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Courts & crime, 1894

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Shocking Tragedy in New Zealand. Double Murder and Suicide. Auckland

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 9 October 1894 · page 2

A MAN named Bateman has shot two men dead at Topehouse, in the Nelson district, the names of the victims being Wallis and Lane. The murderer afterwards committed…

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Wagga Police Court. Tuesday, October 9. (Before the Police Magistrate). ASSAULT

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 11 October 1894 · page 2

Dominic Fritz proceeded against Julius Strecker for assault. Mr. E. E. Morgan appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Coleman defended…

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Wagga Police Court. Tuesday, October, 9, 1894. (Before Mr. H. Baylis, P.m.) Assault

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 11 October 1894 · page 3

Julius Strecker was charged with having unlawfully assaulted Dominic Fritz at Pleasant Hills on 30th September. Mr. E. E. Morgan appeared for the…

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Another Brutal Murder. a Woman Battered to Death

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 11 October 1894 · page 2

Yet another brutal domestic tragedy has to be chronicled, in which a woman has fallen a victim to brutal passion on the part of her husband. The scene was a house in…

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Brutal Wife Murder. a Woman's Head Battered. Death of the Victim

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 11 October 1894 · page 2

IN a four-roomed cottage, at No. 135 Napierstreet, South Melbourne, a woman named Mary Morrison was (the Age says) brutally attacked by her husband, George Morrison,…

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Theft

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 13 October 1894 · page 4

Was punished with heavy fines amongst the Jews, and at Athens by death. The Anglo-Saxons also condemned to death those who were found guilty of stealing. One of the…

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The Maryborough Tragedy Proceedings in the Police Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 13 October 1894 · page 4

The hearing of the charge of murder against Mrs. Martha Vennell, accused of murdering her son, Ellis John, was continued in the Maryborough police court on…

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Electoral Revision Court

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 13 October 1894 · page 10

MESSRS. H. Baylis, P.M., and James Box-sell, J.P., were on the bench, and had this court opened and adjourned till 13th October…

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The Courts. Electoral Revision Court. (Before Mr Baylis, P.M. and Mr Boxsell, J. P.)

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 13 October 1894 · page 4

This Court was adjourned till 30th October. Mr Pinkstone pointed out to the Bench that the notice required by the law had…

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Known to the Police

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 16 October 1894 · page 2

UNDER the heading, Known to the Police, Mr. E, R. Spearman discusses in the Nineteenth Century the ingenious methods for the identification of criminals, which have been…

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The Noradjuha Murder. Cookroft Sentenced to Death. Stawell

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 18 October 1894 · page 2

THE trial of Elijah Cockroft for the murder of Fanny Mott, near Noradjuha, took place to-day before Mr. Justice A'Beekett. Mr. J. T. T. Smith appeared for the prosecution,…

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The Publicans and the Police

The Worker · Saturday 20 October 1894 · page 1

DEAR WORKER,— At a meeting of hotelkeepers held here last evening, the following resolution was carried nem. con.:—…

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Burglary Under Arms. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 October 1894 · page 4

Summer Hill, a suburb of Sydney, was the scone of another sensational armed encounter early yesterday morning. About 4.30 a.m. A. E. Rowell, a jeweller living in…

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Burglary near Sydney. a Jeweller Shot and Wounded. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 October 1894 · page 2

A SENSATIONAL burglary was committed early yesterday morning at Summer Hill. At about 4 o'clock Mr. A. E. Rowell, jeweller, of Junction-road, hearing a noise…

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The Richmond Murder. Execution of Mrs. Needle. [By Telegraph] Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 October 1894 · page 2

THE execution of Martha Needle, for the murder of Louis Juncken, at Richmond, took place at the Melbourne gaol at 10 o'clock this morning. The arrangements for the…

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Broken Hill Circuit Court. the Momba Riot Cases

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 October 1894 · page 2

A BROKEN Hill telegram of Friday says: —Andrew O'Neill, Henry Hodson, Frederick Walker, John Brady, Henry Lawless, John M'Duff, Robert Nutley, Frederick…

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The Broad Arrow Murder. an Arrest. Coolgardie

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 25 October 1894 · page 2

News has just been received that Trouper Walsh has arrested a man supposed to be the murderer of the man whose corpse was found at Bardock, near Broad Arrow, at the…

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Police Court. WEDNESDAY. Before Mr. H. Baylis, P.M. LARCENY

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 27 October 1894 · page 10

John O'Houlaghan, alias Patrick Canard, was charged with stealing fowls. Constable Walker stated: About 10 o'clock on the night of the 22nd, I saw…

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The Courts. Cootamundra Police Court. Wednesday. (Before Mr Baylis, P.M.)

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 27 October 1894 · page 2

Jno. O'Houlaghau, alias Patrick Canard, was charged with stealing fowls. Const. Walker, sworn, deposed--About 10 p.m. on the 22nd inst., he saw accused…

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Licensing Court

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 27 October 1894 · page 8

AT the Licensing Court held on Wednesday last, before Messrs. E. P. Barnes and T. McBeath, licensing magistrates, the application for renewal of Mrs. A. W. McKenzie's…

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