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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1907

88 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers · page 4 of 5

Law Court Humour

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 26 August 1907 · page 4

A care was heard at one of the metropolitan (Eng.) county courts in which the dispute was over the sale or return of a carpet which…

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Italian Murder Mystery

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 30 August 1907 · page 4

A cab driver and three other men, all convicts, where [?] to deposit two [?] in a suburb of [?], Italy, and set fire to them,…

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Customs Zeal. Debentures Charged As Stationery

Delegate Argus · Friday 6 September 1907 · page 3

THE "rogue elephant" was a term which in one of his moments of playfulness Mr. Reed applied to Sir William Lyne. Apparently…

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Assault in a Church

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 9 September 1907 · page 2

Constable Howard was assaulted by three men whom he found drinking in the Roman Catholic Church at Rydelmere on Sydney afternoon…

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A burglar sentenced

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 16 September 1907 · page 2

A man named John Merris has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for burglary at Mr. Wertheimer's…

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The Monte Carlo Murder

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 23 September 1907 · page 2

In his examination, Goold stated that his wife helped him to strip Mme Levin of her money and jewellery…

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All-night Police Courts

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 23 September 1907 · page 4

The New York correspondent of the "Standard" has given particulars of the workings of the first all-night police court. He says that…

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The Kangaroo Flat Murder

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 27 September 1907 · page 2

The Victories detectives are h[?]ffied concerning the Kangaroo Fist tragedy, in which an old-age pensioner named Joseph Wendell Was…

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Police Court. THURSDAY, 26th SEPTEMBER (Before Mr. F. H. Galbraith, P.M., Messrs. Thos. Rodwell and A. H. Jeffreys, J's.P.)

Delegate Argus · Friday 27 September 1907 · page 5

A. E. Helmers v. A. McDonald; wages due, £2 I0s. After a considerable amount of evidence was heard, the Bench…

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Murder and incendiarism in China

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 30 September 1907 · page 2

The establishment of a [?] at Ka[?] and the placing of extra taxation on the people [?]…

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Police Court Proceedings

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 11 October 1907 · page 1

THE Police Court reports of the "[?] Mercury" will be a record of the business transacted, Without respect to the parties interested. The suppression of…

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The Inverell murder

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 11 October 1907 · page 2

Richards Miners, charged at [?] with murdering Joseph [?] has been [?] of men-slaughter, and remanded for…

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Petty Sessions Court

Delegate Argus · Friday 11 October 1907 · page 5

(Bench.—C. G. Holmes, Esq., P.M. and H.B. Hungerford, Esq., J.P.) Sam Singh Gill v. Mrs. Win Hutchison; debt, £1 2s 6d…

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Cooma Police Court. Monday, 7th OCTOBER, 1907. Before Mr. F. H. [?], P.M. Maliciously Killing a Cow

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 11 October 1907 · page 4

William [?] and Ernest [?] of Cowra C[?], appeared in answers to summonses charging them with maliciously Killing a cow, teh property…

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Bendoe Warden's Court. Saturday, October 5, 1907 (Before Mr.Warden Holmes)

Delegate Argus · Friday 11 October 1907 · page 5

William andy Inez Mealing proceeded against John Thomas, Charles, and William Stokes, of Quinburra, for having trespassed…

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Police Court. MONDAY, 14th October, 19O7. (Before Messrs. Thos. Redwell and A. H. Jeffreys, J's.P.)

Delegate Argus · Friday 18 October 1907 · page 5

WILLIAM SMITH was charged, on remand, with obtaining goods under false pretences from A. E. Paine, at Craigie, on or about the 30th August…

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A son charged with Murder

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 21 October 1907 · page 2

John Foster 29, labourer, has been arrested at Bright, Victoria on a charge of murdering his father, aged 68. The pair were…

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Dutriot Court

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 21 October 1907 · page 4

Cooma: Thursday, 17th October. Goulburn: Thursday, 3rd October. Queenbeyan: Tuesday, 3rd September…

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Cooma District Court

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 21 October 1907 · page 3

At the Cooma District Court to-day, before [?] Honor Judge Fitzhardinge, the following cases were dealt with:— James Railway McCoe, of Cooma,…

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District Court

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 25 October 1907 · page 4

[?] Wednesday, 30th October [?]…

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