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Courts & crime, 1913

1,549 stories in Riverina's papers · page 78 of 78

Refused Admission to Gaol Sentenced Woman's Predicament. Gilbertian Proceedings

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 December 1913 · page 2

WALLAWA (Washington State). Sunday.—When Mrs. Hazzard, the "starvation" doctor, applied for admission to the State penetentiary after…

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Lost in the Arctic. Police to the Rescue. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 December 1913 · page 2

The royal north-west mounted police expedition has arranged during the annual patrol from Dawson to Fort Macperson, to investigate…

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Magistrate and Council

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 December 1913 · page 2

"It is a great pity that the Municipal Council docs not provide bathing accommodation in so progressive a town as Wagga." In this manner spoke…

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Thief and Perjurer Magistrate's Comment. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 December 1913 · page 2

A carter named Maurice Brown was sentenced to two months' hard labor for stealing 80 corn and chaff sacks, the property of the Chief Railway…

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Assaulting the Police

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 30 December 1913 · page 2

A charge of attempted assault, whilst iii execution of duty, was preferred by Constable Gram against William John Mehegan at the local…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, 29 DECEMBER, 1913. (Before Mr. C. J. B. Helm, P.M.)

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 30 December 1913 · page 1

Hugh Barclay pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk in Baylis Street on Sunday, and was fined 10s, in default 3 days in the lockup…

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Police Court. Monday, December 20, 1913 (Before Mr. C. J. B. Helm, P.M.) Drunkenness

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 December 1913 · page 2

Pleading guilty to a charge of being drunk in Baylis-street on Sunday Hugh Barclay was [?] 10/, in default three days in the lockup. An…

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Wholesale Murder. Stabs His Wife's Relatives. SYDNEY

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 30 December 1913 · page 4

As a result of a family quarrel a man named Kimmerlin,-in wurtenberg inflicted serious knife wounds upon his inflicted serious knife wounds upon his father-in-law, two…

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Police Court. Friday, December 26th. (Before Mr. E. Lapthorne, J.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Wednesday 31 December 1913 · page 3

Thomas Rogers, otherwise Wilson, was charged with behaving indecently in East Street on Christmas EVe…

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South Sea Drama. a Native Crime. Jealously and Murder

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 December 1913 · page 4

A tale as terrible as any Island tragedy pictured in fiction was revealed at the recent trial who New Hebrides native, Banga, who was…

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Lost in the Wilds Canadian Police Missing

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 December 1913 · page 2

REGINA (Saskatchewan), Tues-day.—Another parol of the Royal North-West mounted police has been lost in the northern wilds…

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