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Courts & crime, 1920

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Loyalty Islanders Charged Sydney, Monday. I

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 4 May 1920 · page 2

The inquiry concerning the death of Charles Fowler was conclued at the cor-oner's court to-day, when two natives of the Loyalty lsland, When two natives of the Loyalty Island,who have been…

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Corowa Licensing Court

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 4 May 1920 · page 2

At the Licensing Court yesterday, before Messrs. W. Teague and A. C. Leslie, Licensing Magistrates, the transfer of the license of the Globe…

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Balranald Police Court. Embezzlement Charges. Accused Committed

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 5 May 1920 · page 2

At the Balranald Police Court, on Thursday. 29th April, before Messrs A. Malcolm and Collingwood Soady, Esqs., J's.P., Clive Argyle Stewart, aged 24…

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A Stolen Cheque. Six Months' Gaol

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 5 May 1920 · page 2

At the Deniliquin Quarter Sessions on Tuesday 27th April, before Mr Justice Bevan, a charge of stealing a cheque of the value of £1 19s 3d, the property of…

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Stock Stealing

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Stock Journal · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 3

The loss of stock in the course of transit on the railways resulted in a combined meeting at Melbourne on Tuesday of the Pastoralists'…

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Larkin Sent to Gaol

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 22

James Larkin, the Irish Labour leader, has been sentenced at New York to imprisonment for five years on a charge of criminal anarchy. Extraordinary…

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Goulburn Murder Trial

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 33

The trial of Alston Broome, charged with the murder of his wife, at Kenmore Hospital, on December 2, was concluded at Goulburn. Mr. Holman, in his address,…

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"Killing Is Murder."

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 20

The Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork (Dr. Cohalan) writes to Dublin newspapers, protesting against the military raids and the deportation of men without trial. He…

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Cheque for £1000 Charge of Stealing

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 4

Harold James McClintock, aged 35, an accountant, was charged at the Central Police Court with having while a servant of the trustees of the…

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Murder of Husband Alleged

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 33

Weeping bitterly, and constrained by weakness to sit down in the dock, Irene Mary Estelle Connell, a slight, pretty woman of 30 years, appeared at the…

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Police Sergeant Murdered

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 4

A warty of armed men between Liatowel and Ballylongford attacked and killed Sergeant M'Kenna and wounded two constables, who are in a precarious…

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Albury Police Court. Monday, May 3.(Before Mr. S. J. Hamblin, P.M.) Wages Dispute

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 19

Frederick Andrew Carlile, a plumber, who had been the employ of Samuel Cossor, plumber,of Kiewa-street, sued his late employer for £11/G/, alleged to be due…

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The Unrest in Ireland. Police Barracks Destroyed

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 2

The Ballydehob police barracks, near Skibberneen, have been blown up. A girl was taken out of a house at…

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Alleged Murder at Y.M.C.A. Man Committed for Trial. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 2

The inquiry concerning the death of Samuel McConnell, which occurred from injuries received through being struck on the head with a piece of wood in a fight…

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Albury Licensing Court. (Befocre Messrs. S. J. Hamblin and H. M'Cutcheon, L.M.'s.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 May 1920 · page 19

An application was made by Frederick W.Scholz for permission to instal a septic tank a the Hotel Culcairn. Mr. F. W. Tietyens appeared in support of the…

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Imprisonment in Irons Sentence on Gaol Breaker. Adelaide

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 8 May 1920 · page 2

Many protests are being made against the sentence passed by Mr. Justice Poole on William Edward Kither for having escaped from the Adelaide Gaol…

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Theft of Jewels Alleged SYDNEY

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 10 May 1920 · page 3

Anthony Alliette (34), who was arres-ted at the City Tattersall's Club yester-day in connection with a jewel robbery at the Hotel Carlton in january,…

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Troubled Ireland. the Murder of M'curtain London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 10 May 1920 · page 2

The Cork Corporation has asked the Dail Eiran (Sinn Fein Parliament) to in-form the Governments of the world of the verdict on the death of McCurtain, and to…

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Guilty of Stealing a Cheque M'clintock Safe for Three Years Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 11 May 1920 · page 2

Harold James M'Clintock pleaded guilty at the Quarter Sessions to-day to a charge of having stolen a cheque for £1000 the property of Eva M'Clintock…

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Gelignite in Court. [?]Combe Post Office Robbery. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 11 May 1920 · page 3

[?]men named Donald McDonald and [?] were committed for trial [?]a charge of breaking, and en[?] Lidcombe post office and…

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