Case Adjourned Insulting Words and Assault Charge and Counter Charge
Edward James Crosdale proceeded against against Ralph Peel Scott at Cessnock Police Court to-day on charges of assault and insulting words…
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Courts & crime, 1928
3,187 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 160
The Los Angeles Murder Hickman Resigned to His Fate
William Edward Hickman, charged with the murder of little Marion Parker, the daughter of a Los Angeles (U.S.A.) banker, is certain now that he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →St. Cuthbert's Again Police Take Names in Chrch. London
There was an extraordinary scene at St. Cuthbert's Church, at Darwen, Lancashire, yesterday, when the police took the names of many of the congregation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Under House with Gun Woman and Constable Assaulted. Three Charges Against Bellbird Miner. Defendant Gets Two Months' Gaol
Before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., of Cessnock Police Court to-day, Alexander Chalmers, a Bellbird miner, was charged with threatening…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chinaman's Death. Charge of Murder
Continuing his evidence at the inquest into the death of Willie Yeep Gum, who was fatally injured in an attack on him at the Caledonia…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Penal Servitude Seven Years for Assault on Woman
Before Judge Mocatta, at the Glen Innes Quarter Sessions, Cecil Joseph Sharman pleaded guilty to a charge of having assaulted a woman, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two Years' Gaol Slashed Wife. with Razor. Sydney
Edmund James Hallett, who was found guilty at Parramatta Sessions of having slashed his wife with a razor, was to-day sentenced by Judge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Chinaman's Death the Inquest. Charge of Murder
The inquest regarding the death of Willie Yeep Gum was held at the West Maitland Courthouse this afternoon by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Called Her Names. Wife Charges Husband with Assault. Cessnock
"His first punchy missed and his fist went through the wall," said Margaret Hurst, at Cessnock Police Court, when [?]arging her husband with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Goat Racing Appeal Against Convictions. Cash for Full Court. Sydney
The 35 adjourned summonses against the organiser of the Coo-ee City, Mr. Marie, charging him with having aided and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Manslaughter a Grazier Charged
Applying for a remand at Melbourne on Tuesday when John Oliver Shier, aged 43, grazier, of Finley, N.S.W., was charged with the manslaughter of Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wanted Deportation Canadian's Reason for Stealing
At the [?] Sessions, James Robert Thornton, 23, a motor car assembler, and William Johnson, 26, a wireless operator, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Drunken Motorists Magistrate Replies to Criticism
"I would like to see statistics to find out whether offences of this kind are increasing or decreasing," said Mr M'Mahon, S.M., when George Blake,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sensible Remarks by Magistrate War Service Plea Useless
When a defendant in the Tamworth Police Court asked for time to pay, and began to relate his war service, Mr. May, P.M., said:—"lf you are going…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Theft of Motor Cycles Two Men Arrested
Three motor cycles and two sidecars, which are alleged to have been stolen, were recovered, by the police during investigations which led to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Brutal Assault Old Man Robbed. Heavy Sentences Imposed
Sentences of up to ten years imprisonment with hard labour were imposed by Judge Curlewis upon three men, who had been found…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In "Murder Row" Hickman Composing an Oration
Los Angeles, Monday.—Hickman, who lias been moved to a cell in "Murder Row" in the Saint Quentin prison at San; Francisco, maintains a jaunty air…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Penalty for Stealing Boy to Attend School and Church. Sydney
The stipendiary magistrate at Junee sentenced a young boy, who had been charged with stealing a watch, to attend school mere than 90 per cont…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Verdict of Murder a Chinaman's Death. Head Battered In
Michael Kelly, 58, was committed for trial for murder at the conclusion of the inquest at the West Maitland Courthouse…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Double Assault. Chalmers Sent to Gaol
Alexander Chalmers, a [?] on charges of assaulting Constable Brann and Eileen Ward, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment by Mr. D…
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