Colliery Mechanics Claims for New Award. Case for High Court
A sitting of the Mechanics Coal industry (Special) Tribunal was held in Sydney yesterday, with Mr. C. Hibbie in the chair. The employees were…
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Courts & crime, 1927
2,770 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 55 of 139
The Trunk Tragedy. Big Trial Begins. Crowds Throng the Court-room. Was Confession Improperly Obtained ? LONDON
Extraordinary scenes were witnessed at Westwinster Court when the trial of the man Robinson, charged in connection with the trunk tragedy began…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder Alleged. the Elands Shooting. Youth Charged
A finding that William Charles-Anderson, aged between 16 and 17 years, did feloniously slay Raymond George Holden, another boy, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Assault Alleged. Police Make an Arrest. Sydney
A man in a motor car, after Having been chased by two youths on a motor cycle last night, was taken to Paddington police station, and charged…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Trunk Murder Remarkable Scenes In Police Court. Confession of Accused. London, June 1
There were remarkable scenes at the Westminster Police Court, when John Robinson was charged with the murder of Mrs. Bonati. Girls) and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cessnock Police Court. Indecent Behaviour. Cessnock
For behaving in an indecent manner near the Bellbird Hotel on a recent date, Thomas Evans was fined 30/-, plus 8/- court costs, in default…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Police Court Cases. Failure to Destroy Rabbits
At the fortnightly silting of the Police Court, before Mr. E. A. May, P.M., the following cases were dealt with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Years. Solicitor Sentenced. Sydney
At the Darlinghurst Sessions, Harry Waldemar Baum, a solicitor who had been convicted of having fraudently misappropriated £1400 from a client…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Murder a Novel Defence
A novel defence was put up in a murder ease at Rockhampton on Wednesday, when John Macalister, accused of having murdered a Chinese cook, San…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nine Months. Sentenced for Shop Lifting. Sydney
At the Central Court to-day, Ruth Walsh, 28, a domestic, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment on a charge of shop lifting. There were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder of Woman Life Sentence Imposed
The trial of Edward Stanley Moron, charged with the wilful murder of Lynda Dre[?]ks, at Brisbane, on April 21, concluded in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep Stealing Charge. Glen Innes Grazier Acquitted Glen Innes
The jury returned a verdict of not guilty in the case in which William George Gilboy, a well-known grazier, was charged at the quarter sessions…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aboriginal Atrocities. Charge of Murder. Constable Arrested
Following on the report of Mr. G. T. Wood. S.M., who as the Royal Commissioner inquired into allegations of the murder of aborigines in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Court. Raymond Terrace Cases Offences Under Motor Traffic Acts. (Before Mr. H. M. Cleeve, P.M.)
Annie Quick pleaded not guilty to driving a car without a driver's license.—Constable McLaughlin deposed that at 4.30 p.m. on 2nd…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Liquor Raid. Police Make Big Haul
Suspecting that a hidden store was being used by sly-grog sellers in Darlinghurst, the police on Saturday night raided a biulding in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →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, commented adversely on the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Shooting Case. Alleged Intent to Murder Affray at Boarding House
As the result of a shooting affray in a boarding house in Parnell-place, Newcastle, James Hughes, aged 19 years, employed by Way's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →(From Our Correspondent). Singleton. Mining Warden's Court
Mr. A. N. Graham sat as Mining Warden at the Court House on the 23th ult, when several applications for authority to cuter land in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Contempt of Court. Brisbane Newspaper Manager Fined
"Newspapers must realise it is no part of their duty to enter upon independent investigation as to the motives and circumstances attending…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fatally Injured. Knocked Down by Police Patrol. Sydney
Mrs. Alice Nell, 47, had just alighted from a bus in Flinders-street this morning. when she was knocked down by the police patrol…
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