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Courts & crime, 1917

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FRIDAY. Dice and Cards in a Train. Cases from Cooma Court

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 23 July 1917 · page 1

Thomas Watson, Bert Jones, Ernest Edward Byrnes, and John Hall, larceny and receiving—a Cooma case…

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Quarter Sessions. Two Days' Sitting. Some Heavy Sentences. Five Years for One; Three Years for Three. Two Witnesses to Be Charged with Perjury. Before his Honer Judge Bevan

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 23 July 1917 · page 1

Mr. Moriarty was Crown Prosecutor; Deputy Sheriff, Mr. J. T. Stratton; Clerk of the Court, Mr. M. H. Ellis; Judge's Associate, Mr. W. C…

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Charge of Murder. Bail Granted. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 July 1917 · page 3

Mr. Justice Gordon granted bail self in £500, and other sureties aggregating £500. in the case of Arthur Collins, of Wellington, who was…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, July 23. (Before Mr. C. J. B. Helm, P.m.) Unrenewed Driver's License

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 July 1917 · page 4

J. Gooden of Lake Albert, was fined 10/ with 6/ costs for failing to renew his motor-driver's license within three days of its expiry as required by the…

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Wagga Police Court. Tuesday, July 24. (Before Messrs. E.W. Booty and W.J. Blake, J's.P.)

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 July 1917 · page 3

Great interest centred in the case in which William John Ohlsen and Charles Edward Weyland were charged with riotous behaviour in…

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Breaking Gaol. Harry Moore Gets Out. Scales the Wall. Recapture in a Few Minutes

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 25 July 1917 · page 3

Harry Moore, alias Clayton, the peg-legged prisoner, who on Monday was sentenced by Judge Bevan, at the Cootamundra Quarter Sessions,…

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Wagga Police Court. Wednesday, July 25. (Before Mr. J. Saunders, J.P.)

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 July 1917 · page 2

Bertram James Williams, a member of the A.I.F., who appeared in a military uniform and with a badly-discolored eye, was charged with…

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My First Levee. a Gentleman's Impression of His Presentation at Court

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 26 July 1917 · page 3

I shall never forget the first time I had the honour of being presented to His Majesty. Perhaps I had better mention first the steps which are…

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Police Court. Tuesday, July 24. Before Mr. C. J. B [?] P.M.

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 27 July 1917 · page 2

John Cole [?], John Ryan and William Armstrong were charged with in company on 18th [?] Richard…

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Assault and Trespass

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 31 July 1917 · page 3

Arthur Alchin was charged with having used threatening words to Herbert Charles Nixon, and with having entered Robert John Nixon's land…

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New Zealand Tragedy. Case of Murder. Wellington

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 31 July 1917 · page 2

There has been a sensational development of the bush shooting case at Wairongo[?]ai[?] in the Gisborne district, in which two men were found…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, July 30. (Before Mr. C. J. B. Helm, P.m.). Riotous or Not Riotous?

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 31 July 1917 · page 3

A good deal of amusement was derived from the case in which Wm. John Ohlsen and Charles Edward Weyland were charged with riotous…

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Constables Arrested. Charges of Shopbreaking and Stealing. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 August 1917 · page 3

Yesterday, as a result of investigations by officers of the Victorian Criminal Investigation branch, Constable Leslie Dunse, 29 years of age, was…

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Verdict of Murder. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 August 1917 · page 2

A verdict of wilful murder was returned at Adelaide against Amy Jenkins, a young married woman, at a Corner's inquiry concerning the death…

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Police Court

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 3 August 1917 · page 4

The usual monthly police court was held, before Mr. C. J, B. Helm, P.M., at the Coolamon Court-house on Friday last, when…

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Police and Firearms

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 August 1917 · page 3

In the Legislative Assembly, before moving for the adjournment of the debate on the Supply Bill, the leader of the Opposition asked Mr. Fitzpatrick…

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The Hindenburg Line. How Australians Took and Lost It. an Assault Without Guns. (Copyright Reserved by the Crown). British Headquarters, France, April 19

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 3 August 1917 · page 6

I have related what we onlookers saw of the battle of the Hindenburg Line simply as we saw it. Except for one or two details of may reading, that story of this indescribably…

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Case in Industrial Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 August 1917 · page 3

When the case of the Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association, which is asking for leave to appeal from the award respecting the…

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Wagga Police Court. Friday, August 3. (Before Mr. C. J. B. Helm, P.m.) a Stolen Dog

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 August 1917 · page 4

William Lawson was charged with stealing a dog, the property of Winthrop Hunter, on August 1. He pleaded guilty…

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A Double Tragedy. Murder and Suicide. the Inquest

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 6 August 1917 · page 2

The inquest touching the shooting sensation at Tumbarumba on 28th ult., when John Hempensta[?] shot his niece, Vera Hempenstall…

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