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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1911

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

A Serious Fra[?] Alleged Assault. Elderly Man Rendered Unconscious. a Drive Arrested

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 28 December 1911 · page 4

Some excitement was witnessed in front of the Commercial Hotel on Boxing night, about 7 o'clock, where several men were engaging in an…

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A Bush Murder. the Italian Way. Adversary Stabbed to Death. Perth

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 December 1911 · page 2

In a quarrel on the verandah of an hotel at White Creek (West Australia) between an Englishman named Darlington and an Italian named…

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Mt: Lyell Trouble. Directors Cited to Arbitration Court

The Worker · Thursday 28 December 1911 · page 5

A conference that was held between the directors of the Mt. Lyell Mining Company, and representatives of the amalgamated Mine Employees' Association…

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[?] Court. Tuesday, December 26, 1911. (Before Mr. G. Stevenson, P.m.). the Christmas Thirst

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 28 December 1911 · page 3

Nine intoxicated individuals who celebrated the Christmas holidays by becoming drunk and falling into the hands of the strong arm of the law,…

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Gundagai Police Court

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 29 December 1911 · page 6

At above court on Monday last, before Mr. Ridley, P.M., a middle aged man named Percy Wilson was charged with having obtained money…

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Silence. Boys Sentenced

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 29 December 1911 · page 2

Two Minneapolis boys (says the "Inter-Ocean") were recently ordered by Judge C L. Smith in Municipal Court not to speak to each other for a…

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Police Court. Saturday, December 23Rd. (Before Mr. C. J. Coghlan, .J.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 29 December 1911 · page 3

Thomas Allen, charged with being drunk, was fined 5s, or the rising of the Court…

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Whitechapel Crime. Brutal Double Murder. Husband and Wife Victims. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 December 1911 · page 2

A terrible double murder was discovered in Spitalfields, Whitechapel. A man named Millstein and his wife, who were restaurant-keepers, were…

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A Cowardly Assault

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 December 1911 · page 6

A young married man of the laboring class named Thomas Dawson pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting Allan Stinson, a youth seventeen…

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The Assault Case

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1911 · page 4

James Jones was again brought up at the Wagga Police Court yesterday on the charge of unlawfully assaulting Thomas Finn on Boxing Day last…

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Remarkable Murder Trial

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1911 · page 2

In Springfield, Massachusetts (says the New York correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" November 15) an extraordinary murder trial is…

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Life in Gaol. Champagne and Chicken

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1911 · page 3

In the course of an inquest on Thursday (said "Lloyd's News" on November 19) on a woman named Griffin, who died in Holloway Prison,…

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Cheating Emigrants. West Australian Charged. London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1911 · page 4

A man named Brown has been remanded on bail for a week on a charge of obtaining two sums of £1 each and attempting to obtain £3 by having…

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Unprovoked Assault. Cowardly Attack on a Wagga Boy

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1911 · page 4

Thos. Dawson was charged at the Wagga Police Court yesterday, Messrs. J. D. Walker, C.M., and J. Jeremy, J.P., being on the Bench,…

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Alleged Assault Near Commercial Hotel. Accused Further Remanded

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 December 1911 · page 6

James Jones, a drover, appeared on remand charged with assaulting Thomas Finn outside the Commercial Hotel on the evening of the 26th…

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Attempted Murder and Suicide a Sordid Tragedy

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 December 1911 · page 3

A case of attempted murder and suicide occurred at Alexandria shortly before midnight last night. Robert Lee, who until Boxing Day was employed,…

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Whitechapel Murder. a Russian Confesses. Act of Revenge. London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 December 1911 · page 4

A Russian named Abromovitch has confessed to the Whitechapel double murder as an act of revenge, owing to his gambling losses at the place…

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Wagga Police Court. Friday, December 29, 1911. (Before Mr. J. D. Walker, C.M., and J. Jeremy, J.p.) a Female Inebriate

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 December 1911 · page 6

A woman named Jane Moore, well on in years, was fined 5s, or one hour in gaol on a charge of drunkenness…

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