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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1915

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Items of News. Police Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 September 1915 · page 2

At the Wagga Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. J. D. Walker, CM., and J. K. O'Reilly, J.P., James Kirk pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting…

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Auckland Shooting Case. Wife Charged with Murder. Auckland (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 September 1915 · page 2

Mrs. Perry, who is charged with the murder of her husband at Ramavama, had been remanded. The accused, who is only 29 years of ago, has mine young…

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Equity Court

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 30 September 1915 · page 2

After a lapse of a month the case in above named court, Kell v. Harris and others, was decided on Friday last, the verdict being in favor of…

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Sale of Butter. Charged Too Much. Cootamundra and Mirrool Storekeepers Fixed. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 September 1915 · page 4

Several persons were brought before Judge Edmunds today charged with selling certain commodities at prices in excess of those proclaimed by the…

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Grace Emmett, All Rights Reserved. Or, the Wattleson Murder Case. Chapter 1. Gideon Wells

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 30 September 1915 · page 2

If Gideon Wells had been born poor he would have been a detective. This was admitted by every one of his intimate friends and acquaintances. As…

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Police Court Tuesday September, 22. Before Mr. C. J. B. Helm. P.M.

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 1 October 1915 · page 2

Charles Thomton was charged with steading from a dwelling the sum of over £5, to wi, the sum of £37 4s 8d. the property of John W. McConville…

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Coolamon Police Court. Fridav, September 24, 1915.(Before Mr. C. J. B. Helm, P.M.)

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 1 October 1915 · page 2

William A. Reberger, charged with driving a motor car in Cowabbie-street on September 9th without a license, pleaded guilty, and was lined £1, or seven days…

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POLICE v. Burglars. Melbourne

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 1 October 1915 · page 2

A fierce encounter took place between the police and burglars in the Trades Hall this morning, and several shots were fired on both sides…

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Wanted to Go to France. How Gunner Who Said He Had Drilled Enough Excused Theft

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 1 October 1915 · page 7

John Rowan, alias Patrick Kinsalla, a gunner of the R.G.A., Tayport, appeared at Cupar Sheriff Court charged with breaking into the cottar house at Scotscraig Mains, stealing a…

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Electoral Revision Court. Wednesday. September 29. Before Mr. C. J. B. Helm. P.M.

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 1 October 1915 · page 1

The Electoral Revision Court for the Murrumbidgee electorate was held on the above date. Mr. J. H. Hassall, Electoral Registrar,…

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Alleged Murder. Soldiers Before Court. a Brutal Crime. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 2 October 1915 · page 3

Two soldiers in uniform, Henry Fenton Jones (24), and Alexander McDonald (25), were charged at the police court to-day with having…

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Kent-street Murder. Body of Victim Identified. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 October 1915 · page 4

The body of the man who was killed in Kent street on Thursday night, has been identified as "Bob", Roberts, who re[?]ded at Camden. Deceased was an…

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Alleged Assault

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 October 1915 · page 2

Thomas Charles Davis, a railway employee at Junee, pleaded not guilty to a charge of assaulting Edward Piper, at Wagga, on Saturday night…

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Police Court. Monday, October 4. Before Mr. C. J. B. Helm, P.m

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 October 1915 · page 2

John Marshall Steels was charged at the Wagga Court yesterday with having embezzled two sums of money aggregating £3 5/3 from John…

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To-day's Telegrams Sydney, Tuesday. Murder Case

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 5 October 1915 · page 2

At the Police Court to-day, Herbert H. Stanley and Charles W. Hughes, both young men, were charged with having murdered…

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Wagga Circuit Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 6 October 1915 · page 2

Mr. Justice Pring will adjudicate at the Wagga Circuit Court, which opens at the Courthouse on Friday next, when the following cases will be…

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Fatal Assault. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 October 1915 · page 4

It transpires that a man, John Collins, who died in the hospital last night, was assaulted a few hours previously outside a city hotel during a…

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Alleged False Pretences Union Secretary Charged. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 October 1915 · page 4

George Clifford Bodkin, general secretary of the Railway Workers' and General Workers' Union, was proceed against on summons at the police court…

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Wore Military Uniform. Young Man Before Court. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 October 1915 · page 4

George Brown pleaded guilty at the Police Court to-day to wearing a military uniform without authority. The magistrate said he looked upon…

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Police Court. THURSDAY. Before Messrs. T. F. Mangan and Henry, J.P.'s. Petty Stealing

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 8 October 1915 · page 2

A young man named Albert Hall was charged with stealing 3 bit and rein, valued at 7/, the property of Bernard O'Connor…

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