Colliery Employees in Court
Before Judge Edmunds in the Industrial Court on Friday morning, forty-nine colliery youths, employed chiefly as clippers at Pelaw-Main Colliery, were each fined 10/6…
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Courts & crime, 1914
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A Son Killed. Verdict of Murder Against Father
On June 21, at Tennessee West Australia, Frederick Elderson Smith, aged 20, was shot through the heart. At the inquest, at Albany on Thursday a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Proposed From Tree-top. Lover at the Gaol Window. the Call to Zata
Usually when the conversational effort attending a courtship starts to lag—that is, when the young lover is making the third round of his repertoire of antique jokes and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Paris Day by Day. Murder on a Railway. Paris, May 15
An extraordinary crime was committed this morning, on the Nord railway, when a signalman was shot and killed in his box a few hundred yards from the station of Saint…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Horses for the Police. Venture to Be Launched
Having secured a number of good mares, and several [?]viceable stallions, the Inspector-General of Police (Mr. Ernest C. Day), intends to start a police stud farm…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Silly Suffragists. Wild Scene in - Court. London July 3
A wild scene occurred during the Carnarvonshire Quarter Sessions after Georgine - Lloyd and Phillis North had each been sentenced to three months' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder in a Dream. Successful Excuse for Killing a Wife's Lover [?] , New York. May 13
"Sane now, but insane when he committed the murder, and therefore not guilty," was the novel verdict returned at Chicago in the one of William Marshall Kelth who shot…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Post Office Robbery. Freeman Before the Court. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
Samuel Freeman, alias Jewey, who a few days ago was committed for trial on a charge of attempting to murder an Oxford-street watchman named M'Hale,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Youth's Offences. Sentenced for Stealing. Committed for Alleged Breaking and Entering
Walter Palmer, 17, was charged at the West Maitland Police Court this morning before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., with having at East Maitland on June 9, 1914, stolen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →West Maitland Police Court. Monday, July 6
The bench at the West Maitland police court this morning was occupied by Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M. DRUNKENNESS…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Car Stolen. Daring Theft
The theft of a motor car valued at 500 and its recovery under sensational circumstances was reported to the police in Sydney on Saturday night, Mr. Samuel Ford…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Confession of Murder. London, July 5
A man named William Robbins-surrendered himself to the police yesterday, and stated that he strangled a woman named Stevenson, and threw her body into the sea…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Latest News by Wire. Theft at Central Station. Sydney. Monday afternoon
Mrs. Allan Lea, who is staying at the Hotel Sydney, reported to the police yesterday that she had lost her dressing case containing jewellery and money of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Port Melbourne Tragedy. Confession of Murder, Criminal or Lunatic ? LONDON, Monday evening
A man named Robbins, who says that he murdered a woman ut Port Melbourne seven years ngo, was before the Thames Police Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Eveleigh Holdup. Ryan in Court. Sydney, Tuesday afternoon
Ernest Alexander Ryan, charged in connection with the Eveleigh hold-up, arrived from Mclbourne this morning under police escert. He was subsequently brought…
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The monthly sitting of the Police Court was held here on Tuesday, before Mr. R. H. V. Allnutt, P.M G. F. McGuiness proceeded against…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cessnock Police Court
At the Cessnock Police Court yesterday. (Tuesday), the bench was occupied by Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M. F. J. Stedson, Thomas W. Lewis, M. Hiams…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Muswellbrook Letter. Police Court
The monthly sitting of the police court was held here yesterday presided over by Mr. R. B. V. Allnutt, P.M. George Francis McGuinness proceeded…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court Humour
Law courts are prover[?] for amusing occurrences, and there was a laughable incident at the police court here yesterday. A defending litigant, whose birthplace was the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Small Debts Court
Paul Jack Long, market gardener sued Sydney Walter Gore, farmer, for 7/ alleged to be [?] for parsley. After hearing evidence the case was dismissed…
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