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Courts & crime, 1870

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Thursday, December 30Th. Before the Police Magistrate

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1870 · page 2

GEORGE McEVEN was fine 10s. 48. hours imprisonment for being drunk and disrd[?] on the previous evening. He took it out in the Look up…

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Gundagai Police Court. Tuesday, December 28Th

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1870 · page 2

Before the Police Magistrate, and J. Jenkins, Esq., The adjourned application of Patrick Burke for a publican's license for his house at Eurengilly again came before the Court…

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Correspondence. Mr. P. W. Creagh and the Police to the Editor

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1870 · page 3

SIR.—Permit me to complete the quotations from "Taylor on Evidence" given in the letter of Mr. P. W. Creagh in your last week's issue. Immediately following the first extract, are those…

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Wagga Police Court. Wednesday, December 29, 1869. (Before the Police Magistrate and F. A. Tompson, Esq., J.P.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 5 January 1870 · page 3

THE great Parrot cass of Delanty v. Hunt, adjourned from the 24th instant, was proceeded with, when witnesses were called for the defence. Thomas Creeny deposed that…

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Gundagai Police Court, Monday January 3Rd. Before the Police Magistrate

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1870 · page 2

JAMES STEWARD, for being drunk and disorderly on the previous night, was fined £1 or 48 hours imprisonment. ALEXANDER PATTERSON was charged with stealing two bank notes of £1 and 4s from from John Dowling at Leary's…

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Waggawagga Police Court. Friday, January 7, 1870. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 8 January 1870 · page 2

John Sullivan was charged on remand with uttering, forged orders on George Forsyth, and Co. The former depositions having been read over, the prisoner was fully…

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Court of Requests. Tuesday, January 4Th

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1870 · page 2

Before the Police Magistrate, J. B. Elworthy and P. J. O'Donnell, Esq's J.P.'s RICHARD PODMORE v. WILLIAM DEIGHTON, Mr. Peerkings for defendant…

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Gundagai Police Court. Tuesday, January 11Th Before the Police magistrate

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 15 January 1870 · page 2

CHARLES SEBASTIAN BYRNE, remanded from last week, was again brought before the court, charged with obtaining money on false pretences from John Brackie Wilson, landlord of the Squatter's Hotel, Five Mile…

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Brutal Murder Near Brisbane

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 15 January 1870 · page 4

A MOST brutal murder was perpetrated on Sunday night or Monday morning, the 2nd or 3rd instant, somewhere close to the bank of the river, near Mr…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, January 17, 1870. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 19 January 1870 · page 2

Christopher Kavanagh was charged with stealing a watch. Sergeant Carroll deposed that from information received he arrested the prisoner and charged him with stealing…

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Gundagai Police Court. Tuesday, January 13Th Before the police Magistrate, and J Crowe, fsq J.P.

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 22 January 1870 · page 2

The adjourned case of BROOKS PURSTER, charged by EDWARD SHEATHER with having left a fire unextinguished at Native Dog creek, on the 3rd inst., again came before the Bench…

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Wagga Police Court. Friday January 21, 1870. (Before F. A. Tompson, Esq., J.P.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 22 January 1870 · page 3

JACOB WARNER. was summoned by his wife, Christina Warner, for threatening to kill her. Christina Warner deposed that she was the wife of defendant; had been married to him…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, January 21, 1870. Before the Police Magistrals and F. A. Tompson, Esq., J.P.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 26 January 1870 · page 2

LUKE DOOLAN was charged with stealing a purse containing £3, the property of William Dover. Patrick Ryani deposed that on the previous evening lie saw prisoner drunk in…

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Gundagai Police Court. Tuesday, January 25TH.. Before the Police Magistrate

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 29 January 1870 · page 2

JOHN POWER FITZGERALD was brought before the court on another charge, that of uttering a forged cheque for £5 to Michael Crowe, innkeeper, North Gundegai…

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Police Evidence. to the Editor

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 29 January 1870 · page 3

SIR,—The letter of on this subject, in reference to mine, which appeared in your issue of the 25th December last, has come under my notice. To the vulgar personal abuse contained in that…

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Wagga Police Court. Tuesday, January 25, 1870. (Before the Police Magistrate and F. A. Tompson, Esq., J.P.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 2 February 1870 · page 2

LEAVING FIRES BURNING.—Thomas Lee and Brookes Foster were charged with, having, at Wantabadgery, on the 31st December last, unlawfully left a fire burning…

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Police Stupidity

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 2 February 1870 · page 2

An inquest has been held on the body of George Butler, a gunner in the Royal Artillery, who died in the Westminster Hospital from a rapture of a bloodvessel in his heart. There was nothing peculiar in…

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The Late Murder at Brisbane

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 2 February 1870 · page 3

QUITE a sensation was created in Brisbane, says the Express of the 20th instant, by the intelligence that two persons had at length been apprehended by the police in…

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Madame Celeste in Court

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 2 February 1870 · page 1

At the Birmingham County Court Madame Celeste, the well-known actress, recently brought on action to recover £7 10s. from Mr. J. C. Smith, manager of the Bradford Theatre, upon an I O U. The…

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Lam and Police Courts. London. an Extraordinary Confession

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 2 February 1870 · page 1

George Dyer, a person of diminutive stature, has been brought up before Mr. Vaughan, charged, on his own confession, with having murdered George Wilson, at the gold diggings at Loddon, in Victoria,…

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