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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1916

910 stories in Riverina's papers · page 10 of 46

Mutinous Soldiers. Three Dealt With. Sentenced and Discharged. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 3

Private Rex Brady, who was recently convicted by the District Court Martial of desertion and escaping from lawful custody was to-day…

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Police Court. TUESDAy, MARCH 21. Before Mr. C. J. B. Helm, P.M. DRUNK, &c

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 5

Andrew Lennon was fined 10s or seven days for being drunk the previous day; and £1 or 14 days for using indecent language…

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Prisoners Sentenced Bathurst-street Outrage. Policeman Gets Seven Years. Chief Justice Comment. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 3

Frederick Fisher, the police constable who shot his sister-in-law at a house in Bathurst-street, was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude at…

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Arbitration Court Criticised. Mr. Justice Power's Rejoinder Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 3

Mr. Justice Power, in the Arbitration Court, to-day, strongly commented on the motion carried at meetings of the Victorian branch of the Federated…

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Wagga Supreme Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 4

Mr. J. D. Walker, C.M., received yesterday from the United-Secretary of the Department of the Attorney-General and of Justice, Mr. J. L…

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Wagga Police Court. Friday, March 24. (Before Messrs. J. D. Walker, C.M., and J. K. O'Reilly, J.P..) Maintenance of Wife

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1916 · page 6

Arthur Smallman was charged, by warrant, with having disobeyed an order of maintenance made on August 13, for the support of Kathleen…

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Interesting Police Court Case

Daily Advertiser · Monday 27 March 1916 · page 4

Robert Bartholomew, 20, a railway porter, 3 well-dressed young man of good appearance, pleaded guilty at the Cootamundra court to a charge of…

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Wagga Police Court. Saturday, March 25

Daily Advertiser · Monday 27 March 1916 · page 3

Donald Edwards and John Lellon, two soldiers, were charged with having travelled on the railway between Albury and Wagga without having…

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Bankruptcy Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1916 · page 4

The Registrar in Bankruptcy. Mr. C. J. H. Helm. P.M., presided at a single meeting of creditors in the estate, of Arthur George Sanders…

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Police Court. Monday, March 27, 1916. (Before Mr. C. J. B. Heim, P.M.) Adulterated Milk

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1916 · page 4

Ernest Redpath was charged with having sold adulterated milk. Defendant, for whom Mr. W. M. J. Walsh appeared, pleaded not guilty…

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Mosman Robbery. Theft of £559. Two Men on Trial. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1916 · page 2

Two men, James Ryan and Albert Lewis, were placed on trial at the Criminal Court to-day for alleged complicity in the recent outrage at…

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District Court. Friday, March 24. Before His Honor Judge Bevan. INTERPLENDER

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1916 · page 2

James Mortin and Co. (judgment creditors), H. C. Strauss (judgment debtor), Thompson Bros. (claimants). Mr. Dibbs (Temora) appeared for the…

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Supreme Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 March 1916 · page 2

The Supreme Court, which will commence at Wagga on April 17, has now been gazetted. This means the cancellation of the court at Albury…

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Soldier Sentenced. Two Years-for Shooting. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 March 1916 · page 3

Alfred Burnett, a soldier, who was convicted of having shot Sergeant Paul, was to-day sentenced to two years' imprisonment, with hard labor…

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Died in Court. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 March 1916 · page 3

When William Whatnough, 65 entered the Bathurst Police Court to-day, for the purpose of giving evidence in a case against a local hotelkeeper…

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Court-martial. President Perplexed. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 March 1916 · page 2

Driver Ernest Williams, a soldier, was charged at the District Court Martial with alleged desertion. After hearing the evidence the court…

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Price of Meat. Commission Inquiry Opened. Pastoral Interests and Meat Trade. Represented in Court. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 March 1916 · page 3

The Necessary Commodities Commission this morning opened an inquiry into the price of meat. Mr. M'Kean appeared for the Crown, while the Pastoralists' Union,…

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Police Court. Tuesday, March 28

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1916 · page 4

Before Mr. C. J. B. Helm, P.M. M. F. Murray (Rabbit Inspector) v. Henry L. Culley, failing to adequately destroy rabbits on his property at…

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Police Court. THURSDAY. (Before Mr. M. S. Arnott, P.M.) Drunks

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 31 March 1916 · page 2

Several men were fined for drunkenness. The door was full of a bad looking lot…

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Coolamon Police Court Friday, March 24. (Before the P,M., Mr. Helm.)

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 31 March 1916 · page 2

Robert Johnston was charged with igniting inflammable material within tea yards of a stubble held, on March 10th; 1916, whereby the property of John…

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