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Courts & crime, 1907

1,267 stories in Murray's papers · page 15 of 64

Albury Licensing Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 March 1907 · page 46

Mr. T. H. Griffith, J.P., Deputy Chairman, during the absence of Mr. C. E. Oslear, P.M., presided at this Court on Monday. A transfer of…

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Beechworth Assize Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 March 1907 · page 33

At the Beechworth Assize Court, before His Honor Judge Hodges, Frank Kent was indicted for the alleged larceny of money from Mrs. Morrison, of…

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Romantic Marriage. Story Told in Court

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 March 1907 · page 3

During the tearing of a charge which was before Sir Mahony, in the Northern police Court, Dublin, last month, a romantic story was unfolded. The care…

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Victorian Gaming Act. Unusual Police Procedure. Melbourne

The Independent · Friday 29 March 1907 · page 4

A most unusual course has been adopted by the police in connection with applications for quarantining City Tattersall's Club, Bourke street, and the…

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Rebuking the "Thunderer." Incident in London Court

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 March 1907 · page 5

In the City of London Court last month (reports the "Daily Chronicle"), in the case of Hooper v. Howe, the plaintiff, Mr H. E. Hooper, of the…

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Corowa Licensing Court. Wednesday, March 27,1907. (Before Drs. Lang and Shortt. Js.P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 March 1907 · page 7

A renewal of the publican's [?]eonse of the Australian Hotel was granted to R. King. Yesterday the weather was fine, but…

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In Court

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 March 1907 · page 2

Magistrate : ‘Prisoner, have you any visible means of support?’ Prisoner: ‘Yes, sir, your honour.’ (To his wife, a laundress) : ‘Bridget, stand up,…

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Deniliquin Police Court. Thursday, March 28. (Before Mr F. W. Garstang, P.M.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 March 1907 · page 3

Police v. Michael Beamish, Defendant was charged with being found drunk and disorderly in Cressy-street. He was fined Is or imprisonment till the rising…

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The Thaw Murder Trial. Tee Lunacy Commission. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 30 March 1907 · page 2

Harry Thaw, the Pittsburg millionaire, who is under trial for the murder of Stanford White in the Madison Gardens Theatre at New York, and…

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A Red Page in History. the Murder of Captain Cook the Last of the Old Navigators

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 30 March 1907 · page 4

From the discovery of the Pacific by Balboa is 1513 till the middle of the eighteenth century Spain had been left in almost undisturbed…

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Albury Police Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 2 April 1907 · page 2

At the Albury Police Court on Monday, before Mr C. E. Oslear P.M., John Lumby, aged 60, a well-known character in Albury, was character in Albury. was charged with…

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The Whiteley Murder. Rayner Respited

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 2 April 1907 · page 3

The Home Secretary, Mr Herbert Gladstone, has granted a respite in the case of Horace Rayner, the young who was sentenced to death for…

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Alleged Wholesale Theft of Letters. Postal Notes and Cheques Torn Up

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 2 April 1907 · page 2

While picnicking at Long Bay today some young men found a large number of torn up letters and postcards hidden in the bush. Some of…

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Alleged Horse Stealing

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 3 April 1907 · page 2

Constable Adams, of Eldorado, on Saturday night arrested two men named Thomas Bourke and Jeremiah Cunningham at Leneva five miles from…

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Arrested for Murder

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 3 April 1907 · page 5

Elizabeth Downey, a nurse. 53 years of age, was arrested to-day, on warrant, charged "that she did feloniously murder Lilias Vida Helen Patullo,…

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The Murder of Whiteley

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 3 April 1907 · page 2

Many of the leading English newspapers complain that the agitation for the reprieve of Rayner. Mr. W. Whiteley's murderer, was quite…

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Revolver in a Court House. a Brother's Revenge

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 3 April 1907 · page 2

A criminal court sessions was being held at Stamboul (Constantinople) to try a man named Mustapha, who was alleged to be the murderer of Arif…

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Items of News. Albury Licensing Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 4 April 1907 · page 2

Mr. C. E. Oslear, P.M., Dr. Woods and Mr. W. I. Johnson, J's.P., presided at the Licensing Court yesterday. Honora Waterstreet was granted a…

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The Murder of Whiteley Mrs Rayner Becomes a Mother. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 4 April 1907 · page 2

Mrs Rayner, wife of the murderer of Mr Whiteley has been safely delivered of a daughter since her husband was reprieved from sentence of death to…

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Moorish Fanaticism. the Murder of Mauchamps. French Troops Act As Scavengers. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 4 April 1907 · page 2

Morocco is likely to in benefit in sanitation through the fanatical stoning [?] death at Marrakesh of Dr…

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