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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1926

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Special Licensing Court

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 3 June 1926 · page 3

A special Licensing Court was held at Jerilderie on Friday of last week, before Mr Arnott, Chairman of the Licensing Bench…

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Mansfield Murder

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 June 1926 · page 28
Also in The Corowa Free Press

The chief of the criminal investigation branch of the Police department (Inspector M. Campbell) announced that a warrant had been issued for…

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Acquitted on Murder Charge

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 June 1926 · page 11

The jury acquitted Daniel Florance Macgillicuddy, medical practitioner, and Ethel May Hudson, nurse, on a charge of the murder of Mrs. Elizabeth…

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Howlong Police Station

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 4 June 1926 · page 4

The Hon. R. T. Ball, M.L.A., for wards the following letter received by him from the Commissioner of Police Sydney, dated May 26. 1924:--"With…

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Albury Police Court. Monday, 31st May. (Before Mr. C. A. Arnold, P.M.) Opossum Trappers Fined

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 June 1926 · page 7

Harry James Clarke and Arthur Claude Clarke were charged with taking and killing opossums at Hawkescote Station on May 29…

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A Stock Mystery, Police on the Track. Notes Feom "Walliston." Walliston

The Independent · Friday 4 June 1926 · page 4

About an inch o frain fell on Sunday night, which will delay cropping for a while. Most of the farmers have finished, but there are a few…

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Howlong Police Station

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 5 June 1926 · page 2

"With reference to representations made by you on behalf of the Howlong installation Association, respecting the installation of the telephone at the…

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Court of Petty Sessions at Oaklands

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 5 June 1926 · page 4

After a year of two of agitation by A. L. Cramp as Acting C.P.S. The up by the columns of this paper. for the establishment of a Court of…

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Court of Petty Sessions Tuesday, 1st JUNE

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 5 June 1926 · page 4

Before Messrs. O. J. Olsen and H. P. Gaffney. Arnold Prinder, laborer, was charged with drunkenness on Friday. The…

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Another W.a. Murder

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 8 June 1926 · page 2

Royston Bennie (alias Hope), aged 26, a clerk from Victoria, was charged at the Perth Police Court on Friday with having murdered a bank clerk on…

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Petulent Police Refuse to Help Hospitals

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 8 June 1926 · page 4

The following article appeared in the current issue of "Good Health:-- New South Wales police who have rendered such magnificent services to…

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Murdered Detectives Two Suspects Arrested Publican and a Barman Charged

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 9 June 1926 · page 3

Great excitement was caused at Kalgoorlie on Sunday when it became known that two arrests had been made in connection with the…

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Licensing Court

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 June 1926 · page 5

An application for the transfer of the license of the Royal Mail Hotel, Mulwala, from P. B. Boon to William John Roy. was granted…

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Corowa Police Court. Thursday, June 10. 1926. (Before Mr. C. A. Arnold, P.M.)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 June 1926 · page 5

W. Freyer was charged with having in his possesion 20 opossum skins, and was fined £20 or three months…

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Who Killed Lim Kwong? Mansfield Murder

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 June 1926 · page 25

On Wednesday, Sergeant Goodsell, in charge of tho Urana police district, arrested a man, for whom a warrant, on a charge of vagrancy, had been…

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Albury Licensing Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 June 1926 · page 24

Mr. C. A. Arnold, L.M., presided at the Albury Licensing Court, when the application of James Fraser Stud Price for a transfer of the licence of the…

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Albury Police Court. Monday. June 7(Before Mr. C. A. Arnold, P.M.) Vagrancy Charge

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 June 1926 · page 28

Wilfred Doughton was before the Albury Police court on Monday, May 31, when he was charged with, having— insufficient lawful means of…

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Police Court Wednesday, June 9, (Before Mr. C. A. Arnold, P.M.). Breaches of Motor Act

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 June 1926 · page 5

Mr. R. Hotton was proceeded against on a charge of driving a motor car in a manner dangerous to the public. The case was party heard…

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The Mansfield Murder. Arrest of Woods, the Suspect

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 June 1926 · page 5

The man named Bert Woods, who the police have been looking for in connection with the murder of the Chainaman, Lim Kwong, at Mansfield,…

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