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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1893

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Berrigan Police Court. Monday, May 22Nd. [Before Mr W. J. Greggery, J.P.]

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 26 May 1893 · page 2

Patrick Kelly was taken charge of by the police for his own protection and remanded to Jerilderie for medical treatment. THURSDAY, MAY 25TH…

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Rutherglen Police Court. Tuesday, May 23. (Before Mr. W. O. Bayliss, J.P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 May 1893 · page 3

Constable Gribbin v. Wm. Pool jun., unlawfully and feloniously conspiring with Wm. Tyrell to defraud Wm. Poole, sen. Remanded to Corowa,…

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Deniliquin Municipal Appeal Court. Thursday, May 25.(Before the Police Magistrate.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 27 May 1893 · page 3

The following Municipal Appeal Cases were dealt with :— George Chandler, Assessment. Sustained. J. Burchfield, Reduced to £30 by agreement…

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Moama Appeal Court. Monday, May 22. (Before the Police Magistrate, Mr N. C. O’Neill.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 27 May 1893 · page 3

D. McLaren, H. Orrell, J. Field, E. A. Kinsey, J. Geddes and J. Laurence appealed against the Municipal valuators of their respective properties at Moama…

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Mathoura Police Court Tuesday, May 23.(Before the Police [?] and Messrs [?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 27 May 1893 · page 2

Henry Ward was charged [?] Maria [?]…

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Deniliquin Police Court. Monday, May 22.(Before Messrs James Watson, and Davies, J’s P.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 27 May 1893 · page 2

Henry Ward on from [?] charged with caltle [?] He was [?] appear at Mathoura on the 23rd TUESDAY, MAY 23…

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An Assault Case

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 30 May 1893 · page 2

At the Police Court yesterday before the P.M., Thomas Collard and John Andrews, two young men of about 25 yours of ago, were charged with assaulting Henry Spicer…

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Cattle Stealing by Blacks

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 June 1893 · page 28

The Alice Springs correspondent of the Adelaide Register reports:—“ Mounted constable Daer, of the Western police patrol, arrived on Wednesday, bringing six aboriginal…

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Rutherglen Police Court. Tuesday, May 30. (Before Messrs. Bayliss and Pearce, Js.P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 June 1893 · page 2

R J. Burrowes v. A. Ralston, £3 15s. 10d. Order amount with £1 6s. costs. J R. Wallace applied for a stage carriers licence, which was granted…

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Corowa Police Court. Friday, May 26, 1893. (Before Messrs. Johnson and Piggin, Js.P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 June 1893 · page 2

Thos. Gilchrist, drunkenness, fined is, or imprisoned till the rising of the court. A charge of using obscene language was…

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Berrigan Police Court. Friday, May 19, 1893. (Before Messrs. H. H. Budd and W. J. Greggery, Js.P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 June 1893 · page 2

Thomas D an (15) was charged with indecent assault on a girl four years and five months old. The case was heard with closed doors. Dean was committed for trial at the…

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Another Plot to Murder the Czar. London, May 26

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 June 1893 · page 21

It is reported that a serious and widespread Nihilist plot has been discovered, tho object of which was to murder the Czar. One hundred Nihilists have been arrested at Warsaw, and it…

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Deniliquin Police Court. Monday, May 29 (Before the Police Magistrate) Summon[?] Case

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 June 1893 · page 2

Harry Trist v. James Cain. Damage to property. There was no appearance of either party and the case was struck out:…

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Deniliquin Municipal Court. Monday, May 29

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 June 1893 · page 2

Present:—Aldermen M. Mackenzie, Mayor chair), G. Evans:, Fagan, Jane. Carew. M Laman. Jefferson, and J. G. Evans. The minutes of the previous meeting were…

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An Uncageable Gaol Bird. (Pall Mall Budget, 20Th April

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 6 June 1893 · page 4

There is in Holloway gaol at the present moment, under remand on a charge of breaking out of prison, a man named John Charles Leonard, alias…

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Alleged Burglary

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 7 June 1893 · page 2

AT the police court on Tuesday, before the P.M., George O'Brien and John Connors were charged with breaking and entering the dwelling house of William Newton, and…

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Balranald Police Court. Thursday, 1St June. [Before E. L. Rowling, Esq., P.M.]

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 7 June 1893 · page 2

Robert Reaper, a lad about 14 years of age, appeared in custody, charged on suspicion of stealing a horse, saddle, and bridle, the property of G. H…

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A Murder Revealed by a Ghost

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 7 June 1893 · page 1

FOR some time after the Jacobite rising of 1745 had been suppressed by the crushing defeat of the Highland Clans at Culloden, the whole of the North of Scotland…

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Burglary at Parkes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 June 1893 · page 29

A Parkes telegram says:—“The store of Mr. A. Pholeros was burglariously entered on Monday night. The burglars broke open a Milner’s patent safe, and abstracted a sum of…

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Burglary at Hay

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 June 1893 · page 29

The Hay Standard says:—“On Thursday Sight the premises of Miss Wilson, in Johnston-street, was broken into and the chest of drawers ransacked, and all her jewellery, a…

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