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Courts & crime, 1875

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

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 28 August 1875 · page 2

DEHKENNESS AND RESISTING THIS POLICE. ——Joseph Brown was fined 10s for drunkenness, and a similar amount for resisting the police…

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Police News. Adelong Police Court. Tuesday, August 24

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 28 August 1875 · page 3

Before the Police Magistrate and Mr. Horsbrugh, J.P, PHILIP PHILLIPS was summoned by a Chinaman named Ah Ohni for throwing stones at his house. The evidence showed that defendant, who had worked for…

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Police Court. Saturday, August. 28.(Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Express · Wednesday 1 September 1875 · page 2

LARCENY.—Annie Macgregor, the child who was remanded from the previous day, on a charge of stealing goods from the-stores of Messrs. C. Cothorn and; IV Roper, was…

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Madams Lucy Chambers Charged with Assault

Wagga Wagga Express · Wednesday 1 September 1875 · page 4

MADAME Lucy Chambers, a [?] well-known in the colonial musical world, was charged, at the city police Court on Friday morning with having…

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Police Court. Friday, September 3. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 September 1875 · page 2

ASSAULT.—Michael Keefe was called on summons issued on the complaint of John Davis, charging him with assaulting Mary Ann Greenlish. Honora Davis deposed that…

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Police News. Gundagai Police Court. Monday, August 30. Before the Police Magistrate

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 4 September 1875 · page 3

JOHN WILLIAM WARDY, charged with obtaining goods and money from John Tillit by false pretences, was again brought up. The defendant, it may be remembered, had given Mr Tillitt and other innkeepers…

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Police Court. Wednesday, September 8. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 2

ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.—Daniel Abbott, George Edward Thomas, and Edward M‘Cabe were charged with assault, and robbery. Constable Keane deposed that it…

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Police News. Gundagai Police Court. Thursday, Septemeer 9. Before the Police Magistrate, and Messrs. Elworthy and Hayes, J.p.'s

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 3

PATRICK LINOH WAS charged with illegally usinga mare,th property of William Boyton, former, residing at Nangus. He pleaded not guilty, and was undefended. The evidence of complainant was to the effect that a…

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Gundagai Court of Requests. Tuesday, Seftemeer 7. (Before Messrs. Crowe and Elworthy, j.p.s.)

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 11 September 1875 · page 3

CHARLES HUNT V CHARLES WILLIAMS,for goods supplied adn services rendered £2 13s. 10d. This case arose form some transactions between the wives of the litigants. Defendant put in a set off for £3 1s…

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Police Court. Saturday, Sep I-ember 16. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Express · Wednesday 15 September 1875 · page 2

DRUNKENNESS.—John Thomas was fined £2 for drunkenness, 153, being amount of damage done to Government property in the look-up, and £5 for using obscene language…

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Police Court Wednesday, September 15.(Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 2

DRUNKENNESS.—Alex. Chambers, charged with being drunk and disorderly, was fined £2, with-the alternative of a month's imprisonment. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15…

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Police News. Gundagai Police Court. Saturday, September 11. Before the Police Magistrate and Mr Elworthy, J.P.

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 2

JOHN KEARNAN summoned Mr M. NORTON for 5s. due for wages. The evidence showed that Mr Norton engaged the complainant on Tuesday, the 7th inst.; but that complainant after working for a short time…

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Adelong Court of Requests. Tuesday, September 14. Before the Police Magistrate and Mr. Horsbrugh, J.P.

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 18 September 1875 · page 2

CHARLES SHAW v. SAMUEL WATSON, refreshments and money lent £5 11s. 6d. Plaintiff considered he could claim payment for drinks supplied to defendant, as he regarded him as a traveller, and had also…

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Police Court Saturday Sept. 18. (Before the Police Magistrate)

Wagga Wagga Express · Wednesday 22 September 1875 · page 2

DRUNKENNESS—John Coglan was fined 5s for drunkenness and £1 for inciting a person to resist a constable in the execution of his duty…

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Police Court. Thursday, September 23. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 2

VAGRANCY.—Mary Ann Scott and Eliza Jones were brought up charged with vagrancy, and were sentenced to 3 months’ imprisonment. The first also was fined 10s. and the latter…

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Police News. Gundagai Police Court. Saturday, September 18

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 3

Before the Police Magistrate and Mr Elworthy, J.P. ROBERT FORSTER was charged by Charles Field with stealing a dog of his at Billabong, on the 19th of August last. He pleaded not guilty…

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At the Police Office, Gundagai, On Wednesday, 20th October. Country Lots

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 8

Lot A, 217 acres; lot 13, 89 acres; lot C, 97 acres; lot D, 101 acres; lot E, 103 acres ; lot F, 139 acres, county Buccleuch, parish of Bundarbo, on the left bank of the Murrumbidgee…

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Crown Lands Sales. at the Police-office, Wagga Wagga, On Tuesday, 19th October. Country Lots

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 8

Lot A, 50 acres 2 roods, county of Clarendon, parish of Bilda, adjoining the southern boundary of C. Mc Kinnon’s conditional purchase of 40 acres, No. 77. Oura Ran. Exclusively…

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Police News. Gundagai Police Court. Saturday, September 25

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 2 October 1875 · page 3

Before the Police Magistrate and Mr J. B. Elworthy and Mr. J. Crowe, J.P.'s. The case of JESS[?] PAINE v. JAMES CONDELL, for indecent assault, was called on…

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Monday, September 27. Before the Police Magistrate and Mr. Elworthy, J.P.

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 2 October 1875 · page 3

JAMES CONDELL v. JESSIE PAINE. The charge in this case was that the defendant had been an accessory in the assault committed upon the prosecutor by Wm. Paine, on the 8th of July last…

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