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Courts & crime, 1911

1,278 stories in Riverina's papers · page 33 of 64

Police Court. Monday. Before Mr. H. Giles Shaw, P.M. DRUNK

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 3

Roy Bell, on a charge of drunkenness, was fined 10s or 48 hours. Constable Beazley stated the facts. The fine was paid…

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Wagga Police Court Monday, July 17. (Before Mr. Geo. Stevenson, P.m.) the Housing Problem in Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 4

E. Corstain was proceeded against by the Municipal Sanitary Inspector for being the owner of premises unfit for human habitation, the same being…

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Police Court. Monday, July 17, [?] (Before Mr. Geo. Stevenson, P.m.) Uninhabitable Dwelling

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 2

E. Car[?] pleaded guilty to a charge of keeping premises in Crampton-lane not in a fit state for habitation. The proceedings were…

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Fatal Collision Between the Police and Busheangers

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 3

July 19.—Bathurst, Thursday, 6 p.m.—A most serious affray has taken place between bushrangers and Sergeant Middleton and Trooper…

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Religious Riots. Houses Wrecked in Belfast. Police Stoned. London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 2

Serious religious disturbances have taken place in the working-class quarter between Shank Hill and Falls Road, Belfast, crowds mutually…

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Police Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 20 July 1911 · page 2

Ah Pak was charged before Mr. J. D. Walker, C. M., yesterday afternoon with having stolen the sum of £6 8s 10d, the property of a countryman…

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State Parliament. Teachers' Salaries. Police Holidays. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 July 1911 · page 2

In the Assembly to-day the Minister for Lands said it was difficult to estimate the time required for the completion of the duties of the…

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Melee in Antwerp. Police Use Revolvers. Antwerp

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 July 1911 · page 2

At Antwerp a general melee occurred yesterday evening. The strikers attacked men loading for the Red Star Company. The police…

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Fighting the Sugar Battle "We Must Win." Say the Men. the Rush for Scabs. Sydney Pickets Police Badgered. Wharfies Object to Handle Non-union Sugar

The Worker · Thursday 20 July 1911 · page 16

The great sugar fight still proceeds in Queensland, the A.W.A. men standing firm and daily receiving additions to their ranks…

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Tumut Police Court. Before Mr. Ridley, P.M.

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 21 July 1911 · page 2

police v. Mrs. Solomon May Thorpe for keeping a house of ill fame, Emanuel & Emanuel for defendant. Constable Randall deposed to…

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Desperadoes. Fight Police

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 21 July 1911 · page 4

After a fierce revolver duel with the police in circumstances (says "Lloyd's News" of April 16) vividly recalling the Sidney street "siege," a murderer…

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Polish Sidney Street. Police and Desperadoes

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Friday 21 July 1911 · page 4

The memorable slege of Sidney street has been reproduced in almost every detail at Lodz. Russian Poland, the one exception being (says "Lloyd's…

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Child Shows Police. Thief's Hiding Place

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 21 July 1911 · page 2

Two ingenious female robbers were arrested in Paris and sent to the Central police station (wired the "Inter-Occan" correspondent on April 1). They…

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About Women. Queen Katherine at Hampton Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 July 1911 · page 2

The "Ocult Review" for April publishes a delightful story—for the accuracy of which its lady correspondent vouches—of the living presence of…

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Wagga Police Court

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 July 1911 · page 2

Daniel Ryan, described as an old offender, was before Mr. Geo Stevenson, P.M., at the Wagga Court House on Saturday, charged with being…

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Continued Rioting. Police Stables Mobbed

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 July 1911 · page 2

In further riots at Cardiff the mobs stormed the police stables and were repelled by repeated baton charges Numerous casualties are reported…

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Woodlupine Murder. Condemned Man Resigned. Interview with His Mother. Perth

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 July 1911 · page 2

David Smithson, who is to be executed at Fremantle on Tuesday for the murder of the girl Elizabeth Compton, is quite resigned to his fate…

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Riot at Football. Players Removed. Police Sent For. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 July 1911 · page 2

During a Glebe—North Sydney football match at Wentworth Park Oval, a riot occurred owing to a number of players being ordered off the…

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Police Court

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 25 July 1911 · page 2

Before Messrs. G. James and J. T. Renchan, J.P. ALLEGED LARCENY. William Clarke, from Stockinbingal…

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Big Theft

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 25 July 1911 · page 2

Three armed desperados invaded Tenderloin, near New York, smashed the windows of a jeweller's shop, shot the clerk dead, and…

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