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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1919

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Resignation of Ministers. Telegraph Office Captured. Police President's Complicity. LONDON

Daily Observer · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 2

Reuter's Amsterdam correspond­ent reports: A message from Berlin says that owing to the Spartacusite coup, it is stated that Ebert,…

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Berlin Police Offices. Bulwark of Bolshevism. Eichhernc a Russian Agent. (Published in "The Times.") LONDON

Daily Observer · Friday 10 January 1919 · page 2

The "Times" correspondent at the Hague, quoting a special Berlin despatch, describes the Police Presidency as the bulwark of Bolshevism, where…

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Inflammatory Speeches. Sinn Fein Member Sentenced. LONDON

Daily Observer · Saturday 11 January 1919 · page 2

A Sinn Fein member of the House of Commons has been sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for delivering an inflammatory speech, and inciting his…

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Mail Train Hold-up. Police Evidence. Accused Committed for Trial. SYDNEY

Daily Observer · Saturday 11 January 1919 · page 2

Wolfren Larsen was charged at Bathurst Police Court with robbery under arms, in connection with the recent holdup on the Forbes mail train…

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Police & Firemen's Hospital Carnival

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 January 1919 · page 1

Again this year the Police and Firemen and combining to help the public hospitals of this State by holding their eight annual Hospital Carnvial and…

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Many Reds Killed. Police Troops for Government. Assembly Elections. LONDON

Daily Observer · Wednesday 15 January 1919 · page 2

Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent wires: The latest telegrams from Berlin state that several hundred Spartacusites were killed in the Government's…

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Germans in Court. Sydney

The North Western Courier · Thursday 16 January 1919 · page 2

Three German Internees named Carre, Seeman and Becker, were before the Military Court at Victoria Barracks to-day. Carre and Seeman were…

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Neglect to Wear Armbands. Lieutenant Court Martialled. SYDNEY

Daily Observer · Thursday 16 January 1919 · page 2

A general court-martial was opened at Victoria Barracks, to-day, to hear charges against Lieut. George Wentworth Grayson. It was alleged that he…

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Alleged Theft

Daily Observer · Friday 17 January 1919 · page 3

James Kilday, 51, appeared at the Tamworth Police Court, yesterday, to answer a charge of stealing a portmanteau and other articles, valued at £10…

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Late Telegrams. German Escapees. Charged Before Military Court. SYDNEY

Daily Observer · Friday 17 January 1919 · page 2

Three German internees, Carre, Seeman, and Becker, were brought before a military court at Victoria Barracks, to-day. Carre and Seeman were charged…

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Equity Court Application

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 17 January 1919 · page 6

An ex-parte application was made by Mr H. H. Mason, in the Equity Court, on behalf of Amy Clare Cas[?], to restrain Herbert John…

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Police Court. Before Messrs. W. H. Midgley and C. G. Hobbes, Js.P. Wednesday, January 15

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 17 January 1919 · page 2

Henry Charles Woodward (31) was charged with that he, a person deemed to be insane, was not under proper care and control…

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Police and Firemen. Not Likely to Join One Big Union. SYDNEY

Daily Observer · Friday 17 January 1919 · page 2

No official notification of the decision of the One Big Union conference to include in its ranks the police and firemen has been received by the…

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"Depth-Charged!" a U-boat Captain's Experience

Daily Observer · Saturday 18 January 1919 · page 2

From the captain of a U-boat, a lima bedraggled figure that thad had been figh[?] out of the sea with a boathook, came to me the following description of who…

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District Court Martial. Sydney

Daily Observer · Saturday 18 January 1919 · page 2

Lance-Corp. William Williams, M.M., was charged before the district court martial, at Victoria Barracks, with having, when under arrest, struck Pte. E. A…

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Australian Officer Murdered British Colonel Charged. Remanded For Eight Days. LONDON

Daily Observer · Saturday 18 January 1919 · page 2

Colonel Norman Cecil Rutherford, a British medical officer, was arrested and charged with the murder of Major Miles Charles Seaton, an Australian, who was…

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Leaving Troopship. Officers Before Court Martial. SYDNEY

Daily Observer · Saturday 18 January 1919 · page 2

The inquiry into the charges against military officers for going ashore at New Zealand from the troopship Medic during the pneumonic influenza epidemic, has…

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Trouble at Colombo. Wilder Spirits Among Troops Do Damage. Military Police to be Despatched. SYDNEY

Daily Observer · Saturday 18 January 1919 · page 2

Senator Pearce, replying to a question to-day, stated that the Government proposed to send a Staff Provost Corps, or military policemen, to Colombo, to watch…

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The Major Cross Case. Sydney. Monday. The Court [?]

The North Western Courier · Monday 20 January 1919 · page 2

[?] on Major Cross, of the R.A.G.A., has concluded. The Court sentenced the Major to be repremanded…

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A Mean Theft

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 January 1919 · page 3

A man who would stoop so law as to rob a returned soldier. would take his own father down for his socks. Some contemptible skunk effected an…

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