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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1913

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Police Court. Thursday, May 8, 1913. (Before Mr W. Scott. P.M.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 May 1913 · page 2

T. Kidd summoned three defendants for riding bicycles without carrying lights, and two for driving vehicles without lights. In each case a fine of…

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Cablegrams. Suffragette Conspiracy. Hunger Striker Collapses in Court. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 10 May 1913 · page 2

The charges of conspiracy against Mrs. Drummond. Miss Annie Kenney. Miss Kerr, four other Suffragettes, and an analytical chemist named Clayton, were…

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Police "Graft" in New York. New York

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 12 May 1913 · page 2

Four of the six police inspectors who were found guilty of graft on Wednesday were brought up for sentence on Friday. They were each ordered 10 months'…

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Corowa Police Court. Friday, May 9, 1913. (Before Mr. P. E. B. Barnett, J.P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 13 May 1913 · page 2

John Frost was charged by Senior Sergeant Hanna on warrant issued by the Young bench with stealing a light hav draught mare, unbranded, 3 years…

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Murdered Her Husband. Widow Sentenced to Four Years' Imprisonment. Berlin

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 13 May 1913 · page 2

The trial has concluded at Posen of Madame Blume on a charge of having shot dead her husband, Dr. Blume, a professor of education…

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The Fitzroy Murder. Frank Claffy Committed for Trial. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 13 May 1913 · page 3

Dr. Coke, the cor[?], at the morgue this afternoon continue the inquiry concerning the death of Henry Francis M'Namara a boot clicker, 38 years of age, of…

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Police Court

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 14 May 1913 · page 2

Before T. H. Boynton, Esq., J.P., yesterday, Robert Steel and Patrick O'Langhlin came up for sentence. Steel, a full-bearded yeoman, aged 46…

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Murder as a Fine Art

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 14 May 1913 · page 3

News of terrible significance and import is to hand from Chicago, where a body of doctors, chemists, and judges experienced in criminal…

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Shooting Sensation Elderly Man Charged. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 14 May 1913 · page 2

At the central police court this morning, George Stokes, 63 years of age, was charged with having shot Joseph Quin[?] with intent to murder him…

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Hume Shire Appeal Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 14 May 1913 · page 5

A Hume Shire appeal court was held at the Albury courthouse yesterday, Mr. H. F. Roberts, P.M., presiding Thomas J. Plunkett appealed against…

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Assault on Constable. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 15 May 1913 · page 2

Robert Turner, a young man, was charged at the Carllon to-day with having associated Constable Dorman. The constable stated that on afternoon of…

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Police Magistrate for Corowa

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 5

At the meeting of the municipal council on Tuesday evening last, Ald. King said that the time was now very opportune to agitate for the appointment…

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Berrigan Police Court. WEDNESDAY, 14th May [?]Pure Foods Prosecution

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 3

William H. Eilbeck, pure foods inspector, proceeded against Thomas Kelly for having sold raspberry vinegar was adultered…

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Cablegrams. Suffragette Conspiracy. Police Court Evidence. Salary Paid to Leaders. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 2

Further evidence for the prosecution was given yesterday in the police court hearing of the charges of conspiracy against seven officials of the Women's Social and…

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Lockhart Police Court. Thursday, 8Th May (Before Mr C. J. Helm, P.M.)

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 6

Lockhart Shire Council v. J. W. Smith, riding on the footpath. Mr McCarthy for complainant. Walter Macklin, laborer, in the…

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Albury Police Court. Tuesday, May 13. (Before Mr. Robert, P.m.) a Motor Certificate

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 25

Gerald Tom Griffith was charged with not having delivered up his certificate of registration as a driven of a motor car within three days after it expired…

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New York Police "Graft."

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 4

Mr. Purcell, a well-known New York gambler, who has joined the campaign, against municipal graft, testifled that he had paid graft aggregating £10,000…

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Murder and Suicide at Perth. Sydney

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 2

A domestic tragedy took place at Fremantle this morning, when Alfred John Binks. after a brief quarrel with his wife, Blanche Binks, shot her and then…

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Court of Patty Sessions

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 2

The monthly court was held here on Monday last, before Messrs Walter Scott, P.M., and W. Elliott, J.P. Police v. Chas. Dyas, drunk and…

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Lockhart Shire Appeal Court.—

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 16 May 1913 · page 6

There were only two appeals on Thursday last, one by W. Weedon against a valuation of £7200, on portions 14/47, of 480 acres was sustained. The Shire…

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