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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1918

649 stories in Riverina's papers · page 19 of 33

Police Court. Saturday, June 22. Before Messrs. Donnelly and Elworthy, J.P.'s. Breaking and Entering

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 25 June 1918 · page 2

CHARLES SAMUEL HYDE, a lad of 17 years of age, was charged will breaking and entering the shop of Michael Webbey at Guudagai and…

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Suicide in Mental Hospital. Murder Trial Recalled. Tumbarumba Sensation

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 25 June 1918 · page 2

AN inquest was held in Sydney lost week concerning the death of William Cecil, a patient of the Parramatta Mental Hospital…

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Criminality in Berlin. Police and Military Guards. London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 June 1918 · page 2

The German press is giving proof of increasing criminality, necessitating the employment in Berlin of extra police and military guards in the most…

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Police Court. Monday. Before Messrs. T. Mangan and P. Manguire Js.P. Alleged Wife Desertion

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 26 June 1918 · page 1

John Hartley, 30, was charged as above, at Rutherglen, Vic. On the application of the police, he was remanded for eight days for…

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Red Russia. Murder of Ex-czar Reported. Vancouver

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 June 1918 · page 2

A message from Copenhagen states that Russian Red Guards broke into the residence of M. Nicholas Romanoff, the former Czar, at Ekaterinburg, and…

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Domain Orators. Before the Police Court. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1918 · page 4

A man named Vance Marshall was charged at the police court to-day with having made statements in the Domain likely to prejudice recruiting…

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Police Court. Tuesday, June 25. Before Mr. C. J. B. Helm, P.M.

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1918 · page 4

George Irving was fined 10s, together with 6s court costs, for using indecent language at Grong Grong on 8th inst…

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The Late Inspector Saunders and Constable Bowman. Sympathetic References at the Police Court. Welcome to Inspector Nanoarrow

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1918 · page 6

At the Police Court on Wednesday Mr. Quirk referred to the recent death of Inspector Saunders, who hail a long career as a…

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The Alleged Murder of the Ex-Czar. LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 28 June 1918 · page 2

The "Times": Further unconfirmed from Swedish sources states that Red Guards' murder of the ex-Czar is regarded in…

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Common Assault

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 1 July 1918 · page 3

Thomas O'Brien was prosecuted by Ettie Barber for common assault Defeadant's name was called three times outside the court", but he did…

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Police Court. To-day. Before Mr. Chippendoll, P.M. Alleged Wife Desertion

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 1 July 1918 · page 3

John Hartely, on remand, again appeared to answer a charge of wife desertion. On the application of the police,…

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Licensing Court

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 July 1918 · page 2

At a sitting of the Wagga Licensing Court on Saturday, before Messrs. L. A. Fosbery and W. Purtell, members, a renewal of the license for the…

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Small Debts Court. Harry Wilson's Claims. TO-DAY. Before the P.M.

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 1 July 1918 · page 3

There was another big batch of claims by Harry Wilson, the debt collector, who has several times appeared in this court claiming…

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To-Day's Wires, 3,30 p.m. NEWS. Judd Before the Court. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 1 July 1918 · page 2

Ernest Judd was charged, on three informations, at the police court to-day, with encouraging disloyalty to the cause of tho British Empire in…

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Prosecution Fails. Public Servant Charged. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 July 1918 · page 3

Thomas Patrick Scollen, a member of the Commonwealth Public Service, was before the Police Court to-day charged with making a statement likely to cause…

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Ex-commander of Baltic Fleet. Sentenced to Death by Bolsheviks

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 July 1918 · page 2

The Bolshevik Court sentenced Captain Etchasany, ex-commander of the Baltic fleet, to death on a charge of opposing and discrediting Soviet rule…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, July I, (Before Mr. C. J. B. Helm, P.m.) Compulsory Drill

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 July 1918 · page 3

Edward Matthew Keough, 17 years of age, who said he was a school boy, appeared in answer to a summons charging him with having, on March…

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Items of News. Finley Court House

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 July 1918 · page 2

For the erection and completion of a police station and court house at Finley, six tenders were received, that of John Waugh being the lowest at £2364…

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Wagga Police Court. Tuesday, July 2. (Before Mr. J. Saunders, C.m.) Wandering in Drink

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 July 1918 · page 4

Patrick M'Carthy, 45 years of age was fined half a crown or imprisonment till the rising of the court for having been found drunk in…

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Leeton Police Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 5 July 1918 · page 2

At the Leeton Police Court on Tuesday H. Jarroll was summoned under the Pare Foods Acl for failing to keep his dairy premises up to requirements…

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