Goldfields Murder Clarke's Reward Claim. Granted. Perth
Even Clarke's claim for the £1000 reward for the conviction of the murderers of the detectives at Kalgoorlie on Aprill 28, 1926, was granted by a majority…
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Courts & crime, 1927
1,611 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 54 of 81
Death Sentence Murder Of Martha Quin McPHERSON'S Trial Confession Admitted in Evidence. Sydney
Norman Clive McPherson, 33, was charged at the Central Criminal Court to-day with the murder of Martha Quin…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bid for Freedom Prisoner Breaks Away Run Down by Athletic Police Man. Sydney
Thomas Welsh, 26, baker, caused excitement at Redfern to-day when he broke through a police cordon while being transferred from a police van to the police…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Stealing From Post Office Charge Against Postal Official Sydney
James Dwyer, 29, postal assistant, was committed for trial on a charge of having stolen £152, the property of the Postmaster-General…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Undermining the Police. (Published by Arrangement.)
"I find it altogether impossible to make the people of Britain realise what prohibition means in America," writes Mr. Shaw Desmond in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Buckley Case Wife Murder Charge Death Sentence Imposed Recommendation to Mercy. Sydney
Having been granted a new trial George Andrew Buckley, 52, a miner, was again arraigned at the Central Criminal Court to-day on a charge of having killed his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Share Farming Agreement Case From Copmanhurst Settled Out of Court
Before his Honor Judge Mocatta in the Grafton District Court yesterday, an action was brought by Daniel McNamara, of Copmanhurst, against Robert…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Reign of Terror" Soviet Police Make Arrests. Moscow
Soviet secret police have issued a statement, saying they arrested two groups of Lithuanian and Finnish spies, who are alleged to have attempted to institute a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →'I Killed Condon' Arrested Man's Statement Police Investigating. Sydney
A man who was arrested at Parramatta yesterday, on a charge of having used threatening words to Constable S. Brown, is aliened to have said to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Condon Murder Police Looking for Man Former Member of Police Force Sydney
Inquiry at police headquarters to-night failed to elicit either confirmation or denial of the report that the detectives now know the identity of the man who,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Serious Assault Jury Fails to Agree. Sydney
After having been locked up all night, the jury failed to agree in the case in which Arthur Joseph Wright, 23, was charged with a serious assault on a girl…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Crossword Puzzle Games of Chance, Says N.Z. Magistrate. Wellington, (N.z.)
The Police Magistrate at the Wellington court, Mr. Page, has decided that crossword puzzles, to which there are several correct answers, are games of chance,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Italians Fists, Then Revolver One Shot Dead Compatriot Arrested on Murder Charge. Sydney
Carmello Garaci, an Italian woodworker, wan shot dead at Cerutti, Spilstead and Co's. woodworking factory at St. peters to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Missing in America Two Melbourne Tourists Police Informed at Los Angeles. Los Angeles
The police were informed to-day of the mysterious disappearance of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Parker, who, last March, left Melbourne with Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Aughtie,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grafton Police Court
There was no appearance, at the Grafton Police Court, before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., yesterday morning of Osmand Day, to answer a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Italian's Death Countryman Charged with Murder Sydney
At Newtown Police Court to-day Salvatore Selisi, Italian wood sawyer was charged with having feloniously and maliciously murdered Carmelo Garaci…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gaol and "The Cat" for Assault on Step-daughter. Sydney
William Henry Becker, 29, was sentenced to two years imprisonment and ten strokes of the cat o' nine tails by Mr. Justice Gordon in the Central Criminal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Five Years Gaol for Assault on Youth Case at Lismore Sessions. Lismore
At the Quarter Sessions to-day before Judge Mocatta, Walter Douglas Krygger, 31, described as a commercial traveller, representing a Brisbane firm of stationers,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Robbed Colleges Thief Sent to Gaol. Sydney
At Newtown Police Court to-day Allen Henderson, 23, laborer, was sentenced to twelve months gaol on five charges of theft…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Small Debts Court
Sitting in the Small Debts Court yesterday, Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., dealt with the following cases:--Bennett and Wood v. A. A. Cooper, (D. Beatson, garnishee),…
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