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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1904

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Police Court. WEDNESDAY, 23th FEB. 1904. Before Messrs R. Neilson & P. Rogers J’s.P. Travelling Without a Permit Police v J. R. McKenzie

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 1 March 1904 · page 2

The defendant did not appear. Constable dray deposed: Saw defendant on 27th January last, he was in charge of 5459 sheep travelling from…

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Stealing Newspapers

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1904 · page 2

In our telegrams on Monday we received particulate of a man being fined £2 for stealing a morning paper from a garden at Randwick, Sydney. This instance of…

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Stealing a Newspaper. Fined £2

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1904 · page 3

AT a Sydney police court on Monday a man was fined £2 or 21 days for stealing a morning paper, valued at one penay, from [?]at [?]wick…

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The Brisbane Murder

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 2 March 1904 · page 3

Horrible revelations have been made at the trial of Angus McDonald and his wife for the murder of their daughter at Brisbane. The evidence showed that the deceased's body was…

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Police Changes

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1904 · page 2

Constable J. Rochford, of the Dubbo police force, has been transferred to Warren, and the vacancy has been filled by the transferment of Constable A. T…

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Murder in Adelaide Streets

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 2 March 1904 · page 3

Late on Saturday night a young woman named Florence Horton, aged 22, who had only been married four months, was totally shot by her husband, Thomas Horton. Horton and his…

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Police Court. Monday, February 29Th. Before Mr. T. C. K. McKoll, P.M.)

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 2 March 1904 · page 2

DANIEL POWER AND JAMES WARD wre before the Court on charges of vagrancy, riotous behaviour, &c. Mr. McGuinn, who appeared for defendants,…

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Land Appeal Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1904 · page 4

A SESSION of the Land Appeal Court opened at Darlinghurst on Tuesday, 23rd instant, when the following cases relating to the Dubbo district were dealt with:—…

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Police News. Saturday, February 27. (Before T. C. K. McKell, P.M.)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1904 · page 2

Mary Ann Vitnell was fined 20s or seven days' imprisonment for using indecent language in Darling-street, Dubbo, on the 27th instant…

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Licensing Court. Tuesday, March 1. (Before Mr. T. C. K. McKell, L.M.)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1904 · page 3

The license of the Australian Hotel was transferred from John C. Ramsay to Frederick Burkinshaw…

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Summons Court. Tuesday, March 1. (Before Mr. T. C. K. McKell, P.m.) a number of municipal summons cases were dealt with and penalties inflicted

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1904 · page 3

George Hughes, M. Macdermott, and John Calligan were charged with leaving a fine at Geurie on 13th February before it had been properly extinguished…

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Wellington Police Court. Wednesday, March 2. (Before Mr. H. Nancarrow. J.P.)

The Wellington Times · Thursday 3 March 1904 · page 4

David Sibbald pleaded guilty to a charge of using obscene language in the Court House Hotel yard on the 1st inst, and was fined 2s 6d. Fine paid…

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Police Court. Monday, 29Th February. (Before F. J. McMahon, Esq., J.P )

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 4 March 1904 · page 2

Tommy Hon, a Chinaman, ws charged with stealing one galah parrot, valued at 10s, the property of Emily An[?]zark…

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Horse Stealing

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 6

NOT since the "lifting" of the racing pony Tory Boy has such a daring robbery of horses taken place in Orange as that of the theft of Mr. J…

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Collie Police Court. Friday, 26Th February

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 6

(Before Messrs. H. Giles Shaw, P.M., Thos. Jones, Jas. Patrick, and W. Pearse, Js.P.) A. Rankmore was charged with a breach of the timber and quarry regulations. He…

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MURDER. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 5

In the case of Angus McDonald and wife, charged at Rockhampton with the murder of Grace McDonald, aged 15, both were found guilty and sentenced to death…

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The Rockhampton Murder Case

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 5 March 1904 · page 1

Angus McDonald and his wife have been found guilty of the murder of their daughter at Rockhampton, and both were sentenced to death…

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A Police Raid

The Wellington Times · Monday 7 March 1904 · page 2

The police raided Tattersall's Club, Broken Hill, on Saturday, and arrested 62 persons for alleged gaming…

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Wellington Police Court Friday, March 4. (Before Mr. T. C. K. McKell, P.M.)

The Wellington Times · Monday 7 March 1904 · page 3

Joseph Bishop, on remand, charged with alleged perjury, was remanded till Friday next, 11th inst. Bail was allowed, self in £80 and two sureties in £40 each…

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A Cowardly Assault

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 9 March 1904 · page 2

Whilst Mr. R. O. Samuels was proceeding in the direction of his home at Happy Valley late on, Saturday night he was accested by two men, who asked him for a match,…

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