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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1920

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Alleged Husband Murder. MELBOURNE

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 29 April 1920 · page 3

On April 21, Michael Liguria Connell, 32 years of age, a clerk in the Police. Commissioner's office, Melbourne, died from suspected poisoning. To-night, Irene May…

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Motor Car Murder London, April 28

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 29 April 1920 · page 2

It is believed that the mysterious hirer of a motor car, who murdered the driver on a lonely road Salisbury Plain is, a a soldier who committed a similar crime…

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Irish Affairs. Sinn Fein Turn Police. Suspected Robbers Taken London, April 20

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 29 April 1920 · page 2

The Dublin correspondent of "The Times" reports that 200 raiders, described as Sinn Fein Guardsmen, invaded Mill street, County Cork, in motors…

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Hay's New Police Magistrate Congratulations at Lismore

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 2

The "Northern Star," Lismore, of 30th March, contained a report of congratulatory references to the promotion of Mr J. B. Gibson, C.P.S., to the…

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Caillaux Sentenced

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 20

M. Caillaux, a former Prime Minister off France has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for communicating with the enemy during the war. He has…

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When Is an Cath Legally Administered? a Magistrate Charged with a Misdemeanour. Aftermath of the Culcairn Metal Case

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 31

At the Albury Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. S. J. Hamblin, P.M., James Hugh Balfour, president of the Gulcairn Shire Council and a justice of the peace…

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Indians Quarrel. Robbery & Assault Charges Fail

The Independent · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 1

Before Mr. Justice Bevan at the Quarter Sessions on Tuesday an Indian named Gun[?] Sing was charged that at Berrigan, on February 27 de did top Sunda Singh…

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A Stolen Cheque. Six Months' Gaol

The Independent · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 2

On Thursday afternoon, before Mr. Justice Bevan, a charge of stealing a cheque of the value of £1 193s 3d, the property of E. E. J. Smith, the manager of Yanga Station,…

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The Strychnine Biscuit. Husband Sentenced to Death. Goulburn, Thursday

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 2

The trial of Alston Broom. who was charged with the murder of his wife, at Kenmore Asylum, by making her eat a biscuit treated with strychnine was…

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Wodonga Police Court Before Mr. P. Cohen. P.m. Charges Against Electric Supply Co

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 2

Harry Smith (representing Postmaster General), v. Wodonga Electric Supply Pty. Ltd. Mr. Ramsay appeared for the…

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Albury Police Court. Tuesday, April 27. (Before Mr. J. Hamblin, P.M.) Stolen Horsehair

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 19

James Edward Sims, 29 years of age, was charged that he knowingly had in the custody of John R. H. Watson, on April 21 about 481b. of horsehair, reasonably…

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Police Shot From Ambush

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 22

At Innishannon, County Cork, a large party of men in ambush waylaid [?] constables on patrol duty and fired a volley without warning. One of the…

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Corowa Licensing Court

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 2

The Licensing Bench, consisting of Messrs. W. Teague and A. C. Leslie, Licensing Magistrates, granted yesterday the application of W. J. Roy, for a…

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Police Court. WEDNESDAY, [?] APRIL 28. (Before Messrs. P. Quirk and R. J. Barton, J's.P.)

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Stock Journal · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 2

At the Tocumwal Court C. D. Dymes was fined £3 and 6/ costs, or 14 days, for supplying a prohibited person with a bottle of whisky…

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Alleged Assault & Robbery. Hawkers’ Fight

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 1 May 1920 · page 2

Before Judge Bevan and a Jury on Tuesday, Gungah Singh was charged with assaulting and robbing Sundah Singh of £3 ; and he was further charged…

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Charged With Fratricide. SYDNEY

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 1 May 1920 · page 5

William —Reuter. was remanded at the police court today on a charge of having feloniously slain his brother. Claude McLachlan…

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Station Fencing Contra[?] District Court Claim Plaintiff Non-suited

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 1 May 1920 · page 2

Before Judge Bevan, in the [?] Court on Wednesday. Walter Lamond sued R. G. and [?] Kiddle, of Steam Plains station [?]…

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Innocent Woman Accused or Murder in "When Fate Decides."

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 3 May 1920 · page 2

How does an innocent woman act when faced with circumstantial evidence that indicates she is implicated, with the man she loves, in the murder of her husband?…

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Murder of a Rabbiter a Test of Pea Rifles. Blayney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 3 May 1920 · page 2

Christopher Fowler appeared at Blayney police Court to-day on a charge of murdering a rabbiter named William Jones. William Cowles a gun expert,…

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Dispute Amongst Plumbers Scene in Albury Police Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 4 May 1920 · page 3

The tranquility of the Albury Police Court was broken yesterday morning when there was heard a wages dispute, the defendant towards the end of the case, after…

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