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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1871

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, May 16, 1871. (Before the Police Magistrate and F. A. Tompson, Esq.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 17 May 1871 · page 2

JOHN HOLBURT was charged with allowing colonial wine, sold by him under a license, to be consumed on the premises.—Mr. Windeyer (Willans and Windeyer) for the…

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Murder of Generals

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 17 May 1871 · page 4

IN the first excitement two generals were seized, and cruelly shot. General Lecomte was abandonod by his troops, and taken at Montmartre. General…

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Hard Lines. (From the Melbourne Punch.) SCENE—The Criminal Court, last

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 17 May 1871 · page 4

A JURYMAN: your Honour, the jury wish to retire for a tow minutes. Some of them are very faint, as they took breakfast at an early hour…

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Court of Requests. Tuesday, May 16Th. Before the Police Magistrate and J. B. Elworthy, Esq., J. P.

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 20 May 1871 · page 2

WILLIAM PAINE V. JOHN KEICHONE; damage to sheep £10. Mr Emanuel for plaintiff, Mr Perkins for defendant. Plaintiff claimed the above sum for damage alleged…

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Wagga Police Court. Tuesday, May 23. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 24 May 1871 · page 2

JOHN PLUMMER pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny, and was sentenced to 6 months in gaol…

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Gundagai Police Court. Saturday, May 20Th. Before the Police Magistrate

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1871 · page 2

DANIEL MURPHY V. MICHAEL CORRY ; assault. This case occupied the court for a long time. The chief facts stated were that defendant had rented a farm from complainant, at Spring Flat, that the latter had…

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Wagga Police Court. Friday, May 26. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 27 May 1871 · page 2

CAROLINE CUMMINS was charged with vagrancy.—Constable Kean donosed that prisoner lived sometimes with Chinamen; she was with a Chinaman quarrelling in the…

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Wednesday, May 24Th. Before the Police Magistrate

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1871 · page 2

PETER REARDON was charged by Senior-constable M'Illicot with using obscene language on Tuesday night. M'Illicot and constable Smith deposed to defendant's using the expressions he was charged with uttering;…

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Monday, May 22Nd. Before the Police Magistrate

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1871 · page 2

JOHN GALLAGHER, half-caste, charged with the abduction of a girl under 16 years of age, named Margaret Noonan, was remanded to Yass, to answer this accusation…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, May 28Th. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 31 May 1871 · page 3

YAN KEE, alias Tommy, was charged with assault and robbery. George William Burney deposed he was a constable at Kyamba; on the 26th instant the prisoner…

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Burglary and Chloroform

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 31 May 1871 · page 4

UNDER this title we (Lancet) find a sensational story in the nowspapers about a lady at Stamford Hill, who went upstairs to her bed-room, and was there…

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Scene in the Police Court at Townsville

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 31 May 1871 · page 4

IN a case heard before the above Court on May 2, Rutherford v. Gibbs, for absconding from hired service, the following scene, as related by the Townsville correspondent of…

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Scene in a Country Police Court. (From the Dubbo Dispatch.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 31 May 1871 · page 4

BEFORE Mr. J. E. Serisier. Sergeant Wellings, addressing the Bench, said he held an information upon which a summons had issued and been served; but…

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Gundagai Police Court. Saturday, May 27Th. Before the Police Magistrate

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 3 June 1871 · page 2

ALEXANDER MARCOSCHIS was charged, on the information of Senior -sergeant Condell, with having on the 24th inst., music and dancing in his licensed house—the Commercial Hotel, without obtaining…

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Wagga Police Court. Friday, June 2. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 3 June 1871 · page 2

JOSHUA BEATTIE was summoned by James Seymour for the sum of £22 10s. Complainant bad been engaged by defendant to work at putting up an engine at Mittagong—…

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Stealing Newspapers

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 3 June 1871 · page 4

THIEVERY, whether of a pocket-book or a newspaper, is still thievery. We cannot find a difference between the one thief and the other ; and although the thieves who are…

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Wagga Police Court. Tuesday, June 6Th, 1871. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 7 June 1871 · page 2

ASSAULT.—William Smith v. W. B. Gilbert. Mr. Fitzhardinge, for plaintiff, in explaining the nature of the case to the Bench, characterised the conduct of the defendant in very…

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The Late Child Murder at Geelong. (From the Melbourne Age.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 7 June 1871 · page 4

ON Saturday, the 20th instant, the body of a male child was discovered on the beach at Corio Bay by a fisherman. The infant was apparently…

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Gundagai Police Court. Saturday, June 3Rd. Before the Police Magistrate

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 10 June 1871 · page 2

The adjourned case of PETER REARPON, charged with using obscene language on the 23rd ult., again came before the Court. The evidence of Constable Daly was taken and the decision on the was again postponed…

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Wagga Police Court. Thursday, June 8Th. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 10 June 1871 · page 2

CAROLINE CUMMINS was charged with robbery from the person.—Sergeant Carroll deposed that on that morning a mail named Alfred Ferris reported that he had been…

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