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Southern Highlands · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1926

74 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 4 of 4

Welsh Mining Riot. a Communist Charged. London

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 27 October 1926 · page 4

"We ought to have slaughtered them. I am out to kill the bloody blacklegs; you are out to protect them" This statement is attributed…

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Landholder Convicted After Magistrate's Inspection

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 3 November 1926 · page 2

At the Gonlburn Police Court on Monday the adjourned case in which Percy Robert Bensley was charged with failing to destroy rabbits on his…

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A Mean Theft

The Southern Mail · Friday 12 November 1926 · page 5
Also in Robertson Mail

On Monday night someone entered [?]. Then pigeon lofts, stole five birds and killed two young ones. Fortunately the stolen birds, which…

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Bowral Police Court. WEDNESDAY, Nov. 12, 1926. (Before Messrs. Williams, P.M., and Aubrey Mowle, J.P)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 13 November 1926 · page 2

Eight citizens were summoned to appear at the above police court on Wednesday for having been recently found drinking in the Grand…

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Goldfields Murder. Informer Claims Rewards

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 17 November 1926 · page 2

Evan Clarke's solicitor has given a month's notice of his intention to file a petition of claim for the £1000 reward offered by the Government to the…

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Supreme Court Action. (Before Mr. Justice Campbell and jury) Firkins V Thomas

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 27 November 1926 · page 2

Thomas Frederick Firkins (formerly licensee of the Central Hotel, Moss Vale) sued. David Thomas at the Supreme Court, Sydney, on a claim for…

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Alleged Assault. Girl's Terrible Story

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 1 December 1926 · page 4

At the Central Police Court, Sydney, on Friday, Thomas Flanagan 50 horse trainer, and Patrick Sheehan 33, labourer, were charged…

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The Bondi Assault Case Ten Years' Penal Servitude

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 1 December 1926 · page 2

William Brauner (29) and Neville Harris (19), who had been convicted of the Bondi outrage, were at the Central police court, Sydney, on…

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Daring Theft on Tram

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 8 December 1926 · page 2

Two men whose description has been supplied to the police carried out a daring theft on a Coogee-bound tram in Cleveland street…

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Missing Detective. Surrenders to Police

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 8 December 1926 · page 4

At Russ[?]-street police headquarters, Melbourne, about 9 o'clock on Saturday morning, Walter Rufus Fowler, formerly a detective at the…

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Mean Theft. Defrauded a Woman. Land Agent Bound Over

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 15 December 1926 · page 4

Arthur Robert Boyd, land agent, was convicted at Darlinghurst Sessions recently on a charge of having defrauded Mrs' Alexander King of…

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Mo[?] Vale Police Court. Tursday, December 14. (Before Mr G. A. Stephenson, P.M.)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 22 December 1926 · page 4

George Humphries was charged with being on the licenced premises of the Surveyor General Hotel at Berrima during prohibited hours…

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"Police Have Robbed Me." Stir on Railway Station Drunken Traveller Is Fined

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 22 December 1926 · page 3

Shouting that the police had rifled his pockets and robbed him, a traveller on the Cooma mail on Thursday night caused a stir on the…

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