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Courts & crime, 1900

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Another Murder Reported

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 18 August 1900 · page 5

A man came to Narrabri by train on Thursday and stated that Mr. John Gately had been, shot near Rocky Glen on Wednesday by the…

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Armidale Police Court. Friday, August 17.—(Before Mr Parker, P.M)

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 18 August 1900 · page 4

John Porter, cabman, was summoned, at the instance of the Inspector of Nuisances, for a breach of the by-laws, in leaving his horse and cab in a public…

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Walcha Police point

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 18 August 1900 · page 3

Friday, August 17, before Messrs G.H. Erratt and J. Marshall, J's.P. Abdulla Khan, was charged with being of unsound mind. Evidence was…

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A Sheep-stealing Case

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 21 August 1900 · page 2

A case heard at the Broken Hill Quarter Sessions last Monday threw a grim sidelight on the terrible effects of the recent drought in the western…

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Police Court. Friday, August 17Th. Before Messrs O. A. Edwards, P.M., and J. Lanagan and H. L. Barrington, J's.P. Ownership of a Dog

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 21 August 1900 · page 2

A case in which a man named J. Simpson sought to recover possession of a sheep. dog from one Stephen Moore, a drover, occupied the…

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Wardens Court. Saturday, 18th August. BEFORE Mr. Warden Fitzhar Jingo

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 21 August 1900 · page 2

An Inquiry under the Gold and Mineral Dredging Act was held by the Warden in the local court into application 24, lodged by R. N. Elliot for 12 acres, being…

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Police Court

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 22 August 1900 · page 7

Monday.--(Before the P.M., and Messrs. Mather, Wilson and Chappell, J's.P) A drunk was fined 5s or 24 hours…

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Police Court. Wednesday 22nd AUGUST

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 24 August 1900 · page 2

BEFORE Major Fitzhardinge P.M. BREAKING AND ENTERING. A. man named William O'Reilly, alias Reily, alias Charles Jones, was charged…

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Walcha Police Court

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 4

Friday, August 17. Before Messrs G. H. Erratt and J. Marshall, J's.P. Police v. Abdulla Khan, supposed to be of unsound mind…

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Walcha Police Court

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 3

On Thursday, before Messrs Borthwick and Seckold, J's.P., Abdulla Khan was again brought up. Senior-Sergeant Edwards stated that…

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A Sheep-stealing Case

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 3

At the Broken Hill Quarter Sessions, Billy Williams, an aboriginal, and Charlie Mason, a halfcaste, were charged with stealing one sheep from…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Friday. Refusing to Adjudicate. Rule Discharged by the Full Court

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 4

The Fall Court to-day discharged the rule calling upon John Dight J. P. of Tam worth, to show cause why he should not be fined for non-attendance as a…

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The Breclong Blacks. Jacky Underwood Before the Court. Statement by the Prisoner. Fiendish Work at Breelong. Jimmy Governor's Ambition. to Be the Greatest Murderer in New South Wales

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 5

At the Gilgandra Police Court on Wednesday, Jacky Underwood made a sensational statement, of which the following is a portion: —…

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Alleged Murder

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 August 1900 · page 3

The Bombala police report the arrest of, a man named Sleigh, alleged to be the murdered of Francis Curran. He was very riotous and resisted arrest…

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Cardua Sentenced to Death. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 August 1900 · page 5

THE death sentence passed on lieutenant Cardua, one of the ringleaders in the recent conspiracy to assassinate British officers quartered at Pretoria…

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Sentenced to 15 Years. Melbourne, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 August 1900 · page 5

JOHN SAUNDERS, found guilty of burglary, with eleven previous convictions against him, was to day sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment, with a certain…

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A Brutal Murder. the Perpetrator Arrested. Sydney

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 28 August 1900 · page 2

A MURDER is reported from Cambalong Station, Bombala. A man named Sleigh is alleged to have not another man named Frank Cullen with a rifle, and to have…

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Waicha Police Court. Tuesday, August 28

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 1 September 1900 · page 2

Before the P.M., Mr. F. AV. Parker, and Messrs. Nivison, Walsh, Scott and Marshall, J'sP. William Walter Webb, 16 years of…

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Murder of King Humbert

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 September 1900 · page 5

ALBANY (W.A.), Saturday.—Files by the R.M.S. Rome contain accounts of the assassination of King Humbert. A Berne telegram stated that of the…

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Police Court. Monday.--(Before the P.M. and Messrs. Wilson and Maher, J's.P.)

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 5 September 1900 · page 2

Thomas Moore, for being drunk, was cautioned and discharged, John Murphy, for a similar offence, was fined 51 or 24 hours…

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