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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1918

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Free Fight with Police. Four Men Arrested

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 1 August 1918 · page 4

As the result of a melee in the western part of Flinders street, Melbourne, on Tuesday evening, four men were arrested, and two constables had to receive hospital…

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Tocumwal Police Court

The Independent · Friday 2 August 1918 · page 4

At the Toonmwal Police Court recently, before Messrs P. Quirk and S Hutson, J's.P., Rupert Russel was charged with stealing 16 rabbit traps,…

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Solomon Island Murder. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 2 August 1918 · page 2

A cable was received in Sydney to-day stating that Eric Hylton Glasson. who was charged with the murder of a Solomon Islander named Bluey, was acquitted…

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Albury Police Court. Monday, July 29. (Before Mr. J. Laidlaw, P.M., and Mr. M. J. D'Arcy, J.P.) Noxious Weeds

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 August 1918 · page 46

The Hume Shire Council proceeded against James Stewart M'Clelland for failing to destroy noxious weeds on his holding at Thurgoona…

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A Police Fight in Collins Street. Constable Arrested by Superior

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 2 August 1918 · page 4

An exciting scene, in which several members of the police force were the principal actors, was witnessed in Collins-street, Melbourne, near the corner of Elizabeth…

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Von Eichhorn's Murder

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 6 August 1918 · page 2

Dr. Karl Helfferich, successor to the late Count von Mirbach, formerly German Ambassador in Moscow, has sent a note to M. Trotsky, Commissary of…

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Corowa Police Court. Saturday, August 3, 1918. (Before Messrs. J. Chivell and A. C. Leslie, J's.P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 August 1918 · page 3

Henry Jarvis was charged with stealing an overcoat, valued at £2, the Property of James Brennan, of Oaklands…

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Irish Republican Brother Hood. Interned Men in Court. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 8 August 1918 · page 3

Mr Justice Harvey, who has been commissioned in effect to advise the Minister for Defence whether the seven interned men. members, it is alleged, of the Irish…

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Tocumwal Police Court 29/7/'18

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo · Friday 9 August 1918 · page 5

At the Tocumwal Police Court, before Messrs P. Quirk and S. Hutson, J'sP., Frederick Lord, on remand, was charged on suspicion of…

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Albury Police Court. Tuesday, August 6. (Before Messrs. J. P. Smithenbecker and W. D. James, J's.P

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 August 1918 · page 24

William Barton, 48, was charged, on remand, with that he did, on July 30, at Albury steal a suit of clothes, valued at £3, the property of Thomas Foster…

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Allen Too Close to the Coast Goes to Gaol for a Month. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 10 August 1918 · page 3

Theodore Wilhelm Bernhardt Lucknow, 68, of Queenscliff, was charged in the City Court to-day with an offence against the War Precautions Regulations, namely…

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Policeman Charged. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 13 August 1918 · page 3

Inspecting-Superintendent Davidson to-day held an inquiry into charges of having assaulted his superior officer, and with having used obscene language in a public…

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Quarrel at Boarding House Is Told in Albury Court £5 Damages Awarded

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 14 August 1918 · page 4

Mary Hehir, boarding-house keeper. Dean street, Albury, was plaintiff, and James Thomas, overseer on Maryvale Station, Tabletop, defendant, in a case heard…

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Charges Against Police Over I.W.W. Convictions. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 15 August 1918 · page 2

In the Legislative Assembly to-day the Attorney General moved the expediency of introducing a Bill to appoint a Commissioner to inquire into certain charges…

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Solicitor Ordered Out of Court. But Eventually Apologises. Lismore

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 15 August 1918 · page 3

During the hearing of a case at the Lismore Sessions, Detective Surridge said he was one of the detectives in the I.W.W. cases, adding "There was nothing wrong…

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Tocumwal Police Court 3rd August, 1918

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Echo · Friday 16 August 1918 · page 2

Before Mess s J. D Davies and S. Hutson, J'sP'., William Gardiner was chargad wit It assaulting and causing actual [?]odily ha[?] to Harry…

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Albury Police Court. Monday, 12th August. (Before Mr. G. S. Shepherd, P.M.) Incorrect Label

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 August 1918 · page 31

Jamile Assad was charged, under the Pure Foods' Act, with incorrectly labelling goods (a bottle containing phenyle), which might be capable of misleading a…

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Pastor in Gaol. Sold Liquor to Soldiers. Negro Clergyman and Some of His Flock Said to Have Operated Saloon in the Parsonage

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 16 August 1918 · page 3

Camp Mills, [?]I., Saturday.—Military police to-day arrested the Rev. Thomas B. McConnell, negro pastor of the Salem African, Mothodist Episcopal…

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Albury Small Debts Court. Tuesday, 13th August. (Before Mr. G. S. Shepherd, P.M.) Levin v. Verdon

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 August 1918 · page 30

Jacob Levin proceeded against Anna Amelia Verdon for the recovery of £15/2/3 under a promisory note. Mr. Belbridge appeared for plaintiff and Col. Wilkinson…

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Boot Thieves Sentenced. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 17 August 1918 · page 2

Three men, William Anderson, Albert Farrow, and William Cell Anderson, convicted in connection with the Manly boot robbery, were to-day Sentenced to…

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