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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1928

292 stories in Murray's papers · page 9 of 15

Court Of Petty Sessions (Before M. E. Soane, Esq. P.M.)

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 21 July 1928 · page 2

Albert Owen (27) and William Henry Peddar (20) were charged with taking and using a motor car without the consent of the owner thereof,…

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Hay Quarter Sessions. the Wool Stealing Charge. Accused Sentenced to Nine Months' Gaol

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 24 July 1928 · page 2

The Court of Quarter Sessions is being held at Hay, to-day, before his Honour Judge Coyle. Captain Storkey, V.C., is prosecuting for the Crown…

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Echo of Murder Trial

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 24 July 1928 · page 2

Whilst walking down the down the street in Mitcham, Vic., on Saturday, with his father, Ernest Ambrose Kleinert, who some time ago was acquitted on a…

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Killing no Murder (Published by Arrangement)

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 27 July 1928 · page 3

"One part of the price paid for prohibition," cabled the New York correspondent of the London "Daily News" (May 22, 1928) "is revealed…

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A Horse Trainers' Row Charge of Assault Not Sustained

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 July 1928 · page 2

At the Court of Quarter Sessions, on Tuesday, before Judge Coyle, Alan Joseph Bird was charged that at Hay, on the 27th April, he did assault and…

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Police Recruits. Sydney, Friday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 July 1928 · page 2

Sixty constables who have completed their period of training at Sydeny police depot, have been attacked to metropolitan districts. Another batch…

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Sessions and District Court

The Pastoral Times · Friday 27 July 1928 · page 2

His Honor Judge Coyle will preside the Quarter Sessions and District Court at Deniliquin next Tuesday The list of eases is unimportant…

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Hay District Court Claim for Work Done

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 July 1928 · page 6

At the Hay District Court, on Wednesday, before his Honour Judge Coyle, Francis B. O'Donnell, of Hillston was the plaintiff in an action…

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West Australian Unemployed. Have a Brush with Police. PERTH

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 July 1928 · page 1

In an effort to interview the Premier the unemployed came in collision with the police, to-day. About three hundred men marched to the Premier's…

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Carrathool Police Court

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 31 July 1928 · page 2

At the Carrathool Police Court, last week, before Messrs G. Chapman and W. E. Turn ley, J's.P., Dennis Dale was charged with stealing 4lbs. of…

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A Girl's Story of Assault Questioned. Newcastle

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 31 July 1928 · page 2

The police are now nearly certain that the thirteen-year-old girl's story of an attack by a masked man, at her home, at Tighe's Hill, on Saturday…

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Alleged Professional Misconduct. ATasmanian M.L.A. Charged. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 31 July 1928 · page 2

The Southern Law Society, to-day, appeared in the High Court against the majority order of the Supreme Court of Tasmania, in refusing to…

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A Box Hill Assault Case. An Acquitted Man Slabbed. MELBOURNE

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 3 August 1928 · page 3

At the Box Hill Court, to-day, Ernest August Sampson was fined £5 on a charge of having assaulted Ernest Ambrose Kleinert. Evidence was…

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The Federal Arbitration Court or Chaos. Sydney, Tuesday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 3 August 1928 · page 1

Addressing the National Speakers' Association, the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Latham) said that there were both employees and employers…

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Umpire Fined for Obstructing Police. Ordered Inspector Off Field During Albury Match

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 August 1928 · page 2

Has a policeman any right to interrupt a football match by stalking on to the ground during a game and taking the names of players who are…

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Baby's Body in Dam. Woman Charged with Murder

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 7 August 1928 · page 2

The body of a newly-born baby girl was found floating in a dam at Ovens vale, near Wangaratta, on Monday. stable Cole, and Sergeant Hennessy…

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Ivanhoe Police Court

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 2

A lengthy gifting of the Court of Petty Sessions, was held yesterday, at Ivanhoe, before Mr. Soane, P.M. Jas. McDonald, alias Cooper, alias…

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Alleged Assault on Prisoner Melbourne, Thursday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 2

A special Board of Inquiry, to-day, investigated an allegation that Constable Cornelius Murphy had assaulted a prisoner, named Michael…

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The West Australian Horror Hulme Sentenced to Death. PERTH

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 1

The trial of Clifford Hulme, charged with the murder of Harold Eaton Smith, has been concluded. The jury returned with a verdict of guilty. The…

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South Australia Murder Case Verdict. Adelaide

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 August 1928 · page 3

Eileen Johncock, charged at the Adelaide Criminal Court, with having murdered Lorna Tyrell, aged 2, was declared to be of unsound mind, and…

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