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New England · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1907

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Don't Talk in Court

The Inverell Times · Friday 8 March 1907 · page 4

Says the Tamworth "Observer" : People should not talk in court unless of course they are in the witness box or are questioning a witness. On occasions…

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Hypnotised Into Confession an Innocent Man Executed. Professor on Police Terrorism

The Inverell Times · Friday 8 March 1907 · page 8

Professor Hugo Mun Munsterberg, of Harvard University, published a startling explanation of the confession made to the police cf Illinois…

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Murder As a Profession Appalling List of Insurance Crimes

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 9 March 1907 · page 3

CAPETOWN, Feb. 14.--For the past four, days the whole of Sooth Africa has been talking of nothing but the appalling revelations which have followed upon the…

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Police Court

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 March 1907 · page 4

FRIDAY, MARCH 8.—Before the P.M., today, an habitual drunkard was fined 10s. or seven days, the latter alternative being accepted. An application for the transfer of…

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Ex-School Teacher Sentenced. LONDON, Sunday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 March 1907 · page 5

An ex-school teacher, who was found guilty in November last for the murder of a female pupil, and has since been in a lunatic, asylum, was yesterday again sentenced to…

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Murder and Suicide

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 13 March 1907 · page 4

The chief Royal Forest Ranger in Dresden, shot his wife and five children and then committed suicide…

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The Thaw Murder Trial. Wife's Terrible Story. Heartrending Scene

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 13 March 1907 · page 7

Much of the most sensational evidence in the trial of Harry Thaw for shooting millionaire White was given on the 7th, when Mrs Evelyn Thaw,…

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Police Raid on Snowballers. Extraordinary Scenes in Berlin Streets. Berlin, January 31

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 13 March 1907 · page 3

Street traffic is almost at a standstill in Berlin owing to the heavy snow-fall, and few vehicles except sleighs are able to make any…

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Hypnotised Into Confession an Innocent Man Executed. Professor on Police Terrorism

Guyra Argus · Thursday 14 March 1907 · page 8

Professor Hugo Mun Munsterberg, of Harvard University, published a startling explanation of the confession made to the police of Illinois…

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Police Court

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1907 · page 4

TUESDAY, March 12.—A case of suspected lunacy remanded from a previous court was finally dealt with before the P.M. today. Dr. Wigan, Government Medical…

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Romantic Marriage. Story Told in Court

The Inverell Times · Friday 15 March 1907 · page 5

During the hearing, of a charge which was before Mr Mahony, in the Northern Police Court, Dublin, last month, a to mantle story was unfolded. The case…

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Solicitors Before the Court

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 4

The Full Court delivered judgment in the case in which the solicitors E. R. Abigail and J. Keily had been called upon to show cause. The…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Friday. Raided by the Police

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 4

The Tasmanian Parcels Express Delivery Company's premises in Queen Street, Melbourne, were raided yesterday by the police, who took possesion…

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Rebuking the "Thunderer." Incident in London Court

The Uralla News · Saturday 16 March 1907 · page 3

In the City of London Court last month (reports the "Daily Chronicle"), in the cose of Hooper v. Howe, the plaintiff, Mr H. E. Hooper, of the…

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Police Court

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 March 1907 · page 4

FRIDAY, MARCH 15.—Before the P.M., this morning, Wm. Richardson, remanded from the previous day on a charge of travelling on the railway a greater distance than his…

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A Court Sensation

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 20 March 1907 · page 4

James Lee, who was placed on trial at the Criminal Court to[?]day with two others on charge of alleged as[?]ult and robbery, broughts loaded revolver…

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Police Court

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 22 March 1907 · page 4
Also in Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser

TUESDAY, 19 MARCH.—The accommodation provided in the dock of the local Police Court for misdemeanants, proved insufficient this morning, when six offenders…

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District Court Action. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 22 March 1907 · page 5

W. N. WILLIS was the defendant in a District Court action at Nowra, yesterday when a sawmill owner sued him for £26 2s. for timber supplied…

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Poor Police

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 23 March 1907 · page 4

Russian terrorists continue daily to murder policemen and gendarmes…

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