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Courts & crime, 1909

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Court of Petty Sessions. (Before the P.M.)

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 17 December 1909 · page 5

Three summons cases were continued to 10th January, 1910, summons not being served. Curtin v. Monahan, excessive…

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Theft of a Lady's Necklet

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 20 December 1909 · page 3

Edward Gorry, formerly one of the leading jockeys of Victoria, was before the City Court to-day charged with the larceny of a fur neeklet, valued at £7 10/…

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Wahgunyah Police Court. Saturday, December 18, 1909. (Before Mr. R. Kilhara and J. Pearce, Js.p.)

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 21 December 1909 · page 3

J M'Ivor, licensee of the Empire Hotel, was charged with trading on Sunday, 24th October, also having his bar door open. Inspector Fowler prosecuted…

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Short-lived Bushrangers [Copyright.] Xi.--the Murder at Diamond Creek Station

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 21 December 1909 · page 4

"Harry, there's a strange man gone into the house. I don't like the look of him. Go in and see after him." So spoke Robert Hurst, a settler at…

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Brothers-in-law at Variance The Best Man Takes the Cake. An Amusing Court Case

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 21 December 1909 · page 2

At the court of petty sessions, yesterday, before the P.M., W. J. McDonald was charged, on summons, with assaulting Henry Bloomfield…

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A Postponed Burglary

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 22 December 1909 · page 3

It was one o'clock in the morning. In the deepest shadow of the piazza of the little suburban villa in which our story opens sat two…

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Stealing a Boat

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 22 December 1909 · page 2

At the police court on Monday morning, before the P.M., George Mellor was charged with stealing a boat, the property of Patrick Murphy…

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Woman Tried for Murder

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 22 December 1909 · page 6

Emily Ven Street was put on trial at the Sydney Central Criminal Court on Monday morning charged with the murder of Edward Joseph Healey at Wickham on 9th…

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Industrial Court Summonses. Newcastle

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 22 December 1909 · page 5

In the Industrial Court to-day, Judge Heydon presiding, several summonses issued in connection with the strike were returnable…

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Alleged Theft of a Sheep

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 23 December 1909 · page 4

At the Albury Police Court yesterday, before Mr. J. J. Kingsmill, J.P., a man named Robert Faussett, a drover, was charged by warrant that on November 11…

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Murder by Court-martial

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 December 1909 · page 45

The wave of indignation which ran round the world recently when the news" came that Senor Ferrer had been shot in the trenches of Montjuich Prison by order…

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Albury Police Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 December 1909 · page 44

At this court on Monday, before Mr. C. F. Butler, P.M., William Harris was fined 5/, in default 48 hours' imprisonment for drunkenness on Saturday…

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Police Reports

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 December 1909 · page 21

The local Superintendent of Police (Mr. Elliott) has received a number of reports from his officers in different parts of the district regard the fires…

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Alleged Assault and Robery a Half-caste Arrested

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 24 December 1909 · page 2

Yesterday morning a man who gave the name of D. B. Fowler called at the Albury Police Station and said he had been assaulted and robbed. He stated that he…

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Countess and Lover. Murder and Suicide

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 24 December 1909 · page 5

The love affair of a German Countess ended in tragic fashion in, Berlin on Thursday night (October 14) in a house in the Friedrichstrasse, one of the…

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Corowa Police Court. Thursday, December 23,1909. (Before Mr. C. J. Cogh[?]an, J.P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 December 1909 · page 5

Williams Williams charged with using indecent language, was fined £2 or one month's imprisonment in Albury gaol…

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Robbers Sandbag Grocer. Chased by the Police

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 December 1909 · page 35

There was another serious shooting affray in Adelaide, in which a member of the police force was under fire on Saturday night. Residents of Goodwood who…

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Cablegrams. Political Murders a Wave of Assassination 21 Hours' Grim Record. Two Premiers Attacked. Magistrate Killed in India London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 24 December 1909 · page 2

The past twenty-four hours have yielded a remarkable crop of crimes of association. Such widely sparated conutries as Rouminaia-Europe Korea, Roumania, and…

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Deniliquin Police Court. Saturday, December 18. (Before Mr B. P. P. Kemp, J.P.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 2

Lionel Beauchamp was fined 5/- or 24 hours’ imprisonment on a charge of being found drunk. MONDAY, DECEMBER 20…

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Licensing Court. (Before Mr J. L. Shropshire, P.M.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 2

George Morris, licensee of the Carriers’ Rest Hotel, was granted a booth license for athletic sports at Barham racecourse on December 27…

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