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South Coast · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1914

142 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 8

Kangaroo Valley Police Court. Saturday, December 27. (Before Messrs. Jas. Campbell and J. F. Cullen, J's.P.)

The Nowra Leader · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 1

Charged With Stealing in a Dwelling. Leslie Scoullar was charged with stealing in the dwelling house of Samuel Huxley, Beaumont, a purse containing…

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Tall Man with Pointed Beard. Strange Tale of Murder Plot Suggestion at a Cemetery

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1914 · page 3

"A friend of mine wants to get rid of an old woman, a relative who is in the way. My friend will give £4 if the crime is committed in the apartment; eight if it is done…

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Nowra Police Court. Tuesday, Jan. 13. (Before Mr. Laidlaw, P.M.)

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 2

Thomas Douglas was charged with procuring drink for a prohibited person, and pleaded not guilty. Hector Robinson, a lad of 13, who…

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Yesterday's Court

Southern Star · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 2

Before Messrs. Prior and Maybury J's.P., yesterday John Sturrick Robey, a stranger whose queer get-up and peculiar manner have made him…

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The Liquor Question. Douglas and Robertson at Court

The Nowra Leader · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 3

Thomas Douglas was charged at the Nowra Court on Tuesday with having supplied liquor to William Robertson, in respect to whom a prohibition order…

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The Liquor Question. Douglas and Robertson at Court

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 17 January 1914 · page 4

Thomas Douglas was changed at the Nowra Court on Tuesday with having supplied liquor to William Robertson, in respect to whom a prohibition order…

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Yesterday's Court. (Before Mr. Shepherd, P.M.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 January 1914 · page 2

Wallace Glass was Fined 5s for drunkenness in Auckland -street on the 18th inst. Denis Ryan was fined 5s and 6s…

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Police Court Business

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 28 January 1914 · page 1

Paddy Arthur and Dick Moore, who supplied the preliminary at Lytton's last show at Nowra School of Arts, appeared again at the Police Court, yesterday,…

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Police Court. Supplying Liquor to an Aborigine

The Nowra Leader · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 1

At the Nowra Court on Tuesday, Thomas Brewer, licensee of the Empire Hotel, was charged with supplying liquor to an aborigine. Mr Ryan…

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Family Charged. Girl As Composer

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1914 · page 3

Remarkable evidence was given at Bournemouth, when Bertie Way, a retired butcher and his wife and daughter, Elizabeth and Florence Louisa Way, were charged with…

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Warden’s Court

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1914 · page 3

Richard Gleeson applied to have his license, granted on 19th January, mining on portion 119 of the Kameruka Estate, cancelled. Granted…

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Yesterday’s Court. (Before Mr. Shepherd, P.M.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1914 · page 3

David Blair, a grey haired aboriginal in answer to a charge of drunkenness in Carp Street oil Saturday, said, “Not guilty, not been drunk at all.”…

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Police Court. Friday, January 30. (Before Mr. Shepherd, P.M.)

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 4

Harold Boulton, of Bermagui, was before the court, but the case was adjourned by consent till next court day, 27th. February…

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Warden's Court

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 4

Joseph Poole's application for authority to enter and mine on private land was lodged, but there was no appearance of applicant…

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Small Debts Court

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 4

E. Neville v. Cecil Keating. Defendant made an application (by letter) for postponement, chiefly on the ground that his principal…

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The "Robber's Bride." Girl's Loyalty to Confessed Thief. Will Wait at Gaol Door

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 7 February 1914 · page 6

Eastland Britton, the 17-year-old boy ar­rested in Oakland, U.S., in company with his accomplice, Millard Cooke, aged 18, confessed, say the police, to his complicity…

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Forgot Marriage Date. Sentence of the Court

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 7 February 1914 · page 3

"June 14, 1887," Philip Leborski will have to repeat ten times a day for 60 days in order to keep out of the House of Correction, by sentence pronounced upon him by…

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Eden Police Court

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 9 February 1914 · page 4

W. H. Scanes was charged with using indecent language, and pleaded not guilty. Charles Thomas Phillips was the…

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Police Court. (Before Mr E. A. Prior, J.P.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 13 February 1914 · page 4

Leslie O’Brien, who the previous night, made it necessary for three constables to take him to the security of the lock-up, pleaded guilty on…

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Editor Goes to Gaol Libel on Singer

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1914 · page 3

The editor of the "Kleines Journal," Berlin, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment because of slanderous allegations concerning Fraulein Hempie, the opera star. In -…

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