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New England · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1928

1,563 stories in New England's papers · page 6 of 79

Sensation at Morisset Court

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 4

The routine of the Morisset Police Court, usually dull, was rudely interrupted on Friday afternoon, when Jack Harding, who had come to court…

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Mayor Fined £40 As Proprietor of Betting Premises Lithgow Police Raid Lithgow

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 1

There was a sequel to the recent raid on four local billiard saloons at the police court, when William Henry Trye was fined £20. Charles…

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Bit Horses Ear Greek Fined in Court for Cruelly Ill Treating Melbourne

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 1

On a charge of having caused unnecessary pain to a horse and having kicked it and bitten off part of its ear Omisus Jacobided, a Greek…

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Cars Stolen: Stores Robbed. Ebor Crime, But One of Many. Accused Men Before Court. Alleged Confession of Roberstson

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 2

Thomas Robertson (26) and Eric Wilson (23) occupied the dock at the Quirindi Police Court on Wednesday and Thursday, when they answered a…

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Hypnotism Tried. For Murder Clue

The Inverell Times · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 5

Frau Neumann,. aged .47, who was suspected of having shot her employer, Professor Rosen, of Berlin, brother of a former Foreign Minister for…

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Gaol Breakers Arrested Footsore and 'Reticent, SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 1

The Wollongong gaol. breakers were re-capturcd at Gosford last night. They had travelled the greater part of 100 miles separating the two towns…

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140 Years Ago. Governor Phillip's Historic Landing: a Strange Court of Seamen, Colonists, and Convicts

The Uralla Times · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 4

On January 26, 140 years ago, Governor Phillip really founded Australia. He had been in Australian waters…

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Brutal Assault Police Move Quickly SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 1

Swift police investigation of a brutal case of assault and robbery at La Perouse on Saturday resulted yesterday in two arrests being made…

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Land Salesman's Theft Young Man in Trouble

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 6

Employed as a land salesman by R. G. Oates Estates, Ltd., James Roy Morgan, a married man, of Tenterfield, stole £60, which he had received…

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POLICE v. MOB Blind Lane Battle MELEBOURNE

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 1

Constables Holgate and Corcoran, while on patrol duty in Buckland St. Chippendsle, last night came upon a crowd causing a disturbance in a…

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Tasman Flight. Gaol for Infringements SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 1 February 1928 · page 1

According to Frank Goldberg, the backer of the proposed Tasman flight, the Federal authorities threatened to enforce regulations which means gaol…

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Assault and Robbery. Men and Women Detained Sydney

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 February 1928 · page 4

Two men were arrested and two women detained by detectives in connection with the alleged outrage committed upon Louis Earl Yates on…

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Murder Trial a Tainted Ancestry Los Angeles

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 1 February 1928 · page 1

Edward Hickman's defence is making a desperate attempt to save the accused from the gallows by asserting that his mother has been insane for…

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Struggle with Police. Miner Arrested Under House. Sydney

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 February 1928 · page 4

Threate of shooting and a struggle underneath a boarding-house at Miller-street, Cessnock, resulted in Alexander Chalmers, aged 38, a miner,…

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Deepwater Police Court

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 2

On Tuesday, January 31, before Messrs. F. D. Thomas and Joseph Watson, J's.P., Reginald Bennet was charged with being drunk in…

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12 Months Gaol For Negligent [?] SYDNEY, [?]

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 1

A prominent [?] urges imprisonment [?] in cases in which motor [?]ed guilty of negligence [?]…

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Easy Catch a Car Theft SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 1

A seven-seater motor car was stolen from Coogre early yesterday morning. The Newcastle police were ordered to keep a strict look-out, and…

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Watched the Hospitals Police Rewarded. SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 1

In consequence of a fierce fight between the police and a crowd of men In Chippendale on Monday night, it is considered possible that some of the…

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Tasman Flight. Gaol for Infringements SYDNEY

Tingha Advocate and North-Western Journal · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 2

According to Frank Goldberg, the backer of the proposed Tasman flight, the Federal authorities threatened to enforce regulations which means gaol…

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Murder Trial a Tainted Ancestry

Tingha Advocate and North-Western Journal · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 2

Edward Hickman's defence is making a desperate attempt to save the accused from the gallows by asserting that his mother has been insane for…

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