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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1919

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Cowardly Assault. Girl Badly Mauled. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 April 1919 · page 3

While Miss Maisie Muller, aged 17 years, was approaching her home at Marrickville last night, she was attacked by a man who rushed at her…

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Items of News. Masks in Court

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 April 1919 · page 2

Persons whose business requires their presence at the Wagga District Court to-day, must wear masks while in the Court…

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Court and Influenza

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 April 1919 · page 4

Mr. F. J. Clancy, Sheriff's Officer, states that special arrangements have been made affecting persons summoned to attend as jurors at the Quarter…

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Serious Charge at Junee Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 April 1919 · page 4

Edmund Francis O'Meara, of Culcairn, was arrested on Friday afternoon by Constable A. Allan on warrant, and brought before C. R. Colls,…

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Wagga District Court. Friday, April 24

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 April 1919 · page 3

The sitting of the District Court at which his Honor, Judge Bevan, presided, commenced in the Court House, Wagga, yesterday. The list…

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Wagga Police Court. Saturday, April 26. (Before Mr. M. J. Mahon, P.M.)

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 April 1919 · page 3

William Purkis was charged with stealing at Wagga on April 9, a suit case valued at 15/. Purkis, on the application of the police, was…

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Sheep Stealing

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 April 1919 · page 4

James Harold Birmingham, Edgar Thomas Jackson, and William James Jackson, the two latter being youths, were charged with stealing one ewe,…

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Stealing Money

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 April 1919 · page 4

John Leslie Copper pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing the sum of £2 19/ from Joseph Patrick Swansborough, of Baylis-street, Wagga. He…

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Alleged Assault and Robbery. Attack on the Police. Three Arrests

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 April 1919 · page 3

A complain a reached the Wagga police yesterday morning that a man named John Kelly had been assaulted and robbed by three others in a yard…

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Assault with Intent to Rob

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 April 1919 · page 4

The hearing of the charge of assault with intent to rob preferred against James Brown was postponed until ten o'clock this morning Brown…

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Assault with Intent to Rob

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 April 1919 · page 4

William Walton brown and Robert Warren pleaded not guilty to a charge of having at Junee on February 11 assaulted Robert Stirling with…

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Judd to be Sentenced. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 29 April 1919 · page 1

The High Court sustained Judd's conviction and ordered Judd to appear on the first day of the next sidings of the Central Criminal Court to receive sentenced ? v/v…

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Alleged Theft of Goods. Traveller in Trouble. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 April 1919 · page 3

Charles Leigh, described as a traveller, was committed for trial on a charge of having broken and entered the warehouse of Barlow and…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, April 28. (Before Mr. M. J. M'Mahon, P.M.) Indecent Language

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 April 1919 · page 4

Edward Ernest Bell, 36 years of age, pleaded guilty to having made use of indecent language in Fitzmaurice-street, Wagga, on Saturday last. It was…

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Train Tragedy. Court of Inquiry to Be Held. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 April 1919 · page 2

Arrangements have been made by the State authorities to hold a court of inquiry into the allegations that the military prisoners on the Sydney…

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Two-up School Raid. Men Before the Court. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 April 1919 · page 3

Twenty-six men were before the Police Court in connection with Friday night's raid on an alleged gambling house in George-street. All…

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Wagga Licensing Court. Monday, April 28. (Before Mr. M. J. M'Mahon, L.M.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 April 1919 · page 4

Mr. F. D. Hallahan applied for the transfer of the license of the Royal George Hotel, Tarcutta-road, from Mr. C. S. Burke. There was no objection…

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Alleged Assault and Robbery. Accused Men Before the Court. Remanded on Heavy Bail

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 April 1919 · page 3

At the Wagga Police Court yesterday afternoon, before Mr. Thomas Dooney, J.P., Charles Henry Gorman, 27 years of age, a half-caste Japanese,…

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Alleged Assault with Intent to Rob

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 April 1919 · page 4

James Brown was charged with that he did at Pleasant Hills, on April 11, assault Thomas Mallon with intent to rob him. He was further…

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Farce at Albury. Report of Police Superintendent. Commonwealth Bungle

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 April 1919 · page 2

The following report upon the traffic across the border between New South Wales and Victoria, at Albury, has been made by Police Superintendent Miller…

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