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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1925

1,611 stories in Riverina's papers · page 51 of 81

Sold Property Without Owner'e Authority. Estate Agent Sentenced. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 12 September 1925 · page 1

Leslie Lewis M'Murde (29), estate agent, of North Sydney, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen £400 from Ernest Clayton, was…

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Melbourne Warrants. Hard Work for Police Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 12 September 1925 · page 4

The Melbourne police to-day had 236 warrants for execution, but as the men were scattered throughout the suburbs difficulty was experienced in…

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Seamen and Police Clash Crowd Held Back with Revolver Arrests and Prosecutions in All Ports SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 12 September 1925 · page 4

The first clash between striking British seamen and the police occurred to-day, when two detectives were roughly handled by a mob of strikers outside the Central Railway Station…

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Strikers and Police an Ugly Scene at Central Railway Station Detectives Attacked and Assaulted by a Mob Prisoners Secured and Crowd Disbursed at the Revolver Point Sydney

The Daily Express · Saturday 12 September 1925 · page 1

A serious slash between strikers and tho police occurred outside the Central Railway Station this afternoon. Two detectives were mobbed and…

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Police Court To-Day Before Mr. Harrison, P.M. Liquor Act Cases

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 14 September 1925 · page 2

Roy Loiterton and Frederick Groves pleaded guilty to being found,on the licensed premises of the Emu Hotel, Cootamundra, at 10.45…

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Magistrate Proposes Conference Cases Adjourned Until This Afternoon

Daily Advertiser · Monday 14 September 1925 · page 2

When several seamen appeared, charged with continued wilful neglect of duty, Mr. M'Mabon said he understood that there were 916…

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Police Guard Ship Adelaide

The Daily Express · Monday 14 September 1925 · page 1

The Blue Funnel liner Automede[?] arrived from Liverpool to-day. The white deck hands and Chinese firemen are working . The police are guarding…

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Waterside Workers' Stand Will Not Agree to General Strike Seamen and Owners Negotiate Intervention Of Presiding Magistrate

Daily Advertiser · Monday 14 September 1925 · page 2

Negotiations to settle the seamen's strike are expected to commence in earnest to-day. The Waterside Workers' Union has refused to be drawn into a general strike by the Communists, a leader stating…

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Assault

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 15 September 1925 · page 3

Cyril Hudson was fined 5/, and 9/6 costs, with £1/11/6 professional costs in default 14 days' imprisonment on a charge of unlawfully assaulting…

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Guilty of Assault

The Daily Express · Tuesday 15 September 1925 · page 2

Cyril Hudson pleaded gu[?]ly before Mr. J. B. Gibson, J.M; at Wagga Summons Court yesterday to having assaulted Ronald Victor Wilson…

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Magistrate Retires Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 15 September 1925 · page 2

There was a large gathering of the legal profession and officers at the Central Police Court to-day, when Mr. Gale, Stipendiary Magistrate, who is…

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Marching to Gaol. the Melbourne Cases. Melbourne

The Daily Express · Tuesday 15 September 1925 · page 1

About 400 seamen from the s.s. Euripides and s.s. Cornwall to-day marched through the streets to the City Watchhouse, where they…

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Local and General Staghorn Flat Murder

The Daily Express · Tuesday 15 September 1925 · page 2

The trial of Alexander [?]dnce Thomas for the murder of Bridge Enright, at Staghorn Flat will be heard at the Criminal Court…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, September 14, 1925. (Before Sir J. B. Gibson, P.m.) Traffic Breaches

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 15 September 1925 · page 3

P. J. Sharp, of Currawarna, was fined 2/6, with costs for failing to deliver an expired of motor car registration to the Superintendent of…

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Shipping Strike Position in South Africa Seamen Before Court

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 15 September 1925 · page 1

Sixty British seamen appeared before the Magistrate's Court at Capetown yesterday, on charges of contravening the Merchants' Shipping Act. CAPETOWN, Monday…

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To a Finish Striking Seamen Prefer Gaol to Giving in Several Sydney Prosecutions Postponed Government Anxious to Intervene, But Mr. Lang Is Not Hopeful Sydney

The Daily Express · Tuesday 15 September 1925 · page 1

[?]he Gritiah Seamen met again today in the basement of the Town Hall and discussed the strike. Three delegates from the strikers…

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Alleged Assault Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 16 September 1925 · page 1

At the Control Court to-day Thomas Hillier and Alfred Jamieson were remanded on a charge of having inflicted grievous bodily harm to…

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Police Search for Car Driver

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 16 September 1925 · page 6

The police are endeavoring to trace a blue car which knocked, down and severely injured Amy Lomas, aged 24, in Cleveland-street Sydney, late on…

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strikers Go to Gaol Boys Sent Back to Ships Me[?]ne

The Daily Express · Wednesday 16 September 1925 · page 1

An[?] seaman wan before the City [?] today on that [?] [?] ping [?]of…

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In Another Court Action Against Mr. Seale Deportation Proceedings "Three Classes of Liars" SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 16 September 1925 · page 2

The Deportation Board resumed its sitting today. William Hamlet, analyst and consulting chemist, was shown three…

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