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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1914

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Boy Besieged. Keeps Police at Bay for Hours

The Western Herald · Saturday 21 February 1914 · page 3

Stanley Luppi, the 18-year-old boy who was arrested on December 6 after keeping the police at bay for hours with a revolver, was charged at Newcastle (England) with…

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Beihnd the Veil. Secrets of Russian Court. Book by Count Vassili

The Western Herald · Saturday 21 February 1914 · page 3

To many unsophisticated people such a book as "Behind the Veil at the Russian Court," just published, suggests all sorts of thrilling possibilities…

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Monday's Police Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 24 February 1914 · page 2

The only public business before Mr. Police Magistrate Robertson yesterday was the disposal of two "drunks," each of whom was penalised to the…

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Brutal Murder

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 24 February 1914 · page 1

A brutal murder was committed at Vaucluse on Saturday. A man supposed to be Edward" Dixon, u farmer, who worked near Morice, was found…

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Licensing Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 24 February 1914 · page 1
Also in The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate

At the Dubbo Licensing Court to-day, before Mr. W.F. Robertson,L.M., the license of Murdoch McDonald's hotel at Naromine was transferred to…

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Brutal Murder

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 27 February 1914 · page 6

On Saturday morning a man named Robert Dixon, a member of the A.W.U., was found on Bellevue Hill, Sydney, in a dying state. His face…

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Two Months for Theft

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 27 February 1914 · page 4

In the Police Court at Dubbo on Wednesday, before Mr. A. T. Cochrane, O.M. —William Kelly (48) pleaded guilty to having stolen from the shop…

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Assault in a Train

The Wellington Times · Monday 2 March 1914 · page 2

Last issue reference was made to an assault in the Bourke mail, and to the fact that two men had been arrested, at Orange in connection therewith The men…

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Mining Warden's Court

The Wellington Times · Monday 2 March 1914 · page 4

The following are particulars of cases dealt with by the Mining Warden (Mr. W. F. Robertson, P.M.), on Friday last. Thomas Reidy.—Application for the…

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Police Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 3 March 1914 · page 1

Before the P.M., this morning Joseph Flood was awarded a verdict for £5 10s (wages) against W. H. Jones Mr. McManauicy appeared for…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 3 March 1914 · page 1

At the Brewarrina Police Court, before Mr. McMahon, P.M., Harley Astill, a well-known resident of Nyngan, was charged with stealing 12 head of…

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Canbelego Police Court. (Before the P.M.)

The Cobar Herald · Tuesday 3 March 1914 · page 3

Police v. A. Young, Chas. Garvie[?] E. Edwards and C. Eldridge charged with removing timber from Crown lands without a license…

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Assault in the Train

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 3 March 1914 · page 3

At the Orange police court last week, Charles Herbert White and James Kearney were charged with having assaulted John Carr in a railway…

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Dubbo Police Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 6 March 1914 · page 1

Yesterday, before Mr. A. T. Co[?] C.M., William Thomas M[?] was fined 26 or "the rising," for being drunk in Talbragar-street. This…

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A Cowardly Assault

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 6 March 1914 · page 6

Henry Powell was fined £5 and £2 11- costs at [?] police court last week for slashing a whip across the face of a [?] while the latter…

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Charge of Cattle Stealing

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 6 March 1914 · page 6

A case of considerable interest was heard before Sir. McMahon, P.M., at Brewatrina, when Harley Antill was charged with stealing 12 bead of…

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Police Court

The Cobar Herald · Tuesday 10 March 1914 · page 3

The usual quietude of Marshall-street was disturbed on Thursday afternoon by an individual named Wallace Henry Lowe, who…

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Alleged Assault

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 10 March 1914 · page 1

Before the Police Court tis morning. These Wallaer was charged with having unlawfully. assaulted John O'Hunton, on February 21…

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Rose Bay Murder

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 10 March 1914 · page 4

On the afternoon of March 2, as the Sydney passenger train entered Kelso, Mr. Stone, the stationmaster, noticed a young man who resembled the…

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