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Courts & crime, 1907

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Gundagai Police Court, Monday, December 16. Before Mr. Nisbett, P. M.

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 17 December 1907 · page 2

August Bennelt was fined 10/-, with 7/- costs, or seven days, for being on licensed promises of Sunday. A. C. Page pleaded guilty to using…

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Junee Licensing Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 17 December 1907 · page 2

Messrs. Angus M'Kinnon and J. F. Quilter, J's.P., have been appointed, members of the Junee Licensing Court (to act in conjunction with Mr. G…

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Execution at Brisbane. a Syrian Murder. Dies Cursing. Brisbane

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 17 December 1907 · page 2

August Millenski was hanged at Brisbane this morning for the murder of a Syrian, Wallum Nobby, near Maryborough. He took the matter…

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Licensing Court. Monday, December 16. Before Messrs. Nisbett, Elworthy, and Malnernoy, L.M.'s RENEWALS

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 17 December 1907 · page 3

The following renewals were granted :—A. Hogan, Royal hotel, billiard licence; T. Keibone, Great Southern hotel, hotel renewal, fee £20…

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Police Court. MONDAY. Before Mr. T. F. Mangan, J.P. DRUNK

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 18 December 1907 · page 2

William Dumond pleaded guilty to a [?] of drunk[?] and disorderly conduct. Fined [?] or 45 hours…

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Licensing Court. Monday, December 16, 1907

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 18 December 1907 · page 2

Before Mr J. H. Nosbit (Chairman), and Messrs J. McInerney and A. Elworthy, members. APPLICATIONS FOR RENEWALS…

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Local Option Court

The Worker · Thursday 19 December 1907 · page 5

The jurisdiction of the special court appointed to deal with the reduction of licenses in accordance with the local option vote at the recent New South Wales elections…

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The Night Police Court an American Institution

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 6

The Night Police Court has now assumed a permanent place beside those other nocturnal institutions which from so distinctive a feature…

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Police Court. Wednesday, December 18. (Before Mr. J. H. Nisbett, P.M.)

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 3

Pastures Protection Board v Henry French, failing to destroy rabbits. Mr. Tartakover appeared for the prosecution. Defendant pleaded [?]…

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Warden's Court

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 4

On Tuesday, in the Warden's Court, before Mr. Warden Nisbeett, Samuel Smiles applied for authority to enter land at Calafat to search for copper…

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Tumut Police Court Friday, Dec. 13. Before Messrs. Weeden. Parry and Groves, J. P.

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 2

Simpson, a half-caste aboriginal, was charged, on the information of W. H. Hubbard, with creating a disturbance at the mission station. He had inflicted…

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Sequel to Prison Drama. Police Prefect Dismissed

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 3
Also in Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review

From Semlin, a town on the Servian border, a correspondent of the London "Dally Mail" wrote on 2nd October:—…

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Girl Strangled. Body Found in Ditch and Lover Confesses to Murder. Funeral of the Victim

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 3
Also in Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review

The dead body of Annie Elizabeth Haines, the eighteen-year-old servant of a Hinckley clergyman, was found in a deep ditch near Croft on Monday…

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Alleged Assault and Robbery

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 2

At the Junee police court on Friday, two young men. George M'Lean and Louis Twist, were charged before Mr. A. Bennett, J.P., with assaulting…

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A Terrible Deed. Murder and Suicide

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 2

Just before midnight on Thursday a youth named Kelly, 18 yours of age, rushed into the South Melbourne police station in a state of the wildest…

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Disputed Senatorship. High Court's Decision. a Fresh Election

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 5

The High Court today delivered judgment in regard to the petition of Joseph Vardon against being unseated as a South Australian member of the…

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Strange Murder Case. Camden Town Mystery. Robert Wood Acquitted. Intense Interest in London. London, Dec. 19

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 2

The hearing of a charge of murder which has aroused intense interest is London was concluded yesterday at the Old Bailey Court…

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Disputed Senate Election. High Court Decision. Mr. O'loughlin Unseated. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 7

The High Court has unseated Senator J. V. O'Loughlin, who was elected to the Senate by both Houses of the South Australian Parliament. The…

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