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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1913

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Natives Fight Police. Durban, November 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 December 1913 · page 42

A serious affray has taken place on the 'Blackburn Estate Mount Edgcombe. The coolies were on their way to work, when they suddenly attacked the police with…

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Prisoner Attacks Warder at the Batmurst Gaol. a Desperate Sturggle. Sydney

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 5 December 1913 · page 1

It has just leaked out that a prisoner serving a life sentence in the Bathurst gaol made a desperate attack on Warder Mark. It is stand…

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Cow and Heifer Shot. Old Man Charged with Shooting. the Case Dismissed

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 5 December 1913 · page 3

At the Albury Police Court yesterday, before Mr. J. Jamieson, P.M., Frederick Matasci, 75, was charged with having, it was alleged, between December 2 and December 3,…

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Young Woman's Fictions. Amazing Story to Police

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 5 December 1913 · page 4

A young woman of 18, who was found lying in a street at Toorak on Tuesday evening, told the police a most sensational story of having been induced to go…

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Grand Vizier's Murder. Death of Condemned Man. Constantinople, December 1

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 December 1913 · page 43

The official statement is put forward that Kavalky Mustapha, one of the assassions of the Grand Vizier Mahmoud Sheyket Pasha, has committed suicide in his…

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Rural Workers. Federal Court Refuses Conference

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 5 December 1913 · page 3

The registrar of the Federal [?] Court states that the presiden[?] that court has decided to refuse the [?] of the rural workers for…

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How the Police Dogs of America Are Trained

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 December 1913 · page 21

The great, lean, black bloodhound tugged and strained at its leash. Its eyes were fixed on the figure of a man about two hundred yards away, who was running…

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Absent Defendants. Police Magistrate’s Warning

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 6 December 1913 · page 2

The absence of Mr James Lees, Junr., of Mathoura Estate, a defendant, when a summons case at Mathoura Court on Wednesday, was called on, was…

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The Missing Girls. the Police Puzzled. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 6 December 1913 · page 2

The police have still no [?]dings of the missing girls, Mona West, Rose Drury, and Kathiern Walker. In each instance inquiries are being…

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Robbers Shot by Police. Governor's Estates Raided, St. Petersburg

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 9 December 1913 · page 2

Twenty mounted robbers plundered the estates of the Governor of the Caucasus at Kavkazskaya, in Northern Caucasia. Subsequently they encountered a body…

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Searching for Babies. Police Begin Operations. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 10 December 1913 · page 2

With the object of ascertaining whether the bodies of any babies have been buried there, what might be termed prospecting operations were begun to-day at the farm…

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False Promise to a Girl. Man Sent to Gaol

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 11 December 1913 · page 2

In the Brisbane Court of Criminal Appeal on Tuesday, before the Chief Justice (Sir Pope A. Cooper), Mr. Justice Shand, and Mr.Justice Lukin, the hearing of…

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The Thaw Case Again. Federal Court to Decide Sanity. Concord (New Hamp.), Wed

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 11 December 1913 · page 2

In the State Court yesterday, a Judge heard an appeal from Harry Thaw to be admitted to bail pending the hearing of the application for his extradition…

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Jerilderie Police Court

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 12 December 1913 · page 5

At the Jerilderie Police Court on Monday last, the following cases were disposed of:— James Hossack, A. Stevens and…

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Constable Sent to Gaol

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 December 1913 · page 20

Josoph Alexander Murphy, formerly a member of the Sydney police force, who was convicted at the Quarter Sessions on a charge of stealing a medal and £12 from…

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Out of Gaol Again. London, December 8

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 December 1913 · page 42

For the fifth time since she was sentenced in April last to three Years' imprisonment for conspiracy, Mrs. Pankhurst has been released from gaol on a license…

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Siam's Women-police

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo · Friday 12 December 1913 · page 3

Siam is one of the few count [?] which [?]sts of a corps of [?] police. The memhers of this Amazon Guard are all old and [?]…

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Licensing Court

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 12 December 1913 · page 2

The next quarterly licensing court for the district of Corowa will be held at the court house, Corowa, on Wednesday, 21st January, 1014, at 10 o'clock…

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Albury Police Court. Tuesday, December 9. (Before Mr. Jamieson, P.M. Destroyed Saplings

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 December 1913 · page 30

Thomas Cross was charged with having within the Hume Shire, without the authority of the council wilfully destroyed, saplings and young trees upon the Albury…

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Mrs. Pankahurst in Gaol. Refuses Food and Drink. London, December 6

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 December 1913 · page 42

Mrs. Pankhurst is evidently determined that she will not spend much time in gaol. Two days ago she was arrested on the arrival of a liner from America, and was taken…

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