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Courts & crime, 1892

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News of the Week. Before Mr. Weekes, P.M. Gundagai Police Court. Friday, July 29

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 2 August 1892 · page 2

Edward Morley was charged with malicious injury to property, by the owing stones and smashing the back windows of the Club House hotel, the Because of which is Mr. J. Tracey…

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Gundagai District Court. Before His Honour Judge Forbes. Thursday, July 28th, 1892

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 2 August 1892 · page 2

The following are the postponed cases, held over from our last issue. W. Barton, South Gundagai, v. W. Booby, Gundagai. Claim for illegal detention of a…

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The Courts. Cootamundba Police Court. Drunk and Disorderly

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 3 August 1892 · page 2

Francis Flynn pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, and was let off with a caution ; and fined 5- tar indecent behaviour…

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Extraordinary Allegation of Murder

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 August 1892 · page 2

A strange and sensational development has taken place in connection with the death of an old man named Doyle at North Carlton in November last (says the Argus). At the…

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The Poisoning in Toowoomba Gaol. Brisbane

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 August 1892 · page 4

Mrs Josephs, the matron of the Toowoomba Gaol, and who has held the position for the last 18 years, has been requested by the Government to…

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The Courts. Cootamundra Police Court. Drunes

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 6 August 1892 · page 2

Richard Cobb pleaded guilty to being drunk. The Sergeant stated that he was found almost dead in the street. But as he was " quiet "--we should think…

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A Brutal Assault. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 August 1892 · page 6

A serious assault case, in which R. C. Pudney, a well-known estate and mining agent of Collins-street, and Frank Clark, the comedian, were principals, was heard at the…

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Singular Attempt Murder. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 August 1892 · page 5

A deliberate attempt was made today on the life of a young lady, Miss Amy Elvina Guest, residing at Woolloomooloo, by John Thurlow, a bank clerk, to whom she was…

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Attempted Murder at Sydney. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 August 1892 · page 2

EARLY this morning a young man named John Thurlow attempted to murder a girl named Amy Lavina Quest to whom he was supposed to be betrothed. The lovers were…

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Infanticide at Carlton. the Mother Committed for Murder

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 August 1892 · page 3

DR. Youl, coroner, held an inquest on Wednesday (the Age says) at the morgue on the body of a newly born female child found on the 10th June in a tub of water in the back…

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The Broken Hill Strike. the Sleath-cotton Encounter Case. Mr. Cotton Charged with Assault. Broken Hill

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 9 August 1892 · page 2

YESTERDAY'S encounter between Mr. R. Sleuth, secretary to the Labor Defence Committee, and Mr. E. B. Cotton, manager of the A.J.S. Bank, has created intense…

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Unqualified Solicitors in Sydney. Charged with Contempt

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 9 August 1892 · page 2

BEFORE the Full Court Sydney, on Thursday, Mr. C. B. Stephen, for the Incorporated Law Institute, applied for a rule nisi calling upon John Parker of Sydney, to show cause…

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Labour Troubles. Broken Hill. the Slath-cotton Encounter Case. Mr. Cotton Charged with Assult. Broken Hill

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 9 August 1892 · page 2

Thursday's encounter between Mr. R. Sleath, secretary to the Labor Defence Committee, and Mr. E. B. Cotton, manager of the A.J.S. Bank, has created intense excitement…

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British Law Reform. the Recommendations of the Judges. a Criminal Court of Appeal. London, Aug. 6

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 9 August 1892 · page 2

THE British judges who have been engaged in the work of formulating a practicable scheme of legal reform have agreed to a report in which they recommend the…

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News of the Week. Before Mr. Weekes, P.M. Gundagai Police Court. Wednesday, August 10

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 12 August 1892 · page 2

George R. Freeman, Manager Yabtree station, was charged with laying poisoned meat on Hillas' creek reserve, near the road running through the place, and failing to put notices up. The…

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Gundagai Small Debts Court. Before Mr. Weekes, P.M. Wednesday, August 10

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 12 August 1892 · page 2

Ellen Green, Junee v. Daniel Smith, Rig Bon. This was a clain for half cost of a dividing fence, and brought by John Green, grandfather of the plaintiff, who was 10 years old, as her agent…

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The Courts. Cootamundba Police Court. Wednesday. (Before Mr Baylis. P.M.) [?] V. JAMES

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 13 August 1892 · page 2

This was a case of illegally impouning Mr O'Donnell for plaintiff; Mr Chanuney for defendant…

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The Cotton-Sleath Assault Case at Broken Hill

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 August 1892 · page 6

AT the hearing of the assault case at Broken Hill on Wednesday Mr. Sle[?]th gave evidence regarding the assault, and what led up to it. When Cotton refused to cash the…

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Police Court. Wednesday. Before Mr. H. Baylis, P.M. DRUNKENNESS. Henry Howard, drunkenness, fined 1/. FIGHTING

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 13 August 1892 · page 9

H. Consquitt and G. B. Daley were charged with riotous behaviour—a stand up fight in Parker-st. in front of the Star hotel on 27th July…

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Police Court

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 August 1892 · page 7

BEFORE Messrs. W. A. Byrne and J. J. Miller, J.P. LARCENY. John Stafford (stranger) was charged with…

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