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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1898

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Deniliquin Small Debts Court. Wednesday, March 2, (Before the Police Magistrate.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 March 1898 · page 1

J. W. H. Wyse v. H. Stratton, subscription to newspaper, £6 13s 6d. Verdict for £3 1s 6d and costs. Plaintiff no suited as to balance…

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Deniliquin Police Court. Saturday, February 26. ., ' (Before Mr G. M. Marsh, J. P.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 March 1898 · page 1

George Young was fined 10s or three days for being drunk in End-street. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28. (Before the Police Magistrate.)…

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Deniliquin Bankruptcy Court. Wednesday, March 2.(Before the Registrar, Mr. N. C. O’Neill, P.m.) Re Andrew Black Mathewson

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 March 1898 · page 2

The adjourned examination under section 30 of the Bankruptcy Act, with reference to the insolvency of A. B, Mathewson, was continued. Mr Lam an appeared for the official assigne, Mr…

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Balranald Police Court. Saturday March 4Th. (Before Mr. G. Atkin P.M. and Mr. A. Malcolm J.P.)

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 9 March 1898 · page 2

Three boys named Walter and Napoleon Rolton and Walter Thorou, were charged with stealing a boat the property of Walter G. Rolton, valued at…

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EUSTON. March 6. Small Debts Court

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 9 March 1898 · page 2

A Small Debts Court was held at Euston on Tuesday, the 1st inst., the P.M., Mr. Thomas (Wentworth), and Mr. J. McLeod, J.P., adjudicating…

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Attempted Murder

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 March 1898 · page 37

Word was brought to the Rutherglen police on Tuesday morning of a shooting affray at Gooramadda. From the scanty particulars available it appears that an Italian named…

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A Bush Murder

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 March 1898 · page 36

After a trial extending over ten days (writes a Dunedin correspondent), Frank Philpott, alias Stanhope, has been found guilty of the murder of his mate…

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Children's Column. Stealing a Jaguar's Prey

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 March 1898 · page 14

Suddenly I felt a horrible sensation as though the earth was slipping from under my feet and I was sinking, sinking into the ground…

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Licensing Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 March 1898 · page 17

At this court on Monday George Thomas Darby applied for a transfer of the license of the Courthouse Hotel. Senior-sergeant Brown opposed the application…

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Berrigan Police Court. Tuesday, March 8Th. (Before Mr E. J Gorman, J.P.)

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 11 March 1898 · page 3

[?] AND [?] LANGUAGE . Thomas Priest was charged with being drunk, also with having made use of obscene language…

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Wahgunyah Police Court. Friday, March 4,1898. (Before Messrs. R. Kilborn and H. Rosenbloom, Js. P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 March 1898 · page 3

Fritz Miller and August Kurze were charged, on the information of Maurice Gassies, with stealing about 45lbs. potatoes, about 4lbs. rice, a quantity…

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Small Debts Court Wednesday, March [?] [Before Hon [?] (chairman) and [?] Jones [?]

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 11 March 1898 · page 3

Henry Anderson v. John O’Toole. Claim for £7 2s [?] or board and lodgings. Order for [?] and [?] Daniel Corcoran v William [?]. Claim…

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Deniliquin Police Court. Monday, March 7.(Before Messrs. W. J. Davies and H. J. Wooldridge J’s.P.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 2

Isabella Hart, on a charge of being of unsound mind, was remanded for eight days for medical observation. TUESDAY, MARCH 8…

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Deniliquin Bankruptcy Court Saturday, March 6. (Before the Registrar, Mr. N. C. O’Neill, P.M. ) Re Andrew Black Mathewson

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 2

The adjourned examination of the bankrupt by Mr Laman, for the official assignee, was continued. A. B. Mathewson, re-called deposed that he had searched but had not found the memo, referred to…

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Corowa Police Court. Friday, March 11, 1898. (Before Messrs. Lealip and F.C. piggi. Js.P)

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 15 March 1898 · page 3

William O'Brien, drunk, fined 1s., or imprisonment till rising of the court, [?] Thomas Morton, drunkend disorderly, fined 2s. 6d.,or 6 hours imprisonment,…

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Serious Assault on a Farmer. Four to One. The Assailants Arrested

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 15 March 1898 · page 4

To be set upon by roughs and almost killed after going through nearly 60 years of life without accident to health or limb is one of the hardest experiences we know of…

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New Small Debts Court Rules

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 16 March 1898 · page 2

IN the "Government Gazette" dated the 3rd inst. is published a new list of mien framed under the Small Debts Amendments Act of 1880 for Country…

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Germanton Police Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 March 1898 · page 37

At the Germanton police court on 12th inst James M'Dermott, a laborer, renting a small piece of land on the boundary of Annandayle, Whomargama, was charged with sheep stealing…

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Charge of Stealing Lottery Tickets

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 March 1898 · page 28

Stewart Fairbairn, a man about 50, who has been, for many years licensee of the Fitzroy Hotel, Napier-street, Fitzroy, was on Saturday arrested on warrant on a…

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The Sanitary Question. Test Cases at the Police Court

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 18 March 1898 · page 2

At the Court of Petty Sessions, this morning, before the P.M., Nicholas Johns Trevena was charged, on summons, on the information of the Council Clerk, that he being the…

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