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Courts & crime, 1908

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Woman Charged with Murder

The Worker · Thursday 18 June 1908 · page 31

Mrs. Jane Baikie was put on her trial at Sydney on June 15 on a charge of having on April 25, murdered Alexander Brown. Accused, who was well dressed,…

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The Allandale Murder

The Worker · Thursday 18 June 1908 · page 31

Frederick Davies Green was, at Sydney, found guilty of the murder of Lily Bridge, at Allandale, N.S.W., and was sentenced to death. The trial lasted three days,…

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Attempted Murder and Suicide

The Worker · Thursday 18 June 1908 · page 31

Harris Freeman sought to end his married life of 42 years by a murder and suicide. He failed in the former, but made no mistake about suiciding. Mrs…

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Newcastle Coal Court

The Worker · Thursday 18 June 1908 · page 20

The Teralba men will welcome the news that the Special Coal Court will take up their case early next month. They have labored under many disabilities for a long…

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The Murrurundi Accident. Railway Officials Charged Committed for Trail

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 18 June 1908 · page 2

William Gibson and James Bede Dwyer were charged on remand, before Mr. C.H. Gale, P.M., at Murrurundi, with negligently omitting to see…

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Charge of Murder. Mrs. Baikie's Trial Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 18 June 1908 · page 3

The trial of Jane Baikie on a charge of the murder of Alexander Brown was continued at the Central Criminal Court to-day…

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The Muzafferpore Murders. Bhose Sentenced to Death. Judge and Witnesses Threatened. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 18 June 1908 · page 2

Khudiram Bhose has been sentenced to death for the murder of Mrs. and Miss Kennedy, at Muzafferpore, Bengal, on April 30th…

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Labor Member Appeals to Supreme Court

The Worker · Thursday 18 June 1908 · page 31

Mr. Thomas Glass, M.L.A. for Bendigo East, who was recently fined 5s., with £2 4s 6d costs, for causing a disturbance at the Bendigo Council meeting, appealed…

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Extraordinary Tragedy Boy of Eight Commits Murder. His Brother the Victim. Launceston

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 18 June 1908 · page 3

At an inquest at Irishtown, on the north-west coast, on the body of a boy named Robertson, a verdict was returned that deceased died from a…

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Trial of Dinizulu. a Special Court. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 18 June 1908 · page 2

The Natal Government propose to create a special court to try the Zulu overlord, Dinizulu, who is under arrest on charges of disloyalty and…

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Haunted Gaol

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 19 June 1908 · page 3

The country gaol at Abbeville, North Carolina, is about to be abandoned, on the ground that it is haunted. The entire body of prisoners, numbering…

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Sentenced to Death. Murderers Who Loved Their Victims

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 19 June 1908 · page 3

When William Alfred Hancocks was sentenced to death at Cheater Assizes on Ju[?] for the murder of his daughter. Mary Elizabeth, aged fifteen, he saluted…

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Police Court. Thursday, June 18. Before Messrs. A. W. and E. A. Stinson, Js.P

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 19 June 1908 · page 4

Thos. Hayward (a stranger) was charged with being drunk. Fined is or imprisonment to the rising of the court…

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Murder in a Palace. a Daring Ruse. a Student Arrested

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 19 June 1908 · page 3

On 12th April (Sunday) the correspondent of the “Daily Mail” wrote from Vienna:— Count Potocki, Governor of Galicia,…

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Police Court. THURSDAY. Before Mr. J. H. Nisbett, P.M. DRUNK

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 20 June 1908 · page 2

Thomas Ford, a miner, was fined 5/- for the above offence…

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Woman's Death. Verdict of Murder. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 20 June 1908 · page 2

At the inquest of the body of Kathleen M'Neely, who died from blood poisoning, the coroner returned a verdict of murder against some person…

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Wagga Police Court. Stealing Pumpkins. Purely a Mistake

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 June 1908 · page 3

John W. Le Galland, a coloured gentlemen, was proceeded against at the Wagga Police Court yesterday by John Wells Sheppard, on a charge of…

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Police Court

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1908 · page 2

A young man named Henry Pa[?]er was charged at the police court yesterday with riotous behavior a [?] bar of the Pastoral Hotel, and [?]ded…

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Alleged Frauds. Extensive Operations. Commercial Travellers Charged. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 June 1908 · page 3

At the Police Court to-day Arthur Henry Tillinghurst (45) and Wm. Archibald Robertson (45), commercial travellers, were charged with having…

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Police Court. MONDAY. Before Mr. J. H. Nisbett, P.M. DRUNK, &c

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 24 June 1908 · page 3

Charles Gillespie was fined 2/6 for drunkenness at Wallendbeen by Constable Kilner, 10/- for using bad language…

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