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Courts & crime, 1900

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The Rats Castle Murder

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 2 January 1900 · page 4

A Mudgee telegram of Friday says:—Although the police have been busy trying to sheet home the crime, no evidence of a character to justify an arrest has been…

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The Broadford Murder. Points of Resemblance with the Gatton Horror

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 2 January 1900 · page 4

A glance at the details of the murder of the little girl Rita Jonee, at Broadford on Tuesday, revives memories of the Gatton horror, and suggests (says the "Age")…

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Shocking Murder in Queensland. a Young Girl the Victim. Brisbane

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 2 January 1900 · page 2

Information has reached the authorities pointing to the perpetration of a terrible crime at Eureka, a place not far from Childers, in the Maryborough…

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Bratal Murder in Queensland. a Young Girl Done to Death. Brisbane

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1900 · page 2

INFORMATION has reached the authorities pointing to the perpetration of a terrible crime at Eureka, a place not far from Childers, in the Maryborough district…

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The Courts. Cootamundra Police Court

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 3 January 1900 · page 2

James Frederick Adams, cabman, pleaded not guilty to being drunk at the railway station on Monday, the 1st inst…

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Maryborough Murder

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 3 January 1900 · page 3

A horrible crime was reported from Brisbane on Monday afternoon. The Boxing Day mystery has been partially cleared up by the discovery of the body of…

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A Diabolical Crime. Murder and Outrage of a Little Girl

The Cootamundra Liberal · Wednesday 3 January 1900 · page 4

A message on Thursday from Broadford, a place about 25 miles from Melbourne, states that the mystery attached to the strange…

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A Horrible Crime. Murder of a Little Girl. Her Body Terribly Mutilated. Broadford

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 3 January 1900 · page 2

RITA Jones, the littlo girl who disappeared on Boxing day has been found dead, and her body is so mutilated that there is no doubt she has been brutally murdered…

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Local Directory. Legal Information. District Court Judge: F. E. Rogers

The Temora Star · Wednesday 3 January 1900 · page 4

Warden and P.M.: William Clarke. C. P. S. : John Rainsford, J. P. Warden's Clerk and Mining Rregistrar : John Rainsford, J. P…

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Wagga Police Court. Tuesday, January 2. (Before Mr. G. Martin, P.m.) Stealing a Bottle of Brandy

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 2

JAMES Francis Coady was charged with having, on December 30, 1899, stolen a bottle of brandy, the property of James Clarke, licensee of the North Wagga…

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Theft of Brandy

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 3

Between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. on Saturday morning last a man named Francis James Coady walked into the North Wagga Hotel and sat down on a sofa. Mrs. Clarke, wife…

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A Daring Burglary. Berrigan

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 2

The premises of Messrs. L. Jensen and Co., storekeepers, Finley, were broken into last night. when the safe was broken open with axes, taken from the stock,…

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Alleged Wife Murder. Wellington

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 2

Thomas Golloway, who was arrested for the murder of his wife of Dunedin, has been remanded for a week. The woman was shockingly injured about the…

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Wagga Police Court. Tuesday, Jan. 2, 1900. (Before Mr. George Martin, P.m.) Obscene Language

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 3

Frank Hales was summoned by the police for having used obscene language in Gardiner-street, North Wagga, on December 29th, and was mulcted in a fine of 10s, and…

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The Broadford Murder. Jones Gives Himself Up. Denies His Guilt

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 2

WILLIAM Robert Jones, the man who is suspected of the murder of the lit le girl Rita Jones, at Broadford on Boxing Day, surrendered himself to the police at Kyneton…

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Alleged Wife Murder in Queensland. Horrible Mutilation. Brisbane, Wednesday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 2

It is reported from Goondiwindi, a town near the New South Wales border, that an old German farmer murdered and mutilated his wife, a woman of 68 years, late on…

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Another Brutal Murder in Queensland Woman Shockingly Mutilated. Her Husband Arrested. Protests His[?]nnocence. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1900 · page 2

NEWS was brought into Coomliwindi yesterday of another brutal crime having been perpetrated in the house of a settler not far from town, either on Saturduy or Sunday…

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Traveller. French Police

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 1

Police in plain clothes, on bourgeois, as the French call it, are not be numerous, but fulfil a higher, or at least a more confidential mission. The members are styled inspectors…

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Junee Police Court. Thursday, January 4, 1900. Before Messrs G. Stevens and Dobby's, J S P. Curtaining Money by Means of a Value Less Cheque

The Junee Democrat · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 2

William Thomas Thornton was charged on suspicion with obtaining £5 from F. Davis of June on the 29th December 1899 by means of a valueless cheque…

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Police Court. Wednesday Before the Police Magistrate. LICENSES

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 2

Joseph Boozate applied for a hawker's license, and presented sureties. Others were called. Sergeant Bragg said he would oppose the…

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