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Courts & crime, 1899

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Walcha Police Court. (Monday, January 9. Before Mr. Erratt, J.P.)

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 4

Thomas Moran, charged with vagrancy, pleaded guilty. Sergt. Edwards stated that accused had a happy knack of visiting private…

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The Police Confident. a Clue Found Under a Culvert

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 3

The Police now profess to be confident that the latest information they have been placed in possession of will enable…

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A Local Scandal. Prompt Police Action. A Melancholy Matter

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 5

The high reputation which Armi. dale has hitherto enjoyed for its lawabiding and peaceful populace, is seriously threatened with destruction…

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Assault in a Train

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 January 1899 · page 2

The Railway Department is conducting an inquiry into the reported assault on two ladies while travelling on the northern train between Quirindi and Singleton a few days ago…

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Deepwater Police Court. Tuesday, January 10, (Before the P.M. and Mr. Pye, J.P.)

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 January 1899 · page 2

OBSCENE LANGUAGE.--David Paul was charged with using indecent language on the Deepwater racecourse, aud was fined £2 and 4s 10d costs, in default one month in Tenterfield gaol…

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From Altar to Court

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 20 January 1899 · page 4

IN the olden days the ancient city of Nur[?]burg passed as a highly moral, orderly, and quiet place. The people have, according to modern journals, changed some of their…

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Summons Court. MONDAY--January 16. (Before Mr. C. Lawson, P.M.))

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 20 January 1899 · page 2

HENRY MINIFIE v. Valentine Sachs--Work and labor done, £3 12s 3d. Henry Minifie stated that defendant (Sachs) advertised in Sydney for a traveller, to which he…

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Walch Police Court. (Wednesday, January 18. Before Mr. G. H. Erratt. J.P.)

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 21 January 1899 · page 2

Henry Kendall, charged with larceny, pleaded not guilty. Constable Hood deposed to the arrest of the accused, who owned that…

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Police Court. Wednesday, January 18.—(Before the P.M. and Mr. Jas. M'Lean, J. P.)

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 21 January 1899 · page 3

Francis Peter Pearss, who pursues the profession of a travelling tinker, was before the Court on a charge of stealing a dozen pocket knives, the…

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The Gatton Tragedy. Burgess Before the Toowoomba Court

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 21 January 1899 · page 3

Richard Burgess was brought before the Toowoomba court on Wednesday, and charged with having stolen a Saddle, the property of one…

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Court of Cassation. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 January 1899 · page 5

THE Court of Cassation has received information of treachery in 1894, but unaffecting Dreyfus…

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The Yarra Tragedy. the Three Accused in Court

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 January 1899 · page 4

A GREAT crowd assembled around the City Court and in its approaches on Friday, when Madame Olga Radalyski, Thelka Regina Dubberke, and Travace Alexander…

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Police Court

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 25 January 1899 · page 5

MONDAY.-- (Before Messrs E. Grainger and W. H. Readett J's.P) Samuel Keener, for dr[?]ness, was fined LI or 7 days…

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Police Court. Monday, January 23.—(Before the P.M.,[?])

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 25 January 1899 · page 2

Kate M'Shane, a young woman whose face didn't wear a very worried appearance, in fact vent to show that its owner treated matters in a very off handed manner, appeared…

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Warialda Licensing Court. Friday, 20Th January, 1899. (Before Messrs. O. A. Edwards and J. McMaster, Licensing Magistrates.)

The Warialda Watchman · Thursday 26 January 1899 · page 2

AN application from Stephen Cavanagh for a renewal of publican's license for the Yetman Hotel, was granted. The Inspector's report was…

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Warialda Small Debts' Court. Friday, 20Th January, 1899. (Before the P.M., Mr. O. A. Edwards, and Mr. J. Lanagan, J.P.)

The Warialda Watchman · Thursday 26 January 1899 · page 2

JOHN SMITH v. John Clark.--Claim for £7 17s. Case adjourned for a fortnight. E. A. Barrington v. W. Whalan.--…

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How a Prisoner Escaped From Gaol

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 27 January 1899 · page 7

A CORRESPONDENT writes:—Jack Sheppard's imitators are, happily, few and far between, and the recent remarkable attempt to escape…

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Missionary Murder

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 28 January 1899 · page 4

The British Ambassador at Pekin in pressing the Chinese Government to punish the murderers of the Missionary hilled at Panghar, in…

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Warden's Court

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 28 January 1899 · page 2

C. Erratt, as secretary for the Marchantville Mining and Prospecting Syndicate, applied for total exemption from labor on account of no water…

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Small Debts' Court

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 28 January 1899 · page 2

S. L. Goldman v. Mi's. Monteith, case settled. M. J. Walsh v. Wm. Farrell, summons to he continued…

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