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Courts & crime, 1909

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Wagga Circuit Court. (Before Mr Justice Coheu). Serious Charge

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 8 October 1909 · page 2

At the above court on Friday last, October 1st, Herbert Edward Fogarty pleaded not guilty to a Charge of an offence against a girl…

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Albury Gaol. Solitary Confinement

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 9 October 1909 · page 5

When liberated on Monday morning Harry Holland was met by few sympathieere outside the Albury gaol door. He walked rapidly away, and said the…

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Husband Poisoned Alleged Murder by a Wive Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 9 October 1909 · page 2

At the Lismore circuit Court to-day Martha Stevens was charged with having feloniously murdered Ernest Stevens, and John Howard was charged…

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A Gundagai Woman. Charged with-Murder. The Lismore Poisoning Case. John Howard Acquitted

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 12 October 1909 · page 2

THE trial of Martha Ann Stevens and John Howard, father and daughter, on a charge of murdering Ernest Stevens at Rappville, Lismore, on May…

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Wagga Police Court. Saturday's Cases. Charges Against Two Men and a Woman. (Before Mr. Geo. Stevenson, P.M.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 12 October 1909 · page 4

Exciting scenes were witnessed in Newtown on Friday, when the police arrested two men and a woman on a charge of stealing, in company a…

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Charge of Murder. Wife and Father-in-law on Trial

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 12 October 1909 · page 2

The trial of Martha Ann Stevens and John Howard, lather and daughter, at Lismore, on a charge of murdering Ernest Stevens at Rappville, on May 23…

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Warden's Court. Monday, October 11. (Before Mr. Geo. Stevenson, P.m.) Application for Dreading Lease

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 12 October 1909 · page 2

John Horatio Nelson made application for a dredging lease on portion M.L. 22, 88 acres of Crown lands at Burke's Creek…

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Quarterly Licensing Court. Monday, October 11. (Before Messrs. Geo. Stevenson, P.M., and W. Purtell, J.P.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 12 October 1909 · page 4

Favorable reports were given by the police as to the state of the premises and the management of the businesses in the licensing district of Wagga, and…

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Allured Theft at Illabo

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 14 October 1909 · page 2

From information received from Illabo the Wagga police paid a visit to the Squatters' Hotel and arrested two man, George Louvre Albert…

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Determined Suffragettes. Civil Action Against Minister. the Gaol Hunger Strike. London, Oct. 12

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 14 October 1909 · page 2

Mrs. Leigh, one of the suffragists imprisoned at Winson Green Gaol, Birmingham, for having broken windows of the car in winch Mr. Asquith was…

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A Cabman's Death. Sensational Development. Arrest for Murder. Adelaide

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 14 October 1909 · page 2

A warrant was issued in Adelaide for the arrest of John Dennis, manager of Bungaree Station, who will be charge with the wilful murder of a…

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A Gundagai Woman. Charged with Murder. the Lismore Poisoning Case

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 15 October 1909 · page 4

The trial of Martha Ann Stevens find John Howard, father and daughter, on a charge of murdering Ernest Stevens at Rappville, Lismore, on May…

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Murder Avenged

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 15 October 1909 · page 2

Bringing her 25 years pursuit of the man who murdered her father, and who had escaped while under death sentence, to a successful…

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Licensing Court

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 15 October 1909 · page 3

At a quarterly sitting of the Licensing Bench on Thursday, Messrs W. Bridle and T P Arragon, J'sP, presiding, the Inspector's report was…

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Police versus Solders. PlTCHED Baths in the Centre of a Town

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 15 October 1909 · page 4

Almost by a miracle has this normally peaceful seaport escaped the fate Casablanca (says Mogador message oi October 19). Provoked by a quarrel in the…

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Managing Director's Theft. LONDON, October 15

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 16 October 1909 · page 2

Thomas Stockall was convicted at the Old Bailey on the charge of stealing jewellery valued at £3122, the property of Messrs. J. J. Stockall and…

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Potato Prohibition. Attitude of New South Wales. a Case for High Court. Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 16 October 1909 · page 2

In the House of Representatives to-day the Attorney-General stated that the question of the right of the New South Wales Government to block…

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Wagga Police Court. (Before Mr. Geo. Stevenson, P.M. Saturday, October 16. Young Men's Alleged Theft

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 4

The two men George Louvre (19), a Victorian, and Herbert Sinclair (19), a West Australian, who from instructions received from Illabo, were…

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Gundagai Police Court. Monday, October 19. Before Mr. Burton Smith, P.M.

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 2

John James Drummond pleaded guilty, as a drover in charge of a mob of travelling sheep, to travelling the sheep less than the distance required…

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Warden's Court

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1909 · page 2

A number of tenements were declared cancelled, having been abandoned…

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