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Courts & crime, 1909

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Assault on Colonial Roosevelt. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 31 March 1909 · page 2

The steamer Hamburg with Colonel Roosevelt and his son as board, arrived at the Azoles yesterday. During the voyage [?] the Atlantic…

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Child Murder. Law in Different Lands

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 April 1909 · page 6
Also in Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser, Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press

E.J.S. writes as follows in the "West-minster Gazette":— Is a mother who kills her newly born child to be treated as a murderess,…

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The Children's Court

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1909 · page 7

Every social relation has its ethics, and the general needs of society as a whole are the base of ethics. This profound truism, voiced by an…

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The Children's Court. (Written Specially for this Paper.)

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 April 1909 · page 6
Also in Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press

Every social relation has its ethics, and the general needs of society as a whole are the base of ethics. This profound truism, voiced by an…

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Opium Smoking. Local Proceedings Under Police Offences Act. Exemplary Fines

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 April 1909 · page 2

At the court of petty sessions, this morning, before the P.M., two Chinese were charged with offences under the recently passed Police Offences Act,…

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The Sentence of the Court. Published by Special Arrangement. Chapter Xiil.—a Warder in the Toils

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 April 1909 · page 9

Simon Durke's "reach-me-down" tourist suit, had hardly vanished from the scene when round the corner of the ruin Daisy Connell came into view, followed, at a…

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Sensational Encounter with a Burglar. a Well-Known Sydney Resident Wounded. Numerous Shots Exchanged With the Police. Sydney

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 April 1909 · page 2

A desperate encounter took place between Russell Sinclair a well-known and wealthy resident of Kirribilli Point, and a burglar. A lady inmate…

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A Desperate Burglar. Surprised and Uses Revolver. Twice Wounds His Challenger. Fiers on Police Also. His Arrest Effected. Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 April 1909 · page 2

A desperate encounter occurred at an early hour this morning between Mr. Russell Sinclair, a well-known and wealthy resident, at Kirribilli street,…

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The Carabella Street Burglary

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 3 April 1909 · page 5

Mr. R[?] Sinclair, who was shot in rach groin by a bur[?]dar at his residers in Carabella-street, Kir[?]billi Point, North Sydney, at 5 o'clock…

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Police Court. Saturday, March 27. [Before Mr B. P. P. Kemp, J.P.]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 April 1909 · page 2

James Campbell was fined 1/- or imprisonment till the rising of the Court on a charge of being found drunk in Cressy-street…

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Alleged Illegal Possession of Opium. POLICE v. CHINAMAN

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 April 1909 · page 2

At the Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr J. L. Shropshire, P.M., the police proceeded by summons, against Mow Hon. a Chinaman, for having opium in…

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Cattle Stealing

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 April 1909 · page 2

Sergeant Allwood and the Rutherglen police have succeeded in tracing another lot of cattle stolen in the Warragul district recently, and…

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Murder of a Cripple His Mother Charged. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 6 April 1909 · page 2

The second trial of Mrs. Haskell, a widow, of Fisherton, Salisbury, on a charge of murdering her son Edwin, has resulted in an acquittal of the prisoner, the jury…

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Another Theft Reported

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 6 April 1909 · page 2

After the accused had been led weeping back to her cell at the city watch-house, the detectives received a report that a breech had, during last week, been stolen…

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Corowa Police Court. Friday, April 2, 1909. (Before Mr. J. W. Fletcher P. M.)

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 April 1909 · page 3

Edward Jones, charged with stealing a buggy and set of harness valued at [?]25, the property of John Steel charge withdrawn…

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Trucked to Wodonga. Alleged Theft of Cattle. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 6 April 1909 · page 2

Two young men, named Charles Robert Ellis and James Joseph Ellis, [?]others, were placed on trial to-day in the Court of General Sessions,…

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Exciting Police Chase

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 7 April 1909 · page 6

The Newcastle Hospital was the centre of an exciting chase recently, in which the police ultimately effected the capture of a man who has been…

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