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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1903

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Municipal Rivision Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 24 January 1903 · page 4

THE Annual Municipal Revision Court was held at the Town Hall, on Thursday, at noon. There were present-- The Mayor, and Aldermen Heane, Field, Adams, and Price…

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Narromine Police Court. Wednesday, Jan. 22. (Before Messrs. F. Mack and W. Kerath, J.P'.s)

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 24 January 1903 · page 4

JOSEPH BISHOP, John Wilson, and Arthur Mullins were charged with inflecting grevious bodily harm on David Osborne. Mr. McGuinn conducted the prosecution, Mr. Wren defended…

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The Municipal Revision Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 24 January 1903 · page 2

A MUNICIPAL Revision Court was held in the Town Hall on Thursday at 12 o'clock noon. The Mayor Alderman J. A. Ryan presided, and there were also present…

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Police News. Wednesday DEC. 21 (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell. P.M.)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 24 January 1903 · page 2

GEORGE CROSS was charged with absconding from his apprenticeship at Pento on the 17th instant, he being then an indented apprentice of one Albert Holmes, and was…

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The Auburn Murder

The Wellington Times · Monday 26 January 1903 · page 2

There seems at last to be a prospect that the mystery surrounding the murder of Constable Long at Auburn on Monday last will be cleared up. Late on Saturday night a…

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The Auburn Murder

The Wellington Times · Monday 26 January 1903 · page 2

Three men (Digby Grand, bootmaker; John Thomas Wolford, batcher; and Albert Yeomans, horse trainer) have been arrested in connection with the marder of Constable…

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Municipal Revision Court

The Wellington Times · Monday 26 January 1903 · page 2

The annual Court of Revision for the Wellington municipality was held in the Council Chambers on Friday night, the Mayor (Alderman J. Irving) presiding. A…

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Wellington Police Court. Friday, January 23. (Before Mr. T. C. K. McKell, P.M.)

The Wellington Times · Monday 26 January 1903 · page 3

Benjamin Bees pleaded guilty to cruelly ill-treating a horse by working it in a dray whilst Buffering from sore shoulders and sore back, on 14th instant, and was fined 10s…

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Trial of "Colonel" Lynch. Sentenced to Death

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 28 January 1903 · page 4

When the last mail left England it was stated that the trill at bar of Mr. A. Lynch would be before the Lord Chief Justice (Lord Alverstone), Mr…

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Murder and Suicide. Perth

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 28 January 1903 · page 3

A horrible murder sod suicide took place this morning at Brown Hill, near Kalgoorlie, when a man named Johann Wegner shot his wife dead and…

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Auburn Murder. Three Men Arrested. Woolford, the Hotel Groom, Makes a Statement. (By Telegraph.) Sydney, January 26

The Western Herald · Wednesday 28 January 1903 · page 2

Three men named Digby Grand, a bootmaker; John Thomas Woolford, a butcher, and Albert Yeomans, a horse trainer, have been arrested in connection with the Auburn…

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Police News. Friday, January 23. (Before Messrs. J. A. Ryan and E. N. Blacket, Js.P.)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 28 January 1903 · page 4

GEORGE CROSS, on remand, was charged with absconding from his apprenticeship with A. Holmes, Ponto, on the 17th instant…

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Small Debts Court. Tursday, Jan. 27. (Before Mr. T. C. K. M'Kell, P.M.)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 28 January 1903 · page 3

THE following undefended cases were heard and judgments given:—J. G. Brown v. W. H. Simpson, amount of claim £20 17s 6d, verdict for amount…

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Wellington Police Court. Wednesday, January 28. (Before Mr. John Collies, J.P )

The Wellington Times · Thursday 29 January 1903 · page 4

Waiter Murray was charged with stealing a quantity of clothing, etc, the property of H. C. Osborne, at Wellington on 20th December last, valued at £2…

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NarromiNe Police Court

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 30 January 1903 · page 2

The following [?] shows the business transacted at the local Police Court for the year ended December 31st, 1902 :-…

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Police Court. Wednesday, Jan. 20. (Before F. Mack and W. Kierath, Esqs, .J's.P.) (Continued from another page )

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 30 January 1903 · page 3

Leopold Amourous deposed: I am a farmer and reside at Narromine; I remember Saturday last; I was at Osborne's at about half past 11 or a quarter to 12; I saw two men…

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Police Court

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 31 January 1903 · page 2

ON Tuesday, before the Police Magistrate and Mr N. Morrison, J.P., Samuel Thompson, remanded on bail from the previous day, was charged with obtaining 9s 9d…

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Constable Long's Murder. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 31 January 1903 · page 3

Woolford, the groom, one of the men accused in connection with the murder of Constable Long, has made a statement implicating the man Grand, who…

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Murder and Suicide. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 31 January 1903 · page 4

A tragedy occurred about 9 o'clock this morning. Charles E. Humphries, aged 36, an old Horse Guardsman, lately employed as special constable at…

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A Court Favourite

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 31 January 1903 · page 6

Among the select few who stand in very high favour with our Royal Family, is Lady Hastings. Her ladyship was Miss Elizabeth Hacbord one of the many…

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