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Courts & crime, 1924

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Gundagai District Court. (Before Judge Bevan) CAIRNS v Hayes—sharefarmagreement. Humorous Brush in Court

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 19 February 1924 · page 5

A case of considerable interest to dairyfarmers, and particularly those who have sharefarmers working their, properties, came before Judge Bevan…

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Labor M.l.a. Attacked. Police to the Rescue

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 February 1924 · page 2

An attack was made upon Mr. C. C. Lazzarini, M.L.A., at the close of a specially summoned meeting of the Marrickville branch of the A.L.P., held…

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District Court. Friday, February 15th. Before Judge Bevan

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 19 February 1924 · page 2

Franklin v. Todd, amount du £59/9/8. Mr. Lester for plaintiff, and Mr. Oliver for defendant…

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District Court. Clapperton v. Hallam and Cameron. Important Decision

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 19 February 1924 · page 4

The decision in the above case which was heard at the District Court sittings at Narandera last November has recently been given by the Judge…

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Scott Fell Case. Full Court Reverses Verdict. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 February 1924 · page 2

The Full Court has set aside the verdict in the Scott Fell steamship case. Mr Justice Gordon expressed the…

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Goulburn Outlaw. an Escape From Asylum. Appearance in Court. Goulburn

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 February 1924 · page 2

Robert Fenwiek, an escaped asylum patient, appeared before the court to-day when he was charged with maliciously shooting Alfred Smith, at…

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Wires and Cables This Afternoon Exclusively News Not Available Here by Any Other Paper Till To-morrow. Causes of the Dock Strike. Court of Inquiry to Consider Circumstances London

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 19 February 1924 · page 1

A Reuter message says that the Minister for Labor, Mr. Shaw, has announced that he has decided to appoint a Court of Inquiry under the…

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Bird of Paradise Plumes. Accused Magistrate Discharged. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 February 1924 · page 4

At the Central Police Court yesterday Oliver Thompson (20) magistrate of New Guinea, was charged with having taken out of the…

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Nurse Mitchell. Murder Charge Dismissed Melbourne

The Daily Express · Wednesday 20 February 1924 · page 1

At the Criminal Court to-day Hannah Elizabeth Mitchell was placed on trial for the murder of Mary Alice Hodkinson, with an alternative…

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Nurse Mitchell Acquitted. Trial on Murder Charge Ends Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 February 1924 · page 2

The trial of Nurse Hannah Mitchell on the charge of murdering a woman named Alice Hodgkinson, as the result of an illegal operation, took place…

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Ghastly Find Double Tragedy Discovered in Sydney Flat Police Theory Is Murder and Suicide Letters Disclose That Man Was in Difficulties and Wife Incurably Ill

The Daily Express · Wednesday 20 February 1924 · page 1

A ghastly tragedy was revealed at Edgecliff, Sydney, to-day, when the bodies of a man and a woman, named Wade, were discovered in a…

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Fire at Mudgee. Police Officer's Bravery. Mudgee

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 February 1924 · page 4

A fire which originated in W. J. Thomas's dental parlors, gutted the workroom and travelled through the ceiling into the Co-operative Society's…

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Conspiracy. Case at the Central Court Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 20 February 1924 · page 1

Thomas Bernard Hooper (39), and Vera Crichton. (23), were charged at the Central Court this morning with having conspired with…

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Jingellic Shooting Inquest Adjourned Batson in Court. Albury

The Daily Express · Wednesday 20 February 1924 · page 2

Wearing a now grey suit, [?] and tan boots, with his hair trimmed and neatly brushed, Claud Valentine Dotson presented a much different…

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Wires and Cables This Afternoon Exclusively News Not Available Here by Any Other Paper Till To-morrow the Glenferrie Murder Angus Murray on Trial City Court Crowded—many Unable to Gain Admittance. Melbourne

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 20 February 1924 · page 1

The trial of Angus Murray, on a charge of having murdered Thomas Berriman manager of the Glenferrie branch of the…

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Police Court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 February 1924 · page 2

In the Wagga Police Court yesterday, John Farrell (65) was fined £1 in default seven days' hard labor, on a charge that he was found drunk in…

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Sheep Stealing Charge Fails

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 February 1924 · page 2

At dubbo yesterday, before Judge Armstrong John Hunt was charged with stealing seventeen sheep, the property og Goldsbrough, Mort and Co.,…

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Policeman Sentenced to Death

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 February 1924 · page 2

Reuter's Agency reports that a former policeman named Stagg has been sentenced to death for the murder of the Aston Villa (Birmingham)…

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The Daily Express · Thursday 21 February 1924 · page 2

As the result [?] having forward [?] ports on the mater [?] a Departmental [?]…

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Police Court Sequel Sensational Motor Accident at Heathcote. a Stolen Dodge. Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 21 February 1924 · page 1

The sequel to the sensational motor accident at Heathcote on Sunday, when nine persons were injured, was the appearance at the Kogarah court…

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