'Betrayed His Trust.' Solicitor Sentenced to Years
Percy George Stone, solicitor, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, with hard labour, in the Perth Criminal Court for having between…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1927
2,770 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 81 of 139
Remarkable Deception. Impersonated Dead Soldier. Confession in Melbourne Court
A remarkable confession of how, for seven years, he had impersonated a soldier who had been killed in a gambling saloon in New York, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police and the Duke No Extra Leave Granted. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
The general secretary of the Police Association states that no extraa leave has been granted by the Government for duty performed during the visit of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bombs for Lisbon Intercepted by Police. a Fight and Escape. London, Aug. 3
A Lisbon message states that bomb making on an extensive scale has been carried on outside Lisbon. The police, after a long watch, to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Socialists in Gaol. Worse Treated Than Under Isars
The Russian revolutionary movement is something far bigger than the Russian Communist party—a fact that is often forgotten new that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fair Rents Court
Mr. W. F. O'Hearn, M.L.A., has been informed in reply to his representations in relating to the letter of Mr. S. E. Brind, secretary, W.I.U., of Australia,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Months' Gaol. Fatal End of a Joy Ride
Two men named Stacey and Harper were sentenced at Wellington, N.Z., to three months' each on a charge of converting a motor car to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Suspicious Fire Police Making Investigation
On Tuesday, night at 11.40 p.m., the Cessnock Fire Brigade was fulled out to a live in King-street, Cessnock, where a rear room in an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →King Street Fire. Police Making Enquiries
Suspicious circumstances are associated with the fire which broke out in a four-roomed unoccupied dwelling In King-street at 11.10 on Tuesday night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Association. The Maitland Branch. Annual Social
The annual social of the Maitland branch of the Police Association of New South Wales was held in St. Paul's Parish Hall last evening. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Equity Court Copyright Infringement. Australian Performing Rights Association v. Bird and another
At the Equity Court, Sydney, last week, before Mr. Justice Harvey. On behalf of the plaintiffs in the case of a Australian Performing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Murder Three Men Charged
In the Townsville Police Court George Williams, 47. Joseph O'Dea, 43, and James McLaughlin, 43, were charged with having on July 28…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Youthful Delinquents. Charged with Stealing Bicycle. Cessnock
"Would you rather remain at home or go to an institution?" asked the P.M. (Mr. M. H. Cleeve) of two youthful defendants at the Children's…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Solicitor Sentenced
Percy George Stone, a member of one of West Australia's oldest families, and for many years a prominent solicitor of Perth, was on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Kurri Police Court. Wednesday, August 2
Before Mr. M. H. Cleeve, this morning, a small list was disposed of at Kurri Police Court. Sergeant Read (Western)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ran Amok. Frenchman Sentenced
Recently a Frenchman, Rene Evans, ran amok at Bathurst and, threatening to shoot people with a revolver he was attacked by Constable Alfred…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Kanakas Sentenced. Italian Farmer Assaulter
All Italian farmer was riding home alone late at night recently when he was set upon by three kanakas, who assaulted him and stripped him of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motorists Sentenced Conviction for Manslaughter
Harry Stacey and Ernest Edward Harper, who took a motor car from Wellington (N.Z.). on May 24, and driving along the Hutt-road at high…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Alleged Stealing Solicitor Committed for Trial
On a charge of having stolen £50. the property of Joseph Redfern, at Esk, Norman Davis Welldon (44), a solicitor, was committed for trial…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Committed for Trial Assault Charge Altered
"If this charge were proved against you, this court could give you three months only. That would be inadequate. I propose to send you to…
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