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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1914

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Screams in Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 April 1914 · page 42

Disturbances in court by suffragette prisoners arc the latest devices for achieving notoriety. When the woman who was arrested for…

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Sentence of Death. Hay Circuit Court

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 17 April 1914 · page 5

At the Hay Circuit Court yesterday before Justice Spring, Henry Todd, charged with rape on Kathleen Daisy Laing, aged 14, at Narandera…

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Suffragette Leader in Berlin. Police Prohibit Lectures. Berlin

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 17 April 1914 · page 2

Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, the well-known English Suffragette, is at present on a visit to this city. The Berlin police authorities have prohibited Miss…

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Corowa Licensing Court. Wednesday, April 13. (Before Drs. Lang and Shortt, J's.P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 April 1914 · page 2

The licensing inspector's (Senior Sergant Hanna's) report was received and adopted. A transfer of the license of the Court…

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Small Debts Court. Before the P.M. and Messrs. Thorburn Elliott, Js.P

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 17 April 1914 · page 5

Moran v. Tucker. Damages laid at £8. Mr. R. Meillon appeared for defendant…

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Jerilderie Licensing Court. Before the P.M. and Messrs. Elliott and Thomas, Js.P

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 17 April 1914 · page 5

An application was made for the transfer of a billiard license from W. Duke to W. W. Walker, of Tocumwal. There being no police objections…

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Police Court. Monday, April 13. (Before Mr W. Scott, P.M.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 18 April 1914 · page 2

Thomas Frederick Borthwick was fined 5/- or 24 hours’ for being found drunk in Napier-street, and was fined £3 or one month’s imprisonment for using,…

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Police woman's Gris

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Saturday 18 April 1914 · page 1

Chicago's famous police women underwent a real told when two of then were called upon to quell a distrudance recenting from a strike…

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Theft of Leather

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 21 April 1914 · page 3

Between half-past ten o'clock yesterday morning and 7.30 a.m. to-day a quantity of patent co[?] and glace kid leather, of the estimated value of £150 to £200, was…

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Alleged Attempted Murder. Accused Man Acquitted

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 21 April 1914 · page 4

The Albury Supreme Court was held yesterday; his Honor Mr. Justice Pring Presiding. the sherill (Mr. C. E. B. Maybury) occupied a sent on the bench…

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Corowa Licensing Court

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 21 April 1914 · page 3

The application by Emma H. Oswald, to transfer the license of the Star Hotel, Corowa, to W. J. Clark, which, occurred the court on Thursday last, before…

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Girl Battered to Death When Resisted Soldier's Assault. Vienna

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 21 April 1914 · page 2

A shocking murder has been brought to light in Austria. While searching the forest in Carinthia, a forester found the body of a young girl. Her had had been…

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Wheat Exhibits. a Farrer Court

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 21 April 1914 · page 5

The wheat exhibit this year came from all parts of the wheat belt. A grower has to furnish with each entry particulars as to variety, locality in…

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Theft of Newspapers. From Albury Literary Institute Library

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 22 April 1914 · page 4

One of these days the person with a penchant for taking newspapers that have been stores away in cut boards for the convenience of subscribers to the Albury…

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Harry Holland to Be Sentenced To-day. New Zealand Strike Case Conviction Upheld by Court of Appeal. Willington

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 22 April 1914 · page 2

The Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal of Hence Holland against his conviction for having uttered seditions words during the New Zealand Wharf Laborers'…

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Balranald Police Court. Friday, 15th APRIL. (Before Mr. Longfield, P.m.) Non-destruction of Rabbits

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 22 April 1914 · page 3

John William Chanter v. Joseph Lockhart junr Mr. J. R. Town appeared on behalf of Lockhart and pleaded guilty…

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Wheat Exhibits. a Farrer Court

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 22 April 1914 · page 5

The wheat exhibits this year came from all parts of the wheat belt. A grower has to furnish with each entry particulars as to variety, locality in…

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That "Account Rendered." Case in Albury Small Debts Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 22 April 1914 · page 3

In the Albury Small Debts Court yesterday, before Messrs. J. Jamieson, P.M., and W. Whitehead, J.P., H. Jacobs sued W. J. Bates for £7 19/2 for goods sold…

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Harry Holland Sentenced. to Twelve Months' Imprisonment. Wellington

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 23 April 1914 · page 2

Yesterday the Court of Appeal uphold the conviction of Henry Holland for having uttered seditious words during the strike of wharf laborers in January last…

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Sentenced for Gold-stealing. Bendigo

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 24 April 1914 · page 3

Charged at the Bendige City Court today (1) with having had in his possession gold-bearing specimens vallied at 4/; and (2) with having failed to satisfy the police…

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