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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1918

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Travelling Stock Action by Tamworth P.P. BOARD To Prevent Stock Stealing

Daily Observer · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 2

Numerous cases of stock stealing have lately been brought under the notice of the police, in which it has been found impossible to locate the stock,…

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Appointment of Arbitration Judge. Full Court Decision

Daily Observer · Saturday 16 February 1918 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday. The Queensland Full Court decided that Mr. Justice McCawley, President of the Arbitration Court, to be an…

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Stealing Australian Gifts. London

The North Western Courier · Monday 18 February 1918 · page 2

A [?] stevedore has been sentenced to three months for stealing from a transport Australian gifts, comprising clothing, tobacco, etc., all of…

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Travelling Stock. Action by Tamworth P.P. Board. to Prevent Stock Stealing

The North Western Courier · Monday 18 February 1918 · page 1

Numerous cases of stock stealing have lately been brought under the notice of the police, in which it has been found impossible to locate the stock…

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Latest Cable News. Repington Charged with Publishing Plans Valuable to Enemy. LONDON

Daily Observer · Monday 18 February 1918 · page 2

Colonel Repington, clad in khaki, and Mr. Gwynne, editor of the "Morning Post," appeared at Bow Street, charged with publishing plans valuable to the…

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Late Telegrams. Desperate Escapee. Gives Police Rough Handling. Handcuffs as Weapon. SYDNEY

Daily Observer · Monday 18 February 1918 · page 2

A prisoner, named Kendrick Hampson, who escaped from Long Bay Penitentiary on the 10th inst., was observed by Constables Harding, Hamilton, Moon and…

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EX-SOLDIER. Charged with the Murder of Mother and Child

Daily Observer · Wednesday 20 February 1918 · page 2

At the Melbourne Criminal Court. Arthur Geoffrey Oldring, 44, formerly a private in the A.I.F., was charged with having murdered Margaret Taylor at…

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Police Court

The North Western Courier · Thursday 21 February 1918 · page 6

Before Mr. Crane, P.M., yesterday morning John Armitage Moore was charged with stealing two cows, the property of A. R. Stafford, from…

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Married to Escape Gaol. a Jugde's Criticism

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 22 February 1918 · page 3

la discharging Harold Henry Douglas (22), a sawmill employee, who pleaded not guilty in the Criminal Court on Monday at Melbourne to a…

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Military Riot. at Central Railway Station. Ringleader Sentenced. SYDNEY

Daily Observer · Friday 22 February 1918 · page 2

The State Commandant announced that the officer commanding the A.I.F. troops in the metropolitan area heard a charge against a soldier at…

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Tamworth Licensing Court

Daily Observer · Friday 22 February 1918 · page 5

At the Tamworth Licensing Court, before Mr. H. R. Roberts, P.M., the renewal of a license to John James Healion of the Central Hotel, Tamworth, was…

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Teacher Charged. With Poisoning His Son. SYDNEY

Daily Observer · Saturday 23 February 1918 · page 2

A teacher, named Peter Montserrott, wept bitterly this morning when charged with having maliciously administered poison to Peter Montserrott, jan., so as…

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Police and Firemen's Carnival

Daily Observer · Saturday 23 February 1918 · page 3

In connection with the monster carnival, to be held by the police and firemen throughout the State, imaid of the hosp[?]s in their particular districts, the…

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Music Teacher Sent to Gaol. Sydney

Daily Observer · Monday 25 February 1918 · page 2

Stanley Mortlock, 29, described as a music teacher, pleaded guilty to sending through the post a letter containing words of an indecent character…

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Miner Found Dead. Police Allege Suspicious Circumstances MAITLAND

Daily Observer · Monday 25 February 1918 · page 2

Andrew Ramsay, a laborer, aged 47, was yesterday found dead in his hut at Kitchener, in the South Maitland coal mining district. Richard Hilton, who…

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Food Hunters Strange Scenes in London. King, Queen and Court Receive Food Cards. LONDON

Daily Observer · Monday 25 February 1918 · page 2

The great experiment [?] London's ten millions on February 25 is awaited anxiously. Lord Rhondda states that there is a plentiful supply of [?]…

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Conviction for Stealing. Sydney

Daily Observer · Tuesday 26 February 1918 · page 2

Hannah Hughes, 17, was found guilty on a charge of stealing wearing apparel and chocolates, valued at £3. She was sent to gaol for two months' hard labor…

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Police and Firemen[?]s Carnival

Daily Observer · Tuesday 26 February 1918 · page 3

Tickets for the Police and Firemen's Carnival are selling well in the district. Already 250 books containing [?]1 worth of tickets have been applied for by the…

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Quarter Sessions and District Court

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 February 1918 · page 2

Judge Hamilton, accompanied by Mr R. J. Browning, Crown Prosecutor, arrived by train yesterday morning, and opened the District Court at 2…

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Lates Telegrams Murder and Suicide. Sydney, Tuesday 9 a.m

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 February 1918 · page 3

Thomas Davies secretary of the Ironworkers' Union, his wife and daughter were found shot at wife home this morning at Dock's Hill, Melbourne…

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