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Courts & crime, 1920

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Two Men Escape From Gaol. SYDNEY

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 29 March 1920 · page 3

By forcing an iron bar out of a window, climbing a wall, and letting themselves down by a rope into the street, H. E. Smith and A, S. Cross, two soldiers who…

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Disorders in Ireland. Murder of Maccurtain Evidence at Inquest. London, March 25

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 29 March 1920 · page 3

The "Daily News" says that J. DoneIan, a witness at the inquiry into the murder of MaeCurtain, the Sinn Fein Lord Mayor of Cork, said he was passing…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing At Bowna. Three Young Men Charged

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 30 March 1920 · page 3

On a charge of stealing one stud Lincom ewe, valued at £5 at "Tividale." near Bowna on March 25, the property of Clarence Irene Vanghan, three young men…

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Howlong Police Court. Before the P. M. on March 17

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 30 March 1920 · page 3

Police v. John Brennan, for laving in his possession 10 opossum skins, protected animals. Fiord £10, and costs of court 6-, or three months' hard…

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Murder of a Rabbiter Blayney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 30 March 1920 · page 2

Further particulars of the, Blayney tragedy show that the position of the decomposed remains suggest that they had been hidden beneath a log. Traces of…

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Special Licensing Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 30 March 1920 · page 3

A special sitting of the Albury Licensing Court was held yesterday, before the P.M. (Mr. G. S. Shepherd) and Mr. H McCutcheon, L.M…

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Bogus Soldier Seat to Gaol No More Imposition for Twelve Months

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 30 March 1920 · page 3

Before the P.M., at the Albury Police Court yesterday Alex Mack, alias McMullen was charged on a writ of habeas corpus with having falsely represented…

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The Coogee Murder John Meagher on Trial. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 30 March 1920 · page 3

The trial of John Meagher, who is charged with alleged wife murder at Coogee in November last was commenced in the criminal court to-day. Intense…

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Popular P.M.'s Departure Congratulations at Court House

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 30 March 1920 · page 2

Prior to the opening of business of the Albury Court House yesterday, occasion was taken to congratulate Mr. Gr. S. Shepherd, who has been P.M. here for…

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Alleged Theft of Gold Sum of £14,000 Involved

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 31 March 1920 · page 1

An astonishing story concerning a] sum of £14,000 in gold was told in the Adelaide police court on Monday. Henry Smithson, 45, who arrived at the outer…

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The Coogee Murder Trial of John Meagher. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 31 March 1920 · page 3

The trial of John Meagher, charged with the murder of his wife, Marjorie Kathleen Meagher, at Coombe Flats, Coogee, on November 20 last year, was…

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No Saturday Work. Agitation For Five Days A Week Court Proceedings Instituted. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 31 March 1920 · page 3

An offer to meet the employers, in conference on the question of shorter working hours and the abolition of Saturday work was made today on behalf of the…

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Murder of Magistrate

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 April 1920 · page 22

Mr. Alan Bell, a resident magistrate of Dublin, and president of the Court which has been investigating the investments of organisations proclaimed illegal, has been…

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Rabbiter's Death. Man Charged with Murder

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 April 1920 · page 3

An arrest has been made in connection with the death of William Johm, whose dead lady, with the head battered in, was discovered in the bush…

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Fake Well to Popular Police Magistrate

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 April 1920 · page 28

Prior to the owning of business at the A1bury Court-house on Monday, occasion was taken to congratulate Mr. G. S. Shepherd, who has been P.M. at Albury for the…

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Tocumwal Police Court

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Stock Journal · Friday 2 April 1920 · page 2

At the above court on Monday, before Dr. Hill, J.P., James Finnigau was fined 5s or 48 hours on a charge of drunkenness, and on a…

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Albury Police Court. Thursday, April 1. (Before Mr. Shepherd, P.M.) Stealing Meat at Bowna

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 April 1920 · page 4

Harold William Claude Wilson, Robert. Kelly and Albert Willoughby Dark were charged with, on March 28, at Tividale, Bowna, that they did have in their…

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Blayney Murder

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 April 1920 · page 18

Detective Robson has left Sydney for Biayney to make investigations concerning the supposed murder of a rabbit trapper, william Jones, whose dead body, with…

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Special Licensing Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 April 1920 · page 31

A special sitting of the Albury Licensing Court was held on Monday, before the P.M. (Mr. G. S. Shepherd) and Mr. H. M'Cutcheon, L.M…

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The Arbitration Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 April 1920 · page 33

The Prime Minister, Mr. Hughes, announced after a meeting of the Ministerial party, that the Government intended to introduce at a very early date a bill…

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