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Courts & crime, 1894

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Latest Cablegrams. Coxeyite Leaders Convicted. Attempt to Board a Train. Shot by Police. London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 11 May 1894 · page 2

The Coxeyites’ leadersm Coxey, Carl Browne and Jones, have been convicted for violating the statutes relating to the capital of Washington…

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Dora Blacks’ Death Sentence. Point of Law. to Be Argued Before the Law Court. Sydney

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 11 May 1894 · page 2

A point of law has arisen in regard to the death sentence of the Dora Dora blacks, which will be argued before the Full Court…

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Nowra Police Court. Court of Petty Sessions, Nowra, Monday, May 14. BEFORE the Police Magistrate. TUESDAY, May 15. BEFORE the Police Magistrate

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 16 May 1894 · page 2

William Allen was fined 5/- each for two separate offences at 11.30 p.m., on Saturday night, in Nowra, viz., drunkenness and obscene language, or 3 days in Wollongong gaol. In the case D. Kohler v. Donald M'Kenzie for £6 0s 2d, goods sold a verdict was entered for plaintiff with amount and costs. Samo v. James Monaghan, goods sold £4 15s…

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Berry Court of Petty Sessions. Friday, May 11Th

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 16 May 1894 · page 2

BEFORE Mr. J. H. Nishett, P.M., and Mr. J. Boxell, J.P. SETTLED A case which promised some interesting…

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The Bridge-street Burglary. Williams Anxious to Confess. Sydney

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 18 May 1894 · page 2

Williams, one of the condemned Bridge-street burglars, is anxious to confess his share of the guilt and that of the missing man, who escaped and…

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The Barnes Common Murder. Confession of the Murderer. London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 18 May 1894 · page 2

The mystery attached to the horrible murder perpetrated on Barnes Common, England, in which a man named Wells, a butcher, was murdered while…

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Forged Tram Tickets. Perpetrator Before the Court. a Lucrative Business. Sydney

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 18 May 1894 · page 2

John Abraham Lemon was chafed at the court this morning with forging and uttering £20 worth of Government tram tickets. The tickets were…

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A Peculiar Murder. London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 May 1894 · page 1

Dr. Henry Meyer has been found guilty of murder in the second degree at New York. He induced his wife to enter into a bigamons marriage with a…

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THE “ JUSTICE ” Libel Action. Before the Court. Sydney

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 25 May 1894 · page 2

A charge by the Crown for seditious libel and incitement to murder was begun Yesterday against Douglas, Dodd, Dwyer, Mason and McNiven, registered…

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Nowra Police Court. Monday, May 21

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 30 May 1894 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate. John Stephenson was charged with being drunk and disorderly, on the 10th May, in Kingborn Street, Nowra. Fined 5s or to be…

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Court of Petty Sessions, Nowra

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 30 May 1894 · page 2

BEFORE the Police Magistrate, and Dr. King, J.P. James Maguire Catherine Maguire, his wife, sued Joseph Kennedy, by their solicitor,…

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Daring Attempt to Escape From Gaol. Sydney

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 1 June 1894 · page 2

From Parte we learn that Frederick Dennis, charged with the murder of John Wm. Hall, made a bold attempt to escape from his cell last night. He…

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The South African Robbery. Two Troopers Sentenced. London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 June 1894 · page 2

Wilson and Daniels, the two troopers who received the money sent by Lobengula with an offer to surrender, and who appropriated that money, have…

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Supreme Court. Sydney, Friday, June 1

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 6 June 1894 · page 2

In BANCO.—(Before Mr. justice Innes, Mr. Justice Stephon, and Mr. justice foster.) Re W.Q. Masson (J.R. Hardy, respondent): Same (A.M. Pherson and others, respondents.)…

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The Private Bars Curse. Police Crusade. Sydney

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 8 June 1894 · page 2

The police are continuing the crusade against private bars…

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Public Meeting at Nowra. Re-patching the Old Court House

The Berry Register and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 9 June 1894 · page 1

AS notified, a public meeting, presided over by the Mayor (Mr. C. Graham), was held in the School of Arts, Nowra, last Wednesday night, at 8 o’clock, in response to a requisition…

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Miners’ Strikes in America. Fights Between Strikers and Police. Gatling Gun Used. London

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 June 1894 · page 2

Indecisive fighting has taken place between the miners on strike at Cripple Creek, Colorado, and the police, the latter firing at Galling gun to disperse the mob…

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Nowra Police Court. Tuesday, June 21

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 13 June 1894 · page 2

BEFORE Messrs. J. H. Nisbett, P.M., H.G. Morton, John Monaghan. J. P. Brereton, and K. M'Kenzie, js[?]. In the case Charles campbell, an orphan boy…

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Intercolonial Telegrams. (From our Telegraphic Correspondent.) Trial for Seditious Libel and Inciting to Murder. Jury Panel Exhausted. Case Postponed. Sydney

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 15 June 1894 · page 2

The change of seditious libel and inciting to murder against the registered proprietors of “Justice,” Dodd and Co., has been postponed till next Criminal Court,…

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Police Court

Moruya Examiner · Friday 22 June 1894 · page 2

On Tuesday the 19th inst., before their Worships Messrs. Davis, Anderson and Emmott, Sydney Deborous Harkus versus Robert Smith; threatening language…

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