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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1878

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Wagga Police Court. Saturday, September 7. (Before the Police Magistrate)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 11 September 1878 · page 3

DRUNKENNESS.—Jas. Porter was cautioned and discharged…

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Monday, September 9. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 11 September 1878 · page 3

DRUNKENNESS.—Christina Howard and Hugh Campbell were cautioned and discharged. OBSCENE LANGUAGE.—Edward Archer was…

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Tuesday, September 10. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 11 September 1878 · page 3

OBSCENE LANGUAGE.—James Murray was charged with this offence and fined £2 or one month in gaol…

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Summons Cases. Tuesday September 10. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 11 September 1878 · page 3

THREATENING LANGUAGE.—Mary Ann Bullock charged Robert Henry Bullock with the above offence, but as defendant did not pub in an appearance a warrant was issued for…

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Insolvent Court

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 11 September 1878 · page 3

(Before H. Bayliss, Esq., Commissioner in Insolvency.) The Court sat on the 3rd inst., but was adjourned to the 4th inst., when in the case…

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Adelong Local News. Police Court. Tuesday, Sep. 10th. Before Mr Vyner, P.M., and Mr Wilson

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 13 September 1878 · page 2

Three Chinamen, named Ah Hing, Ah Sing, and Ah Chong, were fined 5s with 5s 10d costs, for cutting bark on crown lands without a license…

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News of the Week. Gundagai Police Court. Saturday, September 7th. Before Mr Love, P.M. PROTECTION

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 13 September 1878 · page 2

James McGrath was brought before the court for protection. Constable Gorman deposed that from information received be proceeded to Nangus the…

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Wagga Police Court. Wednesday, September 11. (Before the Police Magistrate)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 14 September 1878 · page 4

DRUNKENNESS.—Edward Comans was charged that on the 12th instant he was guilty of this offence in a public thoroughfare in Wagga. He pleaded guilty, and was…

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Summons Cases. Wednesday, September 11, (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 14 September 1878 · page 4

WAGES.—E. B. Slatery, of North Wagga, was summoned by one Jimmy Ah Gou in default of the payment of wages to the amount of £5 whilst acting as her cook in…

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Police Court, Cootamundra. Wednesday, Sept. 11. BEFORE Messrs. W. Love, P.M., and R. Jones and A.M. Taylor, J.P.'s. Travelling on Railway Without Paying Fare

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 17 September 1878 · page 3

Richard Ryan charged with the above offence pleaded guilty. Mr. Healy, of Messrs Healy and Murphy, represented, the railway authorities, and…

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Small Debts Court. Wednesday, Sept. 11. BEFORE Mr. W. Love, P.M., and Messrs R. Jones and A. N. Taylor, J.P.'s

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 17 September 1878 · page 3

S. Fisher v. Alfred Goodall. Goods, supplied, £3/0/. Judgment by default for amount claimed. F. Southee v. Charles Carroll. Goods…

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Wagga Police Court. Saturday, September 14. (Before the Police Magistrate)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 18 September 1878 · page 2

DRUNKENNESS.—Peter Quinn, charged with this offence, was cautioned and discharged. LARCENY.—Tim Duck was charged with stealing fat from Mr. Maher's hotel kitchen…

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

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 18 September 1878 · page 2

DRUNKENNESS.—Three drunkards were treated in the usual manner. PROTECTION.—Daniel Westwood and John Youlb were remanded to gaol for medical…

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Summons Cases. Tuesday, September 17. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 18 September 1878 · page 2

WAGES.—Alexander M'Crone v. Patrick Heffernan. The information disclosed the fact that complainant was the father of Robert M'Crone, a minor, and that £8 2s…

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Wagga Police Court. Wednesday, September 18. (Before the Police Magistrate)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 September 1878 · page 2

OBSCENE LANGUAGE. — Richard Manly, charged with this offence, was ca[?]tioned and discharged. DRUNKENNESS.—One drunkard was…

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Thursday, September 19. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 September 1878 · page 2

DRUNKENNESS.—James Stanley was cautioned and discharged…

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Inquiry Court

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 24 September 1878 · page 3

A LAND Inquiry Court was held in the Crown Lands Office, Cootamundra, on the 17th instant, before G. O'Malley Clarke, Esq., Commissioner…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, September 23. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 25 September 1878 · page 3

HORSESTEALING.—T. Osborne was brought up on a charge of stealing a horse. The prisoner was arrested in consequence of something having fallen from him which led the…

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Wagga Police Court. Wednesday, September 25. (Before the Police Magistrate)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 28 September 1878 · page 4

DRUNKENNESS.— Margaret Crawley was fined;-£5 or three months in gaol for being found drund and disorderly and using obscene language in a public place…

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Thursday, September 26. (Before tho Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 28 September 1878 · page 4

ASSAULT.—Thomas Larkin, charged with committing an assault, was fined 5s. or three days in gaol…

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