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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime
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JEREMIAH HOGAN and Peter Foreman, charged with drunkenness, were cautioned and discharged. Is[?] Primrose, for riotous behaviour, was fined 20s or 48 hours in gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SARAH OWENS, (a young girl, blind aud deaf) for vagrancy, was remanded for eight days. MARCH 5TH. (Before Mr. G. H. Tayler, J.P.)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PUBLIC INSTRUCTION ACT.--Several persona were summoned by School Attendance Officer Apsey for neglecting to send their children to school. Fines in some cases were imposed ; several were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE large party assembled as usual at Langley Towers to celebrate in approved fashion the approaching 1st September were all collected one night after dinner in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A COOPER'S Crock squatter writes to the Thargomindah paper as follows:--"The saying that one half the world does not know how the other half lives is illustrated on the Cooper, for a squatter on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JAMES McDEVITT, for refusing to pay for drinks to Mr. T. Purvis, was cautioned and discharged. J. H. Thomas was brought up on three charges for stealing letter at Trangie, and remanded for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Derby (W.A.) correspondent of the Melbourne 'Argus' writes:-- The preliminary hearing of a charge against a miner named Homing of having murdered a mate at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS Court opened on Wednesday morning. Mr D. Pri[?]g presented on behalf of the Crown. Mr. Lee represented the Crown Law Office. Mr. Dibbs, Judge's Associate, filled the position of Clerk of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →JEREMIAH HOUAN, for being drank while in charge of a horse, was admonished and discharged. Henry W. Fulke, for bening drunk and disorderly, was fined 54, or 24 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALFRED EDWIN MASSEY. and John Ryan who had on the previous evening been sentenced to two years and ten moths, and 5 years for larceny of a watch at Nevertire, had their respective sent [?]ees…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN ELECTIONEERING LAW SUIT.--BOOTH V. MULLER. July : William Carroll, Robert Kennedy, Henry Hansud, and James Heane. This was an action brought by Robert Booth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MY DEAR SIR, -- I was misreported in the Herald as to what I said about Dubbo, and these reports of speeches are so often wrong, that members cease to notice them and rely upon the Hansard. I do not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR. -- As the matter of the arrangement of the Circuit Court is before the public. I enclose copy of a letter I wrote to Mr. Abbott, member for Wentworth, on the subject, and his replay there to, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SHEM YEM SEN, Ah Sing, Ah Gee, Ah Hem, Ah Loo, Ah Chuck, Ah Lung, Jemmy Char, Ah Way, Ah Hing, Ah Bing, Cna[?]e Lee, Jemmy Dm, Ah You and Jemmy F[?]ng, appeared in cust[?]dy, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CHARLEY BENSON, profane language, fined 10s, or 48 hours. The same defendant was find an equal amount for indecent conduct in the lock up. Robert James Rowlston, unsound mind ;…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THIS Court opened on Monday, August 1. Mr. Merewether prosecuted on behalf of the Crown. William McGee pleaded guilty to two charges of forgery, and was recommended for sentence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE District Court opened on Wednesday, before Judge Docker; but only two cases of any importance were heard. In the case of Alexander v. Frost--an action for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GEORGE Howard Mr. CHARLES PARKINSON, for stealing a bottle of whisky. George Howard, licensed publican, stated that he misted the bottle of Robertson's whisky from the bar of his hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Elizabeth Ah Wah, stealing 30s from the person of David Ramsay. Prosecutor stated that he went to accused's house, in company with a young man named Walker. Accused asked him for some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE case of the alleged murder of tho Malay seaman Hassin on board the British barques Lady Douglas between Shark's Bay and London was resumed at the Thames Police…
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