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Courts & crime, 1924

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Tasmanian Sensation Senior Police Magistrate's Suspension. Hobart

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 30 May 1924 · page 1

A sensation was caused in civil service circles yesterday when it was known that the Attorney General, Mr Ogilvie, has suspended Mr. E. W…

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Gaol Riots Receive the Sympathy of Donald Grant

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 30 May 1924 · page 6

"I stand for individual effort every time." "What do you know about it? Give us wholesale co-operation."…

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Two in a Car. One convicted of theft, the other acquitted

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 30 May 1924 · page 3

Two verdicts by juries, where the charge was theft of a motor car, created as interesting legal position at Darlinghurst Sessions on Monday…

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Police Appeals. Proceedings Confidential Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 May 1924 · page 4

The first meeting of the Police Appeals Board was held today. The President (Judge white) said: "This is not a court, and is therefore not open…

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Is it a Clue? Long Bay Murder. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 May 1924 · page 4

The detectives who are endeavoring to unravel the murder of May Anderson, at Long Bay, have traced two people, a man and a woman, who, they…

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Court Work This Morning a Conspiracy Charge Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 30 May 1924 · page 1

A the Central Court to-day charges were heard against a saleswoman—Alice Mason and May Barnett, a typist, who were charged with having…

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Murder in London Flat

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 31 May 1924 · page 6

The body of Major Bailey, for whose arrest a warrant was issued last year, on a charge of murdering his wife in a London Hat, has been recovered from…

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£5 for Assault

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 2 June 1924 · page 3

Reginald Rheuben, Morton did not appear at the local police court to-day when called to answer a charge of assault on…

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Licensing Court

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 2 June 1924 · page 3

The local Licensing Court to-day granted renewals of the following licenses:— A. Hogan Royal Hotel,…

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Girl Criminal. 13 Years' Imprisonment. Other Girls Sentenced. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 June 1924 · page 2

The Moscow correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that Ekaterina Popova, a pretty, blue-eyed, bobbed-haired girl, aged 23, was sentenced to…

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Chicago Sensation. Boys Murder Boy. Sons of Millionaires. Chicago

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 June 1924 · page 2

An amazing crime mystery, after the duration of a week, had an extraordinary denouement to-day, when States Attorney Crowe announced that Nathan…

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Income Tax Clerk Threat-turned Tax of £10. Would Be Shot Unless He Returned Tax of 010. Russian Before Court Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 2 June 1924 · page 1

A Russian named Amurchan Bicayeff, who was alleged to have threatened a clerk in the Federal Taxation Department that he would be shot unless…

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Assault

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 3 June 1924 · page 2

Reuben Morton was charged with assaulting Fred. Higham. Accused did not appear and the case was beard EX PARTS…

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M.L.A. in Court. Charge of Assault. a Labor Mix-up. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 June 1924 · page 6

In the Newtown Police Court, to-day, Robert Stuart Robertson, M.L.A. for Balmain, charged Thomas Rose, a fitter with assault. Rose entered a…

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Police Court. Monday, June 2. Before Mr. Macdougal, P.M. Noxious Weeds

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 3 June 1924 · page 2

Noxious Weeds Inspector v. Charles Weckes, for falling to destroy noxious weeds on his property. Fined 10/- and 16/- costs…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, June 2, 1924. (Before Mr. H. Chippendall, P.M.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 June 1924 · page 6

The following are the more important of the cases, which were heard in the Wagga Police Court, yesterday, before Mr. H. Chippendale, P.M., who is…

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Picturesque Indian Chief Sought by Police London

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 3 June 1924 · page 1

Reuter: The Daily Express correspondent at Paris says that White Elk, the picturesque Indian Chief who pleaded with the last League Council…

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Taxation Incident Russian in Court. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 June 1924 · page 5

At the Central Police Court to-day the case against the young Russian, Amurchan Bicayeff, who was charged with demanding with menaces a sum of…

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The Kuruman Disaster. Court of Inquiry London

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 4 June 1924 · page 1

At the Court of Inquiry into the disaster at Kuruman, South Africa, when a bomb was dropped from an aeroplane into the crowd, Lieutenant…

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Murder Charge the Cordeaux Dam Tragedy. Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 5 June 1924 · page 1

William George Gordon Simpson 27, a motor driver, was placed on trial at the Central Criminal Court this morning charged with the murder of Guy…

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