Legal Wit. Laughter in Court. Jests by Judges
Court trials are not always dry and boring. Now and again humor creeps into the proceedings (says "Answers.") "It is the: pleasure of the court…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1927
2,770 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 73 of 139
Dungog Police Court
On Wednesday last at the Dungog Police Court there were a number of cases listed to be heard before Mr. F. Potts P.M…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Stealing
The Police proceeded against a Newcastle motor lorry driver on a charge of stealing call skins. It appears that he picked then up on the…
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Clement John Walsh proceeded against George Fletcher on a charge of unlawful assault, at Brookfield on the night of 30th June…
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Assaulted and robbed while on his way home last Sunday night, was in a experience of Roy Stephenion. 26, living at Aberdare Road…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trunk Mystery. Robinson Sentenced to Death. London
John Robinson has been found guilty; of the murder of Mrs. Bonati, and has been sentenced to death. London, Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Was Horse Ill- Treated? Magistrate Says Not Sufficient Evidence
A case in which John Fitzgerald, painter, was charged with illtreating a horse, came before Mr. M. H. Cleeve P.M., at the Police Court on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stealing a Wife. Australian's Dying Reparation. Romantic Stout. London, July 14
The "Daily Expresse's" Vienna correspondent writes that Heinrich Sten, a very Poor resident of Tyrnau, is the central figure of a Tomance, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →POLICE v. R. E. LORD
R. E. Lord was charged with permitting the transfer of a number plate from one motor vehicle to another. He pleaded guilty and was…
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The same person was also charged with keeping a slaughter-house without being registered. A plea of guilty was entered and…
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The trial commenced at Perth, of Dennis Hastings Kegan and James Graham St. Jack, who are police constables under suspension…
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Hernam Singh, an Indian hawker, was committed for trial in Melbourne, on a charge of having murdered Charlotte Haiey, aged 60 years, at Kialla…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Assault at Cessnock. Police Make Arrest. Cessnock
That he was knocked unconscious and robbed of money and belonging totalling £12/10/ near Aberdare Co-opertaive Butchery last night…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Safe Blowers. Sentenced at Wagga
Before Judge Coyle, at the Wagga [?] Sessions, James Roye, 26, and Wm. McLean, 30, were charged in company with blowing the safe…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Trunk Mystery. Robinson Sentenced to Death
London, Wednesday.—John Robinson has been found guilty of the murder of Mrs Bonati, and has been sentenced to death…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Audacious Theft. Hurled Brick Through Window
After a long chase through the streets at Darlingthurst, a man, who is alleged to have seized a number of rings from a jeweller's shop in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Cruel Assault. Slashed Man with Razor
Claude Taylor, 41, wharf-labourer, who was charged with slashing Rupert Carr, a coloured man, with a razor in Druitt-placc on April 18, was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →False Entries. Clerk Sentenced to Three Years
Kyran Matthew Gunning. 31, clerk, pleaded guilty at Sydney Sessions to six counts of making false entries in a cash book…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Slashed with a Razor Five Years' Gaol
Claude Taylor, a wharf laborer, was sentenced to five years penal servitude at Darlinghurst Sessions on Wednesday for slashing a man with a razor…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Singleton Police Court Friday, 15th JULY. (Before Mr M. H. Cleeve, P.M.)
Tom Potts, for carrying firearms on Sunday, was fined £1, with Court costs 8/-; in default, imprisonment for, seven days, with hard labr…
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