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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1919

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Deserter Charged with Imposition Gets Twelve Months in Gaol. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 3

Noyal Skehan, a returned soldier, pleaded guilty to having received [?] from Marian Adrian by pretending that he was a returnd wounded soldier. There…

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A School Girl Shot. Man Charged with Manslaughter Bathurt

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 3

To-day Thomas Williman was charged at Bathurst Police Court with the alleged man[?] of Fanny Howard, a school girl, who died last night as result of…

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Murder of Major Seton Colonel Rutherford Committed­. for Trial. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 3

Additional evidence was headr to-day in the case in which Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Cocil Rutherford, a Territorial…

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Albury Chaff Dispute Appeal to Supreme Court Dismissed

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 2

At the last District Court at Albury on November [?], M'Culloch Carrying Comparing, of Albury, [?]ued Thomas J.Maxwell, of Tara Park, Brocklosby, for…

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Flogging for Assault

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 3 March 1919 · page 1

On Friday Albert Boase, 28, railway goods guard, West Melbourne, was brought before the Chief Justice in the Criminal Court for sentence on a charge…

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Police Court Business. Unsatisfactory Position

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 3

The residents of Finley are complaining of the injustice that is occasioned by the flying monthly visits of the police magistrate, not that they…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing. Three Cases at Finley

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 4

At the Finley police court on Friday last, before Messrs S. Hutson and J. T. Close, J’s.P., John Oliver Schier was charged with…

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Sheep Stealing Charges at Finley. Two Brothers Committed for Trial

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Stock Journal · Friday 7 March 1919 · page 3

Great interest was shown in police court proceedings at Finley last Friday, when two brothers, John Oliver Schier and Charles Henry…

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Four Days in Gaol Experiences of Holman's Victims

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 10 March 1919 · page 2

The batch of internees who were admitted to the Albury isolation camp last Tuesday, drenched to the skin, were released on Saturday afternoon. It will…

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YATES, M.H.R. Sentenced to 60 Days Friend Gets 30 Days. Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 10 March 1919 · page 2

At the Domain camp this morning the findings of the court martial which tried Gunner George Edwin Yates, M. H. R., of the 13th Field Artillery Brigade, and…

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Albury Licensing Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 11 March 1919 · page 2

At the Albury Licensing Court yesterday before the P.M. (Mr. G. S. Shepherd), Dr. Woods, and Mr. H. M'Cutcheon, J's.P., a renewal of a colonial…

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Licensing Court

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 13 March 1919 · page 3

At a Special meeting of the Jerilderie Licensing Court held on Monday last before Messrs. Elliott and Firth Js.P. the following were dealt…

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The Lyons Fair an Australian Court. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 13 March 1919 · page 2

At the Lyons Fair the first week has been concluded and the business is now beginning to show signs of briskness. It is expected that the final week will prove…

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Fruit Stealing

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 14 March 1919 · page 2

Complaints come from South Corowa fruit growers about tho regular system of fruit stealing which is carried on there. Incidentally it has been…

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Mr. Yates, M.h.r., Sentenced

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 March 1919 · page 45

At the Domain camp, Melbourne, on Saturday, the findings of the court martial which tried Gunner George Yates, M.H.R. of S.A. of the 13th Field…

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Corowa Police Court. Wednesday, March 12, 1919. (Before Mr. G. S. Shepherd, P.M.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 14 March 1919 · page 2

James Culhane proceeded against Frank Fogarty for offensive words. Mr. W. M. Strong appeared for the defendant and pleaded not guilty…

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Alleged Theft of Cloth Heavy Bail Fixed. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 14 March 1919 · page 2

A man named Arthur Keene was charged at the police court with having stolen 26 packages of serge and woolen material, valued at £5000, the property of Birt…

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Albury Police Court. Monday, March 10. (Before Mr. G. S. Shepherd, P.M.) Failed to Make Stock Returns

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 March 1919 · page 31

G. H. Roxburgh, secretary to the Albury Pastures Protection Board, proceeded against Arthur Samuel Hicks and George Edward Hicks for failing to furnish…

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Soldiers on the Land Interest Should Not Be Charged. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 14 March 1919 · page 2

At the conference of which growers at Harden, a motion was carried in favor of relieving the soldier settlers on the land of the interest charge, which was to…

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Soldiers Riot in London. Police Action Resented, 3000 American-canadian— Australians. Storm Bow Street. London

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 14 March 1919 · page 6

A riot took place in the Strand, resulting from a constable endeavoring to arrest American sailors gambling outside the Y.M.C.A. refreshment hut…

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