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Courts & crime, 1901

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Revision Court

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1901 · page 2

A Revision Court for the Wagga Wagga, Currawarna and Jackson's Waterhole divisions of the Wagga electorate was held at the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. G…

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Wagga Police Court (Saturday 19Th. January.) (Before Mr. G Martin, P.m.,) Deemed to Be Insane

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1901 · page 2

PATRICK Nugent, who was deemed to be insane, was remanded for eight days for medical observation…

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Murder of a Farmer. Suicide of the Murderer. Cowra

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1901 · page 2

A farmer named Ryan, residing near North Logan, shot another young man named Grimshaw on Saturday evening in the back. Ryan afterwards took poison…

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Alleged Murder. (From Our Special Correspondent.) Suicide of the Assailant. Sydney. Monday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 22 January 1901 · page 2

A report from Cowra states that a young man named Henry Grimshaw was shot this afternoon in the back, it is alleged by a farmer named Ryan, residing…

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Warden's Court. Monday, January 21St. Before Mr. Warden Clarke

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1901 · page 2

BOOTH'S United Gold Mines, No-Liability, applied for suspension of labor conditions for three months on all the leases held by the company in the…

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The Paris Police of the Second Empire. How a Thief Was Captured

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1901 · page 2

The Paris police force of the Second Empire was a curious and complicated institution, but it cannot be denied that in those days life and property enjoyed degree of…

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Police Court

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1901 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

At the local court on Monday (before Mr W. Clarke, P.M.), George Withers was charged on tho information of the police with carelessly…

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District Intelligence. Adelong, Police Court

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 25 January 1901 · page 2

There being no cases, the P. M. said Adelong was a contrast to some other places, at which he had as much as two days' work…

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Warden's Court. (Before Mr. Warden Clark)

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 25 January 1901 · page 2

Bolton Molineaux, by his agent, A. W. Molineaux, applied for six months' suspension of labor on gold lease 529, portion 26, parish Adelong…

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Electoral Revision Court. (Before Mr. W. Clarke, P. M.)

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 25 January 1901 · page 2

The electoral rolls of the Adelong and Humula divisions of the Tumut electorate were gone through. A few misspelt names were corrected, and…

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Police Court

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 26 January 1901 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

At the police court on Thursday, before Mr. P. K. Eldershaw, J. P., William Perriman for being drunk and disorderly, was fined 10s. Yesterday before the name…

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Hillston Police Court

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 26 January 1901 · page 11

THE quarterly licensing court wsa held on the 21st inst., before Mr. F. B. Treatt, P.M. and Messrs. Volckman and Camming, J's.P…

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The Police Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 26 January 1901 · page 2

At the Wagga Police Court on Thursday Mr. P. E. Eldershaw J.P. on the bench Albert Bames was fined 5s for drunkenness in Fitzmaurice Street. Augustus [?]ehir who was…

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Revision Court. Friday. Before Mr. W. Clarke, revising Magistrate

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 26 January 1901 · page 2

The court sat at 11 o'clock. A few alterations were made, where mistakes had occurred in names—Christian names in particular. As to those who had left the…

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Savage Assault. Broken Hill

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 26 January 1901 · page 7

A most cowardly assault was committed yesterday upon a man named Thomas Scott, aged 73, who, with bis aged wife, keeps a pig farm live miles east of the Console mine…

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Police Court. Friday, 25Th Inst. (Before Mr. F. B. Treatt, P.M.)

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 26 January 1901 · page 11

Richard Waters was charged with stealing one sheep, the property of Woolcott & Evans, Merrowie. On the application of Sergeant…

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Municipal Revision Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 26 January 1901 · page 2

A court for the revision of the municipal lists for the several wards in the borough of Wagga was arranged for Thursday night, but on account of the postponement of the…

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Licensing Court

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 26 January 1901 · page 2

BEFORE Dr. Hull and J. J. Keane, J. P. A renewal of license was granted to Mr. J. Heaver, Wallendbeen, there being no police objection…

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