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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1918

649 stories in Riverina's papers · page 8 of 33

Theft From Railway Station. Accused Before the Court. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 March 1918 · page 2

The case against William Ferguson, who is charged with having stolen £126 from the Carlton railway station, was proceeded with at the Kogarah Police…

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Soldiers' Pay Allotment. Alleged Larceny. Married Woman Charged. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 March 1918 · page 2

Mary Jane Caughfield, or Maloney, a married woman, was charged at the Police Court with alleged larceny of £246 at Brisbane…

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Divorce Court. Doyle v. DOYLE

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 March 1918 · page 3

Before His Honor, Judge Bevan, at Wagga yesterday, Catherine Leonore Doyle petitioned for a dissolution of her marriage with…

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Wagga District Court. March 13, 1918. (Before His Honor, Judge Bevan.)

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 March 1918 · page 4

The sittings of the District Court were held yesterday…

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Diamond Ear-rings. Young Woman Charged with Theft. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1918 · page 3

Muzelle Elisa, 26, a saleswoman, was charged at the police court to-day with stealing a pair of single diamond ear-rings, valued at £780…

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Wagga Police Court. Thursday, March 14. (Before Mr. R. Hughes J.P.) Alleged Vagrants

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1918 · page 3

Alice Agnes Janicki, alias Alice Lowe, 40, and Alice Janesky, alias Alice Janicki, 18, said to be mother and daughter, were charged with being idle…

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3 P.M. NEWS. Murder Charge. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 15 March 1918 · page 2

May Muller, alias Moore, was charged to-day at the police court with having, at Maroubra, murdered Rita May Roberts, two months…

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Police and Firemen's Hospital Pital Carnival and Art Union

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1918 · page 4

On the 7th January last the organisers and secretary of the Police and Firemen's Hospital Carnival and Art Union…

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Opium Smugglers. Police Badly Outwitted. Useless Revolver Shots. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 March 1918 · page 3

A sensational affair occurred at Balmain early this morning, when two smugglers got away with £3000 worth of opium in a fast motor car. They…

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Police Efficiency. Motor Cycles for Country Stations

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1918 · page 8

All the recruits undergoing instruction at the Police Barracks are to be trained in the use and management of motor-cycles…

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Opium Smuggling. Accused Before the Court. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1918 · page 4

James Law and Robert Powell were charged at the Police Court to-day with having, at Mort's Dock, assembled together for the purpose of smuggling…

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Use of Travelling Permits. Court Proceedings Against a Drover

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1918 · page 6

At the Nabaic (N S.W.) police court recently, the police proceeded against William Mann on an information charging him that being a…

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Licensee Charged

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 18 March 1918 · page 3

T. H. Ellwood was charged with illegally keeping his licensed premises open to persons not bona flde lodgerslodgers…

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Prohibited Immigrants. Filipinos Charged. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 March 1918 · page 1

Thirty-seven Filipinos appeared before the Maitland police court this morning on a charge of being prohibited immigrants found in the…

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Police Court. To-day. Before Mr. Chippondall, P.M. Drunk and Furious Riding

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 18 March 1918 · page 2

Henry John Currie pleaded guilty to being drunk, but not guilty to furious riding. The constable from Bethungra…

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Murder of Station Manager. Accused Discharged. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 March 1918 · page 1

John Baker, who was arrested near Yarram under the alleged name of John Bamford, was discharged at the Melbourne police court yesterday,…

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Waterford Election. 200 Additional Police. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 March 1918 · page 3

Two hundred additional police, fully armed, are assisting in maintaining order at the Waterford by-election…

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A Charnel House. Terrible Slaughter. Murder Torture, and Pillage. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 March 1918 · page 2

The evacuation has become a panic. There is a tremendous railway congestion, thousands leaving on foot. Many Britishers are stranded in the city, whichh…

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Alleged Horse Stealing

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 March 1918 · page 4

Arthur T. Sim, a returned soldier, on remand from Liverpool, was charged was having, on February 18 last, at Tarcutta, stolen a mare and…

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A Wagga Sheep-stealing Case

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 19 March 1918 · page 2

At Wagga Quarter Sessions, on Tuesday last, Alan Power and William James McGrath, both sheep dealers, were each charged on two counts of stealing and receiving 87…

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