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Courts & crime, 1880

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Wagga Police Court. Friday, [?] BEFORE the Police Magistrate. EMBEZZLEMENT

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 25 December 1880 · page 3

W. E. Hope, late postmaster at Wagga, charged with embezzling various. sums [?] money, the property of the Crown. The following evidence was taken:—…

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Wagga Police Court. Friday, December 24. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 25 December 1880 · page 3

BREACH OF BY-LAW.—Joseph Augustus M'Carthy was complained of by the Inspector of Nuisances for unlawfully carting a quantity of night-soil in a public place…

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Brutal Murder at the Chatham Islands

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 25 December 1880 · page 1

THE following telegraphic account of the murder by n Maori of his European wife is taken from the New Zealand Times of the 11th instant. The…

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Wagga Police Court. Tuesday, December 28. (Before the Police Magistrate.) Stabbing with Intent

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 30 December 1880 · page 2

William Carpenter was charged with intens to murder William Phillips, by stabbing him with a knife. Senior constable Rowe deposed: About 6…

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