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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1906

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Labour Unionist Suspected of Burglary

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 5

At Broken Hill, on Thursday, a trucker at one of the mines and the leading spirit of local Labour Union circles was charged with burglary. He was remanded for eight days. It…

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Police Court. BEFORE the P.M.

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 4

Charles Robert Lee and Son Bruce were each fined 40s and 6s costs for indecent behaviour. Jack Feure, alias Butler, was fined…

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The Novelist. "Sentenced to Death" Chapter Xxi

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 2

THE forest trees bent beneath the force of the north-east monsoon. With the wind had come a deluge of rain that best down fiercely upon the broad leaves and rattled…

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The Assault on British Officers in Egypt

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 5

Four of the assailants of Captain Bull in Egypt have been sentenced to be hanged, four to penal servitude for life, and other to shorter terms of imprisonment…

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Land Appeal Court. A Dubbo Case

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 3

AT the sitting of the Land Appeal Court at Sydney on Monday, the Dubbo Land Board asked for direction in respect of an application by Dalgety and Company for an extension of…

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Land Appeal Court. (Before Mr. H. A. G. Currie, president, and Messrsauri. Brandis and W. Houston, commissioners.)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 3

Mr. Hanbury Davies bury appeared for the Crown. A DUBBO CASE. The Dubbo Land Board referred a case…

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Wellington Police Court. Friday, June 29, 1906. (Before Mr. W. Burton-Smith, P.M.)

The Wellington Times · Monday 2 July 1906 · page 3

Municipality of Wellington v Francis. Cock, 9s water rate. Defendant pleaded not. guilty, and said that when he rented the…

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Police Court. Monday. July 2Nd. 1906. (Before Messrs E. May-Steers and G.. B. McEwen J’s.P.)

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 3 July 1906 · page 5

Claude Errington, on bail, from Baradine pleaded guilty to being drunk and using indecent language in a public place at Baradine on the 25th June…

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Police Court. Saturday, June 30. (Before the P.M.)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 4 July 1906 · page 2

Frederick Johnson (25) and Thomas Cavanagh (41), described as dealers, were charged with using indecent language in Talbragar-street on Friday afternoon, the…

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The Novelist. "Sentenced to Death" Chapter Xxii

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 4 July 1906 · page 4

When the creek was fordable, larger interests claimed the time and thought of every man and woman on the station, for with each mail came tidings from the…

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Police Court. Monday, July 2. (Before Mr. W. G. Burton Smith, P.M.)

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 4 July 1906 · page 2

MARY FLYNN was before the Court on a charge of beg[?] alms in the public thoroughfares. She pleated guilty. There were no previous [?]…

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The High Court

The Wellington Times · Thursday 5 July 1906 · page 5

It is understood that Mr. Isaacs, K.C., and Sir Josiah Symons will be the two new members of the High Court bench…

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Police Court Thursday, June 28Th, 1906. (Before Glion Shaw P. M)

The Castlereagh · Friday 6 July 1906 · page 4

J. P. Cooey was charged with that he did on the 23rd June maliciously inflect grevious ba[?] harm on January [?] Fuo. The occured, who planded not [?]…

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Police Court Tuesday. (Before Mr H Giles Shaw, P.M., and Mr H. Gibeon, J. P) Alleged Fraudulent Removal of Goods

The Castlereagh · Friday 6 July 1906 · page 2

A. W. Milier v A. A[?]l—fraudulently removing goods, when rent was owing. Mr Salmond for plaintiff; Mr Hegraty for defendant…

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Small Debts Court Tuesday. (Before Messrs. H. Gile Show, P.M., and M. Githeen J P.)

The Castlereagh · Friday 6 July 1906 · page 2

Alfred Actili v. A. W. Mitier—anlawfully distraining gende. Claim double the value of goods, or an alternative of £50…

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Drowned Boy Mystery. Mother Charged with Murder

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 7 July 1906 · page 7

A strange story, the outcome of which was that a woman named Louisa Tiffin was charged with the wilful murder of her six-year-old son William, was told at a Hackney…

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Trangie Police Court. WEDNESDAY, July 4. (Before Mr. W. G. Burton Smith, P.m.) Alleged Sheep Stealing

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 7 July 1906 · page 4

ARTHUR LEVER and Ada Jones were charged that they did, on or about June 21, steal three sheep, the property of James Thompson. Senr-Constable Morrison deposed that on…

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Alleged Theft of Battery Plates

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 7 July 1906 · page 3

The next case was one in which Thomas Burge and David Hancock were charged with stealing, in company, two battery plates from Her Dream mine,…

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The Novelist "Sentenced to Death" Chapter Xxiii

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 7 July 1906 · page 2

Francesca stroked the pretty carls tenderly, and the resolve in her heart grew stronger. 'Poor child. You will have something…

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Settled Out of Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 7 July 1906 · page 8

Mr. Russell Sage, the American Millionaire has a horror of lawsuits. A clerk of Mr. Sage's said the other day:--'I sought out the chief one morning in…

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