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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1909

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Small Debts Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 3

AT the Small Debts Court on Monday, before Mr. W. Burton Smith, P.M., George Munday sued William M. Gould for £5 damages. After healing the evidence, Judgment was given for…

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The Barrier Trouble. Arbitration Court Decision

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 17 March 1909 · page 2

ON Friday last in Melbourne Mr. Justice Higgins delivered his reserved judgment in the case of the Broken Hill miner against Proprietary Company…

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Queensland Murder

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 5

Great excitement exists at Hawkwood (Queensland) over the reported presence of a strange black fellow who is supposed to have committed murder at Chinchilla…

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Sergeant Charged with Embezzlement

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 5

Senior Sergeant Hammett has been charged at the Redfern Police Court with embez[?] £105, and remanded…

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Sicilian Murder Society

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 5

The Sicllian Murder Society at Mafia has threatened to kill the American Consul at Palermo…

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Merriment in Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 3

ONE of the witnesses for the Crown in the case of alleged false pretences at the Quarter Sessi[?] last week (says the Bathurst Advocate) caused considerable amusement…

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Land Appeal Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 6

A SITTING of the Land Appeal Court of New South Wales will be h[?]lden at Dubbo, commencing at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, the 24th day of March, when the following cases will be heard:…

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Convicted of Murder Florence H[?]ps's Appeal

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 4

THE case of Flori[?] Hope who was recently convicted of murder, came before the High Court at Melbourne on Monday At the trial the question was raised as to the admissibility…

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Contempt of Court. Scene with Counsel

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 20 March 1909 · page 3

THE Re. P J. Murdoch, who was sent to gaol on Monday by Mr. Justice Hodges for refusing to produce a document was released the next day The Court was crowded, principally by…

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Gamblers Sentenced

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 24 March 1909 · page 3

Thirty five men were charged at the Bulli Police Court this morning in connection with the recent gabling raid. All were sentenced to the rising of the Court…

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Police Court. Tuesday, March 23. (Before the P.m.) a Ferocious Dog

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1909 · page 2

Colin McDonald was proceeded against by Senior-Constable Meagher for keeping a ferocious dog. It appeared that on the evening of the…

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Land Appeal Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1909 · page 1

The Land Appeal Court will sit at Dubbo to-day (Wednesday). The following cases are set down for hearing:— Appeal by E. C. McMillan against the…

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Licensing Court. Tuesday, March 23. Transfer

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1909 · page 2

The license of the Collie Hotel, Collie, was transferred from J. Dunn to James T. Humphrey…

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Powers of the Federal Arbitration Court. a Tribunal of Tremendous Range

The Wellington Times · Thursday 25 March 1909 · page 2

By the Federal Constitution, the Federal Parliament is empowered to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the…

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Divorce Court. at Church

The Cobar Herald · Friday 26 March 1909 · page 4

On Monday, Isabella Ferguson, formerly Ford, asked for a divorce from Charles Robert Ferguson on the ground of adultery…

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Charged with Manslaughter

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 27 March 1909 · page 5

On Thursday the Darlinghurst police arrested a man, and charged him with manelaughter, in connection with the death of Esther Gilliland, the young woman who died under suspicious…

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Land Appeal Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 27 March 1909 · page 3

A SITTING of the Land Appeal Court of New South Wales was held in the Dubbo Court House on Wednesday before Commissioners Curry (President) Brand[?], and Houston…

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Land Appeal Court. Wednesday, March 24. (Before Commissioners C[?]rry (president), Houston and Brandis)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1909 · page 4

Mr Hanbury Davies appealed for the Minister. E. C. MoMillan appealed against the recommendation of the local Land Board…

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Stealing a Rug. Three Months' Imprisonment

The Wellington Times · Monday 29 March 1909 · page 3

At the Wellington Police Court on Friday, before Mr C. E. Oslear, P.M., two men named Dawn Huxley and Patrick Gooley were charged with…

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Police Court. (Before Mr. C. E. Oslear, P.m.) Alleged Theft of a Bicycle

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 31 March 1909 · page 2

FRANCIS JOSEPH DRUITT, charged with stealing a bicycle at Orange on March 9th, was remanded to Change. DRIVING WITHOUT LICENSE…

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