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Courts & crime, 1907

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Income Tax. Federal Officers Not Liable. High Court Ruling. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 8 June 1907 · page 7

The High Court of Australia gave its decision in the important test case in which it was sought to compel officers of the Federal service to pay…

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Federal Officers and Income Tax. High Court Decision. Officers Not Liable. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 8 June 1907 · page 2

The High Court to-day, by majority, upheld the appeals of Commonwealth officers in the cases of Baxter versus the New South Wales Income Tax…

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Assault at Wagga

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 11 June 1907 · page 4

On the application of Mr. Higgins, the assault cases of Henry Harold Commins versus Norbert Donnelly, Ed. E. Donnelly and James Jones were…

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The Melbourne Murder

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1907 · page 2

The Sydney police have received information that on the day of the Melbourne tragedy, in which Mr. Bauer, the well-known diamond merchant,…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, June 10. (Before Mr.G. Stevenson. P.m.) Drunks

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1907 · page 4

A number of first-offending drunks were fined 3/ or the rising of the Court. BREAKING A WINDOW…

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Small Debts Court

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1907 · page 2

During the currency of the Police Court proceedings yesterday the Police Magistrate remarked that he was making arrangement to hold the Small…

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Wagga Police Court. June, 10th, 1907. (Before Mr. G. Stevenson, P.m.) Drunk and Disorderly

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 11 June 1907 · page 4

Joseph Brown was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Fitzmaurice street on Jane 8th. John McCarty and Chas. Summers were similarly…

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Wagga's Sub-inspector of Police

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 11 June 1907 · page 2

At the Wagga Police Court on Monday afternoon a complimentary reference to Mr. Musgrave, the newly appointed sub-inspector of Police at…

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Murder as a Trade. Confession of a Witness. London, June 9

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1907 · page 2

Furtler sensational evidence has been given by the witness Harry Orchard at the trial at Boise City, idaho, of Charles E.Moyer, President of the…

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Licensing Court (Before Mr. G. Stevenson, Chairman of Licensing Court, and Mr. Wm. Purtell, J.P.)

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 11 June 1907 · page 4

An application was made for the transfer of the license of the Junction Inn Hotel, wagga, from Mrs. B. E. Moffat to Mary Ann Walsh. The…

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Perpetrator Still at Large. Police Efforts Fruitless. Public Feeling Runs High

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1907 · page 2

The horror that thrilled the public when on Saturday morning the news of the murder of Mr.Bernard Baner in his office in the heart of the city was…

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Shearers Wages A. W. U. Case. Before Commonwealth Arbitration Court. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 11 June 1907 · page 2

In the Commonwealth Arbitration Court to-day, Mr. Justice O'Connor commenced the hearing of the dispute of the Australian Workers' Union…

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Shearing Rates. A.W.U. Case. Before the Federal Arbitration Court. the Questions at Issue. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1907 · page 2

The hearing of the shearer's dispute in which the AUstralia Workers' Union are claimants and the Pastrolists Council of Australia the…

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Small Debts Court. Monday. June 10. (Before Mr.G. Stevenson, P.m.) a Midwifery Case Fowls and Clothes Props in Part Payment

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1907 · page 3

Ellen Thomas, midwife, proceeded against Rebekah Laney for the sam of £2/8/ balance alleged to be due for attendence during defendant's…

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Police Court. SATURDAY. Before Mr. J. W. Fletcher, P.M. Railway Case

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 12 June 1907 · page 2

A man mimed Joseph Ricketson was charged with travelling on the railway without having previously paid his fare and with intent, to defraud the…

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Murder of a Diamond Merchant

The Worker · Thursday 13 June 1907 · page 13

On Friday of last week Mr. Barnet Bauer, aged 53, a well-known dealer in diamonds, was found lying in his office on the sixth floor of Modern Chambers, Collins-street,…

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Divorce Court Loiterton V. Loiterton

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 13 June 1907 · page 4

In the Divorce Court on Tuesday, before Mr. Justice G. B. Simpson, Robert Henry Loiterton petitioned for a dissolution of his marriage, with…

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Cattle Raiders and Police. Exchange of Fire

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 13 June 1907 · page 2

A party of raiders proceeded at midnight to drive clock away from a farm at Henry. A strong force of police interrupted them, however, and the…

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Policy for 1907. Arbitration Court Arrangements

The Worker · Thursday 13 June 1907 · page 1

Members will have realized the wisdom of the Policy laid down by Conference in February last that they should keep themselves clear from any engagements for…

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The White Cliffs Murder. Sadeek Executed. "I Go to Meet My God."

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 13 June 1907 · page 4

Petet Sadeek, who was sentenced to death for the murder of May Jewson, at White Cliffs, was executed on Tuesday morning in Broken Hill Gaol. For an…

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