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Courts & crime, 1912

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Jerilderie Police Court

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 3

At the Jerilderie Police Court on Monday last before Messrs Rochfort and Elliott, J.P.'s., Andrew Thomas McLaughlan was had up on a charge…

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Albury Police Court. Tuesday, May 28. (Before Mr. Roberts, P.M., and Mr. W. Whitehead. J.P.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 31

John Glasson, Henry Adams Lawrence Quinlan, and Victor Harris were each fined 20/, with 6/ costs, for riding bicycles on footpaths within the municipality…

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Window-smashing Riots. Organisers Sent to Gaol. Husband and Wife Convicted. Lordon, May 23

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 42

The trial of Mrs. Parkhurst and Mr. and Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, leadine officers of the Women's Social and Political Union, and organisers of the window-smashing…

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Socialists' Weapons. Plot to Murder Mayor. San Diego (Cal.), May 24

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 43

A plot has been revealed to the police which shows that the Industrial Workers of the World contemplated, avenging in murderous, fashion their expulsion from…

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Rioting in Hungary. Trams and Shops Wrecked. Mob Charged with Bayonets. Hundreds of Casualties. Budanest. May 24

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 42

Trouble has been threatening in Hungary for some time in connection with the movement in favor of universal suffrage, and it has now culminated in a remarkable…

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Scandalous Court Scenes. Mob Threaten Jurymen. Portuguese Political Trials. Lisbon, May 26

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 May 1912 · page 43

Many political trials have taken place at Oporto during the last two months. The last batch of prisoners, all of whom have been acquitted to date, are now…

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Man Charged with Murder. Sensation at Warburton. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 1 June 1912 · page 2

A sensation was caused at Warburton, and in the surrounding district today, on it becoming known that James Gorrie. a resident of that township, had been…

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Death of Nine Babies. Woman Tried for Murder. New York

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 1 June 1912 · page 2

In February last nine babies died m suspicious circumstances at the infanta' hospital at Brooklyn. A kitchen woman named Winifred…

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Cablegrams. Queen's Jewels Stolen. Receiver Gets Two Years' Gaol. Singapore

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 3 June 1912 · page 2

Early in January last an official of the Court of Siam, Jules Paul de Boseck, was arrested in London for having received the jewels of the Dowager Queen of Siam,…

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Arrested for Alleged Theft. the Contents of a Gladstone Bag

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 4 June 1912 · page 2

Constable Macauley, of Albury, effected a smart arrest yesterday. At midday on Saturday last a young man named Arthur C. Long arrived in Albury by the…

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Armed Criminals and Police. Shots Exchanged in the Night

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 4 June 1912 · page 4

The armed and masked burglars who recently arrived in Melbourne from Sydney, and whom the Melbourne detectives are said to have had under surveillance since…

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Fire on Big Liner. Brave Work of Firemen and Police. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 4 June 1912 · page 2

A fire broke out on the Cunard liner Carmania; which was docked at Liverpool. It is believed that the conflagration commenced in the coal bunkers. It was…

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Cablegrams. Riot of Dockers. Police inspector Stabbed. Five Hundred Strikers Involved. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 4 June 1912 · page 2

A serious conflict between a number of police and five hundred strikers occurred at the dock-head of Bermondsey on Saturday night…

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Fierce Riot in Sydney. Circus Employees Attacked. Police Use Revolvers

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 5 June 1912 · page 2

At about dusk last night the biggest and most serious riot that has occurred in Sydney for many years took place near With's circus, at the Haymarket…

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Police Inspector Badly Kicked

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 6 June 1912 · page 2

Laborers are housed in specially erected sheds within the docks. The police have been reinforced, but fights and scuffles outside the docks gates are frequent. Police…

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Melbourne Police Warned. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 6 June 1912 · page 3

Mr. O'Callaghan. the Chief Commissioner of Police, was asked this afternoon whether the Melbourne Detective Department had been warned by the United States…

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Henty Police Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 7 June 1912 · page 2

At the Henty Police Court yesterday, before Mr. A. E. G. Middleton, J.P., an old offender, Patrick O'Meara, for having used offensive language at Culcairn the…

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Murder in Court. Another Man Found Guilty. Witheville (Tennessee), June 1

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 June 1912 · page 43

Another trial has been concluded in conjunction with the Wytheville court murder,in which a judged officials, and witnesses were shot by a gang while the court was…

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Police Inspector Stabbed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 June 1912 · page 42

A constable who was on duty on Saturday night at the dockhead in Bermondsey had occasion to remonstrate with a number of disorderly strikers. The men turned upon…

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Albury Police Court. Tuesday, June 4. (Before Mr. Roberts. P.M.) The Hotel Light

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 June 1912 · page 31

"William Carstens, licensee of the Race course Hotel, was fined 5/, with 6/ costs, for not having a light in front of his hotel premises, on the night of May 24th…

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