Imprisonment Advocated for Sheep Stealing
It is the considered opinion of members of the Tamworth branch of the Graziers' Association of New South Wales that the mere imposition of fines on persons…
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Courts & crime, 1928
1,819 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 30 of 91
Desperate Struggle Shopkeeper and Murder Case at Glebe Court. Sydney
A story of a shopkeeper's desperate struggle with an intruder, was told a Glebe court to-day, when David Forrester, 18, was charged with having, on March…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool Buyer Charged Alleged False Pretences Jury Stops Crown Case. Sydney
At the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day Robert George Tyson, 35, wool buyer, was charged with having obtained £1000 by false pretences from the City Mutual…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Omeo Murder Mrs. Griggs' Death Husband's Second Trial Accused Gives Evidence. Melbourne
When the Griggs murder trial was resumed to-day, the court was again crowded. His Honor was handed a note from the jury, apparently in reference to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court Episode Military Libel Action Canadians at Mons. Cobourg
Sir Arthur Currie's libel suit was continued to-day. The morning session was featured by c Colonel J. A. Currie, member of the Ontario Legislature and former…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lighthouse Steamers Alleged Boycott Sixth Day's Court Proceedings. Brisbane
The defence in the case against H. Carrigan, secretary of the Brisbane branch of the Seamen's Union, was continued in the Summons Court to-day it being the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gaol for Theft Three Men Sentenced. Sydney
Ernest Dilworth, 19, Richard Dilworth, 28, and Leslie Bulliman, 27, who had been convicted of theft, appeared for sentence at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Communist Sentenced. Paris
A Valenciennes message states that a Communist, Deputy Doriot, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for while in Moscow endangering the safety of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wharf Pilfering Timber Thefts Gaol Instead of Fines. London
The shipping newspapers, "Syren" and "Fairplay," comment approvingly upon the sentences of three months imposed at Melbourne, instead of a fine, for stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Liquor Stealing Charge Against Receiving Clerk Practice of Customs Officers. Auckland
During the hearing of a case at Auckland in which a receiving clerk tor a firm of importers was charged with being in possession of stolen liquor the evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →'Moral Insanity' Defence in Murder Case Signs of Dastardly Outrage. Perth
The trial was commenced in the Criminal Court, of John Miner, a young English migrant, who was charged with the I wilful murder of Ivy Lewis, aged 11, at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A New Rule Supreme Court Trials Counsel's Right to Reply. Sydney
In the Course of a considered judgment delivered by Mr. Justice Ferguson in the appeal to the Full Court from the verdict of the jury in the case of Maling v, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Iron Chief Charge Against Master Marine Court Inquiry a Puzzling Tide. Sydney
A Marine Court inquiry was held to-day concerning the stranding of the steamer Iron Chief on Mermaid Reef, North Coast. The master of the vessel, Eric…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maclean Police Court a Long List
Before Mr. E. A. Mahony, Police Magistrate, Sunday trading licenses were granted to C. J. Baker, Harwood, and A. E. Shannon, Yamba…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Suspended Bathurst Gaol Governor P.S. Board Inquiry. Sydney
The Minister for Justice, Mr. Lee, said to-night that the Governor of Bathurst Gaol, Mr. George Smith, has been suspended from duty by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drug Traffic Rigid Police Campaign. Sydney
The police, who are conducting a rigid campaign against prohibited drugs, visited several houses at Surry Hills and arrested two men who were alleged to have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Raid Chinese Arrested at Lismore. Lismore
Lismore police raided premises at North Lismore on Saturday night last, where, it is alleged fan tan and other Chinese gambling was being carried on. Ten…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Supreme Court Judge Darwin Barrister Appointed. Canberra
The Federal Cabinet has approved of the appointment of R. I. D. Mallam, barrister and solicitor, of Darwin, as Judge of the Supreme Court of Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Doors Smashed with Axe Police Raid Two-up School. Melbourne
The police raided a two-up school in the city to-day and arrested 51 men who were gathered in an elaborately prepared room. The police had to smash through…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bankrupt Peer Lord Terrington in London Slept at Police Station. London
Lord Terrington, the bankrupt peer, arrived at Loudon to-day. from France in the company of doctors and detectives. A huge crowd awaited him at Victoria…
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