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Courts & crime, 1911

1,278 stories in Riverina's papers · page 63 of 64

Desperate Terrorist. Kills Four Police. Four Others Badly Wounded. St. Petersburg

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 December 1911 · page 2

A sensational affray with a desperate Terrorist is reported from Usofska, in Southern Russia. The Terrorist was pursued by a…

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Coal Vend. the High Court Inquiry. Delivery of Judgment. Allegations Proved. a Scathing Indictment. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 December 1911 · page 2

Mr. Justice Isaacs, in the High Court, commenced the delivery of judgment in the Vend case. His Honor said there was not the…

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Police Court. Before Mr. G. Stevenson, P.M.

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 22 December 1911 · page 4

Daniel Jackson pleaded guilty to being drunk in Audley street on Tuesday morning and was lined 10s or seven days. Walter T. Angel, was charged with…

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Adelong Police Court. (Before Mr. F. A. Ridley, P.m.) Rabbit Prosecutions

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 22 December 1911 · page 2

The Gundagai Pastures Board, represented by Mr. N. Emanuel, proceeded against the Trustees of the Grahamstown Commons, four of whom…

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Adelong News. Police Court. Tuesday, 19Th Dec. Before Mr. Ridley, P.M.

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 22 December 1911 · page 2

Gundagai Pastures Board v. Trustees of Grahamstown Commons—failing to destroy rabbits to the satisfaction of the Board. Mr. Emanuel…

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Drawing-room Murder. a Wife's Statement

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 22 December 1911 · page 2

Mrs. Zoo Range M'Ron, a wealthy and handsome Louisiana (USA), matron calmly and dispassionately appealed to the unwritten law the other…

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Scene in Court. Prosecutor Threatens Detective. Indianopolis

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 December 1911 · page 2

A riotous scene occurred in a court arising out of a dynamite investigation. The country prosecutor, Baker, asserted that a detective named…

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Court Stories. a Judge's Tales From the Bench

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 22 December 1911 · page 3

Judge Parry, some time of Manchester County Court, and now of Lambeth, tells some delightful stories in his new book, just published by Messrs…

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A Heartless Boy. Brings Tipton Woman to London on Fruitless Journey. Magistrate Wishes He Could Order Him a Thrashing

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 22 December 1911 · page 3

One of the most heartless and senseless cases od deception ever practised was revealed during the hearing at Willesden on Saturday, of a remanded charge against…

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Licensing Court. Tuesday, 29Th December. Before Mr. G. Stevenson, P.M., and Mr. E. Lapthorne, J.P.

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 22 December 1911 · page 4

W T. Walton, application for booth , license for sports at Barellan on January 1st. Granted from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. A. J. McKenzic, Commercial Hotel…

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Alleged Theft

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 23 December 1911 · page 3

Andrew Stewart, was arraigned on an alleged charge of the theft of three blankets, and one valise, valued at £2, the property of Alfred Felstead,…

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Accused of Theft

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 December 1911 · page 4

Andrew Stewart, a familiar figure at the local court, was brought up before Mr. J. D. Walker, C.M., yesterday morning on a charge of stealing three…

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Wagga Police Court. Friday, December 22nd, 1911. (Before Mr. J. D. Walker, C.m.) Insobriety

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 23 December 1911 · page 3

James McLeod, a remittance man, pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness, and was fined 5/ or twenty-four hours imprisonment…

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Strike Melee. Detectives and Police Involved. New York

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 December 1911 · page 4

About 1000 strikers and sympathisers of the American Locomotive and Boilermakers' Co. clashed with the detectives and police over strike…

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Dundee Strike. Disorder Continues. Police Stoned by Rioters. Cotton Lockout. London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 December 1911 · page 4

Turbulence at Dundee continues. The strikers are preventing the delivery of coal and are rioting. Last evening a crowd at the Caledonia…

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Midnight Riot. Police Attacked at Broken Hill. Revolvers Drawn. Broken Hill

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 26 December 1911 · page 2

A serious traces occurred in Oxide-street, about midnight, on Friday night, when several young men assaulted two other men, and were…

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Items of News. Wagga Police Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 December 1911 · page 2

The Christmas holiday offenders were brought before the P.M., Mr. Geo. Stevenson, at the Wagga Police Court yesterday. They were nine in…

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Sensational Murder. Sergeant Macdonnell Shot. by Disorderly Foreigner. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 December 1911 · page 2

Word was received in Sydney from Warren that Sergeant MacDonnell, while arresting a foreigner in the street for obscene language at 7.30…

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Alleged Serious Assault. Man Knocked Down in Wagga Street. Skull Fractured and Unconscious. an Arrest Made

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 December 1911 · page 2

An unfortunate incident, which mAy lead to very serious consequences for two men well-known in Wagga, occurred last night. A number of men…

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The Assault Case. Jones Before the Magistrates. Finn's Condition

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 December 1911 · page 2

James Jones, the man who is alleged to have knocked down Thomas Finn, causing him to strike his head on the pavement so violently as to…

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