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Courts & crime, 1912

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A Chequered Career. E. T. Hooley's Schemes End in Gaol. London, Feb. 16

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 March 1912 · page 4

"A fine finish!" murmured Ernest Terah Hooley as he left the Old Bailey dock, sentenced for fraud to 12 months' imprisonment. As a…

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Attachment Order. Laborer Before Court. Judge's Remarks. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 March 1912 · page 2

A laborer attended the Divorce Court to-day to show cause why he should not be attached for the nonpayment of costs amounting to £64…

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Apache Horrors. Murders and Robberies in France. Assassins Steal Motor Car. Still at Large. Automobile Police Corps Appointed. Paris

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 March 1912 · page 2

Six apaches at Chantilly, France, killed a chauffeur and seized his car. They killed two bank officials and robbed the bank of £1,600, and escaped…

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Wagga Police Court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 March 1912 · page 2

Cecil M'Cormack was charged before Mr. J. D. Walker, C. M., at the Wagga Court House yesterday with behaving in a riotous manner in…

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Bathurst Gaol Incident Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 28 March 1912 · page 2

After consideration of papers connected with the attack of prisoners Wilkinson and Gleeson on Warder Hetherington, both men were…

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New Police Station

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 March 1912 · page 2

Negotiations have now been concluded for the taking over of premises at Uranquinty to be used temporarily as a police station pending the…

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Catholic News. Press Charged with Suppressing. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 March 1912 · page 2

At the Hibernian Conference this afternoon, Archbishop Kelly charged the press with the suppression of news relating to Catholic affairs, which were…

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Wagga Police Court. Tuesday, March 26th. (Before Mr. J. D. Walker, C.m.) Drunk and Disorderly

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 28 March 1912 · page 3

Robert John Spear pleaded guilty to a charge of having been found in a drunk and disorderly condition in Fitzmaurice-street the previous day, and was mulcted…

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Sensational Episode. Constable Shot Dead. Madman's Fight with Police. Vancouver

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 March 1912 · page 2

The vagaries of a Swede, who was believed to be insane, caused a sensation in Vancouver yesterday. He was firing a revolver indiscriminately…

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School Teacher Charged. Alleged Indecent Assault at Tootool

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 2

Thomas Henry Cashell, a young man, was charged with committing an indecent assault upon a girl, 12 years and 7 months old, at Tootool, on…

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Revolting Crime Alleged Crippled Girl Assaulted. Shocking, Allegations in Court. Girl's Father Charged with Intent to Murder. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 2

Patrick Joseph Kearney was charged at the North Sydney Police Court to-day with having shot at William Worthington, with intend to murder…

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Alleged Horse Stealing. Committed For Trial

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 4

HENRY QUINN, on remand from Gundagai was charged at the Cootamundra police court on Monday with stealing a brown gelding, the…

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Misuse of Mails. Chief of Wireless Company Charged. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 2

At San Francisco, Lee Deforrest, the chief of the American Deforrest Wireless Company, has been arrested on warant, charged with the misuse…

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Violence by Miners. Police Overpowered and Property Damaged. Strike Fund Exhausted. Great Increase in Infantile Mortality

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 March 1912 · page 2

Five hundred Yorkshire miners have gone to the Littleton collieries, Cannock Chase, where a mob is preventing strike breakers re-ascending…

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Young Woman's Death. Man Charged with Murder Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 March 1912 · page 4

William Henry France was charged at the Criminal Court to-day with feloniously murdering Elma Steven-son, on March 10, at Swatchfield, near…

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District Court Cases

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 March 1912 · page 2

The District Court opened at 0 a.m. yesterday, when a fairly lengthy list of cases was read, several being either struck out or withdrawn…

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Violence of Strikers. Contact with Police

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 March 1912 · page 7

The police were stoned at Mexborough and retaliated with a baton charge. Disturbances have also occurred at Walsall where 2000 miners…

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Alleged Contempt of Court. Waggaites Implicated

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 March 1912 · page 2

The Judge in Bankruptcy (Mr. Justice Street) had before him on Thursday morning an application by Mr. C. F. V. Lloyd, official assignee of the bankrupt…

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A Serious Charge Against a School Teacher. Alleged Indecent Assault. Jury Disagree. a New Trial Ordered

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 March 1912 · page 2

The following jury were empanelled:—Edward Easter Collins (foreman) Anthony Bruskill, William Bernard Oehm, George James Rich, John…

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Crime In France. Extra Precautions Taken. 1,800 More Police Enrolled. London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 March 1912 · page 4

In consequence of the recent crimes in France, 1,800 additional police have been enrolled. Repeating rifles have been served out to the police, and it…

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