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Courts & crime, 1911

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Movements of Troops and Police

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 12 August 1911 · page 2

Four hundred troops of the Warwickshire Regiment' have arrived, also police front Leeds and Birmingham, as will as 200 of the Irish Constabulary…

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Hundred Baton Charges by Police. Showers of Bricks, Glass, and Apples

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 12 August 1911 · page 2

Frequent conflicts have occurred with the police, who have been pelted by the strikers with, bricks, glass bottles, and apples. Over a hundred lierce baton…

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Intentions of the Government Intimidators to Be Promptly Arrested. Labor Members Complain of Police

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 12 August 1911 · page 2

Mr. Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, questioned in the House of Commons yesterday, said that unless there was a settlement that day…

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Wodonga Police Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 14 August 1911 · page 3

The following [?]ses were heard at the above court on Saturday, before Mr. Aldridge Kelley, P.M., and Mr. W. Eveston J.F…

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Alleged Confession of Murder a Queensland Tragedy. Details Given in Bottomley's "John Bull." London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 14 August 1911 · page 2

The "John Bull" (of which Mr. H. W. Bottomley, M.P. for Hackney, is the publisher) prints an alleged confession by a man named Vernon, who alleges than he…

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Outcome of Pearl Stealing Charges

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 15 August 1911 · page 1

Eleven members of the jury which was empanelled in connection with the recent case of alleged pearl stealing at Broome have subscribed their names to a letter to…

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Police Beaten Back

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 15 August 1911 · page 2

Ugly rushes were made on the police, who, being in small force, were unable to clear Lime street, and were compelled to take refuge behind the iron gates of the…

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Corowa Police Court. Thursday, August 10, 1911. (Before Mr. P. E. B. Barnett, J.P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 15 August 1911 · page 3

Stephen Hennessy was charged with having been drunk in River-street on the 9th instant. Defendant was fined 26, in default 24 hours' imprisonment…

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Railway Station As Field Hospital Police Superintendent Critically Injured

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 15 August 1911 · page 2

Over 150 civilians and 40 police were treated, at the hospitals after they had received first aid at the railway station, which was converted into a field hospital…

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The Strike War. 50,00 People in Riot. Desperate Fighting: Police v Mob The Riot Act Read. Scores of Men Fall Wounded. Street Resembles Shambles. Barracades Erected and Fires Lit in Street. Guerilla Warfare in a Liverpool Street the Spark That Caused a Riot Desperate Fury. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 15 August 1911 · page 2

A Trades' Union Rally, organised by the Transport Workers' Federation at St. George's Plateau, Liverpool, was attended by 50,000 people yesterday…

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Charged with Murder Man Shot After a Fight. Brisbane

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 16 August 1911 · page 2

I we men, John M'Donald and Jas. Feahan, had a fight at Brixton last night. An Lour later M'Donald was found shot dead. Feahan has been arrested on a…

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Police in Conflict with Strikers

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 16 August 1911 · page 2

Several skirmishes have taken place between the rioters and the police, but the military coming upon the scene quelled the disturbances…

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Negro Riddled with Bullets for Assault on Wh[?]e Woman. Race War Feared. Vancouver

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 16 August 1911 · page 5

There have been some sensational doings at the small town of Durant, in Okla[?], U.S.A. A negro having assaulted a white…

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The Liverpool Revolution Sharp Skirmishes—police v. Strikers. Five Thousand Soldiers Ready. Federation Proclaims General Strike

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 16 August 1911 · page 2

The position at liverpool shows no improvement. Further rioting took place yesterday, both there and at Birkenhead…

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Starving Negroes at Cardiff. Unsuccessful Appeal for Work. Ends in Fight with Police

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 17 August 1911 · page 2

The increases in wages lately granted to seamen at Cardiff has led to a preference being now given by employers to Europeans over negroes, of whom there are 600 at…

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Charged with Drunkenness and Assault. Three Young Men Fined

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 18 August 1911 · page 2

At the court of petty sessions on Tuesday, before the the P.M., Charles Connors was charged with being drunk and with assaulting Jane Bullman…

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Monthly Police Court. Before J. L. Shropshire, Esq., P.M. Summons Court

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 18 August 1911 · page 5

Thomas Hudson v. James Burke—Permitting one cow to wander upon the N.S.W. Government Railway at Jerilderie. Mr. Meillon for…

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Powelka the Bold Maoriland Gaol Breaker Again Escapes. Auckland

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 18 August 1911 · page 2

The man Powelka, who a year ago escaped from Palmerston North Gaol and, taking to the bush created great terror amongst people living in lonely…

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Berrlgan Police Court. Wednesday, August 16, 1911. Before Mr Shropshire, P.M., and Mr Crowther, J.P.

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 18 August 1911 · page 3

Michael Clifton, Walter Donald, Walter White and Frank M‘Arthy were charged [?] company, seven small bo[?] of…

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Prisoner Rescued—five Police Badly Hurt

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 18 August 1911 · page 2

The ranks of the strikers are swelling hourly. The police when arresting a striker were attacked with stones bottle and pieces…

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