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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1909

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Police Court. Monday, May 31, 1909. (Before G. Mceson, Esq. J. P.)

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 1 June 1909 · page 2

Patrick Ryan was charged with stealing a coat and vest, the property of James Nelson. Cyprian Sylvester J[?]nnings deposed : I…

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Frum Parliament to Gaol

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 2 June 1909 · page 3

An ex-Speaker of the Quebec Assembly has been sentenced to five years for furnishing false returns concerning the bank of which he was a manager…

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Murder and Suicide

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 2 June 1909 · page 3

David Henderson, a wealthy New Yorker, suddenly went mad at a Paris Hotel, and shot his eldest daughter. He then committed suicide…

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Alleged Attempted Murder

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 2 June 1909 · page 3

James Granvillo Robertson was before the Police Court this morning, charged with shooting at Ernest Barter, with intent to murder. The police stated that Barter was lying in the…

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Kind to Conceal Murder

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 2 June 1909 · page 4

At Gedollo, in Hungry, a joiner named Salkooveki, who had an unenviable reputation for cruelity, surprised his children by a sudden display of kindness…

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Civil Court Business

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 2 June 1909 · page 2

At the Court House on Tuesday, before Mr. C. E. Galsar, P.M., on the civil side, the Municipal Council sued Francis H. Delsney for 16s, arrears of sanitary rates, and…

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Land Appeal Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 2 June 1909 · page 3

The Land Appoal Court sustained the reference by the Minister for determination of the rout of John F. Smartt's settlement lease, and fixed the runt at 6d per n[?] per annum…

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The Big Wheat Case. Equity Court Judgment

The Wellington Times · Thursday 3 June 1909 · page 3

What has become known as the big wheat case, which has for some time been before Mr. Justice Street, in Equity Jurisdiction, on a summons for…

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Canbelego Police Court. Before the P.M.

The Cobar Herald · Friday 4 June 1909 · page 3

Mary Jana Evans v. James, detention, of property. No appearance of Plaintiff. Use dismissed. Folios v. S. Murray, indecant…

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Daring Burglary

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 5 June 1909 · page 5

When the premises of Jacob Hersfield, dealer, of Liverpool- street were opened on Thursday morning it was discovered that burglars had effected an entry during the night,…

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District Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 5 June 1909 · page 4

THE quarterly sitting of the District Court will begin at the Court' House, Dubbo, on Tuesday next before Judge Docker. THE CIVIL LIST…

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Land Appeal Court. BEFORE Messrs. H. A. G. Currie (president), and C. Brandis and W. Houston, member. COONAMBLE

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 5 June 1909 · page 4

Messrs, Haynes and Hain appealed against the finding of the land board, overruling certain objections in respect of their dealing with settlement lease area No. 922. Mr…

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Stealing a Bag of Chaff

The Wellington Times · Monday 7 June 1909 · page 2

The case in which Edward Johnston was charged with stealing a bag of chaff, the property of J. P. Malouf, was dealt with by Mr. Oslear, P.M., at…

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Land Appeal Court

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 8 June 1909 · page 2

The [?] J. H. Sevil, against the disallowance of [?] lease application [?] Land Board during last came on for…

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District Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 9 June 1909 · page 2

The sittings of the District Court were begun on Tuesday morning, before Judge D[?]ker. Mr. G. H. Taylor J.P., an deputy sheriff, occupied a seat on the Judge's right…

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District Court. (Before Judge Docker)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 9 June 1909 · page 2

The sitting of the Court opened yesterday (Tuesday) morning. Mr. G. H. Taylor, Deputy Sheriff, occupied a seat on the Judge's right…

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Petty Theft

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 12 June 1909 · page 4

At the Police Court Bede Barnett, charged on Wednesday, before Mr. C. E. Oslear, P.M., with being in possession of two rugs, a pair of trousers, shirt, towel, and pair of…

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Historic Tragedy of London Life. the Mysterious Murder of a Magistrate

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 12 June 1909 · page 8

Of all the tragedies that smear the pages of London's history, few there are that have so stirred men's feelings and piqued their [?]urionsity through successive…

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Sentenced to Death

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 12 June 1909 · page 5

James Cosgrove has been sentenced to death at Beechworth, for an offence against a girl over sixteen…

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Theft From the Person

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 12 June 1909 · page 3

James Arthur Watson was charged, on remand from Wellington, with stealing a purse containing money from the person of Charles Joy on the 29th April…

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