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Courts & crime, 1919

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A Minor Charged. Alleged False Statement Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 November 1919 · page 4

Alma Leally, aged 16 years and to months, was committed for trial on a charge of having made a false statement before a minister, to the effect…

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Unwelcome Arrivals. Police Needed. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 November 1919 · page 1

Major-General Legge, chief of the General Staff, states that the garrison military police are necessary on Sydney wharves to prevent the landing of…

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Sinn Fein Attacks. Help Saves Police. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 November 1919 · page 2

Armed Sinn Feiners motored to an outlying police station in County Meath and savagely stacked the garrison, consisting of a sergeant and…

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Leeton Police Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 7 November 1919 · page 2

On Tuesday last, before Mr. McMahon, P.M., Constable Lodger proceeded against John Savage for driving a motor car on the wrong side of…

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Killed in a Brawl. Man Charged with Murder Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 November 1919 · page 1

William Flaherty, 20, was charged at the Police Court to-day with feloniously and maliciously murdering Royal Edward Gregory…

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A Contemptible Theft

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 7 November 1919 · page 2

Last week-end Mr. Charles Brown, the Yanco manager for the executors of the late Sir Samuel McCaughey, was the victim of a mean thief who…

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Charge of Murder. Accused's Statement. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 November 1919 · page 1

At the Coroner's Court an inquiry was held concerning the death of John White (44), marine fireman. Edward Jackson, an invalid…

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“Another Injustice” Government Offices’ Water. Full Rates to Be Charged

The Daily Express · Friday 7 November 1919 · page 3

On the recommendation of the Finance Committee, It was decided by the Wagga Council last evening that the Railway Department and the Post and…

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Stealing a Race-horse

The Daily Express · Saturday 8 November 1919 · page 2

During the progress of the race prio[?] to the one in which the well-known district trotter. Miss Huon Roy. was entered at Eppng on…

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Gaol to Escape Hunger Sydney

The Daily Express · Saturday 8 November 1919 · page 2

At the Darlinghurst Sessions 10-day a Russian, who was unable to obtain employment, and was practicaly starving, was at his own request…

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Hillston Police Court. Tuesday, November, 4Th, 1919. (Before Mr M. Longfield, P.M.)

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Saturday 8 November 1919 · page 6

John Smith, charged with drunkenness, was fined 5s and 6s costs, and for riotous behaviour was fined 10s and 6s costs. The cases were…

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A Bush Tragedy. Murder Near Armidale. Armidale

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 November 1919 · page 4

Mrs. Mary Wilmott has been murdered at Cooney Creek, near Armidale. According to the story told by her daughter, aged 22, she and her mother…

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Murder at Armidale Woman Brutally Killed Armidale

The Daily Express · Saturday 8 November 1919 · page 8

A woman was murdered at Cooney Creek, near Armadale at midnight According to the story given by deceased’s daughter, she and the…

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A Night Watch. Hughes’ Police Escort. Sydney

The Daily Express · Saturday 8 November 1919 · page 1

Mr. Hughes left for Goulburn this morning. The, Grosvenor Hotel was guarded by police all night, and when leaving for the train, police were all…

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Surrender of Maubege Fournier Court-martialled London

The Daily Express · Saturday 8 November 1919 · page 1

Paris reports the trial has begun of General Fournier, on a charge of surrendering Mauberge without exhausting the means of defence. Seven…

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Police Court. To-day. Before Mr. Holcombe, P.M. Stockstrying

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 10 November 1919 · page 2

John Readle, Martin Gill, John Mc Coullough, and Kato O'Neil were fined for allowing stock to stray. Mr. Vaughan was instructed by the…

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Assault at Surry Hills. Chinaman the Victim. New Dying. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 10 November 1919 · page 1

A Chinese, Leong Ho[?], 52, was brutally attacked by three men at his home, at Upton-street, Surry Hills, last night, and is now dying in Sydney…

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The Court Acts. Men Not Heard. Vancouver, Nov. 8

The Daily Express · Monday 10 November 1919 · page 1

The Government of tho United States has ordered the leaders to annul the coal Strike. The Indianopolis Federal Court has…

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Assessments Appeal Court

The Daily Express · Tuesday 11 November 1919 · page 2

An assessment apeal court was held yesterday, in the Wagga court-house, Mr. M. J. McMahon, P.M., presiding. There were two cases set down for…

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Small Debts Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 November 1919 · page 4

The case in which James William Spokes sought to recover £15 5/4 from Mrs. Rebecca Kerr for milk supplied from January 16, 1916, to…

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