(Published by Arrangement) Undermining the Police
"I find it altogether impossible to make the people of Britain realise what Prohibition means to America," writes Mr. Shaw Desmond in the…
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Courts & crime, 1927
1,611 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 55 of 81
Unemployed Removed by Squad of Police. Melbourne
A large squad or police had to be rushed to the Trades Hall to-day when one hundred unemployed, who had been refused a room in which to hold a meeting,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →From Gaol to School
The conversion of the old gaol at Glen Innes into a High School has been completed and the building will be formally opened for its new use by the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Father Charged Serious Offence Alleged Daughter's Evidence. Sydney
At the Central Criminal Court, Patrick MacFarlane, 51, staff officer at Georges Heights military establishment, was charged with a serious offence on his own…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Forged Cheques Letters From Country Stolen. Man Charged in Melbourne. Melbourne
Stanley Hughes, 38, was arrested and charged with having feloniously forged a cheque for £101. There were four other charges of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ten Years Cowan Creek Assault Meant to Kill Migrant Lucky to Be Alive. Sydney
Henry Coates, 44,who was convicted at the Central Criminal Court yesterday, on a charge of having maliciously wounded Joseph John…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Echo of Police Strike Question of Readmission of Strikers. Melbourne
In the Victorian Legislative Assembly Sir William McPherson, Leader of the Nationalists, said his party was opposed to the reabsorption into the police force…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Family Starving Husband Out of Work Wife Charged with Shoplifting Melbourne
When a young married woman was charged at the Melbourne Court with shoplifting she told a harrowing tale to the effect that her husband, herself and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Life Sentence Attempt to Murder Brother. Wellington (N.z.)
A sentence of hard labor for life was imposed on Allan Symon, at Omarau, on a charge of attempted murder of his brother…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Tripe" Perth Court Disclosures. Perth
The proprietor of a piggery was charged at the Perth Police Court with feeding insufficiently boiled offal to his pigs. He stated that he did not give horses' entrails…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire in Dwelling Youth Before Court. Sydney
On a charge of having maliciously set fire to the dwelling of Charles Burns, 417 Pitt street, a girl, Lottie Buckingham then being in the house, Robert Craig,…
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Many Coffs Harbour residents were startled on Wednesday and yesterday morning by a sensational report…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GAOL Won't Pay Fine Five Sacc0 Vanzetti Processionists What Will Government Do? Sydney
Five unionists, who were prosecuted to-day for the part they took in the Sacco-Vanzetti demonstration procession, decided to go to gaol rather…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GRAFTON'S C.P.S. Farewell at Central Court. Sydney
Mr. James Doughan who, after five years service as deposition clerk at the Central and suburban Police Courts, has been promoted to the position of Clerk of Petty…
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In the Grafton Police Court yesterday, before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., Thomas Patterson, who pleaded guilty to a charge of having used indecent language in Pound…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maclean Police Court Motor Vehicle Without Lights
At the Maclean Police Court on Thursday last, before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., Alexander McLeay was charged with having driven a motor vehicle in River street,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Baum Again Sentenced. Sydney
Harry Waldemar Baum, formerly a solicitor, who is already serving a sentence of three years for fraudulent misappropriation, was at the Darlinghurst…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Died in Gaol. Melbourne
Henry Tacke, aged 65, who was serving a sentence of seven years for the manslaughter of Rachel Currell, at St. Kilda, in 1925, died in the Geelong Gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Peculiar Charge Alleged Stealing by Menaces. Sydney
George Jack, 29, a nurseryman, was charged at the Central Court with having by menaces, demanded £20 from Ellen Burton, with intent to steal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fair Rents Court Charge of Refusing House to Widow with Five Children. Sydney
The Fair Rents Court to-day inquired into the allegations that had been made that James Heamey, property owner, of Stanmore, had refused to let his house to…
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