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Courts & crime, 1920

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Albury Licensing Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 February 1920 · page 31

A renewal of the license of the Brocklesby Hotel was granted by the P.M., and Mr. H. M'Cutcheon, L.M., to John Grayford Wigg. Mr. F. W. Tietyens appeared…

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Albury Small Debts Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 February 1920 · page 31

Alfred Austin Webb proceeded against Robert William Hore to recover £2, alleged to be due for rent and materials. Mr. F. W. Tietyens appeared for…

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Corowa Police Court. Wednesday, February 18, 1920. (Before Messrs. J. E. Holland and A. C. Leslie, Js.p.) Wife Desertion

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 20 February 1920 · page 3

George Alexander Pritchard, aged 57, was charged, on remand form Rutherglen, with leaving his wife, Lucy Ellen Pritchard without means of…

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Extensive Theft Oe Cloth. Three Syrians Arrested. Sydney. Friday

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 21 February 1920 · page 5

Detectives have arrested three Syrians in connection with the big robbery in last at the premises of Stanton. Meilick and Company at Redfern…

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Theft by a Carrier

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 23 February 1920 · page 2

Charged with having stolen two cases of tinplates, valued at £8 10/, the property of the Melbourne Harbor Trust, William Matthews a carrier, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at…

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Risks of School Teachers Alleged Assault by Angry Parent

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 23 February 1920 · page 3

At a meeting of the council of the Teachers' Federation, Mr. Jacobs mentioned the fact that a teacher in a metropolitan school had been most brutally…

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"Fashionable" Murder and Suicide. Pretty Woman and Much Jewellery. Sydney Seaside Mystery. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 23 February 1920 · page 2

Seeing two flashes in the dark and hearing two sharp reports, Harry Bond rushed from his home, on the cliffs above Bronte beach, last night, and found the…

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The Magistrate Scored

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 24 February 1920 · page 1

It was not always safe to trifle with the dignity of the law. A laborer, who had been making merry in the market place, created a…

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The Murder of Peter Geary Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 24 February 1920 · page 2

A court, presided over by Mr. Burton Smith was held at the hospital to-day, when Agnes Collins, 24, an inmate of the Institution, wag charged with having…

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A Wful Murder at St. George's River. Woman's Decomposed Body Found. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 24 February 1920 · page 3

Mystery surrounds the death of a woman at Worongora Reserve, St. George's River.. The body was found by men who were cutting saplings…

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Shooting of Henry Monagle Boy of 15 Committed for Murder. Mother As an Accessory Melbourne

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 24 February 1920 · page 3

At the Morgue to-day, Dr. R. H. Cole the City Coroner, held an inquiry into the death of Henry Monagle, who was shot at Smith street, South Melbourne…

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A Tragic Week End. Numerous Instances of Violence Reported. A Record According to Police Department. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 24 February 1920 · page 2

The Inspector General of Police, said that he did not think, in the records of the Department, there were so many, offences in which firearms were used as…

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Balranald Police Court. (Before M. Longfield. Esq., P.m.) 18Th February, 1920

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 25 February 1920 · page 2

Police v Caroline Farrant for using indecent language, defendant pleaded guilty and "very sorry", fined 10s and 6s costs…

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George's River Murder Woman's Remains Identified. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 25 February 1920 · page 3

The body of a woman found in the bush at Sutherland. Georcre's River. lias been identified by Prohationaiy Constable Les-lie Clive Worrell, of the Regent street…

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George's River Murder. Constable Worrell Reminded; Sydney. Wednesday

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 26 February 1920 · page 2

Leslie Clive Worrell, 25 a police constable, who was arrested on a charge of having, at Sutherland on or about February 12 last, feloniously and maliciously…

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Death Preferred to Court. Bathurst

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 26 February 1920 · page 2

When a rabbit trapper named Rush-worth was informed by his Scottish bride that she had taken out a summons against him for maintenance, he produced a bottle…

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Wodonga Police Court

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 27 February 1920 · page 2

At the Wodonga Police Court yesterday, before Mr. G. A. Anderson, P.M., and Mr. W. Eveston, J.P., Benjamin MacFarlane, of Gordon's Estate…

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Warden's Court at Wodonga

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 27 February 1920 · page 2

Mr. G. A. Anderson, P.M., [?] dealt with the case of Harry Brads[?] Robert Sands and others. Mr. [?] Edmondson appeared for leaseholder…

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Would Not Pay for Their Board. Two Men Get Fortnight's Gaol

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 27 February 1920 · page 1

Before Mr. G. S. Shepherd, P.M., at the Albury Police Court yesterday, Harold William Claude Wilson, laborer, was charged with that having been supplied…

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Sinn Feins Again Police Barracks Attacked. London, Feb. 21

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 27 February 1920 · page 6

Armed men attacked the police bar racks at Castlegregory, Kerry. The attackers and defenders used rifles, revolvers, and grenades. The…

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