The Trunk Mystery. Murder Charge Against Clerk. London
John Robinson, 46, clerk, has been arrested and charged with, the murder of Mrs. Minnie Bonati, whose dismembered body was found in a trunk at…
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Courts & crime, 1927
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Trunk Murder. Clerk Arrested and Charged. London, May 23
John Robinson 46, a clerk, has been arrested and charged with the murder of Mrs Bonati. whose dismembered body was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Collision. Police Court Sequel
The occupants — Ernest George Reid, aged 29, and Harry Stacey. aged 33—of the motor car which, on Tuesday night, collided with a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Contest. Police Court Sequel
Several Sydney motorists who took part in a reliability contest which was held last October, the route of which passed through the North…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Licensing Court. Police Object to Application
James Crittenden applied for the transfer of the license of the Exchange Hotel, West Maitland, from James Turnbull. Mr. T. A. Braye…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Brawl at Football Match Sequel in Police Court
At the Parramatta Police Court on Wednesday, Claude Powell, referee, sued Clifton W. Kells for assault. The case was a sequel to a brawl during a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Second Charge Alleged Sheep Stealing
A. C. Jones, who was recently convicted at Youn, of stealing 46 sheep from Wadenhoe Station, of which he was manager, but was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wild Scene. Undergrads Rush Down Street. Police Court Sequel
At the Central Police Court Sydney, Keith Brooks Fordyce, aged 18, was charged with having behaved in a riotous manner in Pitt-street last…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →West Maitland Court. Monday. May 23. (Before Mr. M. H. Cleeve, P.m.). Stealing Coal
Michael Ford pleaded guilty to having at West Maitland, on May 20, stolen a quantity of coal valued at 10/, the property of the Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Magistrate Hits Out Fines and Suspended Licenses
Two men were charged at the Singleton Police Court yesterday with infringing the traffic, regulations by speeding in the main streets. One was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Baum Sentenced Three Years' Imprisonment. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
At the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, Harry Waldomar Baum, solicitor, who was convicted of having fraudulently misappropriated £1500 from a client,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Small Debts Court
In, the Small Debts Court, Singleton, yesterday, Russell and Chenoweth obtained a verdict for £6/10/, with 17/6 coats, from Lewis Harris, for sale of a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Football Referees. Must Be Protected. Sequel to Assault. Sydney
At the Parramatta Police Court, Clifton Kells was chained with having assaulted Claude Powell. It was stated in evidence that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Singleton Police Court Friday, May 27th. (Before Mr M. H. Cleeve, P.m.). Passing Valueless Cheques
Leslie Harry Walker appeared on three charges of passing valueless cheques. The charge sheets set out that (a) on May 2nd, at Singleton, he…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Speedster Fined. No Time for Speed Hogs Says Magistrate. Sydney
Ernest Joseph Buckley, who attempted to lower the motor record from Sydney to Cowra, was at the local Police Court, fined £ 6 and…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Murder Alleged. Woman Remanded Pending Inquest. Sydney
At the Central Police Court, Sydney, to-day, Edith Florence Ashton, 37, was charged with having murdered Isabella Johnson, also with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Assault Case Girl's Night Adventure, Baronet Sent for Trial LONDON, May 19
Sir Gerard Willshire was to-day, committed for trial, ball being allowed. The Prosecuting Counsel told an…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Murder of Natives. the Kimberley Crime. "Conspiracy of Silence."
"Mr. G. T. Wood, S.M., of Perth, the Commissioner, who inquired into the Kimberley atrocities, in his report referred to in last evening's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Racehorse Sankip. Full Court Appeal
In the Full Court an appeal was made by the defendant in an action tried before Mr. Justice Ferguson and a jury in April last, in which…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Singleton Letter. Mining Warden's Court
Mr. A. N. Graham sat as Mining Warden at tho Court House on Wednesday, when several applications for authority to enter land in the…
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