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Courts & crime, 1920

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Theft From Railways. Employees Assaulted. Police Protection Sought. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 January 1920 · page 3

This Victorian Railway Department to-day appealed for police protection for railway employees ut Chelsea and Carrum…

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Police Court. Tuesday. Before Mr. Holcombe, P.M. Alleged Larceny of Beer

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 2 January 1920 · page 2

Ernest Francis Lonsdale, Louis Samuel J. Twyford, and Nicholas John Kinnane were charged with stealing, on or about December 21, a quantity…

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Ganmain Police Court. Friday, 26th DECEMBER, 1919. (Before Mr. W. H. Rowston, J.P.)

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 2 January 1920 · page 4

Edward Jacques, for being drank in Ford-street, Ganmain, on 24th inst, was sentenced to the rising of the court. The Bench taking into consideration that the…

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Leeton Litigants. Narandera District Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 2 January 1920 · page 2

At the Narandera District Court before Judge Bevan and a jury. John McCausland sued Guihen Bros., commission mission agents. Leeton, for £141. 141…

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Dockers' Demands. Court to Inquire. London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 January 1920 · page 2

Delegates of 35 unions affiliated with the Transport Workers' Federation have decided to accept the employers proposal to submit to the…

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Student Before the Court. Fined £10 or Tow Months. Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 2 January 1920 · page 1

To-day, William Walsh, described as a student, was finrf £10, in default, two months' gaol, on a charge of having falsely pretended to Edward…

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Wounded with a Knife. Alleged Assault at Junee

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 January 1920 · page 4

At lunch hour on New Year's Day, an altercation took place in the bar of the Loftus Hotel, Junee, when it is alleged, a Russian-Finn drew a knife and…

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Police Court

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 5 January 1920 · page 3

At the police court to-day. before Messrs Martin and Walsh J.s.P., Silas Adams, through his solicitor, pleaded guilty to…

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Police Court. To-day. Before Mr. Souter, J.P. The Express Robbery

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 5 January 1920 · page 3

William Roden was up again on a second charge of stealing luggage from the express train. S. G. Hennessy, of the Railway…

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Wagga Police Court. Saturday, January 3. Before Mr. J. Saunders, C.M. Money By False Pretences

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 January 1920 · page 3

Morris John Francis Johnson, 32 years of age, was charged with obtaining £7/15/ from P. J. Mahon, of Wagga, by false pretences—a…

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Police Officers. Increased Rent Allowance Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 January 1920 · page 2

Sir George Fuller, Chief Secretary, has approved of the recommendation of the Inspector General of Police. Mr. Mitchell, that the rental…

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Tumblong Assault Cases

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 2

At the police court on Monday, before Messrs. Martin and Walsh, J's.P., the Tumblong assault cases came on for hearing…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, January 5. Before Mr. M. J. M'Mohan, P.M. Case Further Adjourned

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 3

When the case in which Morris John Francis Johnson, 32 years of age, was charged with obtaining £7/15/ from P. J. Mahan by means…

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Alleged Assault at Junee

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1920 · page 2

At lunch hour on New Year's Day an altercation took place in the bar of the Loftus Hotel, Junee, when, it is alleged, a Russian-Finn drew a…

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Breaking and Entering Two Boys Charged. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1920 · page 3

George Robertson and Horace Jackson, aged 17 and 16 respectively, were remanded at the Central Police Court to-day on the charge of having broken…

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Child Ill-treated. Mother Sent to Gaol. Broken Hill

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1920 · page 3

Margaret Gardiner, a single woman, was sentenced to six months; gaol of Broken Hill to-day for having assaulted her two-year-old son…

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Tragedy in Queensland Murder and Suicide. Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1920 · page 3

The Commissioner of Police has received information that Hugh Currie. a shearer, murdered his wife at Barcaldine, by striking her on the head…

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A Charge of Murder. Strange Case in West Australia Perth

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 January 1920 · page 1

In connection with the charge against Robert Pahl of having murdered Otto Haub at Lake Clifton it appears that deceased left home with…

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Murder Cases. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 January 1920 · page 4

There were 14 murders in the city and suburbs in 1919, as against three in the previous year. There was an increase of 100 per cent. in poisoning…

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people who vanish. Unsolved Mysteries Which Puzzled Police and Public

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 8 January 1920 · page 8

Cissie Raymond, the missing Soho girl, was found, happy and unharmed, in Glasgow. The recent mystery of the disappearance of Linda…

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