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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1917

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Cattle Stealing

Northern Star · Monday 1 January 1917 · page 4

A sufferer writes to the '' R.R. Herald ": -- "It is surely a rotten state of affairs that the unfortunate man on the land, after contending against the blows from drought and flood,…

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German Savagery. Murder in Cold Blood

Northern Star · Monday 1 January 1917 · page 5

LONDON, Friday. -- The Admiralty in a communique narrates an outrage wherein German savagery in torpedoeing merchantmen appears to have reached the climax…

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Star Court Pictures

Northern Star · Monday 1 January 1917 · page 4

What is claimed to be an extraordinarily fine production will be screened to-nigh at the Star Court in "The Notorious Gallagher." Desiring notoriety and change from the…

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Theft of Go-cart and Baby

Northern Star · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 2

An interesting disclosure in regard to the theft of a go-cart, containing a child, nine months old, son of Mrs. Johanna Doyle, Melbourne, from the front of a shop in Fitzroy…

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Star Court

Northern Star · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 2

To-night at the Star Court there will be shown the seventh episode of the "Iron, Claw," an episode pulsating with thrilling incidents. A masterpicce of scenic photo…

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Lismore Police Court. (Before Mr. A. J. Peisley, P.M.)

Northern Star · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 4

The following cases were disposed of at the Lismore Police Court yesterday morning. VALUELESS CHEQUES. Thomas Mostyn, alias Albert Aitken, alias…

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Amusements. Star Court Pictres

Northern Star · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 4

To-night at the Star Court, "Stranded," a line art Triangle photoplay, will be screened, in which appears for the first time De Wolf Hopper, one of the famous stars of…

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Star Court Pictures

Northern Star · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 2

Elizabeth Risdon, the popular Lnodon actress, will appear to-night at the Star Court in "Meg the Lady" a brilliant story of the real Meg and the adopted Meg, a…

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The Tennis Court

Northern Star · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 2

The Alstonville tennis court has just been top-dressed with asphalt and is now in splendid order. A party of our leading players tried the court on Tuesday and express the…

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The Eyles Murder Case. Crown Appeals Against Quashing. Sydney

Tweed Daily · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 3

In the High Court to-day the case of William Graham Eyles, charged with murdering his wife at Five Dock, whose conviction was later quashed, and who…

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The Murder of Rasputin. Details of the Crime. LONDON

Tweed Daily · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 2

The "Daily Chronicle" Petrograd correspondent describes the assassination of Rasputin. Two aristocratic looking men drove up to the monk's house in a motor…

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"Only a Mad Dog." Rasputin's Position at the Court. LONDON

Tweed Daily · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 2

The authorities at Petrograd will only allow inadequate accounts of the Rasputin murder to be published. It is stated that when the police found…

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Cattle Stealing

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 4

A su[?]erer writes to the Coraki "Herald":—It is surely a rotten state of affairs that the unfortunate man on the land, after contending…

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Waverley Municipal Matters. Police Court Proceedings

Northern Star · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday. -- Proceedings arising out of the recent developments in the Waverley Council commenced at Paddington Police Court to-day, when Leslie Lamrock, John…

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Star Court Pictures

Northern Star · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 4

Elizabeth Risdon, the popular London actress, will appear to-night at the Star Court up "Meg the Lady," a brilliant story of the real Meg and the adopted Meg, a…

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Police Examinations

Northern Star · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday. -- The Inspector-General of Police announced a large number of promotions in the force after a written examination of candidates under the new regulations…

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Seamen Sent to Gaol. Absent Without Leave

Northern Star · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday. -- Eight seamen were sent to gaol to-day for being absent without leave from a vessel at Fremantle a fortnight ago. Evidence was given that the…

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Star Court Pictures

Northern Star · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 4

Not in many productions is beauty so extensively in evidence in a Triangle play as it is said to be in "Honor Thy Name," a virile drama of paternal devotion and…

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Police Court. Friday, January 5th. (Before Mr. H. F. W. Fletcher, P.M.) Drunk and Disorderly

Tweed Daily · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 4

A first offender, for being drunk and disorderly in Prospero Street, South Murwillumbah, on New Year's Day, pleaded guilty, and was fined 5 and 6…

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Callous Huns. Murder of Non-combatants. LONDON

Tweed Daily · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 5

The Admiralty reports, in addition to the cases of the Rappahannock and the enemy's callous disregard for the lives…

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