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Courts & crime, 1911

1,278 stories in Riverina's papers · page 50 of 64

Police Court. Monday, October 16, 1911. (Before Mr. Geo. Stevenson, P.M.) P. P. Board Prosecution

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1911 · page 4

John Minogue was proceeded against by Rabbit Inspector Irving for failing to destroy the rabbits on his 640 acre holding. It was stated that…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, 16th OCTOBER, 1911. (Before Mr. G. Stevenson, P.m.) Refusing to Destroy Rabbits

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 17 October 1911 · page 5

John Minogill was charged on the information of Rabbit Inspector Irving with failing to destroy rabbits on his holding of 640 acres. The Inspector…

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Licensing Court. Monday, October 16th, 1911. (Before Messrs, G. Stevenson, P.M.) (Chairman, and W. Purtell, J.P.)

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 17 October 1911 · page 5

The Inspector's report showed that the hotels in the Wagga area were well conducted, and in satisfactory state of repair…

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Licensing Court. Monday, October 16, 1911. (Before Mr. Geo Stevenson, P.M., and W. Purtell, J.p.) Transfers, Renewals and Permits

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1911 · page 4

The application of Henry Campbell to transfer the license of the Uran-quinty Hotel to Chak. James Clout, was granted. The following renewals…

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Items of News. Wagga Police Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 October 1911 · page 2

Before Mr. J. D. Walker, C.M., at the Wagga Court House yesterday, John Phillips, an old offender, was charged with having been drunk and…

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Punitive Expedition. Revenging Explorer's Murder. Calcutta

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 October 1911 · page 4

Three Shurka regiments and two police battalions started to-day on an expedition against the Abors who slew the explorer, Noel Williamson…

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Lady Arrested. Charge of Murder. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 October 1911 · page 2

The wife of Captain Coventry, late of the Seventeenth, Lancers, has been arrested at Erdington on a charge of causing the death of Charles Gilles, a…

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Dungog Murder. a Farcical Trial. Charge of Manslaughter. Berlin

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 October 1911 · page 2

The German, Garlach, charged with the Dungog murder, has been declared sane by the doctors in Germany but he was committed for trial on a charge…

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Lithgow Riots. the Last Scene. Convicted Men Sentenced. Fifteen Months and Three Years' Hard Labor. Judge Pring's Strictures. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 October 1911 · page 2

The last scene in connection with the Lithgow riots was enacted at the Bathurst Circuit Court to-day, when Scully, Hayes and Williams were…

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Police Changes. Wagga Sub-inspector Promoted. Goes to Broken Hill. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 October 1911 · page 2

The Executive Council to-day approved of the following appointments—Sub-inspector Arthur Musgrave, Wagga, to be a sub-inspector of the…

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More Gaol for Unionists. Men Protest Their Innocence

The Worker · Thursday 19 October 1911 · page 19

At Bathurst last week Bernard Scully, Edward Williams, William Charles Hayes, Ernest Albert Cooper, Ross Kennedy, John Edward Dixon, and James Cairnes were…

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Murder at Sea Lascar Executed. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 October 1911 · page 2

The Lascar who murdered an Australian stewardess on board the steamer China was executed in London yesterday…

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The Last Scene. Lithgow Rioters Sentenced. Severe Comments by Judge Pring

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 19 October 1911 · page 4

The last scene in connection with the Lithgow riots was enacted at the Bathurst Circuit Court on Tuesday morning, when Bernard Scully, William C. Hayes,…

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Wagga Police Court. Tuesday, October 17, 1911. (Before Mr. J. D. Walker, C.m.) a Chance to Reform

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 19 October 1911 · page 3

John Phillips, who possesses a number of previous police convictions for drunkenness, riotous behaviour, and indecent language, again appeared in…

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Daring Burglary

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 20 October 1911 · page 2

One of the largest and most daring burglaries for many years took place during last night at the residence of Frank Albert, a well known…

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Police Court. Monday, October 16th. (Before Mr. S. J. Hamblin, J.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 20 October 1911 · page 5

Geo. Lionel Keightly, charged by Senior-Constable Toohey with being drunk in Caddell Street, was fined 5s or imprisonment till the rising of the Court…

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Desperadoes. Fight Police

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 20 October 1911 · page 6

After a fierce revolver duel with the police in circumstances (says "Lloyd's News" of April 16) vividly recalling the Sidney street "slege," a murderer…

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Sequel to Sugar Strike. a Charge of Shooting. Magistrate Justifies the Act Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 October 1911 · page 2

At the Cairns police court to-day Louis Chevally was charged with shooting at George Triffit, a sugar worker, with intent to cause bodily…

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Revolting Murder. Body Burnt in Oven. Wife Exposes Criminal. Rome

Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 October 1911 · page 2

[?]omagnoli, a shoemaker in Genoa, sold jewellery on the instalment system to a sexuagenarian named Angela Maccio. He lured the latter to…

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Daring Burglary £1000 Worth of Jewellery From a Residence. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 21 October 1911 · page 7

One of the largest and most daring burglaries for many years took place during last night at the residence of Mr Frank Albert, the well-known…

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