Jealousy and Murder. London
In the Rewi district, Fiji, a coolie, actuated by jealousy, murdered two women. He cut off his wife's head with one sweep of his knife…
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Courts & crime, 1901
631 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 12 of 32
Land Appeal Court
THE sittings of the land Appeal Court were concluded at Sydney on Wednesday. The following cases were dealt with:-- Appeal of Reginald George Nash against the…
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IN the Land Appeal Court on Wednesday the following reasons in extenso in re the appeal of Donald Fletcher (which was before the Appeal Court sitting at Dubbo on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Small Debts Court. Monday, May 6. (Before Mr. S. Murphy, P.M.)
GREGORY AND Co. V.P.J. Flannery, £21 [?]8d, goods sold. Judgment by consent, with 4d costs. Amount to be paid In wuckly instalments of 10s…
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Bernard O'Connor, travelling on the railway on 29th instant without having paid his fare, fined 10s., or 7 days. Fine paid. George Drew, unlawfully assaulting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court. Tuesday, May 7. (Before Mr. John Colling, J.P.)
James Downey was charged with the larceny of a suit of clothes, the property of some person or persons unknown, on or about the 30th ultimo…
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MONDAY, before the P.M. Martin Johnson, miner, was charged with being drunk and was fined 5s or imprisonment until the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dubbo Police Court. Tuesday. (Boorre Mr. S. Murphy, P.M.)
WM. PHELAN, licensee of the Talbragar Hotel, was charged with keeping his promises open at unlawful hours on Sunday, 5th inst. Mr. D. McGuinn appeared for defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder at Goulburn
A murder is reported from Goulburn. Henry Schnor, pawnbroker, aged 60, was found in his shop with his skull battered in, apparently with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegraphic Intelligence. Later War News. a Rebel Sentenced
Van Plazin, a farmer of Barkly East, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment and fined £1900 for treason…
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BEFORE Mr Warden Brown, Mr J. Leah mace application for six months suspension on the Old Billagoe mine which was made at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stoning the Police. a Saturday Night Arrest
On Saturday night the police effected the arrest of an acrobatic gentleman who only arrived in Cobar the same day. As the man was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court. Friday, May 10. (Before the Police Magistrate.)
William Hawkins v. Adam West. The plaint was that defendant was the keeper of a baboon which at Wirth's circus on the 4th instant, attacked and endangered the…
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Suspension of labor conditions at the "Commonwealth" mine, Wuuluman, McCormick, Cox and party, was granted for four months for the purpose of the erection…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Adjourned Licensing Court. Friday, May 10. (Before the P.M. and Mr. Gaden, J.P.)
Charles Clarence Hawkins Mole applied for a conditional publican's license for premises to be known as the Royal Hotel at Stuart Town…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court. Wednesday, 8th May
Before Messrs. Neilson and Murchison, J. P’s. the following owners of 500 sheep and over, pleaded guilty to a charge by the Stock Inspector, of neglecting-to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Tuesday May 7. (Before Mr. S. Murphy, P.M.)
WILLIAM PRELAM, licensee of the Talbragar Hotel, was charged with keeping his licensed premises open for the sale of liquore during unlawful…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court. Monday, May 13. (Before Mr. S. Murphy, P.M.)
William Brews, alias Webb, was before the court on a charge of stealing one sovereign, the property of May Schumack, at Dabbo, on 11th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Durack Murder. Perth
An aboriginal named Rogers has been sentenced to death for the murder of Mr. P. Durack. PLAGUE…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dubbo Police Court. Friday: (Before Mr. R. T. MacNevin, J.p.) Indecent Behavior
JOHN HANNAN pleaded guilty to the above charge committed in Talbragar-street, on the previous date. He fined 10s or three in Dubbo gaol…
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