The Daily Advertiser, Tue 14 Mar 1916 1
[WAGGA] QUARTER SESSIONS.
Monday, March 13.
(Before His Honor Judge Rogers.)
Deputy Sheriff, Mr CF Bolton, JP; Deputy Clerk of the Peace, Mr JD Walker, CM.
Crown Prosecutor, Mr CM Chubb.
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ALLEGED UNNATURAL OFFENCE.
1916, NSW State Library collection. Reproduction: Peter de Waal
George Henry Monie [aka Money] O’Keefe [aka O’Keeffe] was charged with having, it was alleged, committed an unnatural offence [on George Collins, 15] at Humula, on December 28.
Mr AGF Jones, instructed by Messrs Heath and Mitchelmore, appeared for accused, who pleaded not guilty.
The following jury was empannelled [sic]: David D Elliott, John Francis O’Regan, William O’Shea, John Thomas Holder, Ernest Augustus Stinson, Edward Joseph Giel, Christopher H Norman, Oscar Herbert Monie, John William Davis, Charles Richard Jones, Arthur Graham, and Robert Grant.
The offence was alleged to have been committed in a tent at the Humula railway camp and the evidence was particularly revolting.
A verdict of not guilty was returned and O’Keefe was discharged.
The court then adjourned till 10 o’clock next (this) morning.
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Young Witness, Fri 17 Mar 1916 2
WAGGA SESSIONS.
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Wagga, Tuesday.
At the Quarter Sessions before Judge Rogers Charles Krauss was charged with having at Wagga, on January 29, assaulted Michael Thomas John Gleeson with intent to rob, also with having beaten and otherwise illtreated Gleeson. Accused was found not guilty and discharged. George Henry Monie O’Keefe, was charged with having it was alleged, committed an unnatural offence at Humula, on December 28th. He was also found not guilty.
1 The Daily Advertiser, Tue 14 Mar 1916, p. 3.