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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1910

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A Miser in Court Reluctantly Gives £5 to Poor Box. Ballarat

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 16 April 1910 · page 5

John M'Cormack, who was arrested on April 7 on a charge of having do viable means of support, was brought before the City Count to-day to answer the…

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Huge Gold Theft Mine Systematically Bobbed. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 18 April 1910 · page 3

The discovery has been mace in connection with the extensive gold mines owned by COunt [?]Harourt de Gotha in Hungary, that systematic the[?]s of gold dust have…

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Corowa Police Court. Monday, APRIL 9,1910. (Beofore Mr. R. Hughes, J.P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 19 April 1910 · page 3

John Lilburn,Charles Burnell and Edward Boarke were each charged with drunkenness and fined 2s. 6d…

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Albury Circuit Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 20 April 1910 · page 6

The sittings of the Albury Circuit Court were opened yesterday at the court hose. His Honor Mr. Justice Pring presided; Mr. E. N. Mirchell (instructed by Mr…

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Quarterly Licensing Court

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 20 April 1910 · page 2

The Quarterly Licensing Court for Balranald Licensing District, was held on Monday, the court being constituted by Dr. Foster, Deputy Licensing Magistrate and…

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Bottomley Fined for Contempt of Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 20 April 1910 · page 5

Horatio W. Bottomley, Liberal member for South Hackney, has again been fined for contempt of court in connection with the newspaper "John Bull." of which he is…

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Escaped Prisoners Sentenced

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 21 April 1910 · page 4

At the Maryborough court on Tuesday two men named John Anderson, alias Ball, and William Bourke, were charged with gaol breaking. Superintendent Callender…

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Attested Murder and Suicide

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 21 April 1910 · page 2

John William Kaiser. alias Emerson, after attempting to shoot his wife at a Bloomsbury lodgingg-house, committed suicide. Kaiser was supposed to be an…

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Outraged Before the Murder. Scene at the Morgue. Charge Against Father. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 21 April 1910 · page 4

The post-mortem examination, made to-day on the body of the little girl Florence Phillips, revealed that she had been most brutally outraged before being killed…

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Cablegrams. (Per Reuter.) Murder of a Young Girl New York Youth on Trial. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 21 April 1910 · page 2

The trial of Albert Wolter, the New York youth, who is charged with the murder of Ruth Wheeler, aged 16, commenced in New York yesterday…

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A Legislator Sentenced

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 April 1910 · page 33

In the Criminal Court at Perth, West Australia, J. M. Hopkins, M.L.A., for Beverly, was charged with forging and uttering a promissory note for £542, purporting…

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Middle Harbor Murder Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 22 April 1910 · page 3

William Philips, alias Lemmons, aged 28 years, laborer, was brought before the Water Police Court this morning charged with that he did on April 17. feloniously and…

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A Miser in Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 April 1910 · page 32

The old miser, John M'Cormack, was charged at the Ballarat Court on Friday with having no visible lawful means of support. The reading of the charge caused support. The reading of the charge caused…

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"Jack the Ripper." Interesting Statement. Died in Gaol. London, April 17

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 April 1910 · page 43

Mr. George Kebbell, a London lawyer, writes to the "Pall Mall Gazette" to say that be believes the undiscovered "Jack the Ripper" died in gaol whilst…

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Murder in a Train. the Newcastle Tragedy. London, April 16

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 April 1910 · page 43

John Alexander Dickman, formerly secretary of the Wellington Colliery, was brought before a magistrate at Newcastle yesterday on a charge of murder. The…

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"White Slave" Trade. New York Sensation. Murder of Ruth Wheeler. London, April 19

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 April 1910 · page 28

The trial of Albert Wolter, a youth of 18, on the charge of the murder of Ruth Wheeler, opened in New York yesterday. The jury has been empanelled as the…

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Albury Circuit Court. Civil Sittings. Claim Against a Farmer

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 April 1910 · page 46

In the civil sittings of the Albury Circuit Court on Wednesday, before his Honor Mr. Justice Pring, Harold Umphelby and Archibald Menzies, executors of the estate…

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Corowa Licensing Court. Wednesday, April, 20. 1910. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, P.M.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 April 1910 · page 5

An application for the transfer of the license of the Corowa Hotel was granted from R. O'Leary to Edward Clayton…

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Chiltern Insolvency Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 23 April 1910 · page 6

The Insolvency court was held at Chiller on Wednesday, before His Honor Judge Box. Thomas Henry Stephens, of Korumburra, miner, an insolvent, was brought…

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Chiltern Police Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 April 1910 · page 4

Before Dr. Harkin and Mr. J. Cock. Js.P., on Saturday, a man named John Frost alias John Delaney, was charged by Constable Carruthers with, that he, on or…

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