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Courts & crime, 1914

142 stories in South Coast's papers · page 3 of 8

Women As Police

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1914 · page 2

Chicago is greatly satisfied with its experiment with the police women, ten of whom were appointed last August to assist in reforming the morals and…

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Country Police Force

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 22 April 1914 · page 1

Mr. Mark F. Morton: I desire to ask the Colonial Secretary whether his attention has been called officially to the fact that numbers of the members of the…

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I Case About a Big Bit ! at the Bega Police Court

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 24 April 1914 · page 5

At the [?] Court on Monday, be fore Mr Shepherd, P.M., Herman [?] sleep-cutter at Tanja, was charged with stealing on brace bit,…

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Women As Police

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 24 April 1914 · page 6

Chicago is greatly satisfied with its experiment with the police women, [?] of whom were appointed last August to assist in reforming the morals and…

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Little Girl's Travels. Mother's Right to See Her Child. Uncle Sent to Gaol

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 25 April 1914 · page 3

A little blue-eyed girl of seven or eight, with flaxen curls and a large hat with blue ribbons, was brought into Mr. Justice Astbury's Court in the Chancery Division…

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Police Court

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 29 April 1914 · page 12

The monthly sitting of the Nowra Police Court took place yesterday. The new C.P.S. (Mr. Patterson) appeared with a type-writer on his desk,…

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Police Court. Tuesday, April 28. (Before Mr. Clagg, P.m.) Stock Straying

The Nowra Leader · Friday 1 May 1914 · page 1

The following persons were proceeded against by Nowra Council's Inspector of Nuisances for stock straying.:--Louisa Rogers, George Trevanion, [?]…

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Police Court. Tuesday, April 28. (Before Mr. Cl[?] P.m.) Stock Straying

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 2 May 1914 · page 4

The following persons were proceeded against by Nowra Council's Inspector on N[?] for stock straying:— Louisa R[?] George Trevanion, Os,…

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With the North-west Police. Tracking Fugitives. Hardships of the Journey

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 2 May 1914 · page 3

The authorities at Ottawa have received from Sergeant C. S. Harper an account of the Journey made by a police patrol sent out from Lake Saskatoon early in…

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Small Debts Court. Friday, 1st May. (Before Mr. Shepherd, P.M.)

The Cobargo Chronicle · Friday 8 May 1914 · page 4

E. Chegwidden v. Jas. King. No appearance of defendant. Claim £5 4s 3d. Verdict for plaintiff with costs…

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His Flow of Language. Premier Town Crier Amuses Court by Speech

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 8 May 1914 · page 5

Llanrwst (Denbigh) Police Court rang with laughter on February 4th while William Williams, described as “premier town crier and bill poster in…

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A Brutal Assault

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 22 May 1914 · page 5

A brutal assault was witnessed in the main street of Murwillumbah on Friday. A young half drunken man and a Hindoo were in faitly friendly conversation,…

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Federal Arbitration Court

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 23 May 1914 · page 3

The Federal Arbitration Court, during the time of my predecessor and myself has done a great and beneficial work for the people of Australia. It…

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Police Court

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 27 May 1914 · page 11

Yesterday, before P.M. Clegg, Herbert Clement Jones, for not attending compulsory drill, was committed to the Camp Commandant,…

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Police Court

The Nowra Leader · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 6

At Nowra Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. Clogg, P.M., Herbert Clement Jones was committed to the Camp Commandant at the Sydney…

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Federal Arbitration Court

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 3

The Federal Arbitration court, during the time of my predecessor and myself has done a great and beneficial work for the people of Australia. It…

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Police-Lieut, Secker Condemned to Death, Result of the Second Trial. New York

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 1

Police-Lieutenant Becker has been found guilty of complicity in connection with the murder of Rosenthal by gun men. This was Becker’s second…

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Police Court

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 30 May 1914 · page 4

AT Nowra Police Court on Tuesday before Mr. Clogg; P. M., Herbert Clement Jones was committed to the Camp Comm[?]dant at the Sydney…

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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 2 June 1914 · page 2

A man named William Crawley was charged with being of unsound mind and remanded for eight days for observation…

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Land Court

The Bega Budget · Wednesday 3 June 1914 · page 2

The Land Board sat on Friday, being constituted as follows: Messrs. Holliday, (chairman,) Chas. Parbery, and T. Cochrane,…

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