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Courts & crime, 1895

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Wagga Police Court. Friday, 20Th November 1895. (Before Mr. H. Baylis P.m.) Lunacy

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 November 1895 · page 2

John Ferry was charged with being found under circumstances that denoted a purpose of committing an offence against tbe law. Constable Frank Hansen deposed that…

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Small Debts Court

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 30 November 1895 · page 10

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. Henry Ball v. Henry Thompson (near Young). Mr. Chauney appeared for plaintiff; Mr. Morgan for defendant. The…

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Gundagai Police Court. Wednesday, December 4

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 6 December 1895 · page 2

Before Mr. Weekes, P.M., and Mr. Ribo, J.P. A FIGHT. Richard Crane was charged with having wilfully assaulted a Chinaman named Ab Tang at…

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Police Court Wednesday. Before the Polios Magistrate. MAINTENANCE

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 7 December 1895 · page 3

Melzer y. Melzer. Mr. Mac Mahon for defendant. Plea, not guilty. Annie Matilda Melzer deposed : I am the wife of defendant, and produce the…

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The Cunninghame Murderer Sentenced to Death

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 7 December 1895 · page 4

AT the Supreme Court at Sale on Wednesday morning, before Mr. Justice Hodges, Charles Strange was charged with the murder of Frederick Downs at Cunninghame…

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Shocking Murder at St. Kilda. a Father Shoots His Son

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 7 December 1895 · page 2

IN a double-fronted villa in Argyle-street,St. Kilda, a deploratle tragedy was enacted (the Age says) on Thursday afternoon, when Leopold Hesse, a well known inventor of…

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The Wagga Gaol

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 12 December 1895 · page 2

THE letter published in another column from the Department of Justice to Mr. Gormly would seem to banish all hope of the speedy erection of a suitable gaol at Wagga…

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The Wagga Gaol

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 12 December 1895 · page 2

THE following letter has been forwarded to us by Mr. Gormly for publication:- "Department of Justice, "Sydney, 4th December, 1895…

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Warden's Court. Wednesday, November 11. Before Mr. Weokes, P.M.

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 13 December 1895 · page 2

John Samuel Tuckwell saed J. W. Ham, John Nicholls, W. S. Smith, and J. Hake, to recover from each of them the sum of £17, in respect of a certain contrast entered into on the 22nd April…

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Wagga Police Court. Friday, December 13. (Before the Police Magistrate.) THEFT

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 14 December 1895 · page 2

Hames Hay was proceeded against by the Inspector of Nuis[?] for the Borough, George Mitchell, for stealing a hydrant box the property of the Wagga Borough Council,…

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Small Debts Court

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 17 December 1895 · page 4

At the small Debts Court on Tuesday before Mr. L. S. Doneldson P.M., Edward Laskie [?] Charles Versall for 9s 6th board and lodginge, Judgment for…

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Murder at Parramatta. a Woman Kills Her Husband. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 17 December 1895 · page 2

THIS afternoon Annie Mitalda Trenchard gave herself up to the police at Parramatta, stating that she had murdered her husband, a labouring man, at Guildford. The police…

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Police Court

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 21 December 1895 · page 6

BEFORE Mr. R Hughes, J P. The Police Magistrate not being present, the Small Debts Court was adjourned till Thursday morning…

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Friday, December 20. (Before the Police Magistrate.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 December 1895 · page 2

Arthur Harvey and Julia Ryan, on remand, were charged with stealing about £64 in notes, gold, an 1 silver, a quantity of jewellery, a post office savings book, from…

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Wagga Police Court. Thursday, December 19. (Before Mr. P. Moran, J.p.) Drunkenness

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 December 1895 · page 2

Daniel Russell pleaded guilty to having been drunk, and was fined Is. or imprisonment till the rising of the court. Russell was further charged with making…

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Murder by Blacks

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 28 December 1895 · page 4

A COOLGARDIE telegram of Monday says:—Messrs. G. Abbot and J. Tremberth arrived to-day from beyond Kurnalpi, and reported the murder of a prospector by blacks. The…

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