Seven Years' Gaol
Robert Silver, an aboriginal who was charged with having attempted to commit serious offences upon three little half-caste girls at Urunga, was…
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Courts & crime, 1928
1,819 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 29 of 91
Gaol Mutineers the Bathurst Revolt Struggles with Rowdy Prisoners. Bathurst
Further particulars of the gaol riot show that the trouble began when a young prisoner refused to produce a bulky article which he had hidden under his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Fall at Redfern Murder Charge May Be Reduced. Sydney
Walter Henry Avery, laborer, 33, was charged at the Red fern Police Court today with feloniously murdering James Taylor on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BETTING Bookmaker Fined £30 Sequel to Police Raid a South Grafton Case
A sequel to a raid made by the police on Easter Saturday, at a hairdressing and tobacconist's establishment in Spinner street, South Glutton, was heard…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Not Liable for Rates St. Patrick's College, Manly High Court Unholds Appeal. Sydney
Six Judges of the High Court were unanimous to-day in allowing the appeal of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney against the judgment of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Second Trial Omeo Murder Case Melbourne Court Crowded Accused's Double Life. Melbourne
The second trial of Ronald Greeves Griggs, formerly a Methodist minister at Omso, on a charge of having murdered his wife, commenced at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woman Sentenced Three Years for Serious Offence. Maitland
Emmaline Glover, nurse, was found guilty of having feloniously slain Annie Carter, who, it was alleged died from septicaemia, following upon an illegal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Surry Hills Murder Charge. Sydney
Stanley Spencer Hoperoft, 22, and Erie Milton Miller, 21, were remanded at the Central Court on a charge of having conspired to murder Thomas Hames…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Young Girl's Death Police Inquiring. Sydney
The Warragul police are investigating the death of Gladys Wilson, 13, of Vesper, a small township near Noogee. The girl was found drowned in a well this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Publican's Extravagance Comments in Bankruptcy Court. Sydney
The Registrar in Bankruptcy, Mr. Lockhart, refused to grant a certificate of discharge to Thomas Coffey, who was licensee of the Macquarie Hotel,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Young Woman's Claim Railway Commissioners Sued Settled Out of Court. Sydney
Before Mr. Justice Davidson and a jury to-day, Dorothy McCabe, 22, of Glebe, sued the Railway Commissioners for £1000 damages, in respect of injuries sustained…
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George James, aged 64 years, pleaded guilty at the Melbourne General Sessions to a charge of having entered a dwelling house by night with intent to commit a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Postmaster Found Drugged Burglary Suspected. Sydney
H. C. Dodds, postmaster at Seven Hills, was found in a drugged condition in the Post Office this morning. It is believed that he was finis got out…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wholesale Car Stealing Three Men Arrested. Sydney
The detectives yesterday arrested three men on charges of car stealing. They are confident that these arrests will lead to the clearing up of the wholesale ear…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Prison Cell Suicide Mackay Murder Case Accused Man Hangs Himself. Mackay
Gordon Dunn who last Friday was committed for trial on a charge of having murdered Henry William Huggins, committed suicide in his cell this morning by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Omeo Murder Case Ex-Parson On Trial Intense Public Interest Medical Evidence. Melbourne
Crowds waited from 6 o'clock this morning to gain admittance to the Criminal Court where Ronald Griggs, formerly Methodist minister, is being charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Card Party Raid 31 Persons Before Court. Sydney
At the Newtown court to-day, the 31 persons charged in connection with the raid made by the police on a card party at the Oddfellows' Hall, on March 26,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lighthouse Steamers Alleged Boycott Brisbane Court Proceedings. Brisbane
The case for the defence in the prosecution of H. Carrigan, secretary of the Brisbane branch of the Seamen's Union of Australia, was continued in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →'Sob Stuff' Lang's Lament Censure Motion Government Charged with Ineptitude "Froth, Fake and Flapdoodle,'' Replies Mr. Buttenshaw. Sydney
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Lang) was to-day given the opportunity to launch his censure motion against the Government. His attack on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Royal Oak Court-martial Admiral Collard on Retired List Reference in the Commons. London
In the House of Commons, Mr. Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, stated that Rear-Admiral Collard had already been relieved of his command, after the…
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