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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1907

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Police Court. Monday, December 31

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 2 January 1907 · page 2

Before Mr. W. G. Burton Smith, P.M. CHARLES W. KA[?]S, alias Dwyer, was before the Court on a charge of obtaining several [?]undles of bags valued at £6, the property of…

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Police Promotions. Local Advancements

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 2 January 1907 · page 3

BY police promotions approved of by the Inspector- General of Police. Sergeant A[?]gus Mc[?]zie has been advanced to the rank of Senior- Sergeant, Constable Cole to the rank of…

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Police Court

The Castlereagh · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 4

At the local Police Court, before P. Ferguson Esq., J.P., on December 27th, 1906, Edward Campbell was charged with rictious behavior and obscene language…

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Stealing From the Railway

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 5

On Thursday, four young men, porters in the State Railway Service, were remanded on a charge of stealing hams and dressed chickens the properly of the Railway Commissioners…

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Police Promotions

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 4

Sergeant A. McKenzie has been advanced to the rank of first-Class sergeant, and Constable T. Cole has been promoted to the grade of senior-constable. We have…

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Cowardly Duellist. a Case of Murder

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 7

On 11th October the Madrid correspondent of the "Daily Mail" wrote from Madrid:—The Minister of Justice has ordered…

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Police Court. Tuesday, January 1St. (Before Messrs. J. A. Ryan and A. Tyers Wood, J.'sP.)

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 3

CHARLES McNAMARA was before the Court on a charge of having on the previous day maliciously damaged one mirror, three bottles, and other articles of the value of…

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Court Fixtures, 1907. Minor CourtS. DUBBO. Mondays and Tuesdays—

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 8

January 7[?]8, 14-15 21-22, 28-29 February 4[?]-5, 11-12, 18[?]-19, 25-26 March 4[?]-5, 11-12, 13[?]-19, 25-26 April 2[?], 9, 15[?]-16, 22-23, 29[?]-30…

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Dubbo Police Court. Tuesday, January 1. (Before Messrs. J. A. Ryan and A. Tyers Wood, J's.P.) Damaging Property

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 4

Charles McNamara pleaded guilty to maliciously damaging a mirror, three bottles, and other articles, the property of Mary Fitzgerald. He was fined £3 or…

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Superintendent Latimer. Retires From the Service. Promotions in Bourke Police District

The Western Herald · Saturday 5 January 1907 · page 2

Under the new Police Act recently passed and which comes into force on February 1, 1907, many changes will take place in the New South Wales Police Force. Quite a…

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Unlawful Assault

The Wellington Times · Monday 7 January 1907 · page 3

John Merrill v. James Joseph Murphy. Charge of unlawfully assaulting complainant at Wellington on 31st December, 1906…

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Charge of Assault

The Wellington Times · Monday 7 January 1907 · page 3

George Horwood was charged with assaulting William Joseph Sullivan at Drill Greek on 18th December last. Mr Kelly for complainant, Mr…

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Warden's Court

The Wellington Times · Monday 7 January 1907 · page 3

Before the Warden, Mr. W. Burton Smith, P.M., the following applications for authority to enter private lands were decided on Friday…

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Wellington Police Court. Friday, January 4, 1907. (Before Mr. W. Burton Smith, P.m.) a Hotel Case

The Wellington Times · Monday 7 January 1907 · page 3

Sarah Mary Masonwells was chargedwith allowing drunken persons to be on her licensed premises on 25th December, 1906…

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Police Court. JANUARY 4th, 1907. Before G. E. Armstrong, Esq., J.P.

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 8 January 1907 · page 5

Samuel Book -was charged with that he did at Rocky Glen, on the 26th December last, utter a cheque for 10s, to one, Frose Alley, and at the time represent the same…

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Police Court. Monday, Jan. 7. (Before Mr. W. G. Burton Smith, P.M.)

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 2

CHAS. W. KABLE, alias P. Dwyer, was before the Court on a charge of obtaining several hurdles of bags valued at £6, the property of Heaton Bros., by means of false pretences, at…

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The A.w.u. and Its Representative. Alleged Stealing

The Western Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 2

At the local Police Court on Tuesday last, before Messrs. C. E. Lang and G. W. Tull, J's. P., a man named James Ernest Sweeney alius McCarthy, was charged with stealing…

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Police Court. Monday, January 7. (Before Mr. W. Burton Smith,P.M.) Alleged False Pretences

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 2

Charles Phillip Kable, alias P. Ryan, alias P. Dwyer, was charged on remand with obtaining four bundles of chaff bags, valued at £6, from Heaton Bros., of Sydney,…

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Police Changes

The Wellington Times · Thursday 10 January 1907 · page 5

Sergeant Richie, of Molong, has been promoted to the rank of Senior-Sergeant, and it is reported that Sergeant Lord, of Orange, and formerly…

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Police Court. December 27th, 1906. (Before Mr. H. Giles Stew, P.m.) Police v CARROLL

The Castlereagh · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 8

This case as a part heard case from the last police court, on the 22nd of November last for a breach of the Liquor Act Mr Salmond appeared…

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