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South Coast · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1911

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Police Court. Tuesday, St[?] July. Before Mr. Fincham, P.M. Their Youth Saved Them

The Nowra Leader · Friday 11 August 1911 · page 3

F. J. Masters and W. J. Dih[?]s, on bail, were arraigned on a charge of larceny of an axe and bullock whip. property of R. U. Alley, Sassafras…

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Eden Court. [Before Mr. M. J. McMahon, P.M., on Friday last.] a Small debts case was heard, in which a verdict was given for plaintiff. Police Court

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 14 August 1911 · page 4

Police v. George Herbert Sherwin, charge of ill-treating a horse in Imlay-street Eden…

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A Police Court Pledge

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 August 1911 · page 4

Hugh Burgess, at the Police Court on Thursday was fined [?] or two days for drunkenness. Hughie is also a living witness that the “pledge…

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Police Court. Thursday, 17th August. (Before Messrs. H. Underhill and E. I. Pell, J.'sP.)

The Bega Budget · Saturday 19 August 1911 · page 4

George James Eden was charged with obtaining £2 6d on false pretences in Sydney. Sub-Inspector Plugg conducted…

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Police Court

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 11 September 1911 · page 5

H. Rose v G. Smith, charged with unlawfully occupying Crown Lands. -- Fined 10s. with 6s. costs, or in default 3 days in Eden lockup…

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Pambula Court

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 11 September 1911 · page 5

[Before Mr M. J. McMahon P.M.] Police v. William Braitling, allowing his son to drive a motor car without being the holder of a license…

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Eden Court

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 11 September 1911 · page 5

At the local Licensing Court on Friday last, before Mr. M. J. McMahon, P. M., Cecil Lane Brown applied for a transfer of the Royal Hotel,…

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Monday's Police Court. (Before Mr. McMahon, P.M.)

Southern Star · Wednesday 13 September 1911 · page 2

Charles Higgius was charged with being drunk in Carp-street, Bega, on Tuesday, August 15. He pleaded not guilty, and was…

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Nowra Police Court. Tuesday, September 12. (Before the P.M.)

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 13 September 1911 · page 11

Henry M'Grath proceeded against W. B. Grady for using threatening language to him in the Prince of Wales' Hotel on 25th July. A second case Grady v. M'Grath of a…

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Police Court. Monday, 11Th September. (Before Mr. McMahon, P.M.)

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 13 September 1911 · page 2

Charles Higgins was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Carp-street on Tuesday, 15th August. He pleaded not guilty,…

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Police Court. Nowra, Tuesday, September 12. Before Mr, W. J Fincham, P.M. a Cross Summons

The Nowra Leader · Friday 15 September 1911 · page 4

Henry M'Grath v. W. B. Grady; W. B. Grady .v. Henry M'Grath.-- The cases with the P.M.'s consent, were heard together…

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Paris Police Blunder

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 16 September 1911 · page 6

A remarkable case of two well-connected men being arrested on a charge which was never explained to them, and of their release after three days'…

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Starting End. to Conspiracy Case. Police Spies Denounced

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 16 September 1911 · page 6

The assessors in the Dacca conspiracy trial at Calcutta delivered their verdict on Saturday (said "Lloyd's News" on June 25). They found all the accused…

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The World's Strongest Gaol

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 18 September 1911 · page 3

The county gaol at Cliftin, in Arizona, is the strongest in the world. It comprises four large compartments hewn in the solid quartz rock of a…

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Candelo Police Court

Southern Star · Wednesday 20 September 1911 · page 2

AT the above court on September 12, before Mr. McMahon, P.M., several charges in respect of the Royal Hotel, occurring on the…

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Police Court

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 23 September 1911 · page 5

On Tuesday, 19th September, 1911, before Police Magistrate W. ML Fincham and Messrs C. F. Warden, C. M. Murray, and F. W. Cork. John Kerry was charged…

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Small Debts Court

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 23 September 1911 · page 5

Mahommed Box v. Richard Hapgood, goods sold and delivered. Amount of claim £3 2s 0d; verdict for £3 2s 0d, costs 26s, one witness 2s 6d. Defendant did not…

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Tsakitsa's Necklace. Russian Police Search

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 23 September 1911 · page 6

Two members of the Russian Imperial Police—Messrs Alexander Rozoff and Ivan Arvak—are now in the United States in search of the famous…

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The Country Farriers. Judgment by the Industrial Court

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 29 September 1911 · page 8

Judgment was delivered last week in the appeal by John Westcott against the award of the Farriers’ (Country) Board, one of the grounds of appeal being…

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Police Court

The Nowra Leader · Friday 6 October 1911 · page 3

At the Nowra Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. Patterson and Peak, Js.P., Thomas Garrett, charged with riotous behavior and…

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