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Courts & crime, 1912

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The Coal Strike. Owners Contemplate Ruin. Idle Travellers. Strikers and Police in Conflict. Aggressive Aliens Arrested. London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 March 1912 · page 2

Messrs. Huntley and Palmer, the great biscuit manufacturing firm of Reading, have intimated that if the strike is prolonged they intend to…

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Police Court

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 4

At the police court yesterday before Mr. D. Bruce, J.P. a middle aged man named Henry Quinn was charged with stealing a Brown…

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A Pacifying Magistrate

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 2

Peace-making, as well as seeing that the peace is preserved, showed itself most edifyingly on the part of our genial P.M., Mr G. Stevenson…

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Suicide in Gaol. AUCKLAND

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 2

A Dane named Snertinge, who ran amok at Frankton, New Zealand, some months ago and killed a man committed suicide in the Auckland…

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Court in Tears

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 1

One of those tragi-comic scents which are so common in French justice was witnessed at the Charente Assizes at the trial of a restaurant…

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Contempt of Court

The Worker · Thursday 21 March 1912 · page 21

The High Court dismissed the appeals the Melbourne "Argus," "Age," and "Herald," on the Peacock contempt cases, with costs against those papers…

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Short-paid Wages. Can Be Recovered Up to Six Years. a Full Court Judgment

The Worker · Thursday 21 March 1912 · page 14

An important piece of legal information of interest to all unionists was brought before the N.S.W. Labor Council at its last weekly meeting in a letter from Mr…

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Police Court

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 5

AT the police court yesterday before Mr. Giles Shaw P.M. a man named Patrick Dunn was charged with drunkenness. There were several…

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An Unremunerative Burglary

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 7

The following appears in the "Ignatian Record," published at Stamford Hill:—"We have been for a long time encouraging the faithful to pay visits…

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Alleged Horse Stealing

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 4

At the Gundagai Police Court on Monday, before Mr. D.' Bruce, J.P. a middle-aged nun named Henry Quinn was charged with stealing a…

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Peculiar Assault Case. Chinese Charged. Married to Girl of 15 Years. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 2

A unique case was before the police court to-day, when a Chinese named Ah Soong was charged with an offence against a girl under the age of…

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Fires Charged Extra

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 7

Travellers on the Continent will remember the high price of wood and the expensive luxury of a constant fire. A man who was spending some weeks in a German…

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Uranquinty Police Station

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 2

It has been decided to establish a police station and to permanently place a constable at Uranquinty. Hitherto the township has been…

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The Record Murder Country of Europe

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 4

The "Frosty, serene, ineffably peaceful cau[?]s," as a Muscovite poet calls it, is the scene of Russia's second and never-ending war. It is the land of Arart, the…

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Police Court. Friday, March 22, 1912. (Before Mr. Geo. Stevenson, P. M.) Failing to Destroy Rabbits

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 7

Lachlan Robertson was charged with failing to destroy rabbits on his holding. Mr. W. A. Thompson appeared for the Board…

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Police Court. Friday, March 23, 1912. (Before Mr. Geo. Stevenson, P. M.) Failing to Destroy Rabbits

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 3

Lachlan Robertson was charged with failing to destroy rabbits on his holding. Mr. W. A. Thompson appeared for the Board…

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Police Called In. Mr. Wood Removed. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 2

Mr. Wood vigorously opposed the third reading of the Members' Allowance Bill. He asserted that Mr. Levien's action in producing a list of…

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Police Court

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1912 · page 2

At the police court yesterday before Mr. Giles Shaw P.M. a man named Patrick Dunn was charged with drunkenness. There were several…

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Items of News. Wagga Police Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 March 1912 · page 4

Manny Warren was charged yesterday, before Mr. J. D. Walker, C.M with being drunk in Fitzmauria[?]ct. It was stated by the arr[?]…

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Local and General News Wagga Police Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 23 March 1912 · page 2

At the local police court yesterday, before Mr. J. D. Walker, C.M., a young man named Manny Warren, an old offender, was fined £1 with the option…

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