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Courts & crime, 1911

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A Union Case. Wrongly Registered. High Court Decision. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 June 1911 · page 2

The High Court gave judgment in the case of the Federated Engine-drivers' and Firemen's Association against the Broken Hill Proprietary…

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Licensing Court. (Before Mr. Geo. Stevenson, P.M., and Messrs. L. A. Fosbery and W. Purtell, J's.P.) the Farmers' Home

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 June 1911 · page 3

The postponed hearing of the application for the renewal of the license of the Farmers' Home Hotel (Mrs. A. E. Leaver), Tarcutta road,…

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Wagga Police Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 June 1911 · page 2

Before Mr. J. D. Walker, C.M., at the Wagga Court House, yesterday, James Larkins was fined 20/ or seven days' imprisonment for drunkenness…

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A Gaol Sensation. Attempt to Escape. Prisoner Shot Dead. Comrade Fights Like Mad Man. Hobart

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 June 1911 · page 3

A sensation occurred in the precincts of the Hobart Gaol this afternoon, when a prisoner named Henry Edward Cooper was shot dead while…

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Change In Gaol Diet SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 June 1911 · page 2

Mr. Holman states that arrangements are being made to alter the scale of prisoners' diet in gaols in accordance with the suggestions of…

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What Is an Industry? Important Interpretation by the High Court. Engine Drivers and Firemen Ineligible for Registration. Far-reaching Effects of the Judgment

The Worker · Thursday 29 June 1911 · page 23

In the Commonwealth Arbitration Court hearing of the claims of the Federated Engine-drivers and Firemen's Association against the Broken Hill…

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Bank Teller Sentenced KALGOORLIE

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 June 1911 · page 2

At the Quarter Sessions to-day, Leopold Braddock, who yesterday pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing £1023 from the commercial Bank, Boulder,…

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Police Court. Friday, June 23. Before Air. H. Doubleday, J.P.

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 30 June 1911 · page 3

James Loch Saunders was charged with procuring from Fritz Mangelsdorf, hotelkeeper, of Springwood, the sum of 18s…

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Trade Secrets. Sentenced for Bribing Rival Firm's Workmen

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 30 June 1911 · page 2

Two servants of the Thermal Company, at Newcastle, manufacturers of a substance called silica, of great chemical value, were said to have been met by two…

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Child Murder an Infant Smothered. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 June 1911 · page 2

The body of a newly-born baby was found jammed between some loose blocks of stone on the wall surrounding St. Vinvent's College, Potts Point…

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Ruthless Murder. Workman's Story. Woman's Agonised Cry

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 30 June 1911 · page 3

"I took up a hammer from the fireplace and hit her on the temple. She fell, and her words were: 'Oh, Mike,…

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Seamen's Strike. Alarming Dimensions. 40 Ships Idle at Manchester. 1000 Extra Police for Hull. London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 July 1911 · page 4

The strike of seamen, firemen and others in the shipping industry, has assumed alarming proportions. The men of the Mersey lightship at…

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Strike at Hull. Preparing for Riots. London Police Sent for 200,000 Strikers in the City. Hull

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 July 1911 · page 2

Preparations are in the making to cope with expected rioting to-night. Police have been brought from London. It is estimated that…

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Police Court Comfort

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 4 July 1911 · page 2

Yesterday, before proceeding with the official business of the Police Court, Mr. Stevenson, the Police Magistrate, announced that advices were to hand that…

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Wagga Police Court. Too Much Liquor

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 4 July 1911 · page 4

A young man named Henry Eastcott and a colored roan named Mahomet Ali were each charged with having indulged too freely in intoxicating liquors and…

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Police Court. Friday. Before Mr. Giles Shaw, P.M. DRUNK

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 4 July 1911 · page 2

Joseph Gavin was charged with being found drank in Parker-street the previous day. Plea guilty…

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Police Court. Monday, July 3, 1911. (Before Mr. Geo. Stevenson, P.m.) Drunkenness

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 July 1911 · page 2

Henry Eastcott was charged with being drunk on Saturday night Constable Lenehan said he was very drunk. Eastcott pleaded guilty and…

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Royal Court King George's Wish. London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 July 1911 · page 2

King George held Court at Windsor Castle yesterday. His Majesty, in acknowledging a municipal welcome, said : "It is my earnest wish to…

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Licensing Court. (Before the P.M., and Messrs, W. Purtell and L. A. Fosbery, J's.P,)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 July 1911 · page 2

G. W. Bellair applied for and was granted permission to enlarge his premises, the Commercial Hotel. The new portion of the building will be…

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Progress of Bills. Changing the Court System

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 July 1911 · page 2

In the Assembly to-night the Trustees Audit Bill was read a third time, and the Land Surveyors' Bill a second time…

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