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Courts & crime, 1893

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Wagga Police Court. Saturday, April 1. (Before Mr. H. Baylis, P.m.) Prunrenness

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 6 April 1893 · page 4

Michael M'Carthy was fined 10s., or one week, on a charge of drunkenness and disorderly character in Fitzmaurice-street on 30th March…

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Wagga Assize Court. Tuesday, 4Th April., 1893

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 6 April 1893 · page 2

The Wagga Assize Cow t was council this day (Thursday) in the courthouse. Sir William Windeyer was the presiding judge, and Mr. Herbert Harris prosecuted on behalf of…

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Wagga Circuit Court. Tuesday, April 4. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice Windeyer.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 6 April 1893 · page 4

THE Circuit Court for April was opened at the Wagga Courthouse on Tuesday morning, before Mr. Justice Windeyer. The Sheriff, Mr. Cowper, was in attendance, and Mr…

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Friday, April 7. Assault

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 8 April 1893 · page 5

George White was summoned for assaulting Daniel Glavin on 25th March. Complainant deposed on the date mentioned he asked three men to have a drink at…

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Wagga Police Court. Thursday, April, 6. (Before Mr. H. Baylis, P.m.) Durnkenness

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 8 April 1893 · page 5

James Taylor was charged with drunkenness in Fitzmaurice street, and was fined 1s., with the option of imprisonment till one o'clock…

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Wagga Circuit Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 8 April 1893 · page 4

The sittings of the Wagga Circuit Court were resumed on Thursday at 9.30 a.m. before his Honor Sir William Windeyer and juries of four…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, April 10. (Before Mr. H. Baylis, P.m.) Assaulting the Police

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 11 April 1893 · page 4

Wm. Hardyman, on bail, was charged with having assaulted the police in the execution of their duty. Senior Sergeant Powell deposed that he…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, April 10. (Before Mr. H. Baylis, P.M.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 11 April 1893 · page 3

STEALING A BOOK FROM THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. John Capper was charged with stealing a book, the property of the Free Public Library of Wagga, on the 8th April, valued…

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A New Zealand Murder. Auckland

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 11 April 1893 · page 4

THE trial of Albert Smith for the murder of his mate, a man named Jacobson, at Pahaitua, is proceeding. Some time ago Smith was arrested in Melbourne charged with the…

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Land Appeal Court

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 11 April 1893 · page 4

SITTINGS of the Land Appeal Court of New South Wales will be held at the Courthouse, Wagga Wagga, on Thursday, 20th April, for the hearing of all appeals and…

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Reference at the Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 11 April 1893 · page 2

The members of the legal profession were in attendance at the Court-house yesterday morning, and on the Small Debts Court being opened Mr. Coleman rose and said:—May it please…

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Police Reinforcements for Belfast. London, April 7

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 11 April 1893 · page 4

In consequence of the threatening aspect of the Anti-Home rule agitation in Belfast, the Government has sent a reinforcement of the Royal Irish constabulary to that city…

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Sly Grog-selling at Mildura. Police Proceedings

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 11 April 1893 · page 4

FOR some time past (says a Mildura telegram in the Argus) storekeepers and tradesmen have been loudly complaining that money, which in the ordinary course should…

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Wagga Petty Debts Court. Monday, 10Th April, 1893. EDMONDSON v. KEYES

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 11 April 1893 · page 4

Plaintiff claimed £5 damages for trespass of a horse. Mr. Coleman appeared for plaintiff and Mr. Heath for defendant. Joseph Edmondson, farmer of Downside…

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Albury Circuit Court

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 13 April 1893 · page 3

THE sittings of the Circuit Court, presided over by Mr. Justice Windeyer, commenced in Albury on Monday. Frederick Schoknecht, a newly arrived German, pleaded…

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Wagga Police Court. Tuesday, April 11. (Before Mr. H. Baylis, P.m.) Labueny of Ache[?]

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 13 April 1893 · page 2

Samuel Henry Bulard wan chained with stealing a cheque for £6s drawn in favour of Rae and Dunscombe, and signed A. J. Monks,…

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Wagga Police Court. Tuesday, April 11. (Before Mr. H. Baylis, P.m.) Larceny of a Cheque

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 13 April 1893 · page 3

Samuel Henry Bulard, about 21 years of age, was charged with stealing a cheque for £1 6s, drawn in favor of Rae and Dunscombe, and signed by W. J. Monks…

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Wagga Bankruptcy Court. Re Charles William Hale

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 13 April 1893 · page 2

The first meeting and examination in the estate of C. W. Hale of the Coolamon district) was held on Tuesday, at the Courthouse, before Mr. Henry Baylis, Deputy…

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Charge of Contempt of Court. Mr. Purves, Q.C., THREATENED

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 13 April 1893 · page 3

IMMEDIATELY after the adjournment hour at the First Civil Court on Tuesday, where the action brought by Mrs. Clara Parker against Mr. Joseph Clarke is being heard (says the…

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Wagga Bankruptcy Court. Tuesday, 11Th April, 1893. (Before the District Registrar in Bankruptcy, Mr.H.Baylis, P..) First Meeting

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 13 April 1893 · page 2

A first meeting in the estate of Charles Win. Hale was held at the courthouse. Bankrupt attended, and deposed that lie had not tiled his statement of affairs, as he had…

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