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Courts & crime, 1909

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Deniliquin Police Court. Thursday, June 4. (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, P.M.[?]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 June 1909 · page 2

Douglas Gilchrist pleaded [?] charge of using indecent langu[?] Napier-street, and was fined [?] month’s imprisonment…

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Gold Stealing At BUTHERGLEN

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 7 June 1909 · page 4

Great interst was shown in the gold stealling cases heard before Mr. Beaven, P.M., at the Rutherglen police court on Friday morning. The court was crowded…

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Theft at a Fire

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 7 June 1909 · page 2

At the Albury Police Court on Saturday, before Mr. Fletcher, P.M. a young man named William Walter Bray was charged with having in his custody a bottle of…

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Alleged Gold Stealing

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 8 June 1909 · page 2

At the Rutherglen Police Court on Friday morning, before Mr. J. Beaven, P.M., William Wilcox and John Arthur Mitchell were charged…

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Daysdale Police Court. Thursday, June 4, 1909. (Before Mr. Fletcher, P.M.)

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 8 June 1909 · page 3

Corowa Pastures protection Board v. Owen Conroy, for falling to destroy rabbits. Sir. Edmondson appeared to prosecute for the Board…

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Daysdale Small Debts Court. Thursday, Junk 1, 1909. (Before Mr. J. W. Fletcher, P.M.)

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 8 June 1909 · page 3

Michael Breen v. James Moore, for £2210, for rent of land, Defendant pleaded not indebted, and was defended by Major Wilkinson, of Albury. A…

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Alleged Black Mailing. Man Accused by W.N. Wills. Lively Interchanges in Court. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 9 June 1909 · page 2

At the Darlingburst [?]…

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Charge of Gold Stealing

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 June 1909 · page 32

Great interest was shown in the gold stealing cases heard before Mr. Beaven, P.M., at the Rutherglen Police Court on Friday morning. The court was crowded…

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The Wee Waa Murder

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 11 June 1909 · page 3

The second tried on [?] William, on a [?] of the murder of Harry John[?] at Wee Waa on December last, was commenced at Darlinghurst this morning…

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Australian Victimised. Two "Swell Mobsmen" Sentenced. London, June 4

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 June 1909 · page 41

Mr. Thomas Elliot Inglis, who comes from Western Australia, was the victim of a trick by which he was defrauded of £734 in connection with the recent race…

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The Gayndah Murder. Execution of Ross

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 June 1909 · page 44

Arthur Ross, who was convicted of the murder of James E. Muir, bank clerk, at Gayndah, on October 18, was executed on Monday at Brisbane…

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Beechworth Supreme Court

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 June 1909 · page 2

The Supreme Court sitting were opened on Wednesday, before Mr. Justice Cussen. Wm. Solomon George Stonehouse, who was charged with…

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Street Orator Sentenced for Blasphemy

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 12 June 1909 · page 2

Hairy Boulter, a tailor's cutter, was yesterday sentenced to a month's imprisonment for uttering blasphemies He was before the court on a similar charge in…

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Deniliquin Police Court. [Before Mr J. L. Shropshire, P.M.]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 June 1909 · page 2

James Parry, charged with having [?] lawful means of support, was [?] for 2[?] days to provide for [?] transmission to a Benevolent Asylum…

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Licensing Court. [Before Mr J. L. Shropshire, L.M.]

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 June 1909 · page 2

The license of the Victoria Hotel was transferred to Flora Cameron, as administratrix of the estate of the late Allan Cameron, subject to administration…

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Football Riot. Seventy Injured in Fight with Police. Pay-boxes in Flames

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 12 June 1909 · page 4

Seventy persons were more or less seriously injured and damage to property amounting to £2000 was done in a riot which occurred at Hampden Park,…

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Small Debts Court. Friday, June 11. [Before Mr J. L. Shropshire, P. M.

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 12 June 1909 · page 2

Alfred Jameson (Mr. Windeyer) [?] Union Trustee Co. of Australia [?] Wilkinson), Claim for £4/4/- for [?] as a witness, Verdict for [?]…

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Berlin Court Scandals Pearjury Charge Resumed. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 14 June 1909 · page 2

Contracy to general expectation, the German authorities have decided to go on with the prese[?]tion of Prince Eulonberg on a charge of perjury arb[?]ng out of the…

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Chinaman Charged with Murder

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 15 June 1909 · page 3

See, the young Chinaman who was arrested in connection with the Campbell-street tragedy, was placed on trial to-day on a charge of feloniously and maliclously…

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Wood Stealing at South Hay. Two Young Offenders

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 15 June 1909 · page 2

At the court of petty sessions, yesterday, before the P.M., Fanny Foster (23) and Sidney Foster (17) were charged, on summons, with stealing part of a tree of…

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