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South Coast · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1905

234 stories in South Coast's papers · page 12 of 12

Warden's Court

Southern Star · Wednesday 13 December 1905 · page 2

BEFORE Mr. Warden Hawkins on Saturday, D. A. B. Pollock, of Cobargo, applied for an injunction to restrain George Daniel Dempsey, of…

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Court Coast News. Illawarra

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 13 December 1905 · page 3

A telephone bureau is to bo established at Bulli. There is a mild land boom in tho Illawarra district just now…

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Police Court

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 14 December 1905 · page 2

John Stephenson, an old offender, was yesterday presented to the Nowra Court (Messrs J. Green and F. Rogers) on a charge of drunkenness, and was…

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Remarkable Escape From Gaol

Southern Star · Saturday 16 December 1905 · page 6

Two men, Patterron and Douglas, escaped through the wooden roof of the South Melbourne lockup on Sunday night…

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Licensing Magistrate Retires. Welcome to His Successor

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 16 December 1905 · page 4

At the Kiama licensing Court on Tuesday, the P.M. (Lieut-Col. Chisholm) expressed his regret at the retirement from the Licensing Bench of…

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Police Court. Tuesday, 19th December. (Before Mr. Hawkins P.M.)

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 20 December 1905 · page 2

Police v. Walter and William Hennam. This was a case in which the police were instructed to take proceedings. Mr.Malony, district…

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Court

Southern Star · Wednesday 20 December 1905 · page 2

YESTERDAY, before Mr. Hawkins, P.M., Walter Hannon, and William Hannon, Sydney fishermen, were charged, on the information of…

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The Shcalheven Police Magistrate

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 21 December 1905 · page 2

Mr W. R. N. Dove, P. M who has during the post year officiated at many back country places on relieving doly is again in Nowra, and will…

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Verdic[?] of Murder

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 22 December 1905 · page 2

At the inquest of the [?] of the Chinese, Ch[?] the stabling [?] Priaz Sigisman [?]…

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He Brought Cholera. a Police Story

Southern Star · Saturday 23 December 1905 · page 5

A comical misunderstanding leading to a exciting sequel is related by the Berlin "Tageblatt" as having happened in a small town in the valley of the Vistula,…

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Sydney Court. Blunden v. McKELLAR and Another

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 23 December 1905 · page 6

Mr L. Armstrong, instructed by Messrs Murphy and Maloney, appeared for the plaintiff; and Mann, instructed by Messrs Holdsworth and Son, for the defendants…

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Police Court Incident “The Holy City”

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 30 December 1905 · page 4

THIRTY men and more youths, blear-eyed; and berry-breaded, unkempt, unshaven, with hair dishevelled and clothes tottered and torn, were lined up in the yard of a…

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The Watt Case. a Side Issue. Lightfoot Sentenced

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1905 · page 7

At the Old Balley on Oct. 19, reports the "Daily Mail," John Lightfoot, alias Norman Battle, a farmer, of Sowersby, Thirsk, Yorks, pleaded guilty to having…

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Murder in a Hotel. Utterly Unprovoked

Southern Star · Saturday 30 December 1905 · page 6

The "Daily Mail" correspondent wrote from New York on October 4:— Anthony Olesen, a young Swede, shot and Mortally wounded Mr Hugh…

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Listening to a Murder. a Game of Cards. Body in a Hamper

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1905 · page 7

On October 12 the New York correspondent of the London "Daily Mail" wired:— Early this morning George Lanole, a…

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