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Courts & crime, 1907

1,182 stories in Riverina's papers · page 38 of 60

Wagga Police Court. Damage to Telegraph Line a Merciful Judgement

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 3 August 1907 · page 8

Cornehus O'Ke[?]le, an old-age pensioner, partly blind and extremely feeble, was before the Police Court on Thursday morning on a charge of ne[?]…

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The Quirindi Murder. Search for the Perpetrator

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 3 August 1907 · page 2

The inquest at Quirindi concerning the murdered girl Maud Fletcher has been further adjourned. The superintendent of police from Tamworth…

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Precautionary Measures. Recruits and Maxims. Country Police Sympathise. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 3 August 1907 · page 2

The authorities are urgently recruiting large numbers into the Irish constabulary, and have sent maxim guns to Belfast. The police of Boscommon, Leitram,…

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Wagga Police Court

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 6 August 1907 · page 2

At the Police Court yesterday William Perriman pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly in Kincaid-street on Sunday afternoon, and was fined…

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Belfast Strikes Police Van Stoned. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 6 August 1907 · page 2

A mob at Belfast attacked the police van and stoned the police, a serious riot taking place. The police were reinforced, and made three charges with…

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Wagga Police Court

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 8 August 1907 · page 2

On Tuesday Louis Augustine Muller was remanded on a charge of bigamy till the 12th, on the application of the police for the production of evidence…

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Local and General News. Wagga Police Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 8 August 1907 · page 2

At the Wagga Police Court on Tuesday, Mr. P. E. Eldershaw, J.P., fined Francis Lancaster lOs, or 7 days gaol for being drunk and disorderly in…

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Murder Trial of Miners' Federation Officers. Secretary Haywood Acquitted

The Worker · Thursday 8 August 1907 · page 18

Affer a trial lasting several weeks, William D. Haywood, secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, California, was last week acquitted on a charge of complicity in…

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Case of W. P. Crick. Before the Full Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 8 August 1907 · page 3

In the Full Court to-day the matter of W. P. Crick, who is called upon to show cause why he should not be struck off the roll of solicitors, was further…

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Toft Before the Court. Admits His Guilt. Crime Committed Under Influence of Drink. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 8 August 1907 · page 2

At the Quirindi Police Court to-day, George Tofft was remanded until Friday on a charge of murdering Maud Fletcher…

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Litigation and Revenge. Young Woman Sentenced

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 2

Another acid-throwing case was heard at' the New Bailey yesterday, when an attractive-looking young woman named Lilian Sarah Woodcock,…

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Police Court. Friday 2Nd August. Before Mr. Jas D. Walker, J.P.

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 2

Samuel John Groves, of Blowering, was charged with, on or about the 23rd June last, carnally knowing a girl under the age of 14 years. Sergeant…

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The Quirindi Murder. Tofft in the Police Court

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 4

George Tofft, who is charged with the murder of his sweetheart, Eliza Maud Flelcher, at Quirindi, was before the local police court on Wednesday…

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Wagga Police Court

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 4

On Tuesday, Robert Hughes was charged before Mr. Eldershaw, C.P.S., with being drunk and using indecent language in Fitzmaurice-street. For…

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After Many Years. Burglary of 15 Years Ago

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 5

The police went to a shop in Surry Hills to-day, and under one of the [?] found two bangles, a gold ring and a ruby brooch, said to be the…

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Stone Breaking at the Albury Gaol

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 2

A matter of some interest was brought up at the Albury Council meeting on Wednesday night by Alderman Thompson, who asked why the…

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Police Court. WEDNESDAY. Before Messrs. W. W. Locwood and T. Mangao, J.P. TRESPASS

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 3

Cross v. Moylan. Plea, never indebted. Mr. Mac Mahon for plaintiff ; Mr. R A. Morgan for defendant…

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The High Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 2

After an argument lasting four days, in which counsel representing the disappointed candidate (Mr. Joseph Vardon), the Governor of South Australia, and the…

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Indian Unrest. Native Volunteers Attack Police. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 2

Thirty "National" Volunteers attacked a party of police at Calcutta while searching a native newspaper office for seditious matter…

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Monte Carlo Murder. Further Details. Prisoners Inveterate Gamblers. a Cold-blooded Crime. London. Aug. 9

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 2

Newspapers allege that the man Goold, who has been arrested with his wife for the murder at Monte Carlo of Mme. Livey, is apparently a…

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