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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1902

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Hay Police Court. Monday—Before Mr Martin, P.M.

Riverina Times, Hay Standard and Journal of Water Conservation · Monday 20 January 1902 · page 2

Harry Prendergast was charged with riding a horse so as to endanger the safety of the public. Mr. Robertson appeared for the…

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Hay Police Court. Tuesday.—(Before the P.M.)

Riverina Times, Hay Standard and Journal of Water Conservation · Thursday 23 January 1902 · page 4

John Ernest Denby was charged under Section 4 of the Vagrant Act, by Constable Nesbitt, with being found wandering in company with an…

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Deniliquin Police Court. Saturday, January 18. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

The Independent · Friday 24 January 1902 · page 3

[?] Briggs pleaded guilty to bring [?]unk, and was discharged; but John riggs pleaded not guilty to a similar [?]arge, and was fined 5s or 24 hours' in…

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Wodonga Police Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 January 1902 · page 21

At this court yesterday Bartholomew Bruen, an elderly man, was charged, on remand, by Constable Deverell with having on 7th January obtained 2s 6d. from Stephen Carkeek…

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Corowa Police Court. Thursday, January 23, 1902. (Before Mr. F. Chambers, J.P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 January 1902 · page 3

Chas Drammond, Indecent language fined £1. RECORD LOAD OF WHEAT.--A load of wheat, which is said to be the record for…

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Wancunyan Police Court. Tuesday, January 21, 1908. (Before Mr. W. C. Baylies, J. P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 January 1902 · page 3

Hansah Holt was charged with entering and stealing from the dwelling of Mr. A. C. Macknight a watch and chain valued at £5…

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Small Debts Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 January 1902 · page 3

At this court on Tuesday an interpleader case was called on in the matter of Bunton v. Benjamin. Bunton had obtained a judgment and proceeded to…

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Albury Police Court. Monday, January 20. (Before Mr. S. Murphy, P.m.) Breach of Licensing Act

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 January 1902 · page 15

Oscar York pleaded guilty to leaving a licensed house on Sunday with liquor in his possession. Senior-sergeant Musgrove depose[?] to…

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Mail Coach Robbed. Bag of Opals Stolen. an Impudent Theft. Broken Hill

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1902 · page 3

A most impudent and successful robbery took place this morning, when the mail bag booked from White Cliffs to Broken Hill was stolon from the mail coach. The bag…

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A Farmer's Wife's Death. Allegation of Murder. Exhumation of the Body. the Husband Arrested

The Independent · Friday 24 January 1902 · page 4

The supposed accidental death on December 6, at Koorah South, some distance from St. Arufud, of a married woman named Martha Hawkins, through the explosion of…

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Deniliquin Police Court. Saturday, January 18. (Before Mr J. Kelly, J. P.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 25 January 1902 · page 2

William Briggs, drunkenness ; discharged. John Briggs, drunkenness ; fined 5s or 2[?] hours’ MONDAY, JANUARY 20. (Before Messrs F. W Garstang, P.M., and J…

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The Quarterly Licensing Court

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 28 January 1902 · page 2

The Quarterly Licensing Court sat this forenoon, there being present the P.M. and Messrs Stevenson and Johnston. The P.M. said that before starting the…

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Balranald Police Court. Friday, 24Th January, 1902. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 29 January 1902 · page 3

Executors of late Thomas Linton v. Harry Ward, £1 2s 4d for balance of account for goods sold and delivered. Mr. A J. Robertson appeared for…

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Hay Police Court

Riverina Times, Hay Standard and Journal of Water Conservation · Thursday 30 January 1902 · page 4

Tuesday. — (Before the P.M. and Messrs J. Johnston, A. C. Stevenson and W. S. Tyson, J.P.'s.) James Alderton v. R. C. M'Kinney,…

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Hay Police Court. Thursday—Before the P.M.

Riverina Times, Hay Standard and Journal of Water Conservation · Thursday 30 January 1902 · page 2

Am Ain Morin, an Indian was charged with stealing one sheep skin, the property of Merungle Station. Constable Queenan stated that at 9…

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Alleged Horse Stealing

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 January 1902 · page 29

At the police court at Forbes Lewis Waller, alias Henry Bradley, was charged with having stolen a horse, the property of Albert Sinclair, on February 25, 1899. It…

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Murderous Assault. Fatal Result

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 January 1902 · page 36

A quarrel took place in Hay-street, outside the Criterion Hotel, Perth (W.A.), which resulted in the death of one of the participants, John Gray, aged 37, a native of Port Fairy…

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Police Arms

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 January 1902 · page 29

A return received by the Premier details the arms in charge of the Police Department. The Colt's revolvers were, it seems, imported by the late Sir James Martin…

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Mathoura Police Court. Monday, January 27. (Before Mr F. W. Garatang P.M.)

The Independent · Friday 31 January 1902 · page 4

James Ste[?] was charged with that he [?] the 25th of January willfully ob[?] officer, to wi[?] Thomas Hurst, [?] table, while in the execution of…

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Brutal Assault at [?]athoura. on Senior Constable Hurst

The Independent · Friday 31 January 1902 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon last, about five o'clock, a resident of this town named Albert Prent[?] was arrested by Senior-constabel Hurst for being drunk and…

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