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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1907

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Police Court. Thursday, Jan., 10 (Before Sir. A. Tyers Wood, J.P.)

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 4

CORNELIUS POWER was charged with having insufficient lawful means of support. The police gave defendant a very bad character…

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Girl's Revenge. Murder of a Betrayer

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 7

On 30th October the correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wrote from New York:—Another murder trial in which the…

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Around the World. Tricking the Police

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 8

AN amusing trick was played recently on the constabulary of the Austrian toan of Troppan. A new police-station had been built and roofed with so-called metalic waterproof…

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Dubbo Police Cour. Tursday, January 8. (Before Mr, W. Burton Smith, P.m.) Riotous Behaviour

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 4

Thomas Armour Colhoun, who was found guilty of the above offence, and also of resisting Constable Bell, was fined 20s, or 14 days in gaol, on the first charge, and…

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Police Court. Wednesday, Jan. 9Th. (Before H. Giles Shaw, Esq., P.M.)

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 5

Arthur King and George Stafford, for using obscene language at Binnaway, were fined 10s with 6s costs, or seven days each…

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Sheep Stealing. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 2

At the Parramatta sessions William Murphy pleaded guilty to the charge of sheep stealing at Flemington, and was sentenced to two years in gaol…

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Attempted Murder of an Englishwoman

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 3

An English lady was murderously attacked on Sunday in the railway between Genoa and Paris. Her assa[?]nt escaped. The victim is in a serious condition…

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Dubbo Police Court. Monday, January 14. (Before Mr W. Burton Smith, P.m.) Riotious Conduct

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 2

John Joseph Lynch, on bail, pleaded guilty to riotious conduct on the 12th instant. There was a second charge of resisting Constable Lucas in the execution…

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Police Court. Monday, January 14Th. (Before Mr. W. G. Burton Smith, P.m.) Riotous Behaviour

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 2

J. J. LYNCH, for riotous behaviour in the bar of the Railway Hotel on the previous meeting, was fined 20[?]., in default seven days' imprisonment. He was also charged with resisting…

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Licensing Court. Tuesday, January 5. (Before W. Burton Smith, P.M., and T. Baird, J.P.)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 2

Arthur Ashe—Application for colonial wine license at Eumungerie. No appearance of applicant. Case struck out. John Cowell was granted a renewal for…

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Police Court

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 3

Before the P.M. and Mr. Morrison, J.P., A youth or boy just over 16 years of age, was charged with riotous behavior, on the evidence of…

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Suicide or Murder?

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 8

After a dinner in a fashionable restaurant in Madrid, Spain, recently, two youths mixed poison with their coffee and then shot each other fatally with revolvers. Letters…

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A Peculiar Death in Gaol

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 5

A prisoner named Patrick Miller suddenly dropped dead in Parramatta Goal on Thursday morning white in the act of miking his bed…

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Alleged Attempted Murder. Poisoned Water

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 4

AT the Lithgow Police Court, on Wednesday, before Mr. T. C. K. McKoll, P.M., Charles Ar[?]hur Jenkius was charged with attempting in Administer to Jemima Jenkins, Rubena Poart…

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Sheep-Routed police

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 8

A 90lb. sheep, fresh from the hillsides of lower Virginia, upset the equilibrium of the Southern police-station the other day, says the 'Baltimore News.' The sheep pulled a…

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On the High Seas. Alleged Murder of a Chinaman

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 4

AT the Police Court Newcastle, on Wednesday, Robert Jeffery (41), engineer, Scotland, and John Black (34), engineer, Scotland, were charged with having, on December 23, on board…

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Annoying the Public, etc. Batch of Offenders Before the Court

The Cobar Herald · Saturday 19 January 1907 · page 6

At the Cobar Police Court on Tuesday last, before Messrs. Treatt, P.M., and N. Morrison, J.P., Alfred Ellis, Wm. Crawley, Robert Murray, Hugh…

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Telephone Matters. Connecting with the Court House

The Wellington Times · Monday 21 January 1907 · page 2

At the Council meeting on Thursday night, a letter was read from the Attornoy-General's Department in reply to a request by the Council that the…

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The Dubbo Police

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1907 · page 2

Sergeant McKenzie will leave for Lithgow on Saturday, the 26th, and take up his new position on the 26th. In the meantime he is enjoying a few days off…

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Police Court. (Before Mr. W. G. Burton Smith, P.m.) Monday, January 14Th

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 23 January 1907 · page 2

WILLIAM BEAHAN was charged with stealing one hose of the value of £1, the property of H. S. Porter. Mr. McGuinn appeared for the defendant…

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