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Courts & crime, 1898

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Assault Case

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 9 November 1898 · page 2

YESTERDAY morning An San agam appeared at the Gundagai Police Court to answer a charge of unlawful assault preferred against him by Ah Tong. The…

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Small Debts Court

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 9 November 1898 · page 2

BEFORE Mr. Murphy, at the Gundagai Court House, on Monday, the Postponed case of G.E Vincent v. J. E. Diagram, was again called. Mr. Griffin…

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Insulting Language. Police V. John Cline. Some Very Conflicting Evidence

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 9 November 1898 · page 6

At Gundagai Police Court on Monday morning, John Cine appeared before Mr. Murphy, P.M. to answer a charge prefered against him by Senior constable…

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The Assault on Mr. Carroll

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 2

AT the Water Police Court Sydney on the 4th inst., Samuel Bergen 23, seaman, and a native of Norway, and Cales Stranberg, 26, seaman, and a native of Sweden, were…

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Hillston Police Court. Tuesday, November 8Th, 1895. BEFORE Chas. Robertson, Esq., P.M.

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 2

James Stewart, on remand, appeared to answer a charge of obtaining goods and money to the value of £5 5s. by means of a valueless cheque, from an Indian hawker…

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Tubarumba. Alleged Horse Stealing. the Case of Fairy King

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 3

At the police court on the 4th inst, before Mr Peisley, P.M, Patrick M'Garrity was charged on remand with selling a horse known as Fairy King 26th June last, and…

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Wagga Police Court. Thursday, November 10Th. (Before Mr. Geo. Martin, P.m.) Drunk and Disorderly

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 4

Patrick Doolan was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Fitzrnaurice-street on the 8th inst., and was lined 10s, or 3 days imprisonment…

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Friday, November 11Th. (Before Mr. Geo. Martin, P.m.) Alleged Theft

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 4

Frederick Lowes was charged with stealing a gold brooch and gold ring, valued at £1 15s, the property of Geo. Nesbitt, on the 8th inst…

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All the World's—a Court House

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 4

Little Clarence (who reads and ponders): "Pa is true, as Shakespeare says, that all the world's a stage'?" Mr. Callipers: "It may have been so in…

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The Dreyfus Case. a Letter Seized. by the Court of Cassation. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 2

The Court of Cassation, which is at present engaged in the celebrated Dreyfus case, have seized a letter written by Major Esterhazy and which is on paper identical with that of…

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At the Police Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 15 November 1898 · page 2

At the Wagga Police Court on Saturday Mr. Geo. Martin, P.M., fined James Byrnes 20s, in default 6 days gaol, for making use of indecent language in Fitzmaurice-street on…

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A Case of Assault

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 15 November 1898 · page 2

William Purkis, who described himself as a groom, preferred a charge of assault against William Jackson, before Mr. George Martin, P.M., at the Police Court yesterday…

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A Case of Burglary. a Good Haul. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 15 November 1898 · page 3

Barley's New York Hotel, at Pyrmont, has been broken into, and £100 in notes and gold and a quantity of valuables stolen…

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Meagher-norton Fracas. Trial of Meagher. Found Guilty of Common Assault. a Recommendation to Mercy. Sydney, Monday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 15 November 1898 · page 3

The Court of Quarter Sessions was crowded to-day, when the charges against Richard Dennis Meagher, M.P., of assaulting John Norton, editor and proprietor of Truth…

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The Meagher-Norton Case. Meagher on Trial. Found Guilty of Common Assault. Remanded Until Wednesday. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 15 November 1898 · page 2

The announcement of the trial of R. D. Meagher, M.P., on a charge of having assaulted John Norton, attracted an unusuully large crowd of people into the…

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Police Court

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 16 November 1898 · page 6

BEFORE the Police Magistrate (Mr. S. Murphy) and Mr. J. Boxsell J.P. DRUNK. Edward Lachlan was charged with…

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At the Police Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 17 November 1898 · page 2

Percival Clarke and James Herbert Clarke, who were arrested on Monday afternoon by Sergeant Anderson and Senior-Constable Blackburne, were charged before Mr. Geo…

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Assault at Marrickville. Seven Assailants Convicted. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 17 November 1898 · page 3

At the Quarter Serious to-day, before Judge Backhouse, seven lads were convicted on a charge of having assaulted a young man named Paris at marrickville on October 13th…

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Local and General News. New Court-house for Wagga

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 17 November 1898 · page 2

Under date 11th November, Mr. James Gormly, M.P., received the following official communication from the Under-Secretary for Justice:—"Referring to personal inquiry by…

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Local and General News. at the Police Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 2

Mr. William Shaw, J.P., presiding at the Wagga Police Court on Thursday, fined Junes P. Dodd £1, in default 14 days imprisonment, for using indecent language…

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