Court Reporter's Achievement
Speed in reading back Pitman's shorthand is one of the features which distinguishes the system, equally with the speed in writing it. An…
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Courts & crime, 1923
1,083 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 11 of 55
Property Worth £3000 Thief Gets Three Years Gaol. Sydney
When William Cyril M[?]xley, aged 24, was [?]led up for sentence at the Darlinghurst Sessions fo-day on twenty charges of housebreaking and receiving Detective…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Courts. Spoke Too Soon. Gaol Instead of a Fine. Brutal Ill Treatment of Horse Sydney
With a huge sore on its back and its tongue swollen and hanging out a horse stood in the yard at the Central Police Station to-day, evidently suffering…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Ruhr. German Factories. Closing for a Month. French Expel Police. London
Reuter's Cologne correspondent says that the biggest German industrialists in the Ruhr have decided to close their works for at least a month, paying the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Missing Woman. Man Charged with Murder. Sensational Case in Victoria. Melbourne
Detectives Clugston and Fowler reached Melbourne to-night in change of a man named David Kelly, horse-driver, who is charged with the murder of Ada…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Criminals' Harvest. Firemen Act As Police. London
The number of criminals recently arrived in Essen owing to the absence of the police force has reached a menacing figure. The fire brigade is busy raiding and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Make a Job of It." Alleged Attempted Murder. New Zealand Shooting Gase. Wellington (N.z.)
At Masterton, New Zealand, when Pakira Haeta, known also [?] Butler, was charged with having attemp[?]ed to murder James Kenrick a half-caste, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Ruhr. Occupation Zone Extended. French Courts Busy. Firemen Replace Police. London
A Belgian court-martial has heavily fined number of trade union leaders for signing an order calling a half-hour protest strike on January 13, and a French court…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Zealand Murder Trial. Husband and Wife Charged. Wellington (N.z.)
The trial of the Coopers, husband and wife, on a charge of murder is proceeding at the Wellington Criminal Court. It was stated in evidence that Cooper,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder Charge. New Police Dogs in Use. Aged Woman Missing. Melbourne
In connection with the disappearance of Mrs. Ada Overall, 65, a widow, from her home at Millgrove, near Warburton, Victoria, in July last, and the arrest of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sequel to Auction Sale. Charge of Theft Unsustained
At the Grafton Police Count yesterday before Mr. F. F. Potts, Police Magistrate, Sarah Winters was charged with having, on February 15 stolen a table, rug,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Lunacy Inquiry. Remarkable Evidence. Sequel to Murder. Echo of St. Ives Tragedy. Sydney
Thomas Edward Brown, an orchardist of St. Ives, giving evidence before the Lunacy Commission, said that over ten years ago he had had a altercation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Courts. a Forced Marriage. Alleged Illegal Operation. Woman Ejected From the Court. Sydney
Sid Murray, 38, and Mary Brownlee, 58, a midwife, were at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day charged with having illegally used an instrument on an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woman Sent to Gaol. Sydney
Mary Brownlee, a maternity nurse, who pleaded guilty at Darlinghurst Sessions to a charge of having unlawfully used an instrument on an 18-year-old girl, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Agents Sent to Gaol. Stolen Wheat and Wheat Bags. Judge Bevan's Comments. Sydney
At the Wagga Quarter Sessions George Clarke and James Herbert Curtis, agents of Coolamon, were convicted of stealing 32 tons of wheat and 400 bags, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →More Police Expelled. French Railway Official Shot. London
Reuter's Paris correspondent, writing from Dusseldorf, says that two hundred and sixty-eight trains were running in the occupied territory yesterday. while…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£4529 Defalcations. Company's Employee Sentenced. Wellington (N.z.)
William Henry Taylor, who pleaded guilty to thefts from the Loan and Mercantile Agency Company while he was manager of the company's produce…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Valedictory. Mr. J. Thomson Farewelled. Presentation by Gaol Staff
The members of the staff of the Grafton [?] Sackett and Howard cafe on Thursday night, as a farewell [?] Mr. J. Thomson, who is on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trouble Over a Marriage. Man Sent to Gaol. Sydney
William Augustus Sthrowski, aged 29, described as a composer and musician, who was found guilty of having married a girl of 18 without the consent of her mother,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder Agreement. German Wives Sentenced. London
Frau Klein and Frau Ribbe, says the "Daily Mail" Berlin correspondent, who treated their husbands to a course of arsenic poisoning, have been found guilty…
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