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Courts & crime, 1911

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Nasik Murder Revived. Savarkar Said to Be Implicated

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 9

BOMBAY, Tuesday.--Savarkar, the Bengal reactionary, is now charged with aiding in the murder of Mr. A. M. T. Jackson, collector at Nasik, who was killed on…

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Brutal Attack by a Push. Citizen's Defence with Revolver. Magistrate's Significant Remarks

The Sun · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 3

At the Redfern Police Court yesterday before Mr. Love, S.M., Sydney Carr, a middle aged man, described as a hairdresser, was charged with having at Redfern on Friday…

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Gigantic Frauds Charged. Over a Million Pounds Involved. New York

The Sun · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 1

The "Tribune" to-day announces that a searching investigation by the Treasury authorities has led to the discovery of gigantic frauds in connection with the importation of…

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Russia in Manchuria. Treaty Rights Ignored. a Chief Magistrate Dismissed. St. Petersburg

The Sun · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 1

An official despatch from Harbin announces that the Chief Chinese Magistrate of the city has been dismissed at the instance of the Russian Government…

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Police Courts. Tuesday, January 24. Alleged Forgery

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 17

Alexander M'Lellan (20) was charged before Mr. M. S. Love, S.M., with having, at Redfern on January 20, forged the signature of Samuel Healey to a cheque for the payment of £23, with intent to defraud. He was…

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Law Notices. Wednesday, January 25. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 7

Chamber List.—At 10 a.m., —Before Mr. Justice Gordon.—Resch's, Ltd., v Le Tonge and wife, for discovery, etc. In Equity.—Before Mr. Justice Gordon, No. 4 Jury…

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Three More Charges Denmead and Pegg Before the Magistrate. Alleged Burglaries. Both Accused Committed for Trial

The Sun · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 8

The two lads, James Mace, alias Cyril George Pegg, 18, and Joseph Henry Denmead, 20, who are awaiting trial on a charge of escaping from Darlinghurst Gaol, appeared…

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Glenbrook Deviation Works. Preparations Being Made. Extra Police Protection Wanted

Evening News · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 4

The Glenbrook deviation [?] have now stated and soon the usually village will have list population increased by the addition of hundreds of railway davies Some two…

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New Inspector-general of the N.s.w. Police Forces

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 32

Mr. E. C. Day, Inapector-General, in his office at the headquarters of the Police Department Sydney. From a photograph specially taken for the "Town and Country Journal."…

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Tailors and Tailoresses. Federal Court Claims. 44 Hours for Females

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 14

Quite recently the Tailor and Talloresses Union of New South Wales reformed its system of country organisation. Formerly branches of the union were constituted in different…

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The Slaying of Ketchel. Trial of Smith Concluded Verdict of Murder in the First Degree. New York

The Sun · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 7

The trial of Dlpley Smith for the murder of Stanley Ketchel, the pugilist, was concluded at Marshfield to-day. It took the Jury 17 hours to arrive at a…

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To Correct and Protect. the Problem of the Young. the Children's Court Movement

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 7

"Who were our first parents?" "Do you know the Ten Commandments? What is the eighth?" The child, a girl of about 12, to whom these…

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Parramatta Quarter Sessions The Parramatta Court of Quarter Sessions was resumed yesterday, Judge Docker presiding. SENTENCES

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 17

Francis Norman Warren, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of forging and uttering, was sentenced to six months imprisonment in Goulburn Gaol. Alfred Foster was brought up for sentence for breaking…

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Parramatta Court. Monday, January 23. (Before Mr. W. Burton Smith, D.s.m.) an Auburn List

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 1

James Cardell (55) pleaded guilty to being drunk at Auburn, and was tined 2s 6d, or the rising of the Court. George Selby (18) was charged with…

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Prisoners Who Escaped. Some Novel Methods. Carted Away As Refuse. a Woman Who Walked Out of Gaol. Written for the "Evening News" by Ex-detective Inspector John Sweeney, Late of Scotland Yard. [All Rights Reserved.]

Evening News · Wednesday 25 January 1911 · page 4

Ate there really any prisoners to-day at large—men who have escaped from penal servitude? The answer must be in the affirmative. But when it is borne in mind that there are actual…

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Murder of Bank Messenger. Two Youths Sentenced to Death

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 January 1911 · page 7

PARIS, Wednesday.--The two boys, Tissier (17) and Desmarest (16), who in October last decoyed a bank messenger named Andre to a house in the Belville quarter,…

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Clapham Common Murder. Morrison at the Police Court. Evidence As to a Pendant

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 January 1911 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday.--At the police court yesterday Steiner Morrison was further charged with the murder of M. Beron, a Russian Jew, on Clapham Common,…

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Murder of a School Teacher. His Widow Sentenced. Berlin, Jan. 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 January 1911 · page 7

The trial of Fran Herberich on a charge of murdering her husband, Dr. Herberich, the headmaster of a girls' high school, in April last, has concluded at Nuremberg…

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Boys Sentenced to Death. Murder of a Bank Messenger. Paris, Jan. 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 January 1911 · page 7

The two youths, Tissier and Desmarest, aged 17 and 16 respectively, who murdered a bank messenger named Andre in October last, and stole his satchel containing £170,…

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Moving Pictures in Gaol

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 26 January 1911 · page 3

A unique innovation was introduced into the Goulburn Gaol on Monday week. The prisoners were allowed to witness a cinematograph exhibition. The entertainment was…

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