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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1914

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An Election Fight. Three Men Charged with Assault

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Thursday 1 January 1914 · page 24

At the Albury police court on Wednesday afternoon, before Mr. Jamieson, P.M., William Frederick ("Dummy") Watson, Murray Watson, and Ernest…

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Police-court Parson

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Thursday 1 January 1914 · page 3

Our clients call us the police-court skypilots. That is because we are police-court missionaries. And we act in the capacity to the temples of summary…

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Gaol Breaker J. H. Sparks

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Thursday 1 January 1914 · page 45

Warder Cross, clerk of stores at Pentridge, on Tuesday went to Bairnsdale to see the man O'Neill, who was arrested on Cobungra, in the Omeo district, on…

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Albury Police Court. Monday, December 29. (Before Messrs. W. Whitehead and J. C. Chenery, J. P.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Thursday 1 January 1914 · page 21

Harry Olson, alias Klein, alias Anderson, 47, cook, was charged with having by means of a valueless cheque on the Bank of Australasia, Albury branch, obtained…

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Police Court. Wednesday, December 24. (Before J. A. T. Rochfort, Esq., J.P.)

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 2 January 1914 · page 5

John Taylor, for drunkenness on the 23rd December, was fined 1s, or imprisonment till the rising of the Court; and for assaulting Constable…

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Accused Before the Court. Hydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 3 January 1914 · page 2

A man named Edward Perey Liddell, aged 87 years, was charged at the police court this morning with having conspired to defraud several people of large sums of money…

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Wife Charged with Murder

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 5 January 1914 · page 4

At the City Court in Sydney on Friday the coroner held no interest on alfred Thomson, who died at Sydney Hospital on Boxing Day. Aflee Elizabeth Thomson, his wife, was…

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Man Dragged From and Gaol and Lynched. by Fifteen Desperate Men Jefferson (Taxes)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 5 January 1914 · page 3

Fifteen masked men went to a county gaol yesterday and foreibly removed in prisoner named David Lee, afterwards hanging him to a bridge…

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District Court

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 January 1914 · page 2

The next sitting of the District Court for the district of Corowa will be held at the court house on Friday, February 27, at 2 p.m…

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Corowa Police Court. Saturday January 3, 1914. (Before Messrs H. Brenkell and P. E. B. Barnett,. J's.P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 January 1914 · page 5

Albert Duff, charged with unlawful assault, was fined. 10, or 48 hours' Imprisonment. (Before Mr. P. E. B. Barnott, J.P.)…

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New South Wales. Year's Record at Coroner's Court. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 6 January 1914 · page 2

The Sydney records show a heavy year at the Coroner's Court. There was a total of 100 inquests held, which was an [?] of 36 over the previous year,…

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Charged with Drunkenness

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 7 January 1914 · page 2

Frederick Lowes, [?] was charged at the Albury police court yesterday with (1) having been found drunk and disorderly, and (2) having used [?] language in a…

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Sold Margarine As Butt Sentenced to Three Years Imprisonment. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 7 January 1914 · page 2

A dealer at Nottingham has been [?] to three years [?] servitude selling margarlne as butter. The [?] ha 32 previous [?]…

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Shot Through the Mouth. Man Found by Mulwala Police. Yarrawonga

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 7 January 1914 · page 2

Mulwala police yesterday found the dead body of a man whose Identify is unknown, lying in a font on the New south [?] bank of the Murray River…

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Acquitted of Stealing

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 2

At the Albury Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. J. F. Maloney and J. M. Stowart, J.'sP., Harry Clark, 22, laborer, and Martin Clasby, 24, laborer, were…

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Strasburg Court Martial. Sharp Conflict of Evidence. Berlin

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 2

The chief feature of the evidence yesterday at the court martial at Strasburg on Colonol von Reuter, was the sharp conflict between the statements of…

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Wodonga Police Court. Laroeny From a Dwelling a Nephew Charged

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 2

At the Wodonga police court yesterday, before Mr. A. A. Kelley, P.M., and Messrs. H. Harkin, A. L. Wright, and W. W. Everton, J' P., a Young men named Frank…

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Corowa Police Court. Wednesday, January 7, 1914. (Before Mr. J. J. Jamieson, P.M.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 7

Henry Brown was charged on remand with stealing one billycan, the property of James Smith, valued at 1, at Corowa on the 2nd inst…

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Deniliquin Police Court. Thursday, January 8. (Before Mr Walter Scott, P.m.) Summons Cases

The Independent · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 2

James Greer Fairbaim was charged by Constable Hillerman, that be being in charge of a motor vehicle did not keep on the left side of the street within reasonable…

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Wodonoa Licensing Court. Adjourned Sitting

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 2

At the adjourned annual sitting of the Wadonga Licensing Court yesterday, Mr. A. A. Kelley, L.M., granted a transfer of the He case of Junetton Hotel Wadonga East,…

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