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Courts & crime, 1911

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Police Party's Fate. a Bewildered Guide. Edmonton (Ontario). May 6

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 May 1911 · page 43

A letter received here tells how the mounted police party, which perished in the North-West a few weeks ago, came to grief. According to the account, the party…

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Brutal Assault on a Girl. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 13 May 1911 · page 5

While a girl of respectable parentage, 18 years of age, was returning to her home in the centre of Liverpool from the outskirts of this suburb on Wednesday night…

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Police Court. Saturday, May 8. (Before Mr G. H, Perrin, J.P.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 May 1911 · page 2

George Keightley was fined 10/- or seven days' imprisonment on a charge of being found drunk.. WEDNESDAY MAY 10…

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Piece of his Ear. “A Distinct Sensation”. Peculiar Assault Case Tamworth

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 May 1911 · page 6

In the police court this morning, before Mr O. A. Edwards, P.M., John Garret; y, 22, a labourer, was charged with| assaulting Leslie Mason, occasioning actual bodily harm…

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Infant’s Body Found. Death From Suffocation. Inquiries by Police

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 May 1911 · page 2

A sensation was earned on Sunday evening when it became known that the dead body of an in[?]ant had been found buried in a hole in Russell-street near…

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The Same Old Students An[?]cs of Embryo Professional Men. Cause Chancellor to Run for Police. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 15 May 1911 · page 3

The trouble between the University students and University Council culminated to-day in a series of sensational escapades. For some weeks past the…

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Corowa Police Court. Saturday, May 13, 1911. (Before Mr. P. E. B. B[?]nett, J.P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 16 May 1911 · page 3

John Murphy, drunk on Albury-road Fined 1 or imprisonment till the rising of the court…

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Need Not Go to Gaol. Labor Leaders Win Washington

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 17 May 1911 · page 5

In December, 1908, Judge Wright, at Washington, sentenced the officials of the American Federation of labor to terms of imprisonment for persistently ignoring…

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Murder of Gamekeeper Two Miners Committed. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 17 May 1911 · page 5

Ten days ago a man named Harry Joyce, employed, as gamekeeper by Sir Thomas Pilkington, on the Chevet Park Estate, was found dead with a gunshot wound in…

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Trouble Over a Dog. the Parties in Court

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 17 May 1911 · page 2

At the Court of Petty Sessions on Monday, the P.M. was engaged for two hours in adjudicating upon an action brought against Patrick O'Halloran by Martin Thomas…

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Australian Workers' and Pastoralists' Unions at Arbitration. the Case Before the Court. Sydney

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 17 May 1911 · page 2

The bearing of the di pute between the Australian Workers' Union and the Australian Pastoralists' Federal Council has been commenced before…

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The Perth Murder. Perth

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 18 May 1911 · page 3

Despite the efforts of the police and black trackers, which, have been unrelaxed since the discovery of the murder of Frances Elizabeth Compton, aged 18, at…

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Cablegrams. the Hungarian Murder Peasants Would Avenge Leader. Buda Pest

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 18 May 1911 · page 2

The murder of M. Achim, a member of the Hungarian House of Representatives, has created an immense sensation in Hungary…

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Charge of Assault

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 19 May 1911 · page 2

At the Rutherglen police court on Monday last, before Messrs. Bayllas and Jasper, J.P., a man named John Marsh was charged with unlawfully assaulting…

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Licensing Court

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 19 May 1911 · page 7

On Monday last before Messrs Fulton and Elliott (members of the Licensing Bench) an application for the transfer of the publican's license of the…

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Small Debts Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 May 1911 · page 30

Abikhair Bros. v. William. Clarke, goods sold and delivered, £1/10/6. Nicholas Abikhair deposed that defendant took possession of the goods, but refused to…

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Black and White in South Africa. Native Sentenced to Death. Salisbury

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 19 May 1911 · page 2

A native who was charged with having assaulted the wife of a policeman at Salisbury on January 31 has been found guilty and has been sentenced to death…

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Albury Police Court. Monday, May 15. (Before Mr. Roberts, P.M., and Mr. Whitehead, J.P.) Child Desertion

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 May 1911 · page 29

Eugene Thompson was ordered to pay 7/6 per week for the maintenance of his deserted child, together with 26/ costs, until he reaches the age of 14 years. He…

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Seven-fold Murder. Robbers Enter Villa. Inmates Hacked to Death. Berlin, May 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 May 1911 · page 43

A sensational report has been received from the Russian village of Soroki of a[?] seven-fold murder. Four masked men broke into the villa…

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

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 19 May 1911 · page 3

Sergeant Fraser v. F. Staples, for allowing H. J. Angwin to be upon his licensed premises during prohibited hours. The defendant, who…

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