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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1928

1,819 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 7 of 91

Asylum Murder Will Bill Be Filed? Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 January 1928 · page 5

When the Attorney General returns to the city he will decide whether a Bill will he filed against William Horace Suckling, who was yesterday committed for trial on…

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Twenoty-one Prisoners Dug Their Way Out of Gaol. Montreal

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 January 1928 · page 5

Twenty-one prisoners, confined in a single cell in a country prison, dug their way to freedom through a brick wall, by means of tools fashioned from a…

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Beer in Suitcase Two Men Arrested Fierce Struggle with Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 January 1928 · page 5

At a late hour last night Plainclothes Constables Ellis and Donovan saw a man carrying a suitcase in the direction of a vacant allotment at Double Bay…

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Burglary for a Joke Earl's Brother As Amateur "Raffles" Amusing Story

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 4

A humorous story of how a Peer's brother, in playing a practical joke on a tradesman acquaintance at Oakham, the county town of Rutland, filled the…

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Police Raids Two-up and Fan Tan. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 5

Twenty-five men were arrested during a police raid on a garage at Redfern last night. It is alleged that the floor of the garage was carpeted, and was furnished…

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Neck Slashed Man Declines to Assist Police. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 4

A man who stated he had been attacked by several men in Liverpool street, Darlinghurst, and slashed with a razor, was treated at St. Vincent's Hospital last…

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Car Thieves Two Caught Near Albury Police Draw Revolvers. Albury

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 5

A man named Gogell, of Oreld Siding, was engaged in farm work when he saw two men take possession of his car and make off…

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Burglary at Coombel

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 4

At Casino Police Court on Tuesday morning before Mr. F. H. D. Sutherland, P.M., John Williams, a young man, described by the police as a stranger to the…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 4

At Casino Police Court on Tuesday, Thomas Llewellyn, of Leeville, appeared on a charge of having, on October 30, 1927, at Mongogarie, stolen one cow to…

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Female Razor Slasher Gets Three Months Gaol. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 5

Dorothy Roberts, aged 21, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, at the Central Court to-day, for having assaulted Victor Ruben Kelly, of H.M.A.S…

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Bottle Swinger Abroad Cowardly Assault Man Robbed of £15. SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 5

When Arthur Cramp, 27, who was employed by the Lewis Publishing Company, in Rawson Chambers city, arrived at his office this morning a strange man entered…

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R.C. Bishop Sentenced by Soviet Court. Moscow

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 5

The Roman Catholic Bishop, Monsignor Skalsky, of Polish nationality, was sentenced to ten years charges of counter revolutionary activities, agitating against…

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Escaped From Gaol Two Men Recaptured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 4

By forcing the bar protecting a window of Wollongong lock-up, about midnight last night, two men, James Atkins, 26, and Lionel Horton, 23, escaped from the…

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Police Busy Another Cafe Raided. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 5

The police conducted another cafe raid last night. visiting the Rivoli Cafe in Castlereagh street and arresting sixteen men and thirteen women, who were…

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Man Before Court Sensational Developments Expected. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 5

High officials of Scotland Yard were at the Police Court when William Kennedy was remanded on a charge of being concerned with Frederick Browne in…

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Hickman's Defence Now Denies Killing Girl Repudiates Confession to Police. Los Angeles

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 5

Edward Hickman's attorney has confirmed the report that Hickman will deny killing Marion Parker, repudiating his confession to the police…

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"British Spy" Arrested by German Police Echo of Big Zeppelin Fire. Berlin

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 5

German political police have arrested an ex-sergeant-major of the German Imperial Air Force, now a landowner in the State of Oldenburg, who is alleged to…

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Assaulted Police Nine Men and Four Women Charged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 5

At the Central Police Court to-day thirteen persons, nine men and four women, arrested by the police in a raid on premises in Riley street, Surrey Hills,…

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Melbourne Robbery Man Charged in Brisbane. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 5

Following his arrest at Albion Park on Saturday, after making a bold b d to escape, George Robinson, 24, a cook, appeared before the court to-day and was…

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Gaol Breakers Travelled 100 Miles on Foot Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 5

The two Wollongong gaol breakers, James Atkins, 26, and Lionel Horton, 32, who were recaptured at Gosford last night, had travelled the greater part of…

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