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South Coast · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1908

220 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 11

Nowra Police Court

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1908 · page 4

William Davis, an aborigine, was sent to gaol for three months for stealing wearing apparel, the property of James Barham. The theft was…

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Sir George Lewis's Note Paper. Further Police Court Proceedings. Prisoners Committed

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1908 · page 7

Further evidence was taken today (17th October) at Marlborough Police Court in connection with the remarkable charge of alleged conspiracy and forgery…

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Sir George Lewis's Notepaper. Further Police Court Proceedings. Prisoners Committed

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1908 · page 10

Further evidence was taken to-day (17th October) at Marlborough Police Court in connection with the remarkable charge of alleged conspiracy and forgery…

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Police Court. MONDAY, 6th, JANUARY. (Before Messrs. Jas. Cochrane and H. Underhill, J's.P

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 8 January 1908 · page 1

W. E. Ledge v. Walter Baker Claim £5 17s, work done. Verdict for plaintiff. A month allowed to pay…

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Nowra Police Court. Thursday, January 2. (Before the P.M. and Messrs P. Walsh and G, U. Alley, Js.P.)

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1908 · page 6

Duncan Osborne pleaded guilty to a charge of riotous behaviour in the bar of the Bridge Hotel, Nowra, on 10th Dec. Fined 20s, costs of court 11s, one witness, 2s 6d. For…

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Clyde Shire Appeal Court. Thursday, January 2. (Before the P.M.)

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1908 · page 7

George "Underwood Alley appealed against an assessment of £348 on 485 acres at Sassafras. He considered that the valuation on Portions Nos. 1 add 2 (100 acres and 40…

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Sir George Lewis’s Notepaper. Further Police Court Proceedings. Prisoners Committed

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 3

Further evidence was taken to-day (17th October) at Marlborough Police Court in connection with the remarkable charge of alleged conspiracy and forgery…

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Court News

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 4

On Thursday, before Mr. Elliott, P.M., the following cases were dealt with :—Police v A. Sinclair and H…

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Appeal Court

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 1

On Thursday, Mr. Elliott, P.M., with Mr. Adam Warden, J. P. sat as an Appeal Court for Milton, re appeals under the Clyde Shire. S. Prickering appealed on 273…

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Yesterday’s Court

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 2

At the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. H. F. Roberts, P.M., Geo. Jaggers and [?] Hartley, [?] were each lined [?] and [?] for allowing stock to stray…

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Police Court. MONDAY, 13th, JANUARY. (Before Mr. M. F. Roberts, P.M.)

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 4

Roland Glass was charged with furious driving. Fined £1 and 6s costs. Wm. Bartley and Jno. Spence…

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Police Court

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 5

J. T. Parkes, Wesley McDonald, and William Breen were chared with that, not being lodgers, inmates, or travellers, they did…

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Murder in the Solomons. Captain M‘kenzie Tomahawked

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 1

News of the murder of Captain M‘Kenzie, of the ketch Minota, has been brought to Brisbane by the steamer…

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With Fratricide. an Artist Is Charged

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 3

Early yesterday morning (11th November) an artist named James Ansted, aged thirty-two, son of Mr. Windsor Ansted, a man of independent means, residing…

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Nowra Police Court. Action Against Mayor M'kenzie of South Shoalhaven. Alleged Neglect of Duty

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 22 January 1908 · page 1

At the Nowra Police Court, yesterday (before Colonel Chisholm, P.M., and Mr G. U. Alley, J.P.), Hugh M'Kenzie, Mayor of South Shoalhavell, appeared charged at the instance…

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Appeal Court

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 8

At the Appeal Court at Kangaroo Valley for the purpose of hearing of appeals against land valuations of the Cambewarra Shire, the following cases…

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Murder by a Lover. Girl's Mother Tells the Story

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 3

A coroner's jury at Slough returned a verdict of wilful murder and felo-de-se on 13th November against Charles Ernest Squire, aged twenty-three,…

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Police Ceurt, Bombala. Wednesday January 22, 1908. (Before F. H. Galbraith P.M.)

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 29 January 1908 · page 4

Joseph Keys of Bomboka was charged by Robert W. Dawson, Rabbit, Inspector, with having failed to fully and continuously…

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Police Court. WEDNESDAY. 22nd JANUARY, 1908.(Before Mr. Galbraith, P.M.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 31 January 1908 · page 8

R. W. Dawson, Inspector of Stock, v. Joseph Keys, charged with neglecting to destroy rabbits on a special lease of 99…

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The Ballarat Mystery. Either Murder or Accident. Victim’s Skull Fractured. Identity Still Uncertain. Ballarat

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 31 January 1908 · page 2

The discovery in shocking and suspicious circumstances of the body of a women in an abandoned shaft at Vale Park, east of the new cemetery at…

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