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Courts & crime, 1913

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Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. C. J. T. Helm, P.m.) C R Darcet [?] JONES

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 9 August 1913 · page 3

Mr. Walsh for defendant; Mr. Higgins for plaintiff. This was a case to recover a sum of money paid over to the poundkeeper at…

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Wagga Licensing Court. Friday, August 8. (Before Messrs. C. J. B. Helm, P.M. and W. Purtell, J.P.

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 9 August 1913 · page 3

Several applications for licenses came on for bearing. Applications were granted Annie E. Lever, John Francis McLean, and…

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Assault

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 12 August 1913 · page 1

George Smith pleaded not guilty of assaulting John King at Umbango. Mr. Bayhs, for defendant, said a wire had been received from King,…

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Alleged Assault

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 August 1913 · page 1

George Smith, charged with unalawfully assaulting John King at Umbango, on July 22 last, pleaded not guilty. Mr. Baylis, who defended,…

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The Rock Assault Case

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 12 August 1913 · page 1

The case, William Carr and Hector John Carr charged with assaaating John Taylor, at Kubura, near The Rock, on 30th July, was called, but adjourned…

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EMBEZZLEMENT. Accused Sentenced to 12 Months

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 12 August 1913 · page 3

At the local police court on Saturday before Mr Giles Shaw, P.M., Gilbert Rosewall, alias Scales, was charged with embezzling the sum…

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Suffragettes Foiled. Women Rescue Gaol Doctor

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 August 1913 · page 2

Four women attacked Dr. Pearson, Government medical officer. outside Holloway Prison as a protest against the treatment of hunger-striking…

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Alleged Theft of Union Money. SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 August 1913 · page 2

David Eldridge was charged at the police court to-day with embezzling £3 10/. belonging to the Railway Workers and General Loborers'…

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Sailors Assault Policeman. Apathetic Crowd. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 August 1913 · page 2

Two stokers, named Ramedy and Burns, belonging to the Australian destroyer Parramatta, were sentenced to two months gaol at the police…

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Police Court. Friday, August Sth. (Before Mr. J. H. Hassall, J.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 12 August 1913 · page 3

Henry Cartwright was fined 20s or 7 days for being drunk on the Narandera Railway Station…

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Licensing Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 August 1913 · page 1
Also in Wagga Wagga Express

Transfers of Reeuses were respectively prentod of the Racecourse Hotel from Mrs. Searle to Mrs. Noalnt the Golden F[?] Hotel. from Mrs. Nolan…

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Police Court. Monday, August 11, 1913. Before Mr. C.J.B. Helm, P.M. DRUNKENNESS

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 August 1913 · page 1

Two first offenders were charged with being drunk in Baylis-street on Saturday evening last, and pleaded guilty. Each received a nominal…

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Police Court. Monday. Before Mr. H. Giles Shaw, P.M. Insufficient Lawful Means of Support

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 12 August 1913 · page 4

Elizabeth Lilley, who was remanded from Thursday, when she pleaded guilty, 'now' altered her plea to not guilty, to having insufficient lawful…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday. August 11, 1913. (Before Mr. C. J. B. Helm, P.m.) Drunkenness

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 12 August 1913 · page 1

Two first offenders pleaded guilly to being drunk in Baylis-street on Saturday night, and were nominally fined. T. Bennett, found drunk in…

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Alleged Police Blackmail. Paris

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 August 1913 · page 2

An inquiry has been opened into the allegations made against seven plain-clothes policemen, who are said to have blackmailed various…

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Melbourne Divorce Court Ferguson V. Ferguson

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 12 August 1913 · page 4

At the above court on Friday, Matilda Ferguson, 48 years of age, of Mundy street, Bendipo, asked for a dissolution of her marriage with Alexander…

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Police Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 August 1913 · page 2

At the police court yesterday morning. Margaret Cusack, a young woman, was charged with stealing on man, last £1. the property of…

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Law's Long Arm. Brutal Pugilists Sentenced. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 August 1913 · page 2

Alfred Currier was to-day sentenced to four months gaol, without the option of a fine, for a brutal assault upon Constable Duffell. It was stated that…

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Police Superannuation, SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 August 1913 · page 2

It is understood that the agitation on the part of a majority of the police to be allowed to retire after 30 years service is not to prove…

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