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Courts & crime, 1916

910 stories in Riverina's papers · page 9 of 46

Motor Car Murder. Men Before Court. Remanded for Eight Days. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 March 1916 · page 2

Leslie Taylor and John Williamson appeared in court to-day charged with the murder of William Haynes. The court was crowded…

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Court Martial Proceedings. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 March 1916 · page 3

Two more privates were found not guilty at the Court Martial to-day in connection with the recent mutiny…

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Our Sydney Letter the Fam Rents Court

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 17 March 1916 · page 4

The Fair Rents Court has Rot Cuing at last. At the opening, Mr. Hall, the State Attorney-General, and Mr. Griffith, the Minister for Education,…

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Equity Court. Claim for £25,000. Costs May Reach £5000. SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 March 1916 · page 3

In the Mount Oxide Mines suit a demurrer raised by counsel for the defendant directors was disallowed. The defendants thereupon applied for an…

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Murder Charge. Railway Camp Tragedy. Inquest on Victim. Bachler Committed for Trial

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 March 1916 · page 4

The adjourned inquest on the death of Nathaniel Griffiths, a laborer, on the Wagga-Tumbarumba railway works, who died in the Wagga…

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Railway Station Burglary

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 March 1916 · page 3

The office of the Wollstonecraft railway station was visited last night by burglars, who blew open a safe with dynamite but only succeeded in…

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Assault, Actual Bodily Harm

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 21 March 1916 · page 2

James Edward Hearne and Leslie Clarkson were charged with having assaulted Percy Thomas Hardy in Cootamundra, inflicting actual bodily harm…

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Alleged Rape or Indecent Assault

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 21 March 1916 · page 2

William Gambler was charged with the above on Lucy Johnson, at Tumut, on 3rd February. Mr. MacMahon for the defence. Plea…

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Police Court. Saturday, March 18. (Before Mr. Cusick, J.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 21 March 1916 · page 3

James Nulan was fined 5s of the rising for being band drunk the previous day. John Lennon was charged with having…

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Assault and Beating, Actual Bodily Harm

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 21 March 1916 · page 2

Thomas Lawlis was charged with assaulting and beating JOhn Lawler at Harden, and he pleaded not guilty. Mr. Mac Mahon asked for an…

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Bankruptcy Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 March 1916 · page 4

A single meeting of creditors in bankrupt examination of Stanley Robert Allen was adjourned till Wednesday week…

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Verdict of Murder Hit on Head with a Sappling

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 21 March 1916 · page 2

AT the Wagga Police Court on Friday, the enquiry into the disturbance at the construction works on the Wagga-Humla railway, when…

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TUESDAY. (Before Messrs. J. Tozer and P. J. Curley, J.p.) Stealing by Finding

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 21 March 1916 · page 2

Robert Bartholomew was charged with stealing by finding in a railway compartment a watch and chain, a sovereign case, a sovereign, a season…

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Murder Alleged. Russian on Trial. Death of Unknown Man. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 March 1916 · page 4

At the Central Criminal Court today Effi M. Rogashow, a Russian, was placed on trial on a charge of having murdered an unknown man…

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Germany. Women Riot. Mounted Police Disperse Crowd

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 March 1916 · page 2

Neutrals who have returned to Copenhagen from Germany say that the nation is feeling the blockade very seriously. The middle classes are suffering from…

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Wagga Police Court. Wednesday, March 22. (Before Mr. J. D. Walker, C.M.) Troublesome German

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 March 1916 · page 3

Nicholas Lotz pleaded guilty to-having been found drunk in Morrow-street and having used indecent language in Fitzmaurice-street…

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Shot Police Sergeant. Case of Charles Perrin. Remanded for Sentence. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 March 1916 · page 3

Charles Perrin was placed on trial it the Central Criminal Court to-day, in a charge of having wounded Sergeant Wm. Henry Butcher with intent…

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Alleged Stealing

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

Emily Jane Lewis was charged with stalling 14 bags of chaff valued at £3 on 11th March, the property of Herbert S. McKenzie…

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To-day’s Police Court

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 3

Before the P.M., Mr. Helm. John Thomas Johnson was charged with being found drunk in Cowabbee st. and was fined 10s and 6s costs…

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Wagga Police Court. Thursday, March 21. (Before Mr. J. D. Walker, C.M.)

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1916 · page 4

Francis Charles Lord pleaded to guilty to charges of having been found drunk and having used indecent language in Baylis-street…

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