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Courts & crime, 1908

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Sedition in India. Execution of a Murderer. Cremation in Gaol. London, Nov. 21

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 24 November 1908 · page 2

In connection with the execution of Satyendro Nath Bose, which is to lake place at Calcutta to-day, for the murder of the informer Norendra Nath…

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Murder of Gossain. KANAl'S Accomplice Executed. Another Demonstration Averted. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 24 November 1908 · page 2

Saleyandra, the second man convicted of the murder of the approver Gossain, was hanged in Calcutta Gaol on Saturday…

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Wasn't Introduced. Elderly Woman Forces Her Company. and Purloins a Purse. Six Momths' Gaol

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 24 November 1908 · page 3

It may possibly "have been that the quantity of liquor contained had something to do with it, or it may have resulted from the act that the elderly…

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Sequel to a Police Raid Proprietor of Sportsman's Arms Fined

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 24 November 1908 · page 2

Aa a sequel to the visit made by the police on November 1st, James Hopkins, licensee of the Sporteman's Arms Hotel, appeared before Mr…

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Warden's Court. MONDAY. Before Mr. J. H. Nisbett, Warden

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 24 November 1908 · page 2

Barkoffsky v. Pontiug, claim £60 compensation in connection with a milling claim. Plaintiff conducted his own case, and Mr. Mac Mahon appeared for defendant…

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The Gayndah Murder

The Worker · Thursday 26 November 1908 · page 31

The trial of Arthur Ross at Gayndah. Q., on a charge of murdering a young bank clerk named Muir in that town, is proceeding. On Saturday evidence was…

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A Station Murder

The Worker · Thursday 26 November 1908 · page 31

The Carpentaria Downs, Q., murder case, in which a station manager's wife is being tried for the murder of a governess, Miss Duffy, is proceeding…

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Murder at Sea. Accused Committed for Trial Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 26 November 1908 · page 3

The hearing of a charge of murder preferred against a Lascar fireman on board the mail steamer Himalaya was concluded at the police court to-day,…

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Lieutenant-governor of Bengal. Another Plot to Murder. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 26 November 1908 · page 2

Another plot to murder Sir A.H. Keith Fraser, Lieutenant-Governor of Bombay, has been discovered. Three Bengalis have been arrested in…

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The Station Murder. Bookkeeper's Evidence. Mrs. Wilsons Demeanour. Georgetown (Q.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 26 November 1908 · page 3

Fanny Wilson again appeared at the police court to-day charged with the murder of Nellie Duffy. Thomas William Frost, bookkeeper…

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A Jewish Imposter. Charged with Grand Larceny Said to Be From Australia. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 26 November 1908 · page 2

The New York correspondent of the "Daily Mail " reports that a man giving the name of Montefiore Myers, and who is, apparently, a fashionably-dressed…

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Sedition in India. Another Bengal Plot. to Murder the Governor. London, Nov. 25

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 26 November 1908 · page 2

Another plot to murder the Lieut. Governor of Bengal has been discovered, and three Bengalis implicated have been arrested…

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Murrulebale Exchange. Disputed Crown Grant. Restruction As to Minerals. Important Full Court Decision

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 26 November 1908 · page 4

In the Full Court, consisting of the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Pring and Mr. Justice Sly op Monday, judgment was given dismissing the appeal from the…

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Murder of a Governess

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 27 November 1908 · page 2

The Queensland police last week arrested Billy Wilson, an aboriginal, employed ab Carpentaria Downs Station, whose evidence at the police…

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Police Court. WEDNESDAY. Hore Mr. J. H. Nisbett, P.M. RIOTOUSNESS

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 27 November 1908 · page 2

Arthur Brown and John Burke were charged with riotous behaviour the previous day. M. Thompson appeared to pay the…

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Scots Guards’ Cat. a Colonel Charged

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 27 November 1908 · page 3

Lieutenant-Colonel W. G. Ley, commanding the 1st North Staffordshire Regiment, was charged at the Aldershot Police Court yesterday (September 24)…

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Comic Opera Gaol Mutiny. French Prison Cobblers Strike for More Pay

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 27 November 1908 · page 9

Though meant in real Earnest there was a genuine comic opera element in a strike of prisoners at Riom Gaol, accounts of which appeared in…

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Kidnapping Case. Indignant Parents’ Outburst in Court

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 27 November 1908 · page 3

William Henry Manser, the young man accused of kidnapping Lily Levermore, a Camberwell girl, aged nine years, was brought up at West London…

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District Court. Saturday, November 21. (Before His Honor Judge Rogers.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 27 November 1908 · page 5

The District Court opened on Saturday morning last, when undefended plaints were first called. When these were disposed of the…

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Small Debts Court. WEDNESDAY. Before Mr. J. H. Nisbett, P.M. Alleged Breach Op Contract

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 27 November 1908 · page 2

James Boyd v E. Hobbs, breach of contract over the sale of a horse. Mr. Mac Mahon appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Vaughan for the defence…

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