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Courts & crime, 1873

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Police Court. Friday, August 11. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 16 August 1873 · page 2

BREACH OF THE TOWNS POLICE ACT.— William Crisp, George Mumford, George Smith, James Pike, and Michael Keefe, were fined 5s with costs of court each for allowing animals to stray in the…

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Police Court. (Before the Police Magistrate.) Wednesday, August 13

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 16 August 1873 · page 4

FALSE PRETENCES.—James Rochford was charged with obtaining money and goods from Jonathan Boon, publican, of Newtown, by falsely representing that he had a load of potatoes coming down, a portion of…

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Police Court. Saturday, August 16. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 20 August 1873 · page 2

DRUNKENNESS.—John Edwards, upon a charge of drunkenness, was cautioned and discharged…

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Monday, Aug. 16. (Before the Police Magistrate)

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 20 August 1873 · page 2

DRUNKENNESS,—Mary Ann Ashton, charged with drunkenness, was fined £2, with the option of a week in gaol. A charge of using obso[?] language against the same woman, who was some what…

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Police Court. Friday August 22. (Before the Police Magistrate and Mr. J. F. Jenkins, J.P.)

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 23 August 1873 · page 2

PERJUAY.—James Benaley appeared upon summons charging him with having committed perjury. Mr. William appeared for the prosecution and Mr. Garland for the defence…

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Police News. Gundagai Police Court. Saturday, August 19Th. Before the Police Magistrate and J. B. Elworthy, Esq., J.P.

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 23 August 1873 · page 2

THOMAS STEVENS and FRANCIS, remanded from the previous day on a charge of haring in their possession the carcase of a beast of which they could give no satisfactory account, were brought up…

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Police Court. Friday, August 22. (Before the Police Magistrate and J., F. Jenkins, Esq., J.p.) Perjury

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 23 August 1873 · page 2

James Bensley, a constable of police, stationed at Wagga, was charged, on the information of Samuel Hawkins, with having committed wilful and corrupt perjury in certain evidence given by him before the…

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District Court

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 23 August 1873 · page 2
Also in Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser

The sittings of the District Court will commence on Tuesday, August 26, before his Honor Acting-Judge Forbes. The following is the list of cases for hearing:—…

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Police Court. (Before J. C. Bowler and John Ross, Esqs. J,J.P.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 23 August 1873 · page 2

Herbert Leslie was charged with issuing a valueless cheque for the sum of £10, whereby he obtained from John C. Pabst value for the said cheque. Senior-constable Brislan deposed that he arrested prisoner on…

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Court of Central Sessions

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 23 August 1873 · page 2

THE Court of General Sessions will be opened by his Honor Acting-Judge Forbes on Monday. The following are the cases for trial :— John Joseph Cheeney, Cattle-stealing…

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Police Court. Monday, August 25. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 27 August 1873 · page 2

FORGERY AND UTTERING.—John Ryran, alias Michael Boland, was charged with forging and [?]ttering a cheque of the value of £5 4s., in the name of Mr. John Cox, of Mangoplah. The prisoner, it seems,,…

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District Court. Tuesday, August, 26. (Before His Honor Acting Judge Forbes.) Undkfrnded Cases

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 27 August 1873 · page 2

Bentley and Hawki[?]s v. Bullock Printing, &c. £ 835. This oase was postponed for hearing from the last District Court sittings. Mr. Willans appeared for the plaintiffs, and, the debt being proved,…

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Court of General Sessions. Monday, August, 25, (Before His Honor Acting Judge Forbes.)

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 27 August 1873 · page 2

THE Quarter Sessions opened at 10 O' clock on Monday last at the Court House, before his Honor Acting Judge Forbes. Mr. Wilkinson acted as Crown Prosecutor, and Mr. Dillon was the other…

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District Court. Tuesday, August 26. (Before His Honor Acting-Judge Forbes.) Bentley and Hawkins V. BULLOCK

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 27 August 1873 · page 2

This was a case postponed from last Court, in consequence of some defect in the service of the su[?]ons. Mr. Willams, who appeared for plaintiffs, satisfied the Court that defendant was properly informed of the…

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Police News. Gundagai Police Court Wednesday, August 27Th. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 30 August 1873 · page 2

SUSAN JEFFERIES, wife of John Jefferies, farmer, Gabarralong, was charged with being of unsound mind. Her husband's evidence showed that she had some months ago suffered from an attack of colonial fever,…

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How a Murder Was Discovered

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 30 August 1873 · page 4

The 'Pall Mall Gazette' says:—The doctrine of the transmigration of souls has seldom been of such practical utility as in a recent case at Akola, in the Bombay presidency, when his…

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The Hotham Murder. (Argus, Aug. 25.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 30 August 1873 · page 4

The trial of Elizabeth Shannon for the murder of her infant child Ruth Shannon, at Hotham, oh the 20th July, took place in the Criminal Court on Saturday, before Mr…

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Tumut District Court

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 30 August 1873 · page 2

THIS court was opened at 2 o'clock p.m. on the 2lst instant by his Honor Judge Forbes. The following legal gentlemen were present—Messrs. Wilkinson, Dillon, and Emanuel…

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Extraordenary Murder of a Marchioness and Family

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 30 August 1873 · page 4

A Paris correspondent furnishes the following account of a shocking domestic tragedy, particulars of which will soon be fully placed before the world. The names,…

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