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Courts & crime, 1913

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Important Union Case. the Right of Expulsion. High Court Judgment. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 September 1913 · page 4

Judgment has been delivered in the High Court in the appeal of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers from the judgment of the Queensland Full…

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Small Debts Court. Friday, September 5th. (Before Mr. A. Gates, P.M.)

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 September 1913 · page 1

John Winter v. Edward and Frederick Perrott, claim for £[?]6 [?]s, amount claimed for contract for clearing land owned but defendants…

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Burglars at Albury. Jeweller Loses Nearly £1000. an Audacious Crime. Police and Public About. Albury

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 September 1913 · page 2

Two burglaries of a daring character occurred at Albury on Friday evening. Two local business premises were…

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Burglary at Albury

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 9 September 1913 · page 2

Quite a sensation was caused at Ablury on Saturday morning when it was found that the premises of [?]mon Bros., jewellers, and Reis' model…

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Stealing a Bicycle

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 9 September 1913 · page 4

William Smith, on remand from Coolamon, was charged with stealing a bicycle, the property of Frank Byrnes, of Wagga…

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Drill Shirkers Sentenced. SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 September 1913 · page 2

A large detachment of cadets were ordered into custody at the police court to-day, to make up their arrears of drill under the Compulsory…

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Burglary at Broken Hill Sydney, Monday Night

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 9 September 1913 · page 2

Thieves broke into Kelly's Wilcannia Club Hotel, Broken Hill, on Saturday night, and the safe was removed to a mining lease near by, where…

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"Pakapu" Revived. Chinese Sentenced. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 September 1913 · page 2

A Chinese named Ah Tay was sentenced to a month's gaol for selling pakapu tickets to a police constable. Evidence was given that the…

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

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 9 September 1913 · page 4

Michael Lawler was charged with allowing a jersey calf to stray in Cooper-street on 8th August; and the same calf to stray in Parker-street…

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Police Court. Friday, September 5th. (Before Mr. J. H. Hassall, J.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 9 September 1913 · page 2

Frank Devlin was charged with unlawfully assaulting Jas. M'Eachran, but the charge was withdrawn. The same was charged with using…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, 8th SEPTEMBER, 1913. (Before Mr. A. Gates, P.M.)

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 9 September 1913 · page 4

Augustus Gain, being a first offender, was fined 5s for drunkenness; for using indecent language be was fined 40s…

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Police Court. Monday, September 8, 1913. (Before Mr. A. Gates, P.M.) Bad Language

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 September 1913 · page 2

Augusta Gain was charged with being drunk in Thompson-street, on Saturday evening last. He pleaded guilty and Was fined 5/. For using…

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Ins[?]ling the Police

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 9 September 1913 · page 2

The duties of the police are o[?]times unpleasant, but the unpleasantness in the case of Constable Lambert on Saturday night was added to by the…

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Supreme Court. Sittings at Cootamundra

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 9 September 1913 · page 2

AT the above court on Thursday, before His Honor Judge Pring, the following local case was heard. Obrien and another…

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Jewellery Taken from Train "Stealing or Fright." Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 September 1913 · page 2

Leslie Lionel Walshaw was charged to-day at the police court, with the alleged theft of £800 worth of jewellery, the property of Therodore…

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Torturing Lunatics. Doctor Charged. Nurse's Sensational in Evidence. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 September 1913 · page 2

At the trial of Dr. Hamilton, who is charged with cruelty to three lunatics in a private asylum, of which he was the proprietor, sensational…

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Theft of Violins. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 11 September 1913 · page 2

Prof. Hopf, music teacher. of Adelaide, has reported to the police the theft of two valuable violins, one an Amati, worth £1000 and the other…

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Counterfeit Coins. Two Men Sentenced. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 September 1913 · page 2

At the Criminal Court to-day. Albert Anderson was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude, and Arthur Carter to twelve months' hard labor,…

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Court of Contradictions

The Worker · Thursday 11 September 1913 · page 12

THE "Daily Telegraph" is greatly perturbed because the Australian High Court the other day claimed the right to review and, if justice demanded, to…

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The Protection of Law Court Witnesses

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 September 1913 · page 2

During the hearing of a case in the Darlinghurst sessions recently Judge Murray look occasion to refer to a practice which has become all too…

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