its way wearily along to an obscured end. According…

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Police Court. Monday, 24Th Inst. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, P.m.) Charge of Sheep Stealing

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Tuesday 25 January 1898 · page 3

Gwydir Balford Parry appeared, on remand, to answer a charge of sheep stealing. Accused was defended by Mr. P. E. Sirton…

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Police Court. THURSDAY, 27th INST. (Before, Mr. F. G. Adrian, P.M.)

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Saturday 29 January 1898 · page 2

P. Cantwell, charged with assaulting William Carter was fined 20s or 21 days' imprisonment. Alex under Johnson pleaded not guilty to…

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Police Court. Monday, January 31. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, P.m.) Charge of Assault

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 February 1898 · page 2

Sydney Smith was charged with assaulting John Hollingaworth at Ashley on the 20th ult. Accused Pleaded not guilty…

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An Ingenious Gaol Escapee

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 February 1898 · page 2

A young man named John Scott, who at the Central Police Court, Sydney, on Tuesday last, was Rent to gaol for two months on a charge of…

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Local Burglaries. Theft of Jewellery

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 February 1898 · page 3

Shortly after Mr. A. M'Intosh's store was opened as usual yesterday morning. Mr. T. Miller discovered that a show case had been forced open and a…

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Police Court. Wednesday, February 9

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1898 · page 2

Messra. A. Hill, J. F. Boydell, A. Thompson, and L. H. Hyman, Js'.P., presiding, CHARGE OF STEALING A CHEQUE…

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Charge of Cattlr-stealing

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1898 · page 2

Richard Roger Jurd and Edward George Crawford, were charged with cattle stealing. Constable Dallon stationed at…

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Charge of Cattle Stealing

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1898 · page 2

E. Crawford and R. R. Jurd were charged with stealing a bullock the property of the A.J.S. Bank, at Berrigal, on the 8th of February…

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Quarter Sessions. (Before His Honor Judge Gibson.) Stealing From a Dwelling

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1898 · page 2

M. O'Brien, A. Harrison and W. Brady, were charged with breaking and entering a dwelling at Wilderness, in the Garah district. O'Brien pleaded…

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District Court. (Before His Honor Judge Gibson.) ANDREWS V. KEEN

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1898 · page 2

W. Andrews proceeded against C. B. Keen under the Bill of Exchange Act on an order compelling him to give a fresh cheque in lieu of the two…

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Mungindi Police Court

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 3

The P.M. (Mr. F. G. Adrian) presided at the Mungindi Police Court on Monday and Tuesday last, when a small debts list comprising 33 cases was disposed of, most of…

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A Divorce Court Scene

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Saturday 19 March 1898 · page 2

According to the Sydney papers, a scen seldom witnessed in a court of justice occurred in the Divorce Court last Monday morning. The circumstances of the incident…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 April 1898 · page 3

AT the Branxton police court on Wednesday, before Mr. G. F. Scott, P.M., Thomas E. smith, and Roland Smith, two brothers, were charged…

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The Police Report

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 May 1898 · page 2

FROM the report of the Inspector-General of Police for the past 12 months, we learn that there was a slight decrease in the total number of…

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Assault and Robbery. Critical Condition of the Victim. Arrest of the Offenders

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 May 1898 · page 6

Another addition has been made to the already long list of victims to highway robbery which, though now less frequent than a few years back, still occasionally occurs to…

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Assault and Robbery. Critical Condition of the Victim. Arrest of the Offenders

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 May 1898 · page 4

Another addition has been made to the already long list of victims to highway robbery which, though now less frequent than a few years back, still occasionally occurs to…

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Serious Assault on a Farmer. Four to One. the Assailants Arrested

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Saturday 11 June 1898 · page 4

To be set upon by roughs and almost killed after doing through nearly 60 years of life without accident to health or limb is one of the hardest experience we know of…

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Licensing Court

The Gwydir Examiner and Moree General Advertiser · Saturday 18 June 1898 · page 2

THE Quarterly Meeting of the Moree Licensing Bench was held on Tuesday last to deal with applications for the renewal and transfer of publicans licenses. The licensing…

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