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Courts & crime, 1918

649 stories in Riverina's papers · page 24 of 33

Murder Most Foul. an American Minister's Story of Germany's Fearful Outrages

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 23 August 1918 · page 3

Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, one of America's foremost ministers, of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn (of which the first pastor was Henry Ward Beecher) spent July and August in a…

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Alleged Contempt of Court. Brookfield Case Adjourned. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1918 · page 6

The Full Court adjourned on application on behalf of the Acting Attorney-General for the Commonwealth to make absolute a rule nisi which called upon…

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Teachers Dissatisfied. Want Grievances Adjusted. Before Arbitration Court. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 26 August 1918 · page 4

A mass meeting of public school teachers, representing all grades of the service, today carried the following resolution:—…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, August 26. (Before Mr. M. J. M'Mahon, P.m.) Assault

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 August 1918 · page 1

George Henry Money O'Keefe, 36 years of age, was found guilty of having, on Saturday last, at Umbango, assaulted a boy. Originally…

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Alleged Contempt of Court. Mr. Brookfield's Case. Fined £50. SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 August 1918 · page 1

Before the Full Court. Mr. Lamb, K.C., on behalf of the Crown Solicitor, appeared to move absolute a rule nisi which had been granted for…

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Coolamon Police Court. Friday, August 23. Before Mr. McMahon, P.M.

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 30 August 1918 · page 4

Police v. Mrs. R. Flanagan.—Selling milk without registering premises. lPeaded guilty. Mr. Thompson for defendant. Fined. 10s, costs 6s or seven days hard…

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Forged Cheque. Cashed at Wagga. Sequel to Henty Burglary Henty

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 31 August 1918 · page 4

Subsequent to a burglary at the residence of Mr. S. Klemke, Pleasant Hills, on Sunday evening last, on which ocasion several small articles…

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Police Cell Tragedy. Prisoner Charged with Murder. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 September 1918 · page 1

The Central Police Station, Liver-pool-street, was the scene of an extraordinary tragedy last night. It appears that a man named William…

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Police Strike. 8ooo Men Idle. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 September 1918 · page 2

Eight thousand policemen ate idle, the strike having extended to the whole of Greater London. This number does not include the…

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Escaped Prisoner Sentenced. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 September 1918 · page 2

Walter Sutherland, who escaped from the custody of the police a few months ago, was sentenced to six months' hard labor by Judge…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, September 2. (Before Mr. J. M'Mahon, P.M.) Alleged Receiving

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 September 1918 · page 4

Walter John Keane on Bail was charged with receiving a quantity of chaff bage valued at about £30, the property of Robert John Brunskill,…

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Police Raid Gaming House. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 September 1918 · page 2

As the result of a police raid yesterday 13 men were charged at the Police Court to-day with having been found in the yard of a common gaming…

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Children's Court. Monday, September 2. (Before Mr. J. M'Mahon, P.M.) Alleged Breaking and Entering

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 September 1918 · page 3

Five boys, two ages 14, and the other 10, 12 and s respectively, were charged with breaking and entering a warehouse near the Wagga Railway…

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Furious Driving. Merchant Before Court. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 September 1918 · page 1

A merchant, John Flemming. Leake, ways charged at the Police Court with having furiously driven a motor car ami caused grievous bodily harm to…

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Suspected Murder. Pastoralist Found Dead. Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 September 1918 · page 3

The body of George Snell, a well known South Australian Pastoralist, was round dead in the bush 20 miles from his homestead…

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Wagga Police Court. Wednesday, September 4. (Before Mr. M. J. M'Mahon, P.m.) Alleged Vagrancy

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 September 1918 · page 2

John Williams, 43 years of age, was charged with being an idle and disorderly person having no lawful visible means of support and, on the…

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The Night Police of Spain

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 5 September 1918 · page 3

THE foreigner who passes a night in a Spanish town for the first times is awakened several times by a cry attered at regular intervals; it is monotonous, somewhat sad…

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Police Court. Thursday, September 5th

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 6 September 1918 · page 4

Hugh R.H. Foster was charged by the Stationmaster at Narandera, under the by—laws of the New South Wales Railway…

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Police Cell Tragedy. [?]Anglois Committed for Murder. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 September 1918 · page 3

At the inquest concerning the [?] of William Brabazon, the [?]found that the deceased died [?] injuries received through…

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Wagga Police Court. Friday, September 6. (Before Mr. M. J. M'Mahon, P.m.) Intent to Commit Felony

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 September 1918 · page 3

Harold Ryan, charged with being a suspected person and with having been found on the Wagga Ka[?]ccourse with intent to commit a [?]elony…

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