Elderly Man. Sentenced for Serious Offence. Magistrates Strong Comment
At the Toowoomba Police Court William William. Wilmot. aged 70. pleaded guilty to having committed a serious offence…
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Courts & crime, 1928
3,187 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 160
Gaol Tragedy. Prisoner Committed for Trial. Sydney
The Parramatta Coroner to-day committed John Mason for trial on n charge of having feloniously slain Edwin Elliott…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Too Prevalent. Fights in Sydney. Magistrate's Comments. Sydney
James Hudson was in a wine bar in George—street, on Saturday, when he alleged Alfred Brown, 27, a seaman, struck him several blows on…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Mitcham Tragedy Charge of Murder Accused Remanded
It has been established by the police that Mrs. Iolene Mary Sampsen. wife of the Mitcham (Vic.). orchardist, was murdered…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Murder of Policeman. No Further Developments. London. Jan, 6
Detectives boarded the steamer Baradine on its arrival from Australia and interviewed members of the crew concerning the murder of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Paid the Penalty Murder of Husband. New York, January 12
Every legal effort to the last hour, having failed to score a stay, Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd were tonight electrocuted in Sing Sing prison…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder Charge. Hickman Raises Plea of Insanity Montreal. Jan. 5
A Los Angeles message states that Edward Hickman pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the indictment charging him with complicity in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Armed Kidnapper. Single—handed Fight Against Police. Shanghai, Jan. 7
An armed Chinese kidnapper was killed this morning following 16 house' siege in the attic of a [?] in the international settlement…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wounded by Arrows. Patrol Officer and Police Boy. Rabaul, Jan. 6
Patrol Officer Samson was wounded by an arrow in the ankle and a police boy in the neck while on patrol in Bougainville. Both wounds…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Disastrous Explosion Wreck of German Residential What Police Investigation Revealed. Berlin, Jan. 9
Police investigations of the disastrous explosion on the 4th Instant revealed that the basement of the tenement in which 16 wore killed and 20…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thames Overflows. London Basements Flooded. Fourteen People Drowned. Terror—stricken People Rescued by Police
As a result of flood water from the melting snows meeting an unusually high tide, the Thames overflowed in the early hours of Saturday morning. London was flooded and many people were…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Tahiti Blamed for the Greycliffe Disaster. Speed Was Excessive Marine Court's Finding. Sydney
Mr. Justice Campbell to—day delivered his judgment on the cause of the collision between the Greycliffe and the Tahiti…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →West Maitland Court. Monday. January 9. (Before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.m.). Smoked in Public Hall
Leslie John House pleaded guilty to having smoked in the auditorium of the Catholic Hall on November 15, and was fined 5/- and 8/- costs…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Thirroul Robbery. Two Men Charged at Gosford
Lionel Francis Horton and James, William Morrison appeared before the Gosford Court, charged with breaking and entering the shop of Albert…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Light Court
There was a very light list at the West Maitland Court this morning. The only police court matter was one case of drunkenness. There were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder Charge. Sequel to Woman's Death
There has been a sensational development in connection with the S.A. covery in the sea at Semaphore, S.A., on Wednesday of the body, of Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Strange Scenes in English Church Vicar Calls in Police Protests Against Anglo- Catholic Ritual. London, Jan. 15
Resentment of the congregation against the Anglo-Catholic ritual, culminated in calling the police in at St. Cuthbert's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court
At the Muswellbrook Police Court on Friday Just, before Mr. A. E. May, P.M., lines of 7/6 and 8/- costs in each case were imposed against Raymond…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Aberdeen Police Court
At the Aberdeen Police Court on Thursday last Richard Tanner was lined £4, witnesses expenses £1 and 1/6 costs, in default two months hard labor, for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Governor of Gaol
Mr. J. Huer, governor of the Maitland Gaol, who was an inmate of a local private hospital for some time, suffering from pleurisy, has made a…
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