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Courts & crime, 1926

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Hillston Police Court. Tuesday, 8Th July (Before Mr. M B. Soane, J.P.)

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 8 July 1926 · page 5

Robert Anderson, on remand, was charged with stealing a gold wristlet. watch valued at £17, the property of Mrs. E. F. Mann…

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Our New Police Officer

Ariah Park News · Thursday 8 July 1926 · page 9

Thus the Cobargo " Chronicle":--Constable Chas Brown, for nearly seven years in charge of the Berimagui Police Station,…

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Conspiring to Defraud Woman Charged at Bow-street London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 July 1926 · page 6

Susannah Hughes Bevan was charged to-day at Bow-street with having obtained by conspiracy to fraud, from the Prudential Assurance Company…

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Thrice Married Woman Before Court SYDNEY, Thursday. Johanna Janeta Delapierre

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 8 July 1926 · page 1

or Nagel, aged 29, appeared before the Central Police Court to day charged with that she did, a Waverley, on February 5, 1919…

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Gaol Murder. a Prisoner Charged Struck Another with a Hoe Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 July 1926 · page 2

In the Melbourne City Court to-day William James Chandler, a prisoner at the Pentridge gao[?] was charged with the murder of a Joshua Martin…

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Cement from Road Charge of Stealing Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 July 1926 · page 8

In the Central Police Court to-day George Whitby and Alfred Oakley, city council gangers, and William Donaldson contractor, of Mosman, were…

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Sentenced for Perjury "One of Worst Men in Sydney" Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 July 1926 · page 4

Martin Conrad pleaded guilty at the Darlinghurst sessions to charges of perjury which consisted in his saying in sworn evidence in the police…

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A Fresh Start. Man Who Was Sentenced to Death. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 July 1926 · page 8

John Frederick Crook, who was sentenced to death in the Central Criminal Court, in 1919, on a charge of having feloniously wounded. Russell…

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Murdered Detectives Accused Committed Coulter and Treffene for Murder Kalgoorlie

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 July 1926 · page 1

Evan Clarke, one of the three men charged in connection with the deaths of Detectives Walsh and Pitman, gavo further sensational evidence at…

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"Bubble Company" Insurance Men Charged Big Salaries and Commission Elaborate Offices and £2/4/11 in Bank SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 July 1926 · page 1

In the Central Police Court to-day, William John M'Intyre (28), insurance agent, Sidney James Edkins (61) insurance inspector, Cecil Roy…

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

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 July 1926 · page 2

James Davis and Claude Reidy were, charged with being found on the licenced premises of the Star Hotel, Cootamundra, at 5.40 on a Sunday afternoon…

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Murder Death Sentence-fussed Wilcannia Crime Broken Hill

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 July 1926 · page 2

[?] Arthur Nelson was to-day found guilty of William Oliver at the Yanterbangee Government tank near Wilcannia in January…

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Court Doings What Has Been Going On

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 12 July 1926 · page 2

For the quarter ended June 30th last, Gundagai's population increased by 31, as shown by the local court records. Of this number of births, the…

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"Saw Red." Prisoner Charged with Murder Killed Fellow Prisoner with Hoe Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 July 1926 · page 2

William Chandler, aged 31, was committed for trial to-day on a charge of having murdered Joshua Martin, aged 67, another prisoner…

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Tumut Police Court Monday, July 6. (Before Mr. E. Harrison, P.m.) a Defended Rabbit Case

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 13 July 1926 · page 8

Checkley Ratliff was harged by Geoff Harris, Inspector of the P.P. Board, with failing to destroy rabbits on his property of 400 acres at Gocup…

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Enquiry Into Motor Smash. Did the Lorry Hit the Culvert Post? Police and Coroner Inclined to Believe Witnesses Were Withholding Something From the Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 13 July 1926 · page 2

The Court of Enquiry, conducted by Mr. W. C. Barker, J.P., into the cause or circumstances which brought about the death of Charles Edward Lynch, was opened at the Leeton Courthouse yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock and sat till midnight, when the court was adjourned…

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Davies Charged Shot Dorothy Lovatt Married Man and School Teacher Accused Says it was an Accident SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 July 1926 · page 2

At the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day Morris Llewellyn Davies, aged 33, was charged with having shot at Dorothy Lovatt, school teacher, with intent to…

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The Police Site [?]finitely for Gardens [?]Dication to Wagga Council Nearing Completion

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 July 1926 · page 3

[?] there are any remaining doubts [?] minds of any section of the com[?] regarding the acquisition by [?] Wagga Municipal Council of the…

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"I Shot a Woman" Man's Statement to Police Darlinghurst Flat Tragedy Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 July 1926 · page 1

Throwing a revolver on the desk in front of the sergt. in charge of the Darlinghurst Police Station, to-day, a well dressed man announced quietly:…

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Forgers Sentenced Defrauding a Company Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 14 July 1926 · page 4

A the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, Stanley Boardman (36). account ant, and Leslie Cunningham Chief (42), bookmaker, were cov[?]ted a[?]…

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