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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1917

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District Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 2 March 1917 · page 7

The District Court was opened last Monday evening, before Judge Bevan. BBEACH OF CONTRACT. Thomas Drake sued Wallace Salter…

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Court Notes

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 2 March 1917 · page 7

Judge Bevan is the very antithesis of the "stern old judge" we read about in books, and of whom the poets have so much to say. He is always…

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The Court House Lighting

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 2 March 1917 · page 4

Judge Bevan made some very caustic remarks on Monday evening in regard to the lighting of the local Court room. When the District Court…

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District Court. (Before his Honor Judge Bevan.)

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 2 March 1917 · page 5

The Dubbo District Court opened on Tuesday evening. A Contract Case. Thomas Drake sued Wallace Salter,…

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Alleged Forgery. Alderman White Before the Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 2 March 1917 · page 4

At the Police Court this morning before Mr W. F. Robertson, P.M., John Francis While appeared to answer three separate charges of forgery…

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Police Court Alleged Assault and Robbery

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 6 March 1917 · page 1

John Davis and Thomas Williams were charged at the Dubbo Police Court yesterday, before the P.M., with assaulting Charles Reid, and robbing…

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Canbelego Police Court

Western Age · Tuesday 6 March 1917 · page 2

At the Police Court on 28th ult. before Mr S. J. Hamblin, P.M. Robart Thomas Wood was fined £1 and 6s costs, or 14 days, for smoking in a…

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Alleged Assault and Robbery

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1917 · page 2

Before the Police Magistrate (Mr. W. F. Robertson) in the Police Court yesterday morning John Davis and Thos. Williams appeared, on remand, to…

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Cobar Police Court. Thursday,—Before Mr S. J. Hamblin, P.M.

Western Age · Tuesday 6 March 1917 · page 2

Sydney Payee aud Alfred Beattie were each fined 20s and 6s costs for being found on licensed premises at prohibited hours…

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Brutal Assault

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 9 March 1917 · page 1

At the Cobar Police Court, Harold O'Connor was committed for trial on a charge of assaulting and inflicting grievous bodily harm on a recruiting…

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POLICE v, Gamblers. Excitement in an Hotel

Gilgandra Weekly · Friday 9 March 1917 · page 2

Quite a commotion was caused at Forest Reefs recently, when the Millthorpe police made a raid on tbe Royal Hotel and found a number of…

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The Political Burglary

Gilgandra Weekly · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 5

AUSTRALIAN SOLDIER: Aye, Mate! Can't you play the game at any time? ELECTORS! REMEMBER THAT PRIVATE ARKINS IS IN THE FIRING LINE, FIGHTING FOR YOU AND YOURS! GIVE HIM YOUR VOTE! A VOTE FOR ARKINS AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE! A VOTE FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY!…

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Alleged Assault

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 1

At the Dubbo Police Court this morning two Dutchmen William Van Altenberg and Detrus C. Deller, were charged with assaulting a Chinese…

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Police Pettiness

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 6

It used to be the proud privilege of the people of Dubbo to be able to claim that here wo all enjoyed the very utmost of civic liberty--the…

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Police Action Condemned

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 16 March 1917 · page 3

At Wellington lust week (says the "Guardian"), Miss Robinson, of Mudgee-road, was convicted on a charge of Rolling liquor without a license, and…

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Quarterly Licensing Court

The Western Herald · Saturday 17 March 1917 · page 2

The next Quarterly Licensing Court will be held on Wednesday, April 4, at 11 a.m., at the Bourke Courthouse…

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Police Pettiness

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 20 March 1917 · page 1

On Friday last, at Dubbo Police Court two motorists were each fined 5s for technical breaches of the Motor and Traffic Act. All previous convictions carried penalties of 10s, but,…

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Alleged Theft of Whiskey

The Wellington Times · Thursday 22 March 1917 · page 3

Last Friday at the Dubbo police court the P.M. (Mr. W. F. Robertson) continued the preliminary investigation of the charge against Daniel…

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Pollee Court. Alleged Theft of Dogs

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 27 March 1917 · page 4

First-class Constable Greenhaigh on Thursday last proceeded along the Narromine road, per motor, "to sec a man about a dog." or rather two…

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Howell Price Sentenced

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 27 March 1917 · page 2

Ex-Lieutenant Howell-Price was sentenced to four years' penal servitude by Judge Scholes on each of two charges of forging and uttering. The…

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