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Courts & crime, 1866

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Court of Requests. Monday, March 12Th, 1866

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 17 March 1866 · page 2

JOHN Dite v. Ab Gam, balance of purchase money of horse, £2. No parties. Gibbes v. Roohan, balance of professional costs, £8 18s. 4d. The defendant did not appear…

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Insolvency Court. Monday, March 19

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 24 March 1866 · page 2

(Before E. H. Tompson, Esq., Acting Commisioner.) In the estate of Jonathan Boon, late of Albury, horse trainer. Insolvent was examined on oath,…

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Court of Requests. Tuesday, March 20

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 24 March 1866 · page 2

(Before G. Forsyth, Esq., J.P.) CLARKE v. MARKS, money lent £4 3s. 6s. Mr. Willans appeared for the plaintiff. Defendant admitted the debt. Verdict for plaintiff for £4 3s…

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Police Court. Monday, March 26

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 31 March 1866 · page 2

DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—Charles Smith and Catherine Connelly were charged with being drunk and disorderly on Sunday. last. Both prisoners pleaded guilty, Smith was fined £1, or two days…

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Local & General Intelligence Tumut Police Court. Thursday March 29Th. Before the Police Magistrate

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Monday 2 April 1866 · page 2

Bernard Kelly appeared upon summons for a breach of the 44th clause of the Licensed Publican's Act, but the Clerk of Petty Sessions having failed to summon a second Magistrate…

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Local & General Intelligence Tumut Police Court. Monday, April 2Nd. Before E. O'Mara, Esq., J.P.

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 5 April 1866 · page 2

Joseph Teed, charged with being drunk and disorderly in Fifzroy-street, on Sunday forenoon, was cautioned and discharged. SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday last…

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Police Court. Monday, April 2

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 7 April 1866 · page 2

(Before the Police Magistrate.) DESERTION.—James Pradden was brought up before the Bench, having, given himself up to the police as a deserter from Her Majesty's 12th…

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Local & General Intelligence Tumut Police Court. Thursday, April 5Th. Before the Police Magistrate

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Monday 9 April 1866 · page 2

George Curll, of Gadara, a free selector, was brought before the Court on warrant charged with threatening to assault and stab John Wilson, of the same place, also a free-selector. The…

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Friday, April 6Th. Before the Police Magistrate and Henry Hayes, Esq., J.P.

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Monday 9 April 1866 · page 2

Bernard Kelly, landlord of the Shamrock Inn, Tumut Bridge, pleaded guilty to a breach of the 44th clause of the Licensed Publican's Act, by allowing his wife to sell spirits at a booth on the…

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Court of Requests

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Monday 9 April 1866 · page 2

Eight cases were entered for trial, five of which were settled out of Court. William Smiles v. John Stevens, for amount of a promissory note, £6, was continued till…

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Local & General Intelligence Tumut Police Court. Monday, April 9Th. Before The Police Magistrate

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 12 April 1866 · page 2

John Wilson was brought before the Court by Constable Cullen charged with having in his possession a pair of new kip blucher boots, which he was suspected to have obtained…

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Wednesday, April 11Th. Before the Police Magistrate

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 12 April 1866 · page 2

William Kelly pleaded guilty to a charge of sing obscene language in a public place, and was ordered to pay a fine of 20s. with the alternative of being locked up for 48 hours…

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Local & General Intelligence Tumut Police Court. Friday, April 13Th. Before the Police Magistrate

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Monday 16 April 1866 · page 2

David Wootton pleaded guilty to a charge of using obscene language in a public place, and was ordered to pay a penalty of 20s. with the alternative of 48 hours imprisonment…

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Local & General Intelligence. Tumut Police Court. Monday, April 16Th. Before the Police Magistrate

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 19 April 1866 · page 2

George Dawson was brought before the Court by Sergeant Tant, having been found lying in the Court-house yard suffering from the effects of intemperance and was looked up for…

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Police Court. Monday, April 17

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 21 April 1866 · page 2

(Before the Police Magistrate, J. J. Fennell, and T. W. Hammond, Esq., Js.P.) WAGES.—Waller v. Gesse.—The complainant in this case had been cooking for Mr. Gasse at the…

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Local & General Intelligence. Tumut Police Court. Friday, April 20Th. Before the Police Magistrate and L. Mandelson, Esq., J.P.

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Monday 23 April 1866 · page 2

Dennis Conroy pleaded guilty to a charge of using obscene language in a public place, and was ordered to pay a penalty of 20s. with the alternative of 48 hours imprisonment…

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Desperate Attack of Prisoners on a Police Escort

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Monday 23 April 1866 · page 2

ON Saturday evening a telegram was received by the Inspector-general of police, intimating that a terrible encounter had taken place between the police and some prisoners they were escorting from Berrima to…

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Local & General Intelligence Tumut Police Court. Tuesday, April 24Th. Before the Police Magistrate

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 26 April 1866 · page 2

John Wilson, Charlotte Wilson, and George Bowles were brought before the Court on warrant charged with unlawfully, maliciously and feloniously killing a dark bay colt, the property of…

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Cattle-stealing Suppression Association

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1866 · page 3

A meeting of gentlemen interested in pastoral pursuits was held at the Australian Hotel on Wednesday afternoon last, for the purpose of initiating an…

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Circuit Court

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1866 · page 2

THE first Circuit Court ever held in Wagga Wagga, was opened by Mr. Justice Faucett, on Monday morning last, the 23rd, at .10 a.m. The only barristers in attendance were the Hon. R. M. Isaacs,…

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