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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1914

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Albury Municipal Council Appeal Court Reopened

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 19 May 1914 · page 4

Alexander George Danie' appealed against the unimproved valuation by the council of £2610 on three stops in Dean street; also unimproved valuation of…

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The Mad Suffragettes. Violent Scenes in Court. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 19 May 1914 · page 2

Two Suffragettes, named respectively Hilda Burket and Florence Monks were committed for trial on Saturday on a charge of having set fire to the Bath…

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Chicago's Women Police

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 20 May 1914 · page 3

Chicago in so satisfied with its experiment with police women, ten of whom were appointed recently to assist in reforming the morals and…

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Sensation in Divorce Court. Hysterical Witness Creates a Scene Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 20 May 1914 · page 6

In the sitting in divorce to-day, during the hearing of the ease in which William Wilson if policeman, petitioned for a divorce from his wife on the ground of…

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Balranald Court of Petty Sessions. Friday, 15Th May. (Before Mr. Flynn, P.m.) Sunday Rifle Practice

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 20 May 1914 · page 2

Frederick William Grabau, jnr., and Wm. Ernest Hillerman were charged, on the information of George Nield, with shooting for pleasure at Oldham…

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Deniliquin Police Court. Thursday, May 21. (Before the Police Magistrate.) Summons Cases

The Independent · Friday 22 May 1914 · page 2

Thomas kidd (Inspector of Nuisances) proceeded against John Thomas Simpson for driving a waggonette without a light. Defendant pleaded guilty, and was fined…

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Charged with Wife Murder. Fractured Skull and Cut Throat

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 May 1914 · page 7

Goorge Henry Darling was'arraigned In the Criminal Court,.Hobart, on Tnes day, before Mr. Justice Nleholls, on a charge of murder of his wife, Violet…

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Corowa Police Court. Wednesday, May 20. (Before Mr. Jj. J[?]

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 May 1914 · page 7

The police proceeded against twd men named Smith for being fllegally on [?] during proh[?] hours, to with Satarday, [?] list, ut…

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Inter-state. Murder in Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 May 1914 · page 32

Nixon-lane, off Nixon-street, Surry Hills, was the scene of a ghastly murder on Friday night. A married woman, Margaret Jane King, had her throat cut from ear to…

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Federal Arbitration Court

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 May 1914 · page 3
Also in Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser

The Fodoral Arbitration Court, during the time of my predecessor and myself has done a great and beneficial work for the people of Australia. It…

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Strike Sensations. Crowds Surround Gaol. New York, May 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 May 1914 · page 43

Sensational scenes have marked a strike at Wakefield, in Massachusetts. During the disturbances mobs attacked a furniture factory. They also stoned the…

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Albury Police Court. Tuesday, May 19. (Before Mr. Jamieson, P.M.) On the Wrong Side

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 May 1914 · page 31

Daniel M'Cormack and Gordon Wynack were each lined 2/6, with 6/ costs, for having driven motor cars on the wrong side of the street…

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Cure for Rheumatism. Principal Sent to Gaol. London, May 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 May 1914 · page 43

Reuter's Paris correspondent states that an American named Macaura, who has been conducting institutes in England and on the Continent for the cure of…

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Novel Plan to Warm a Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 May 1914 · page 5

The new Guildhall at Westminster was cold and draughty, and the chairman of the Middlesex Sessions, which were being held there, found a plan to warm the…

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Albury Small Debts Court. Tuesday, May 19

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 May 1914 · page 31

R. H. Giles sued J. E. Hittmann for £1, work and labor done in the cleaning of a kitchen range at the George Hotel. Colonel Wilkinson for plaintiff. Mrs…

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"Fearful Bush Depravity. Oases Before Benalla Criminal Court

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 May 1914 · page 7

Criminal aitting of the Supreme Court, Mr. Jastice Hood presiding, were held on Thesday last at Besalla. Mr. Leon prosccuted for the Crown…

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Grazier's Loss Through "Burning Off." a Case in Wodonga County Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 May 1914 · page 29

In the Wodonga County Court, before Judge Box and a jury of four, John Brindley, grazier, of Walwa, claimed from John Francis Mitchell, grazier, of Walwa…

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Corowa Small Debts Court. Wednesday, May 20 (Bfore Mr. d.d. J. Jamieson, P.M.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 May 1914 · page 7

Nedan Singh proccded against Mrs. A. Wright (wife of previous defendant) for the recovery of;£710f rent of cotlage at South Corowa…

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Corowa Licensing Court. Wednesday, May 20. (Before Mr. J. J. Jamieson, P.M.; and Drs. W. H. Laug and W. Shorit, J'.P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 May 1914 · page 7

Mrs. M. L. Draminond aubmitted the plans of the proposed new hotel at Butgandra,. to be creeted bn the site of the one recently dostroyed bv fire…

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