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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1920

694 stories in Murray's papers · page 23 of 35

Blayney Murder

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 47

The hearing of the charge of murder against Christopher Fowler, aged 23, a Military Medallist, was continued in the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, on…

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Theft of Hay Man Arrested

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 4

On Thursday morning consequent upon a telephone message received from Mr. Martin James Hardiman farmer and grazier, Urana Road, Wngga…

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Charged Too Much for Butter

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 32

At the Wangaratta Police Court, the Milawa Co-operative Dairy Co. was charged under the regulations of the War Precautions Act with having sold butter…

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Suspected Murder at Tumbarumba

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 31

The adjourned enquiry into the of Charles M'Lean, the railway worker who was found unconscious in the middle of the town on the 10th inst., was held…

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Mysterious Murder. Wealthy Man Killed

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 1

New York is stirred over the murder of Joseph Elwell, which Mr. Swann (the District Attorney) describes as the most mysterious murder of the…

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Bankruptcy Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 28

Before Mr. S. J. Hamblin, registrar in bankruptcy, a single meeting of creditors and examination in bantmiptey of John Cecil Bethoras, farmor, of Yerong Greek…

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District Court

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 3

The sitting of the District Court, which was to have been held to-day (Friday) has been cancelled owing to the only case set down for hearing…

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Urana Licensing Court

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 2

The following renewals of hotel licenses were grouted by the Urana Licensing Court at its last sitting, Messrs R. D. Culley and J. Wise occupying the…

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Mulwala Police Court. Thursday, June 17, 1920. (Before Mr. H. J. Hamblin, P.m.) Oyaniding Opossums

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 3

Geo. Rooks was charged with having used cyanide of potassium for the purpose of poisoning a protected animal, to wit, an opossum, and also with…

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Bombs Thrown at Police Car

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 45

A party of armed men, who concealed themselves behind the railway piers in Beresford-place, in Dublin, fired upon a motor-car which contained Mr. Roberts…

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Fair Rents Court for Country Towns

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 23

It is the intention of the Government to extend immediately the operation on the Fair Rents Act throughout the State. Courts will be established in all populous…

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Corowa Police Court. Tuesday, June 22, 1920. (Before Messrs. J. Chivell and J. E. Holland, Js.P.) Illegal Possession of Opossum Skins

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 3

John Brown and Win, Brown were charged with, on 21st day of June, on the Brocklesby Balldate goad, in the parish of Morebringer, having to skins…

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Bomb Outrage in Dublin. The Police Car Fired On

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 1

An official report of a bomb outrage at Dublin states that a motor was proceeding from the Amiens Road station to Dublin Castle…

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Court of International Justice to Sit at the Hague. the Hague, June 26

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 28 June 1920 · page 2

The Jurists Advisory Committee of the League of Nations hag decided to recommend The Hague as the scat of the Per-manent Court of international justice…

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Prisoner Taken From Gaol Dublin

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 3

One hundred armed men broke into the gaol and carried off Councillor Frances Party, a Sinn Feiner, who was awaiting trial for participating in the attack on…

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Police Form a Union

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 3

A section of the members of the New South Wales police force has decided to form a union, which will probably apply for an industrial…

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Attempted Murder Young Man Remanded. Woomelang

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 2

Andrew Reeves Watson, 22, was charged, before Mr. A. F. Ussing, J.P. this morning, with having attempted to murder Gertrude Clara Sexton. 23, and with…

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Share in Will. Another Form of the Confidence Trick. Young Man Sentenced

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 4

A young man named Jack Love, not unfamiliar in police records, is now spending six months in Bathurst gaol as a result of an ingenious confidence…

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Pheumonia an Accident. Important High Court Decision

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 4

An important derision affecting employers of labor was given by the Full Court on Monday, in a case heard in Sydney, in which a wluchman named…

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Stealing Rabbit Skins

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 30 June 1920 · page 3

William John Arthur Lovejoy and Henry Edward Beli were charged with stealing 490 rabbit skins at Bellview, near Talmaliuo, the property of…

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