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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1930

433 stories in Murray's papers · page 13 of 22

Gaol to Close Hay Gaol to Re-open

The Pastoral Times · Friday 25 July 1930 · page 2

We have it on good authority that it is the intention of the Prisons Department to close the Deniliquin gaol at no distant date…

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Man's Story of Theft

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 July 1930 · page 14

Bathurst police received' a report that Patrick Dougherty, of Duntrey' Tongue, near Orange, had informed the police of that town that he was…

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Gaol Sensation Gunfire at Adelaide Two Criminals Shot Dead

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 July 1930 · page 26

The most sensational gaol escape in the history of Australia had a tragic climax, when two of four convicts who had 'broken from Yatala prison,…

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Albury Police Court Monday, July 21. (Before Mr. C. W. Swiney, P.M.) Hotel Licensee Fined

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 July 1930 · page 9

Ellen Louisa Carter, licensee of the Town Hall Hotel, Dean street, Albury, was fined £2 and 8/ costs, for permitting persons on her licensed premises…

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Goal Wages Case Before Arbitration Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 July 1930 · page 44

Giving evidence before the Federal Arbitration Court on Wednesday, during the hearing of the application for a new award for miners in the southern…

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Attempt to Call Other Workers Out. Crowd Menaces Police. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 25 July 1930 · page 3

Dramatic developments occurred in connection with the relief workers' strike, to-day, when a body of men attempted to induce the workers on…

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Albury District Court Thursday, July 17 (Before His Honor Judge Coyle.) £200 Claim for Car

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 July 1930 · page 11

Richard Benjamin Wenke and Arthur Wenke, brothers, brought an action against Kennth John Coleman to to-cover £200 damages for loss of their…

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Stealing Charge Moama Court of Petty Sessions

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 26 July 1930 · page 2

Thomas Clark appeared before Mr Sheridan P.M., at the Moama Cuort of Petty Sessions on Friday, 18th inst., on ten different charges. Mr. F. C…

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Licensing Court

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 26 July 1930 · page 2

In the Licensing Court, presided over by Mr. Sheridan, at Moama, an application for the transfer of the licence of the Pastoral Hotel, Mathoura, from…

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Alleged Misuse of Public Monies Euston Postal Employee Charged

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 26 July 1930 · page 2

At the Balranald Court of Petty Sessions on Wedensday morning, before Mr N. L. Sheridan, P.M., Frederick Julius Bernard Ziegenbein postal…

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Moulamein Court Thursday, 24th JULY, 1930 (Before Mr. N. L. Sheridan, P.m.) a Heavy Penalty

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 26 July 1930 · page 2

Cecil Stanley was presented on a charge of having in his possession cyanide and two opossum skins and his brother Francis Stanley appeared on a…

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Balranald Court Wednesday, 23rd JULY (Before Mr. N. L. Sheridan, P.M.) Failure to Destroy Rabbits

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 26 July 1930 · page 2

W. S. C. Sainsbury of the Moulamein P. P. Board, charged Eric Astby with failing to destroy rabbits on his property within the Board's district…

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Latest Telegrams Uble-banking for Rations. An Offender Sent to Gaol. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 29 July 1930 · page 2

A man who it is alleged, had for seven weeks drawn relief rations at Wollongong, on Thursdays, and Port Kembla on Fridays, under another…

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Shearers Met by Police and Served with Summonses Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 29 July 1930 · page 3

Forty shearers who stopped work at Windagoo as a protest against the new awards on Saturday and motored to Coonamble, were met by police on…

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To Prevent Stock Stealing

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 August 1930 · page 30

After a lapse of about three years, the Association for the Prevention of Stock Stealing was revived at a meeting of graziers at Queanbeyan…

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Albury Police Court Monday, July 28. (Before Mr. C. W. Swiney, P.M.) Indecent Language

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 August 1930 · page 9

Alfred M'Cormack pleaded guilty to having used indecent language within the hearing of the public in Townsend-street at 1.10 a.m. on, Sunday,…

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The Mail Bag Theft. Detectives So Far Baffled. BLAYNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 August 1930 · page 1

Detectives continued their investigations all day, yesterday, in an effort to solve the mystery surrounding the theft of ten mail bags from the…

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"Pushing Deniliquin Off the Map" Says the "Pastoral Times" Reported Closing of Old Gaol

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 August 1930 · page 1

It is reported that the Deniliquin Gaol is to be closed, and the one at Hay re-opened. The "Pastoral Times" views the…

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Albury Bankruptcy Court Affairs of a Radio Dealer

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 August 1930 · page 3

On Monday Mr. C. W. Swiney, P.M., Registrar in Bankruptcy, held a public examination at the Albury Court House, into the affairs of John Cecil…

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On Track of Lost Sheep Police Make Visit to Whitfield District Developments Expected

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 1 August 1930 · page 1

From Information received Detective McPhee and Plain Clothes Constable Burrows made a hurried visit to the Whitfield…

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