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Courts & crime, 1900

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Police Court. Wednesday, May 30Th, 1900. Before Mr Meare, P.M. LARCENY

Coolamon Echo · Friday 1 June 1900 · page 4

C. J. Stockings was charged with stealing a tarpaulin the property of the Railway Commissioners, and was undefended…

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Licensing Court

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 1 June 1900 · page 2

THE Licensing Court will sit at Tumut on the 20th inst. Applicants for new licenses and for renewals are reminded that 14 days' notice of their applications…

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The Men Before the Court. Sentenced to Imprisonment. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 2 June 1900 · page 2

The final scene in connection with last night's military melee was enacted at the police court to-day, when Harry Jones and Wallace Cornwall, members of the Royal…

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The Grafton Murder

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 2 June 1900 · page 2

At the Criminal Court to-day the youth, James Murphy, was found guilty of the murder of Cyrus M'Farlane at Grafton, and was sentenced to death…

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The Sussex-street Assault. Sydney, Friday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 2 June 1900 · page 2

At the inquest on the death of Michael Pratt, which [?] red on the 27th [?] from the effects of injuries received on the previous night in Sussex-street, the…

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The Position in South Africa. a Police of Conciliation

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 2 June 1900 · page 2

At a dinner given by City Conservatives, Lord Salisbury delivered a speech, in which was largely a Proportion Of his former discourse,in which he Stated that…

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A Sydney Riot. Soldiers and a "Push." the Police Roughly Handled

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 2 June 1900 · page 2

THE abandonment of Pretoria was celebrated in Sydney on Thursday night in Bensational manner, a melee taking place in the heart of the city between permanent…

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Municipal Appeal Court. Before Mr. F. B. TREATT, P.M. Monday, 28th May, 1900

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 2 June 1900 · page 8

Mr. David J. Gormly appeared for the Council, and produced his authority so to do, and gave formal evidence as to the necessary notices…

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Alleged Assault

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 5 June 1900 · page 2

Thomas patrick O'Brien summoned Thos, Castles for hav ing unlawfully as[?] him at Uranquinty, on May 28th. Mr. G. Coleman appeared for the…

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A Murder Case Revived

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 5 June 1900 · page 3

A brutal murder which was committed in April, 1898, in the Mudgee district. has been revived. An old nan named James, Reeves, believed to be possessed of a…

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Victoria. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Monday. a Notorious Criminal Sentenced

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 5 June 1900 · page 2

William King, the notorious negro pugilist and criminal, who had been convicted on two charges of burglary, one accompanied with violence, was brought up for sentence…

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Land Appeal Court

The Junee Democrat · Tuesday 5 June 1900 · page 2
Also in Wagga Wagga Express, Wagga Wagga Advertiser

The following cases have been set down for consideration sitting of the Land Appeal Court, which takes place at Wagga to-morrow, 6th June:…

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Alleged Chinese Gaming House. Raid by the Police. Suspects Before the Court. the Case Dismissed

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 5 June 1900 · page 3

Three Chinamen, named respectively Ah Sue Ah On, and Ala Sing were charged before Mr. F. P. Meares, P.M., at the Wagga Police Court yesterday with…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, June 4th. (Before Mr. F. P. Meares, P.m.) Throwing Fireworks

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 5 June 1900 · page 2

Frederick Stockton on a charge, preferred by summons, of having carelessly thrown fire works in Gurwood St on 19th May, was ordered to pay a fine of of 2s 6d, and 4s 10d…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday June 4. (Before Mr. F. P. Meares, Acting P.m.) Drunk and Disorderly

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 5 June 1900 · page 2

PATRICK Lyons, who pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness and disorderly, conduct, was fined 10s, in default two days' imprisonment…

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An Old Time Murder

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 6 June 1900 · page 2

THERE died near Buckley's Crossing—The little village nestling cosily on the bunk of the beautiful Snowy River, and which is so well in the…

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Warden's Court

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 6 June 1900 · page 2

AT the local warden's court on Monday, W. A. G. Wall is applied for a 6 months' suspension of the labor conditions on his sluicing claim,…

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Police Court. Monday, June 4, 1900. BEFORE Mr. WM. Clarke, P.M. Malicious Injury

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 6 June 1900 · page 3

Eward Motley and Arthur Lynch were conjointly charged with maliciously damaging a plate glass window, valued at £5, the property of T…

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