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Courts & crime, 1912

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Persian Police Chief. Murdered After Winning Battle. Teheran

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 23 May 1912 · page 2

Yephrim Khan, the famous Armenian chief of police, at Teheran, has been assassinated. Yephrim lately took the field against…

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Stealing Postal Notes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 May 1912 · page 33

After, a trial extending, three days, the jury found Blanton and Smythe guilty of the larceny of postal notes, the property of the P.M.G. It was alleged for the…

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Police Court. Before the P.M.

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 24 May 1912 · page 3

W. Barton, a "stranger, was charged with making use of indecent language and pleaded guilty. Fined £2, in default 1 month with h.l. in…

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Murder in Court. Man to Pay Penalty. New York, May 17

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 May 1912 · page 43

The trial has been concluded at Wytheville, in Virginia, of one of the men concerned in the shooting of a judge, officials, and witnesses at the courthouse at…

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Court News. FINLEY

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 24 May 1912 · page 2

The usual monthly court was held on Thursday last, Mr [?] P M., presiding. The Shire Council prosecuted Allen…

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Cablegrams. Suffragette Outrages. Leaders Sentenced to Nine Months' Imprisonment. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 24 May 1912 · page 2

The trial concluded at Old Bailey yesterday of Mrs. Pankhurst (founder of the Women's Social and Political Union), and Mr. Pethwick Lawrence and his wife…

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Police Ridiculed. Paris, May 17

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 May 1912 · page 42

All the newspapers write in terms of severe condemnation and ridicule of the police action in regard to tho siege of the bandits' residence at…

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Tom Mann in Gaol. Sentence Reduced Two-thirds. London, May 20

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 May 1912 · page 45

The Home Secretary (Mr. M'Kenna) has decided to reduce to two months the sentence of six months imprisonment which was imposed upon Tom Mann when he was…

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Motor Bandit's Vendetta. Against Police Informants. Paris

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 24 May 1912 · page 2

The apache desperado known as "Bill," who murdered Blanchet, a carter, because he had caused the arrest of Renert, one of the motor bandit gang, made an…

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Desperate Burglars. Police Officer Killed. Berlin, May 21

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 May 1912 · page 45

During the pursuit of two burglars at Bredow, near Stettin, on Monday, the lives of three persons were lost. The first to fall was a police official…

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Militant Anarchist. Court Orders Deportation. London, May 21

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 May 1912 · page 45

Errico Malatesta, a prominent militant anarchist, has been tried at the Old Bailey, and sentenced to three months imprisonment, for having libelled a…

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The Courts. Corowa Licensing Court. Wednesday, May 22. (Before Dr. Lang, chairman; and Dr. Shortt.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 May 1912 · page 5

An application was made for the transfer of the license of the Newmarket Hotel, Albury road, Corowa, from G. F. Vincent to Andrea De Piazza.--…

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Secretary's Alleged Theft

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 25 May 1912 · page 6

Hugh Kinvan Jamieson, late secretary of the Papuan Rubber Trading Co., was charged at the police court to-day with the alleged stealing of £273. The…

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Ten Years' for Stealing Watches

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 25 May 1912 · page 6

A man named Wiliam Elliott pleaded guilty to-day at the Darlinghurst Criminal Court to two charges of having stolen watches, and Henry Ringer pleaded guilty…

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Tried a Practical Joke. and iS Arrested for Stealing

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 25 May 1912 · page 6

A groom named Harry Graystone on Wednesday thought he would play a practical joke on Jack Clyde Martin, so he took from the latter's jinker in the Albury…

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Carrie Moore's Marriage a Case in the Divorce Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 25 May 1912 · page 1

The London "Daily Telegraph" of April 19 reports the proceedings in the Divorce Court, London, before Mr. Justice Bargrave Deane. when Mrs. Percy Bigwood…

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Charged with Bigamy

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 27 May 1912 · page 2

At the city court today, Frederick S. Richardson, about 35 years of age, was charged with having on June 10, 1911, gone through the form of marriage with Miss…

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Suffrage Riots at Budapest. Conflict with Police. Budapest

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 27 May 1912 · page 2

Despite the orders of the organisers of the suffrage demonstration against the election of Count Tisza as president of the Chamber of Deputies, to cease their…

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Special Licensing Court

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 28 May 1912 · page 2

A special licensing court will be held in Corowa on June 12th, to enable publicans where licenses expire on 30th June to get certificates of renewal…

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Rutherglen Police Court

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 2

On Monday, before Messrs. R. J. Burrowes and S. Jasper, J's.P., George DeMamiel was charged with using obscene language in Main-street on…

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