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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1914

1,711 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 10 of 86

Licensing Court

Northern Star · Tuesday 3 February 1914 · page 8

William [?]ument was granted a collector's license and Samuel [?] Mcaulay a hawker's license…

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Sold Burglary. Blowing Open a Safe. Whole Neighbourhood Aroused. Melbourne

Northern Star · Tuesday 3 February 1914 · page 5

Residents in the vicinity of the Coffee Palace at Belgrave, Victoria were awakened yesterday morning about 2 o'clock by [?] loud report. When the yardman of…

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Small Deats Court

Northern Star · Tuesday 3 February 1914 · page 8

Rutherford and Shannon summonsed Leonard Fredericks for the sum of £2. Jno. Kelly for £5. and P. Lore[?]for £13 7s [?]d Judgment was given for the…

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Burglaries. Three Youths Charged. Desperate and Ineffectual Struggle. Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 3 February 1914 · page 5

Three youths, Stanley Ellis, Albert McKivett, and William began, were remanded at the Police Court on a charge of breaking into promises in Macquarie-street with…

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Labor's High Court Judge

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1914 · page 2

In an elaborate eulogy of Mr. Justice Higgins, published by the Sydney "Worker", the true reasons for his Honor's popularity with trade unionists are very…

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[?]Lveri[?] Murder. Searching for Cl[?]es. London

Northern Star · Tuesday 3 February 1914 · page 5

The police are arranging to explore the [?] shaft in the hope of finding revolver and other Reeks clues…

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Coolangatta Police Court

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 4 February 1914 · page 4

On Tuesday; the 3rd instant, before Mr. Geo. L. Gordon, J.P., Chas. Williams was charged with failing to appear on a summons issued against him…

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Local and General. Police Court

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 4 February 1914 · page 4

At the local Police Court yesterday, before Mr. J. W. Forrest, J.P., three individuals who had indulged too freely in the exhilarating beer, were fined in…

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The Police of Japan

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 4 February 1914 · page 8

The powers of the British police officer fall far short of those of his Japanese prototype, who seldom has much trouble in making an arrest…

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Wolverhampton Murder. Chow[?]s at the Shaft. London

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 February 1914 · page 5

Thousands visited the E[?]tingshall shaft at the week-end. The police tapped the electric tramway cable for light during the exploration of the shaft, and have decideds…

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Brutal Assault. Five Men Set on One. Victim Kicked Into Unconsciousness. Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 February 1914 · page 5

A few' minutes before midnight Patrick Brosnan, of 23 F[?]-street, was brutally assaulted in Belmore Park. A resident in Eilzabeth-street, looking…

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The Cup that Cheers City Court Records. Sydney

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 4 February 1914 · page 5

For the month January, 539 persons were charged at the City Court with drunkenness. Of these 427 were men, and 112 women…

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Women Suffrage in the Church. a Full Court Application. Melbourne

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 February 1914 · page 5

An application was made to the State Full Court to-day for an interlocutory injunction declaring that a [?]ill for an Act of Synod of the Church of England D[?]cese…

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Shop Burglary. Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 5 February 1914 · page 5

The grocery shop of Thomas Savage, George-street, was entered last night by burglars, who got away with about £8 worth of goods. This is the seventh…

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Mullumbimby Police Court a Big Day

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 5 February 1914 · page 4

ON Tuesday, before Mr. J. S. Hamblin, P.M., there was a big muster of cases, A Macpherson and A. Burns pled…

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Murder of Miss Bradfield. Trial Commenced. Sensation in Court. London

Tweed Daily · Thursday 5 February 1914 · page 3

The trial has commenced of George Sumner and Samuel Eltoft on a charge of having murdered Miss Bondfield at Liverpool in December last…

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Liverpool Murder. Accused Before the Court. Sumner's Sensational Evidence. London, Tuesday Night

Northern Star · Thursday 5 February 1914 · page 5

At the trial of Summer and Bltoft the court was crowded. The police gave evidence that they had discovered obaceno photographs in Sumner's rooms picturing a…

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Defence Secrets. a Baron Charged. Berlin

Northern Star · Thursday 5 February 1914 · page 5

The ``National Zeitung'' asserts that the secret trial has begun of Baron von Derg[?], a naval officer, and a member of the same family as Field-Marshal von Dergolz…

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Alleged Assault. Knocked Down and Shot. Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 5 February 1914 · page 5

William Allen, a young man, informed the police that while walking along the street at Rose Bay late last night he was accosted by a man who asked for a…

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Small Debts Court

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 5 February 1914 · page 4

A number of cases were called for arrears of sanitary fens and a verdict, was given against two defendants in, absence, and several more were…

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