Municipal Appeal Court Taree, Monday, May 31. [Before Mr. F. F. Potts, P.M.)
William Burnham Boyce, news-paper proprietor, appealed to have the valuation on the property on the corner of Manning and Albert streets…
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Courts & crime, 1926
392 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 9 of 20
In the Police Court
It was a case of chicken stealing and the prints of the bare feet were round in the gravel around the hen-house. The lawyer for the prosecution was one…
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A young Indian of a North American tribe, falling in his attention to a young squaw, she made complaint to an old chief, who appointed a hearing or trial. The lady laid…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Armour for Police
Extensive experiments carried on with a new kind of police armour invented in Germany have resulted in the adoption of this protection by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Taree. Friday. June 4. (Before Mr. F. F. Potts, P.M.)
T. McLaughlin pleaded guilty to a charge of using insulting words to Michael Benardos. A fine of 10 with 8 costs was imposed…
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There was a good deal of business transacted in a short time at the Kempsey Court on Wednesday, before Mr. F. F. Potts, P.M…
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Before the Small Debts Court, Joseph Murphy proceeded against Joseph Hosey, making a claim for the hire of a horse and harness…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Copeland Assault Case. Newcastle Quarter Sessions Tuesday June 8, Before His Honor Judge White
William Rupert Hall (18) Pleaded guilty that at Copeland, on May 14, 1926, he maliciously, wounded Charles Doust, with intent to do grevious…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Poet Macquarie, June 8. Before F. F. Potts, Esq., P.M.
E. WELSH, charged with failing to license firearms, pleaded guilty, and was fined £1 and 8s costs. Fine paid. E. Welsh, charged with cruelty to dumb…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An Assize Court Story
There is a story told on one of the circuits of how not long ago a very young barrister rose to examine one of his witnesses with an unaccountably hazy notion…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gloucester Police Court (Monday, 14th JUNE, before MR. F. F. Potts, P.m) Police v. R. H. Hill. Alleged Stolen Cedar
The defendant, R. H. Hill, was charged that on 2nd March, 1926, at Callaghan's Creek, near Bundook, he did steal a red cedar tree, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →King's Evidence. Goldfields Murder. Startling Rumor Perth
Startling rumors as to the Goldfields murder are in circulation; and the most sensational is that one of the accused has turned "King's evidence."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder and Suicide. Three Dead Bodies on Bed in Locked House
While they slept in their cottage home, Belmont Avenue, Penshurst, early on Sunday morning, Walter Beer shot and killed his wife and baby…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Coopernook, June 11. (Before Mr. F. F. Potts, P.'M.) Re Miller Swamp Drainage Union: Appeals of Patrick Wall and Robert Collins
These were appeals under section 90 of the Water Act, 1912, against the amount of the rates assessed by the Union in respect of the appellants…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kempsey Police Court
At the Kempsey Police Court on Friday last week, before Messrs. Parker and Jamieson, J's.P., George Harrison was charged with stealing 20 gallons…
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Leon and Jacob Kramer, clever and brainy crooks, implicated in the million dollar jewel robbery plot in New YorK (for which the gang's…
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The Kalgoorlie Police Court was crowded on Saturday when Will Coulter (the wealthy investor) appeared to answer the charge of having, in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Month's Gaol for Man Who Killed His Mother-in-law
Found guilty of the manslaughter of Mrs. Margaret Edgell, his mother-in-law, Arthur Ernest Kercheval, 26, was sentenced to a month's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →West Australia Murder. Sensations Likely Further Arrests Expected
It is certain that not even the half has been told concerning the murders of detectives Inspector Walsh and Sergeant Pitman, at Kalgoorlie…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Copeland Assault Case.. (Before His Honor Judge White.) Newcastle Quarter Sessions.. Sentence Passed
A sentence of twelve months" imprisonment was passed on William Rupert Hall, 18, who pleaded guilty to a charge of wounding with intent…
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