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Courts & crime, 1916

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Police Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 15 July 1916 · page 3

At the Wagga Police Court yesterday. Jessie Gould who had been before the court on previous occasions was fined £2 in default one month in Albury…

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Court Work

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 July 1916 · page 4

A wholesale clearance was effected in the list of the District Court yesterday, mainly by settlements of sums claimed and adjournments. Only one case…

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Wagga District Court. Friday, 14th JULY, 1916. (Before His Honor Judge Rogers.)

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 15 July 1916 · page 4

Wagga District Court opened before His Honor Judge Rogers yesterday morning. Mr. C. F. Bolton was Deputy Sherff. Mr. J. D. Walker,…

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Warden's Court

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 17 July 1916 · page 3

A Warden's Court was hold on Friday, when the following authorities to enter were granted:- T. K. Clark, 3 acres pers…

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Member of Commons. Charged at Bow Street. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 July 1916 · page 2

Mr. Ginnell, a member of the House of Commons, was remanded at the Bow Street Court on a charge of entering Knutsford prison under a false name to…

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Police Court. Friday, July 14th. Before Mr. Butler, P.M. LANGUAGE

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 18 July 1916 · page 2

JOSEPH HALEY was fined 40/- and 6/- costs for using obscene language in Wilhelm-street. One month was allowed to pay…

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Wagga District Court. (Before His Honor Judge Rogers.) Baker Versus Bennett

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 18 July 1916 · page 1

The sitting of the Wagga District Court was resumed on Saturday morning, when the hearing of the case in which James Baker sought…

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Serajevo Murders. Serbian Colonel Arrested. Charged with Being an Accomplice. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 July 1916 · page 2

The Austrians have Arrested a Serbian, Colonel Radovitz, a prisoner of war, and charged him with being on accomplice in the murder of the Archduke…

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Dr. Atkinson's Will. Victorian Supreme Court's Finding. Melbourne, Tuesday. American Invention. Gun and Wireless Telephone. New York

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 July 1916 · page 4

The Victorian Supreme Court has found that the will of the late Dr. Atkinson, of Bendigo, leaving £220,000 to his widow and children, was bad The anti-aircraft guns of the American navy are claimed to be the most effective in the world. It is said they will shoot five miles straight upward…

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Adelong Police Court. Wednesday, 13th July

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 20 July 1916 · page 2

Before Mr. Butter, P.M. Frederick Taylor pleaded guilty to having failed to attend compulsory drill. He was punished by being…

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The Harvester Dispute. Settled Out of Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 20 July 1916 · page 2

The sitting of the Wagga District Court wag resumed yesterday morning, when the case in which James Baker sought to recover "£3O0…

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Harboring an Alien. the Marrar Case. Police V. Field. Proceedings in Chambers

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 July 1916 · page 2

Mr, Justice Street to-day had before him in Chambers, by way of a special case, an appeal from the decision by Charles Joseph B. Helm, Police…

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Police Court

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 21 July 1916 · page 3

At the Adelong Police Court on Thursday last before Mr Butler, P.M., F. Hamilton, baker, was fined 5/, costs 6/, for storing articles of food in a place which was then in…

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Charge of Assault at Harden

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 July 1916 · page 3

Thomas Lawlis, on a charge of assault and-occasioning actual bodily harm to John Lawler, pleaded not guilty…

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Ganmain. Police Court. Friday, July 14. Before Mr. Helm, P.M.

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 21 July 1916 · page 2

A. W. Gibbs, Health Officer for the Coolamon Shire, proceeded against Arthur Dixon for having kept pigs on certain premises occupied by him and…

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Murder of Archduke Ferdinand Revived

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 21 July 1916 · page 8

The Austrians have arrested a Serbian Colonel named Ravodits, and charged him with complicity for the murder of Archduke…

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Police Court. Wednesday. Before Messrs. B. G. Green and P. J. Curley, Js.p

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 July 1916 · page 3

Charles Smith, aged 25,. charged with having insufficient means of support, was sentenced to a month imprisonment…

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About Kleptomania. Men and Women Who Steal for Stealing's Sake

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 21 July 1916 · page 2

According a dictionary definition, kleptomania is cerived from two Greek words, the meaning to and the other madness, and word , as a whole, means a morbid…

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Floods Expected. a Police Warning. Scare Created

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 July 1916 · page 2

In consequence of news received by the Wagga police department yesterday warnings were issued to all the people living along the Murrumbidgee below…

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Wagga Police Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 22 July 1916 · page 4

Before Mr. Helm, P.M., yesterday, Roy Carl Montague Chambers, for failing, to attend a compulsory parade, was ordered to be detained by the area officer…

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