Darlinghurst Gaol Convicts to Collegians
It is with pleasure we all read that the horror-haunted stone pile, Darlinghurst Gaol, is at last, to be transformed into a useful and wholly…
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Courts & crime, 1922
36 stories in Blue Mountains's papers · page 1 of 2
'Heath's Latest Wants Police Court
Blackheath is a town of ambitions; it is also a municipality, a fact of which it is justifiably proud. Blackheath is also jealous of everything…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Kiss a Miss" on New Year's Eve Sequel in Police Court
Though she did not realise it. trouble ws brewing for Winifred Harding when, one night at the recent White City Carnival, Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Medlow Boy Now a Magistrate Deals with Cannibals
Katoomba has, at the present moment, a visitor, who, at the same time, has claim to being an old identity. A year or so before the war…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →St. Alban's Tennis Club New Court Opened
Quite a happy afternoon was spent by about a 100 residents and visitors on Wednesday at the official opening of the court of St. Alban's tennis…
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"We cannot alter the gales at the level crossing, but the staff will be instructed to meet the public in every way." Thus the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jennie at Court Another Encore Cheaper Than Movies
During a lull between the "turns" at the Katoomba Police Court on Tuesday, Jennie Reedman, with her latest offspring, strolled casually up…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Main Street Assault Remanded for Sentence
The long-postponed hearing of the charges against Lewis Reginald Duff and Percy Piggott, who were committed for trial from Katoomba to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Making a Tennis Court Dispute Over Contract
In the Parramatta District Court, Frederick Edward Johnson, of Lurline-street, Katoomba, sued Mariah Kate Gardiner, of Leura, for £124…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Gardens for Police or Public
A letter from the Department of Lands was received at Tuesday's Blackheath Council meeting. In reply to a request that the portion of "The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →His First Slip Magistrate's Leniency
Henry Lee Ashton's fondness for billiards was the reason why Const. Howard, of Leura, looked for and got him at a saloon in Katoomba on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lawyers Disagree Magistrate Can't Help Puzzle in L.G. ACT
An echo of the case B.M. Shire v. Olive Owen Kldston and Louisa Ridley concerning an alleged breach of the L.G. Act was heard at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prisoner at the Bar You're Charged With—" Murder or Language?
One does not need to go to the Old Bailey or Darlinghurst to look for tense moments during the trial of a prisoner at eh Bar. They can…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sikes Still Abroad Clues but no Catches Police Hopeful
For the past three months, a gang of crooks has been having a holiday jaunt within an area a few hours distant from Katoomba, entering…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Obstinate Drivers Flout Police Court and Py Dearly
For some weeks past, the Katoomba Police, in conjuction with the Council's Traffic Inspector, have been giving close attention to the traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Leura Baker's Troubles Ex-Employee Squeals a Perplexed Magistrate
In the Industrial Court at Katoomba, before P.M. Clegg, on Tuesday, four informations were laid by P.G. Halliday, secretary of the Bakers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Historic Tree. No Number Plate Waited for the Police Duty of Motorists
Dear Sir,â"Old Hand" corrects a paragraph in last week's "Echo" re Moorecourt, Springwood. "In the first place, Moorecourt was William James Hunt, motorist, of Wentworth Falls, appeared at the Katoomba Police Court on Tuesday on a charge of driving a motor-car…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Slump in Crime" Police Court Record
"The shortest on record, I think," remarked P.M. Clegg on Tuesday, as he smilingly bowed himself off the Bench at the Katoomba Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On His Honeymoon Charged with Uttering a Smart Arrest
Acting on the [?] information contained in a 'phone message received from the city on Wednesday, Const. R. E. Con, of the Katoomba…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Despicable Theft Robbing Dobin's Box Heavy Fine Inflicted
At the Katoomba Police Court on Tuesday, before Justices Smythe and Timbrell, John Gotwald, garbage contractor, pleaded guilty to stealing…
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