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Courts & crime, 1917

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Items of News. Warden's Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1917 · page 4

Mr. C. J. B. Helm, mining warden, yesterday granted Simeon Emery and Simeon J. Emery three months' sus­pension of labor conditions…

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Scene in Court. Solicitors Come to Blows. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1917 · page 3

In the District Court today two solicitors came to blows. Mr. Mark Lazarus, during the hearing of a case in which he was appearing,…

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Wagga Police Court. (Before Mr. C. J. B. Helm. P.m.) Monday, January 22nd., 1917. Driving Without Lights

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 1

A prosecution by Inspector Shaw, for the Wagga municipality, against Claude Redden, for driving a vehicle without a light was held ex parte…

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Soldier Killed. Taxi Driver Charged with Manslaughter. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 4

Owing to a taxi-cab, in which he was seated, colliding with a verandah post in Flinders-street this morning, Arthur Patrick Murray, a soldier who was in…

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I.W.W. Threat. Murder Case As Warning. Man Convicted at Urana. Urana

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 4

At the Urana Court, before Mr. Laidlaw. P.M., David Hinds and Patrick Brown were charged with having used threatening language to Constable…

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Assault on Soldier. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 1

Private Charles Olift[?]n. who is in camp at Randwick, walked into the BorlingL[?]st police station to-day and stated that he had been assanltel in…

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£50,000 Involved. Military Officer Charged. Arrested at Races

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 3

Lieutenant David Clayton Howell Price, 36, who was arrested at the Victoria Park racecourse yesterday afternoon by Detectives Pattinson…

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Stealing. Yesterday. Before the P.M.

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 2

Henry Corbett, on remand, was charged with stealing a pair of boots, valued at 18/6, the property of Robert Bamford…

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Gundagai Police Court. Wednesday, Jan. 24th. Before Mr. Donnelly, J.P.

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 4

A. P. BROWN was charged with that he did, by virtue of being a clerk in the Government Savings Bank, at Gundagai, receive and take into his…

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Careless Use of Fire. a Youth Charged

Coolamon Farmers' Review · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 2

At the Children's Court yesterday, before Messrs A. W. Stinson and A. J. M‘ Shane, J’s.P., Percy Oliver Dowell was charged with that he did on the 18th day…

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Police Court Tuesday, January 23. Before Mr.C.J.B. Helm. P.M.

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 4

William Stowart Melrose was fined 10s, in default three days imprisonment, for using indecent language in Larmer Street the [?] Edward [?] head of [?] land [?] for…

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Police Court. Wednesday. Before Mr. F. E. Crook, J.P. False Marriage Oath

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 2

Winifred Bertha Gray, formerly [?] was charged with that she did on 25th July wilfully make a false statement on oath, before a minister…

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Theft From Bank. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1917 · page 6

An audacious theft was committed at the Castlereagh street branch of the Union Bank yesterday afternoon. Two men were seen in the banking…

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Gundagai Bank Clerk. Charged with Embezzlement. Savings Bank Funds

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1917 · page 6

At the Gundagai Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. Donnelly, J.P., As[?]ley P. Brown was charged that, on a certain date or dates between April 27,…

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Items of News. Police Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 2

A few cases of minor importance were the only ones listed for hearing yesterday, the ordinary weekly court day…

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Bank Clerk Charged with Embezzlement

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 4

At the Gundagai police court, Astley P. Brown, a clerk to the Government Savings Bank was charged with embezzling bank monies to the extent…

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Butchers Blacklisted Threatened by Union Industrial Court Acts. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 3

In the Industrial Court to-day Judge Edmunds heard an application for a rule nisi calling on the Australian Meat Industrial Employees' Union to…

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Wheat Stacks. Another Fire at Lockhart Four Thousand Bags Damaged Police Investigating Origin. Lockhart, Sunday Night

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 3

A fire which broke out in two of James Bell and Co.'s wheat stacks at 9 o'clock to-night, destroyed or damaged about 4000 bags of wheat, and had…

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Meeting of Cabinet. Slackening of Public Works. Arbitration Court Judges. Education and the War. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 3

At to-day's and recent Cabinet meeting the position in regard to the public works policy as the outcome of shortened loan funds was discussed…

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Kaiser's Birthday. Court Chaplain's Sermon. "The Hand of Peace " New York

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 January 1917 · page 2

A United Press Berlin correspondent reports that the Cathedral service on the Kaiser's birthday, in the reading of the Lord's Prayer emphasis was…

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