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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1910

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Local News. Police Court

Tamworth Observer and Northern Advertiser · Friday 16 December 1910 · page 6

At the Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. W. A. Bourne, Peter Christian Straub was sentenced to three months' hard labor, on a charge of vagrancy…

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Police Inspection

Tamworth Observer and Northern Advertiser · Friday 16 December 1910 · page 9

Mr. Thos. Garvin, Inspector-General of Police, paid his last official visit of inspection prior in retirement at the end of the present month, to Tamworth police station,…

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Police Court. Thursday, December 15. (Before Mr. O. A. Edwards, P.M.)

Tamworth Observer and Northern Advertiser · Friday 16 December 1910 · page 8

Herbert John Henry (on ball) appeared in answer to the charge of illegally using a horse the property of Joseph Stevenson. The case stood part heard…

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Contempt of Court!

Tamworth Observer and Northern Advertiser · Friday 16 December 1910 · page 6

Gross contempt of Court occurred at the Police Court yesterday. A swallow found its way into the Court-room, and manoeuvred in the air regardless of the otherwise…

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Bankruptcy Court. Monday, December 12. (Before Mr. O. A. Edwards, Registrar.)

Tamworth Observer and Northern Advertiser · Friday 16 December 1910 · page 5

Mr. A. B. Piddington, instructed by Messrs. Creagh and Creagh and G. H. Newman, appeared for the official assignee Re Albert Schwartz, bankrupt…

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Police Court

Manilla Express · Saturday 17 December 1910 · page 2

Two first offenders were let off with a nominal fine for being drunk. John Carney for using…

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Police Court

Tamworth Observer and Northern Advertiser · Tuesday 20 December 1910 · page 4

The P.M., Mr. O. A. Edwards, presided at the police court yesterday. A youth, named David McNalson, was charged with stealing a coat, vest, pair of…

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Stock and Station Agency Case. BARRAND v. ARMSTRONG (Hex[?]d in Sydney, in the Equity Court, before Mr. Justice Simmson)

Tamworth Observer and Northern Advertiser · Tuesday 20 December 1910 · page 4

This was a suit respecting a stock and station agency business at inverell, plaintiff being Alfred Farrand, and defendant William Thomas Armstrong…

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Court on

Manilla Express · Wednesday 21 December 1910 · page 2

The rare spectacle of the Court sitting on Sunday was witnessed this week in Manilla. The proceedings were brief, and the silting was…

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Alleged Assault and Robbery

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 23 December 1910 · page 4

A large part of Saturday was occupied at the police court, before the P.M. (Mr. John Jamieson) with the hearing of evidence in support of a…

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Police Court. Thursday. (Before Mr. O. A. Edwards, P.M.)

Tamworth Observer and Northern Advertiser · Friday 23 December 1910 · page 7

Several "drunks" were fined. One man, charged with being an habitual drunkard, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment…

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Bankruptcy Court. Tuesday, December 13. (Before the Registrar, Mr. O. A. Edwards)

Tamworth Observer and Northern Advertiser · Friday 23 December 1910 · page 4

Re A. A. Schwarts, bankrupt. Mr. A. B. Piddington, instructed by Messrs. Creagh and Creagh and G. H. Newman, appeared for the Official Assignee…

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Police Court. (Before the P.m.) Yesterday

Manilla Express · Saturday 24 December 1910 · page 2

The case, Police v. F. White, for having an unregistered dog was decided in favor of Defendant, for whom Mr…

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Divorce Court

Manilla Express · Saturday 24 December 1910 · page 2

His Honor (Mr Justice Gordon) delivered his reserved judgment in the case, Robinson v. Robinson, on Tuesday. He said that petitioner,…

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Grey Hairs at the Police Court

The Tamworth Daily Observer · Saturday 31 December 1910 · page 8

A grey-headed and grey-bearde[?] man named Matthew Bradley, appeared at the police court on Thursday to answer a charge of having insufficient lawful [?]heans of…

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