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Courts & crime, 1907

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Row in the Police Cells

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 8 August 1907 · page 3

Henry Hudson, Jersey Neilson, and Walter Archer were each fined £5, or two months Imprisonment, with hard labor, to-day, for assaulting one…

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Cablegrams. South Afbica. the Conquering Chows. Wreck the Quarters of Their Police London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 8 August 1907 · page 3

The Transvaal Legislative Assembly has read a second time a bill for providing for the completion of all the Chinese contracts Four hundred discontented Chinese…

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Revision Court

The Independent · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 2

The general lists of electors for the Electorate of Deniliquin were revised by Mr. F. W. Garstang, Police Magistrate, at the Court House, Deniliquin, on Saturday, the 3rd…

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District Court

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 6

There was only one defended case set down for hearing at the sitting of the District Court on Tuesday last before Mr. Acting judge Pollock--…

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The Powers of the Police

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 2

Melbourne has recently had, a fright, and has not got over it. The robbery at the Mint; the garroting cases; the burglaries, murders, tram robberies,and other crimes…

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The Crumpe Murder. Further Details. "A Lost Inhehitance."

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 8

A dramatic tale was told by the police at the Portsmouth Town Hall yesterday (23rd May), when John Langford Crumpe, a feeble old man of aristocratic…

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Police Leader's Regret. London, August 5

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 42

Some astounding observations were made by Constable Barrett, the dismissed leader of the Belfast police malcontents, during an address which he delivered in Belfast to a…

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Police Petition Refused. London, August 2

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 42

The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (the Earl of Aberdeen) has adopted a firm attitude in regard to the Belfast police. He has declined to grant their petition for higher…

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Police Recalcitrant. Dock Labourers Resume. London, August 2

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 42

Disaffection amongst the police in Belfast continues as pronounced as ever. The coal lumpers at the docks, who had added to the confusion by a strike in conjunction…

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A Remarkable Murder. Boarding-house Keeper Shoots His Guest. Victim Almost Decapitated

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 41

A shocking tragedy occurred on Friday night at Blackwall, a small holiday resort on the Hawkesbury River. Mr. Walter Henry Fox, of Sydney, being shot dead by…

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Belfast Strike. Police Elsewhere in Sympathy. London, August 1

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 42

The strikes of the police in Belfast for higher wages and more liberal pension provisions is causing the authorities a good deal of concern, especially as the police…

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Gruesome Discovery Dismembered Trunk in a Box. a Monte Carlo Murder. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 3

An Englishman named Goold and his French wife, formerly of WAterloo(Liverpool), have been arrested under sensational circumstances at Marseilles…

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Howlong Police Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 2

At the Howlong Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Oslear, P.M., and Mr. T. Ashford. J.P., William Plunkett, assistant rabbit inspector to the Albury Pastures…

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Revision Court

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 2

The general lists of electors for the [?]torate of Deniliquin were [?] by W. Garstang, Police[?] House, Deniliquin, on Saturday [?]…

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Deniliquin Police Court. Friday, August 2. (Before Mr. F. W. Garstang. P.M.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 2

George Gee Sing (Mr. Windeyer) Winnie Hines claim for [?] tenement. Defendant did not [?] Service of summons was duly proved…

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The Monte Carlo Murder a Sensational Case. Some "Incriminating Evidence." London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 5

The sensational circumstances surrounding the murder of the woman Livey, at Monte Carlo, have aroused the greatest interest in England and…

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Deniliquin District Court. WEDNESDAY, August 14. (Before His Honor Acting Judge Pollock)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 2

The following cases are listed for hearing at the above court :— William Dunn, bankrupt, ex parte the official assignee and G. Williams…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 12 August 1907 · page 3

At the Nathalia (Vic.) court on Thursday, two brothers, H. J. Hutchins and T. Hatching, of Kotupna, were charged with sheep stealing…

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Cablegrams. the Monte Carlo Murder the Victim's Jewels. Left with Madam Goold to Pawn. Crime Suggested by Goold. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 12 August 1907 · page 3

At the trial, which is still proceeding in which Goold and his wife are harged with the murder of a woman named Levin and trying to dispose of…

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Albury Police Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 13 August 1907 · page 2

The P.M. presided at the Albury police court yesterday, when an old man named James Boyd was fined 5/- in default 48 hours imprisonment, for being drunk in…

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