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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1923

423 stories in Murray's papers · page 9 of 22

Charge of Brutality Against Police

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 28

An extraordinary case was before the Collingwood Court when three men two well-known in business, were charged by the police with offensive…

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Albury Police Court. Monday, May 14. (Before Mr. J. B. Gibson. P.M.) Motorists Fined and Warned

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 3

Charles Joseph Eek was charged, on the information of Constable Barnett, with driving a motor car at an excessive rate of speed in Dean-street…

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Mudgees Alleged Bushranger. Further Police Engaged

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 2

At Mudgee additional police have joined in the search for Roy Governor who is new believed to be the son of the late Jimmy Governor not the…

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Albury Licensing Court. Monday, May 14. (Before Mr. J. B. Gibson, Dr. W. Cleaver Woods and Mr. C H. Griffith, L.M's.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 May 1923 · page 3

Mervyn Hayes Atkinson, licensed victualler, of Culcairn, was granted a license for a publican's booth at the Culcairn races…

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Mr. Gibson, P.M. Welcomed by Court Officials

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 May 1923 · page 2

Mr. Gibson, P.M., who was recently promoted from Hay to Albury district, visited Deniliquin on Wednesday for the first time since taking…

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Licensing Court. (Before Mr. Gibson. P.M., [?] Palmer, J.P.

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 19 May 1923 · page 2

At the Licensing Court [?]nesday. Mr. Windeyer, on behalf of Henry Guy, applied for app[?]…

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The Railway Theft

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 22 May 1923 · page 3

Frederick Charles Daniels, aged 27, motor driver alias Henry Wilson, has been arrested and charged with stealing £2754 from tho Victorian railways…

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Corowa Police Court. Monday, May 21. 1923. (Before. Mr. A. H. Gelding, J.P.)

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 22 May 1923 · page 3

John Herbert Dunn was charged with stealing six bags of potatoes valued at £5, from MeCulloch and Co., at Wahgunyah, on April 26…

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The Millgrove Mystery. Melbourne Court Proceedings. Another Prisoner Makes a Statement. MELBOURNE

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 22 May 1923 · page 2

The Criminal Court to-day commenced the elucidation of the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Ada Overall, widow, of Millgrove…

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Jerilderie Police Court

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 24 May 1923 · page 3

At the Jerilderie Police Court on Tuesday last there were three cases set down for hearing, viz., the P. P. Board v. C. F. Curtin (two…

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Caught in the Act. Attempted Burglary at the Big Store

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 24 May 1923 · page 2

Quite a mutation wan caused at Berrigan on Saturday night last, at about 10.30 o'clock. Mr Alex, Prosser, who had left the…

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Child Murder in New Zealand

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 25

The penultimate scene of the drama in which Daniel Richard Cooper and his wife, Martha Elizabeth Cooper, were charged with child murder, took…

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The Millgrove Murder. Trial of David Kelly

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 4

The trail of David Kelly, who is charged with the murder of Mrs. Ada Florence Overall at Millgrove last year, was commenced in Melbourne on…

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Albury Police Court. Monday, 21st May. (Before Mr. J. B. Gibson, Excessive Speed of Motor Cars

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 25

James Stanley Nugent was charged with driving a motor car at an excesssive rate of speed in Dean-street, Albury, on May 14, 1923…

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Blot on Civilisation. (Published by Arrangement). Dry Laws and Murder

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 3

When America went dry she was warned says the London "Tablet," not only that she was passing a law which was too great an interference with…

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Albury Small Debts Court. Tuesday, May 22. (Before Mr. J. B. Gibson, P.M.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 May 1923 · page 25

Stone Brothers, sewerage contractors, of Bendigo, formerly of Albury, sued John Robertson Edney, licensee of the Criterion Hotel, Townsend…

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Alleged Maiming of Horse Before Malvern Police Court

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 29 May 1923 · page 2

James Haffey, aged 40, at the Malvern Court yesterday pleaded not guilty to a charge of maiming and killing a large number of horses in the…

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Acquittes. Hannah Mitchell's Murder Charge

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 29 May 1923 · page 3

When the trial of Hannah Mitchell charged with having wounded with intent to murder Frank Bonfilgllo, or alternative of having wounded with…

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Rutherglen Police Court. Wednesday, May 23, 1923. (Before Mr. T. R. Wade, P.m.) Alleged Larceny of Potatoes

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 29 May 1923 · page 3

John Francis Noonan and John Robert Dann, on remand from Corowa, were charged with that on April 26 they did feloniously steal and take…

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The Millgrove Murder. Trial of Kelly. the Jury Disagrees

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 29 May 1923 · page 3

The cloning scenes of the Millgrove murder trial were entered into on Thursday, when Mr. Justice McFarlane gave his summing up. Referring to…

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