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Courts & crime, 1911

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Wife Sentenced for Killing Husband

Sunday Times · Sunday 29 January 1911 · page 13

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

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Clapham Common Murder

Sunday Times · Sunday 29 January 1911 · page 13

Additional evidence bus been given in the case of Steiner Morrison, charged with murdering a miser named Beron on Clapham Common. Eva Flitterman, described as Morrison's [?]…

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POLICE v. PEOPLE

Sunday Times · Sunday 29 January 1911 · page 13

Judge Unger, in delivering judgment in cases connected with the riots in the Moabit quarter of Berlin in September last, declared that citizens were justified in shooting policemen who brutally…

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Minister for Justice in Prison. a Swindler Sentenced. Copenhagen, December 21

Sunday Times · Sunday 29 January 1911 · page 22

Former Minister for Justice Albert, the revelation of whose bank frauds of some time ago scandalised the country, was sentenced to-day to eight years' penal…

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The Gaol-breakers Again. in An=nun-inhabited Place. Committed on Two Burglary Charges. a Nun in the Witness-box. Minerva the Nervous—The Missing Mac—Taking Time—They Carried a Razor—The Missing Man from Balmain—The Two Cab Trips—"Here Upon Guard am I."

Truth · Sunday 29 January 1911 · page 9

Wednesday last witnessed another very 4 large attendance of the "great unwashed" at the Water Police Court, the occasion being the re-appearance in the Dazzling…

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Crushed by a Falling Wall. Firemen and Police Under in Philadelphia. New York, December 27

Sunday Times · Sunday 29 January 1911 · page 22

Accounts of a terrible fire Have been received from Philadelphia. Among the victims are 14 firemen and policemen. More than a score of lives were snuffed out as…

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Stole From Bank for Vengeance a Remarkable Scene in Court. New York, December 21

Sunday Times · Sunday 29 January 1911 · page 22

One of the most remarkable scenes on record in the Criminal Court took place this afternoon, when Walter A. Hall, former paying teller of the Herald Square…

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A Fare Go. an Infirm Old Man Charged. Mister Wigg of the Car-badge Patch. the Tram Inspector Anticipates a Year's Big Business Wiggs-on-the-grin

Truth · Sunday 29 January 1911 · page 9

Tram troubs and travellers are evidently still on the job in the northern suburbs, where scarcely a week passes by without a case cropping up in the…

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Are Unions Trusts? a Novel Case in U.S. Court. Union Presidents Convicted. for Conspiring to Strike. New Orleans

Truth · Sunday 29 January 1911 · page 7

The Sherman Anti-Trust Law has been used to secure a conviction against the Presidents of the Coal-lumpers and the Stevedores' Unions and the President of…

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Clapham Common Murder. Morrison at the Police Court. His Lover Withdraws Previous Testimony

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 January 1911 · page 9

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

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The Clapham Common Murder

Evening News · Monday 30 January 1911 · page 8

LONDON, Sunday.—Stainer (Morrison was brought up on remand at the Police Court yesterday, charged with the murder of a miser named Boron on Clapham Common…

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Bottles As Weapons. Assault on a Policeman

The Sun · Monday 30 January 1911 · page 1

Hugh Holmes, a red-haired man of 29, appeared to-day before Mr. Clarke, S.M., at the Central Police Court, charged with being drunk is King-street on Saturday night, and…

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Alleged Attempted Murder. Daughter Informs on Mother

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 January 1911 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A widow, Hetty Redman. was arrested to-night on the information of her daughter on a charge of attempted murder. The daughter, Olive Redman, 18 years old,…

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An American Protest. Assault by Turkish Soldiers. Constantinople. Jan. 29

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 January 1911 · page 9

America has strongly protested to the Porte, owing to Turkish soldiers, when voyaging aboard the steamer New Jersey, assaulting the consular agent at…

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"Peter the Painter." Wanted by the Russian Police

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 January 1911 · page 9

LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--"Peter the Painter" is described by an acquaintance as a man of intellectual attainments and a great continental anarchist organiser. He…

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Law Notices. Tuesday, January 31. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 January 1911 · page 4

In Equity.—Before the Deputy Registrar.—At 11: Goldschmidt v Chinn, to tax costs. Probate Jurisdiction.—Before the Registrar.—At 2.15 p.m.: In re Thomas Abdy, deceased, for inquiry as…

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Theft at Sea

The Sun · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 4

Miss Alice Benson, of Johnson-street, Balmain, has reported to the police that on her voyage from Melbourne by the steamer Kanowna on the night of the 29th inst., a…

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A Mean Theft

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 4

A robbery which was discovered at Coogee yesterday would furnish an interesting study in psychology it the brains of the thieves could be scientifically examined. The publicity which…

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"Two-up" Raids. Gaol Without Option

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 7

The police were busy on Sunday last breaking up "two-up" schools. As a consequence, on Monday, at the Central Police Court, Hercules Peoples, 22, John Perrott, 16½, Cecil Peoples, 23, William Wade, 21,…

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Police Courts. Embezzling

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1911 · page 7

At the North Sydney Police Court on Monday, before Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M., Henry Oxley, 17, was charged with embezzling, at Mosman, on January 16, the sum or 10s 6d, the property of his master, John Cooney…

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