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Courts & crime, 1924

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Police Court. Monday, Feb. 11. Before Messrs. Elwortby and Sullivan, J's.P

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 12 February 1924 · page 2

Louisa Lawless was charged with being a person deemed to be insane and found wandering at large. Serg. Hinde deposed: On 9th…

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Licensing Court

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 12 February 1924 · page 3

At the Tumut Licensing Court on Tuesday last, before Mr. Cohen; Acting L.M.; Mr. Jno. Weeden; D.L.M.; Mr. T. P. Arragon;…

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N.T. Sensations. Murderer Breaks Gaol. Port Darwin

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 February 1924 · page 2

An aborigine named Buckley escaped from Fanny Bay Goal yesterday morning. Buckley was serving a life sentence for the murder…

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Not Spying Only Private Stealing Competition in Aeroplanes Paris, Februry 9

The Daily Express · Tuesday 12 February 1924 · page 1

A French engineer and a young Russian woman employed by an aviation company were arrested late on Friday night and charged with…

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The Paddington Murder. Edward Williams Surrenders. Sydney

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 12 February 1924 · page 2

Edward Williams, wanted in connection with the murder of his three yonng children at Paddington last week, has surrendered to the…

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Robbed His Employers. Three Years Gaol for an Accountant. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 February 1924 · page 2

William Benjamin an accountant who had pleaded guilty at the Darlinghurst Sessions to having robbed his employers, Robinson and…

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Wagga Police Count. Monday February 11, 1924. (Before Mr. W. A. Flynn, P.M.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 February 1924 · page 1

Yesterday the sitting of the Wagga Police Court did not end until 10 o'clock at nigh. Licensing Court sittings during the afternoon had delayed…

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Batson Turns Bushranger Bails Up Two Girls. Shots Fired at Police Death of One of the Victims

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 February 1924 · page 2

Not satisfied with attempting to emulate the perpetrator of the frightful atrocities in the Melbourne Botanical Gardens, Claude Batson, the Jingellie…

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Edward Williams in Custody Father of Murdered Children. Walks Into Police Station. Admission of Crime Reported. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 February 1924 · page 2

Edward Williams, the father of the three murdered children, Rosalie Mary, and Cecelia, aged respectively, 6, 4 and 2 years, who were found in…

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Missing Man Returns to Gaol

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 2

Buckley, the aboriginal prisoner who was missing from gaol at Darwin on Monday returned voluntarily. He stated that he went to sleep in…

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Court Dress Modified

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 1

The Australian Press Association announces that the King has intimated to the new Labor Ministers that the full dress levee uniform is not…

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Brutal Murder at East Orange. "Jealousy" the Motive Orange

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 1

The brutal murder of a man at East Orange was reported at police headquarters, at 7 o'clock this morning…

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Williams Confession Read in Crowded Court. Pathetic Conversation with Child Inspector Declares Him Sane. Newcastle

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 2

The Police Court was crowded today when Edward Williams appeared to answer the charge of murdering Rosalie Eileen Williams, at Paddington…

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Still Being Hunted Jingellic Murderer Escapes Across the Murray Police Expect to Effect a Capture To-day Batson, Naked and Without His Rifle, Visits a Victorian Dairy Farm

The Daily Express · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 1

Evading the cordon of police and civilians that was drawn around his retreat, Clause Valentine Batson, the Jingellic gunman, has…

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Theft of Jewellery. Sydney

The Daily Express · Thursday 14 February 1924 · page 1

At the Central Police Court to-day Arthur Henry, Binsted 14 was remanded until to-morrow on a charge of [?]ealing jewellery valued at £1100…

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A Winning Ticket Alleged Theft

The Daily Express · Thursday 14 February 1924 · page 2

After a hearing exteu[?][?]ng over many days, Doroth[?] Lunt and Mark Broad[?][?]. who were charged with…

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Charge Against Police Inquiry. Hel[?]

The Daily Express · Thursday 14 February 1924 · page 2

Interviewed last night recording the article in yesterday Daily Express[?] in which grave alle[?]a[?] of misconduct…

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Items of News. Serious Charge Against Police

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 February 1924 · page 2

On Thursday evening of last week, while Mr. j. Bye, of the Crystal Cordial Company, was out walking with his wife, they were, it is…

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Murder at Orange. Man Found with Head Battered. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 February 1924 · page 2

At 7 o'clock this morning the body of Leslie Joseph Quintan (25) was found in the bedroom of his home in William-street, East Orange. His…

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