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New England · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1921

573 stories in New England's papers · page 12 of 29

The North Sydney Murder Ten Years'hard Labor

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 13 May 1921 · page 6

The trial of Wilfred Ernest Coley on a charge of murdering Gertrude Paulina McGrath at North Sydney took place on Monday at the Central Criminal…

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Armidale Police Court. a Slack Morning

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 14 May 1921 · page 3

Charles Cluttorbuck Lylc Brown, and Henry Beresford pleaded guilty in tue Armidale Police Court on Wednesday morning to being on the licensed…

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Rance Reveals Murder. Husband's Dramatic Confession

The Uralla Times and District Advocate · Saturday 14 May 1921 · page 1

Facts reveled in a trance paused a young Berlin husband to confess in a dramatic fashion to the murder of his wife, to whom he had been married…

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Emmaville Police Court Alleged Poet Office Theft. Breaking and Entering. Two Committals to Glen Innes

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 16 May 1921 · page 4

A lengthy list of cases were heard at the Emmaville Police Court on Thursday last, Mr. H. Macdougal, P.M., being on the Bench…

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Round the Compass Items From Everywhere a Costly Assault

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 16 May 1921 · page 3

Maier Crane P.M., at Canowindra Police Court, dealt in summary fash [?] with Robert Beath--for insulting language to Constable Clifford £5 or a…

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"The Conqueror." Queer Police Court Defendant

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 May 1921 · page 6

In the Glen Innes Police Court last week, before Mr. H. H. MacDougall, P.M., Michael Kennedy, who protested indignantly that his name was Michael…

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Theft of Horse Rugs

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 17 May 1921 · page 4

On Sunday last the Presbyterian minister at Ashford, Rev. W. Carlyle Moulton, preached in St. Andrew's, Inverell. He drove to the church in his…

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Assault Upon Constable

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 18 May 1921 · page 4

Herbert Smith, convicted in the Central Police Court of having assaulted Constable Bayliss during a recent attempt by the unemployed to evade the…

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Offensive Behaviour. Domain Speaker Charged

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 18 May 1921 · page 8

The hearing of the charge of offensive behaviour against E. E. Judd was resumed at the Sydney Police Court on Monday…

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Domain Events. Judd Before the Court

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 18 May 1921 · page 6

Ernest Edward Judd was charged at the Sydney Police Court on Friday with behaving in an offensive manner, and with having had in his possession…

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Utilising the old Gaol

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 19 May 1921 · page 4

Many suggestions have been made for the profitable atilisation of the big building known as the "[?]ld gaol" in Glen Innes, but so far none…

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Armidale Police Court

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 20 May 1921 · page 7

Wednesday, May 18.—(Before Messrs. E. M. Cohen and E. T. Vyner, Js.P.). Larceny…

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Police Pateol

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 20 May 1921 · page 7

The Inspector-General of Police States that the special police night patrol has become a thorn in the side of Criminals, who find they cannot move…

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Police Association

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 20 May 1921 · page 7

The Police Association intends to request Mr. Dooley to have legislation passed,so that the police will have an Appeal Board. The Secretary stated…

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Police Sttpt. Faeewblled

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 20 May 1921 · page 7

The esteem in which the police of the Northorn District hold their retiring chief, Mr. Supt. J.S. Banks, was proved by a farewell gathering on…

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Alteration in Supreme Court Procedure

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 20 May 1921 · page 4

Sydney, Thursday.—Important changes of practise and procedure of the Supreme Court are contemplated by the Government…

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Centennial Park Murder. Appeal by Sentenced Prisoner

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 21 May 1921 · page 4

The hearing at the appeal by Chas. Speechley against his conviction and sentence of death for the alleged murder of Constable Wolgast, was…

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Armidale Police Court

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 21 May 1921 · page 3

Id the Armidale Police Court on Wednesday morning, before Messrs. E. M. Cohen and R. T. Vyner; Erie Jones was charged with stealing £8…

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Brutal Assault. Woman Rendered Unconsclons

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 May 1921 · page 4

A young married woman, Mrs. Haneen, who haves with her husband at North Bondi, was the victim of a brutal assaul[?] on Friday. She had advertised a room to let, with a…

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Items of Interest. a Mean Theft

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 24 May 1921 · page 3

A patient in Yass Hospital took the matron's monthly salary of £10/16/8, escaped from the hospital, and before the police got him had spent £1…

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