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Courts & crime, 1890

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The Shooting Case at the Theatre. Payne Before the Court

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 December 1890 · page 2

At the Central Police Court on Saturday morning (the Echo says), before Captain A. M. Fisher, S.M., John Payne, a sailor on H.M.S. Orlando, was charged with…

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Tumut News. Tumut District Court. Wednesday, December 17Th, 1890. Before His Honour Judge Forbes

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 23 December 1890 · page 2

Chas. Baker v. J. L. Josephson and C. S. Byrne, Tumut Turf Club—money payable as prizes, £40. Mr. Harris, instructed by Mr. F. Taylor, for plaintiff; Mr. Griffin, assisted by Mr…

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Wednesday, December 24. (Before the Police Magistrate.) Indecent Language

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 25 December 1890 · page 2

Alick Nicoll was charged with making use of indecent language in Fitzmaurice-street on the previous evening, and was fined £2, with the option of one month's imprisonment…

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Wagga Police Court. Tuesday, December 23. (Before Mr. H. Baylis, P.M., and Mr. H. E. Brougham, J.p.) Drukenness

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 25 December 1890 · page 2

John Hanlon, on a charge of drunkenness, pleaded guilty, and was fined 10s, with an alternative of one week in gaol. On a further charge of making use of…

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Murder and the Green-eyed Monster

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 31 December 1890 · page 2

A message from Auckland on Sunday states that a horrible murder and suicide is reported from Waverley, near Wanganui. A man named Gallagher, formerly…

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Licensing Court

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 31 December 1890 · page 2

Applications for renewal for billiard licenses were granted to the following:--John McCulloch, John King, John Wallis, and Chas. Howard…

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