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218 stories in Riverina's papers · page 1 of 11
THOMAS WILLIAMS, charged with using obscene language, was convicted and fined £2 or a month in gaol. William Thomas was charged, on remand,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There are times when the virtues of those whom we know pretty well inspire us with very much more astonishments than their vices. When we say…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WILLIAM BRACKEY WILSON was charged by John Kellby with feloniously stealing from him £15 10s. on the 10th instant. The case was gone into at some length…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JOHN KELLY, who on Friday, the 13th instant, charged William Brackey Wilson, innkeeper, of Five Mile Creek, with stealing £15 10s. from him, on the 10th instant, was, on the evidence taken on that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JAMES HEDGER v. THOMAS THURLOW, work done £2 19s. 6d. Plaintiff claimed the above amount for eight and-a-half days' labor at 7s. a day. Defendant did not appear; judgement for plaintiff for £3 7s. 2d…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JAMES FRAN[?] on bail, was after a lengthened investigation committed for trial at next Gundagai General Sessions, on 3rd July next, for wilful and corrupt per[?] Mr. N. Emanuel appeared for defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JOHN POLLOCK was charged by JAMES ELPHIC with assault; both were mere lads, and the difference seemed to have arisen in consequence of Elphic having intruded on the premises of the untenanted flour mill at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JAMES FRANCIS, on bail, again came before the court, charged with having committed wilful and corrupt perjury at the trial of Hedger v. Francis, heard before. Judge Francis at the last sittings of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JAMES DELANEY was summoned by John Clarke, as agent for Sarah Varney, for unlawfully detaining two jugs. Defendant did not appear. Samuel Gorman, in the employ…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WILLIAM PATON was fined 40s. for using obscene language in Sheridan-street on the previous evening; fine paid. RICHARD WORLDRON was charged with attempting to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JOHN MENTON, charged with being drunk and disorderly, was lined £1 or a week's imprisonment. John Dolaney, summoned for assault,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As inquest was held at Dry Creek, Kilmore, on Saturday, January 21, on the body of a woman, name unknown, who was murdered at Dry Creek early…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →JOHN O'LEARY, charged with using indecent language to one Bridget Downy in a public place, was convicted and fined £5, or three months in gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JAMES McDOWALL summoned THOMAS REID, contractor, Jugiong, under the Master and Servants Act, for £1 18s. 2d. due to him for wages. Complainant claimed 11s. 2d. due as balance of n former account,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CHARLES WILSON charged with being drunk, and using obscene language, was fined 10s. or four days in gaol. John Stott was charged with vagrancy,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →RICHARD KEKFE was summoned for having, on the nth instant, sold a quantity of spirituous liquors to one Stephen Beasley. Defendant pleaded not guilty. Stephen Beasley…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JOHN FARRELI was charged with resisting the police. Prisoner had been arrested for being drunk and disorderly, and resisted furiouely, requiring the services of three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WILLIAM BARTON and JOHN POLLOCK were charged, under the provisions of the Act 17th Vic. No. 3 [?]6, with unlawfully taking a horse, the property of Stephen Elphic, on the 13th inst. They pleaded not guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ANNIE DOWNIE was charged with stealing. Sergeant Carroll deposed that he arrested the prisoner on the charge of having stolen, on the 5th February, seven sovereigns, four…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ah Ful was summoned by Ah Chong for unlawfully assaulting him with a tomahawk. This was the result of the row in one of the Chinese opium shops near the Bridge:—…
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