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Courts & crime, 1914

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Albury Municipal Appeal Court. Sitting Concluded Yesterday

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 23 May 1914 · page 6

The Albury Municipal Appeal Court was concluded yesterday. Mr. J. Jamieson, P. M., presided. Mr. F. W. Tiolyers represented the…

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Uproar in Court. Shoes Thrown at Magistrate

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 May 1914 · page 2

Pandemonium reigned at Bow Street Police Court on Friday morning when the Suffragettes arrested outside Buckingham Palace were charged with having behaved…

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The Totalisator. Strong Comments in a Police Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 May 1914 · page 4

Mr. Paris Nesbit. K.C., in the Adelaide Police Court on Friday, made an attack on the Government in reference to the totalisator. He was defending a case in…

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Male Suffragist Goes to Gaol

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 May 1914 · page 2

Mark Spencer, a Suffragist, who was taken into custody in connection with the recent outrage in the Royal Academy, was committed for trial on Friday at the…

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Murder of a Gambler. Retrial of Police Lieutenant. Deati[?] Sentence Re-imposed. New York

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 May 1914 · page 2

Ex-police lieutenant Charles Becker has again been sentenced to death for his part in the murder of the gambler Her, men Rosse[?]. Becker was convicted…

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Police Drafted to Ulster

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 May 1914 · page 2

Irish Americans have promised £20,000 for guns, ammunition, and uniforms, for the Nationalist volunteers. Officials of the Nationalists fear that this American…

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Princess Alleges Blackmail a Traveller Sent to Gaol. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 May 1914 · page 2

The trial was concluded on Friday of Benjamin Brims, who was charged with having attempted to blackmail the lady who calls herself the Princess Josephine…

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Graft in Russian Police Circes. Trapped by an Inspector. St. PETERSHURG

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 May 1914 · page 2

It has been discovered that seme of the [?]dice at Odessa have been exacting tribute amounting to £8000 annually from the keoners of 60 disorderly [?]…

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Albury Licensing Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 26 May 1914 · page 2

Mr. J. Jamieson, P.M., Dr. W. Cleaver Wissls, and Mr. A. G. Daniel, L.M.'s, presided at the Albury Lieensing Court yesterday…

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Police for Ulster. Railways Ordered to Prepare to Transport Troops

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 27 May 1914 · page 2

Further detachments of the Royal Irish Constabulary, fully armed, have been drafted to Ulster. The Irish railways have been ordered to be ready to convey…

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Surry Hills Wife Murder. King Committed for Trial. on a Capital Charge

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 28 May 1914 · page 3

The tragedy at Surry Hills on May 15, which resulted in the death of Margaret Jane King, married woman, 36, was inquired into at the coroner's court…

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Racing in England. King and Queen to Attend the Derby. Precautions Against Suffragettes. Police Guard Stables. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 28 May 1914 · page 4

It is announced that their majesties the King and Queen will attend the Derby on Wednesday. Special precautions will be taken at…

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Court Disturbances. Magistrate Pelted

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 42

The suffragettes who were arrested at Buckingham Palace on Thursday behaved most riotously when they were brought up at Bow-street, on Friday morning. They…

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Wodonga Police Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 3

On Thursday, before Messrs. H. Harkin and A. L. Wright, J.'sP., the following cases were heard:— Dumbrell Bros. Pty. Ltd., v. J. E…

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Albury Police Court. Monday, May 25. (Before Mr. J. Jamieson, P.M.) Convicted by Theft

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 31

Sidney Albert Kelly, 23. laborer, and John Williams, 21 laborer, were charged with having in company one with the other, stolen one gold chain, one…

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Fraudulent Stockbroker. Fennee Sent to Gaol. London May 26

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 28

Charles Edward Fenner, the stockbroker who was arrested in Paris on 78 separate changes of fraudulent conversion of share certificates, has been convicted, and…

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Avenging a Murder. Punishing Eskimos. Vancouver, May 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 31

Inspector Betts, of the mounted police, has been despatched from Regina on a search within the Arctic circle for the murderers of the explorers Radford and…

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New York Murder. Lieut. Becker's Trial. Jurymen in Tears. London, May 23

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 18

Police Lieutenant Becker who was found guilty on October 12, and sentenced to death for the murder of Herman Rosenthal, and who was granted a new trial in…

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Conflicts with Police. Over Sixty Arrests. London, May 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 42

The suffragettes' intended raid on Buckingham Palace to obtain an interview with His Majesty the King was a fiasco. Many thousands of persons gathered in the…

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Small Debts Court. Tuesday, May 26. (Before Mr. Jamieson, P.M.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 May 1914 · page 31

Mr. Tietyons (representing Mrs. Mills, administratrix in the estate of the late H. F. Mills, grocer) applied for the issue of a garnischec order against Sammons…

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