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Courts & crime, 1904

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Police Court

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 22 December 1904 · page 2

In extenuation for being drunk on Tuesday night at Wagga, a woman pleaded at the Police Court yesterday that she had not been to Sydney for…

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Caught Red-handed. the Police and the Burglars

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 22 December 1904 · page 2

The police shortly after midnight arrested two men who were leaving the residence of Rev. A. W. Tonge in Macquatie street. West Parramatta. The…

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The Louth Murder

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 23 December 1904 · page 2

Bernard Midwinter has been committed for t[?]lat Dourke on a charge of murdering Frank Rees (or Ramage). Evidence was given that the prisoner…

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Police Court. (Before Mr. J. H. Nisbett, P.M., and Mr. T. P. Arragon, J.P.)

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 23 December 1904 · page 3

Tumut Municipal Council v. George Williams, claim for 10s lOd for removing n.s. The Council Clerk (Mr. W. H. Hilton) appeared for the…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing. a Number of People and to Be Implicated. Local Excitement

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 23 December 1904 · page 2

CONSIDERABLE excitement prevailed in Gundagai on Wednesday when it became known that the police had got into possession of information…

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Police Court

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

The attention of the Police Court was on Thursday, engaged in disposing of two cases. One man was charged with being drunk and disorderly in…

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Serious Assault

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 2

A country visitor named W. B. Iredale has been seriously assaulted. His left eye was gouged out during the assault, which occurred a little…

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A Serious Assault

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 2

A country visitor named W. B. Iredale was serious assaulted, and had his left eye gouged out, during an affray a little before 9 last night, at the corner…

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Alleged Murder

The Temora Star · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 2

Campbell, the stowaway on the German steamer Bielefeld, who made the sensational confession of having murdered a man at Newcastle some…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing. Gundagai

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 2

A sensation has been caused here by the arrest of two young men for alleged complicity in cattle stealing. One of the accused was arrested on the local…

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Police Court. Thursday December 22, 1904 Alleged Cattle Steaming

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 2

BEFORE Mr. D. C. Bruce, J.P. Frederick Newtown Woodbridge was charged, in company with some person or persons at present unknown, with…

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Lynching in America. Several Persons Sentenced

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 2

For the first time in history a member of a Vigilance Committee in the Southern States of the United States has been implicated in the lynching of…

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Police Promotions

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 2
Also in Wagga Wagga Advertiser

In the annual promotions in connection with the police force are the following in the Murray district:—Senior-constable Griffin, of Lockhart, to…

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Alleged Newcastle Murder. a Fruitless Search

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 5

Lewis Campbell, the stowaway from the steamer Bielefeld, who accused himself of being implicated in an alleged murder of a lucky, digger at Newcastle…

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The Courts Police Court Thursday. (Before Messrs E. Doidge & a J, J, Keane, J.P's.)

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 2

Thos Heard pleaded guilty tr. being drunk in Wallendeen street reel. As it was his first appearance, lie was fined 2'ti or the rising of the Court. He paid the…

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Friday, December 23, 1904. Before Mr. A. Elworthy, J.P. Alleged Cattle Stealing

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 2

Francis Harold Bollard was charged, in company, with stealing one jersey heifer and one black and white steer, the property of A. B. Triggs, at Willie…

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The Darling Tragedy. Charge of Murder. Midwinter Committed for Trial

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 24 December 1904 · page 6

At the police court, Bourke, on Wednesday, before Mr. Helm, police magistrate, Bernard H. Midwinter, alias Jack Green, alias Jack, Ray, on…

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The Police Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 29 December 1904 · page 2

Happily the number of drunks to be punished at the Wagga Police Court during the Christmas holidays were few and half-a-crown or the rising…

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