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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1912

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Brutal Assault. Foreigners Attack a Fireman. Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 17 January 1912 · page 5

A fireman on board the steamer Port Pirie named Murphy was brutally attacked late last night while asleep in his bunk, sustaining serious injuries about the head…

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Alleged Fraud. Accused Before the Court London

Northern Star · Wednesday 17 January 1912 · page 5

Mistress Sedrion has been arrested as an accessory. The evidence shows that the Seddons induced Barrow to lodge with them and give them property, including…

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Shooting Affair. the Accused in Court. Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 17 January 1912 · page 5

Holt, who was alleged to have shot Fred Tullidge dead in Melbourne last night, appeared before the Police Court to-day and was remanded for ar week, bail…

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Police Court

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 18 January 1912 · page 4
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On Tuesday, before the Police Magistrate, Mr J. Laidlaw. John Beilerter, charged with behaving in a riotous manner at…

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At the Court of Napoleon Iii

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 18 January 1912 · page 3

In her account of a visit to the Court of Napoleon III. in Harper's, [?]ame do Hegermann-Lindencrone tells of getting the…

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Rejected Addresses. Lead a Lover to the Court. Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 18 January 1912 · page 5

Michael Blunne has been committed for trial on a charge of having maliciously sent to Archibald James Windeyer a letter threatening to kill him. The letter…

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Alstonville Police Court

Northern Star · Friday 19 January 1912 · page 2

On Thursday, 18th January, at the Alstonville Police Court, before Mr. A. J. Peisley, P.M., Sub-inspector Cameron, of Lismore, prosecuting, the following cases…

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Casino Licensing Court

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1912 · page 4

At the Licensing Court on Wednesday last Senior-Sergeant Either, licensing inspector, submitted his quarterly report on the hotels within his district. The report…

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Casino Land Court

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1912 · page 8

The local Land Board began a nine days' sitting on Tuesday last at the Casino Court House. Mr. Ebsworth (Chairman) presided, and…

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Mixed Marriages. Effect of the Ne Temere Decree Court Declares Union Valid. London

Northern Star · Friday 19 January 1912 · page 3

Mr. Justice Kenny at Dublin, has held that the marriage of Mary Caulfied to William Ussher, a farmer, which a Roman Catholic priest performed in Ussher's…

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Acacia Creek Cattle Stealing Case

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 3

James Harris, who was convicted at the Armidale Quarter Sessions on the 28th March last of receiving, and sentenced to two years' hard labor, has…

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Casino Licensing Court

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 6

At this Court on Wednesday (before Messrs. A. J. Piesley, P.M., and A. P. Carlton, J.P.), an application for a renewal of a wine license by…

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London Police. Another West End Case. Accused Discharged

The Kyogle Examiner · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 3

A police mistake was revealed at Clerkenwell yesterday, 4th July, when Ellen Hitchcock, twenty-eight, a married woman, of Queen street, Camden Town,…

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Murder of Captain Bull. a Desperate Flight. Vivid Story of the Struggle

The Kyogle Examiner · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 6

An official account of the attack on British officers (says the Cairo correspondent of the "Daily Mail") shows that the officers left the camp,…

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Intended for Immersion. Suffragettes Rescued by Police. London

Northern Star · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 9

During the Carmarthen district election a mob endeavored to throw a waggon full of suffragettes into the river. The police rescued them…

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Strike at Newnes. Detachment of Police Despatched. Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 9

The strike at Newnes yesterday assumed such serious proportions that it was deemed advisable to send up a detachment of police from Sydney. A number of…

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Wife at Court Martial. a French Reservist Trial

The Kyogle Examiner · Saturday 20 January 1912 · page 2

There is a sad side to compulsory military service, as a story from a French provincial town proves. A man with a wife and five children,…

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Lismore Police Court

Northern Star · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 4

At the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. A. J. Peisley, P.M., William Johnston pleade guilty to a charge od drunkenness, and was lined as or 24 hours. For…

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Murder and Robbery. Berlin

Northern Star · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 5

Three youths have been arrested for the murder of a jeweller and his wife. A cable on Friday last stated that, burglars brake into a jeweller's shop and…

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