Gaol for Stealing
Reginald Redfern was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment at the State Penitentiary, at the Newcastle Quarter Sessions yesterday, for stealing in company…
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Courts & crime, 1921
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The Islington Burglary
George Spicer, 21, was called up for sentence in connection with a charge of breaking, entering, and stealing from the tailoring shop of Leopold Charles Cook, at…
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Sentence was passed upon Reginald Sylvester Redfern, 18, and Henry Arthur Williams, 18, who had pleaded guilty on the previous day to charges of having stolen…
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At the Newcastle Police Court this morning, Elinor Burns, alias Rose Burns (45), was sentenced to one month's gaol for stealing £11…
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James Utley was charged with stealing 200lb of coal, valued at 3s, at Tighe's Hill, on October 24. Constable Sweeney stated that he saw the defendant carry a bag of coal…
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It is reported from Montreal that Louis Ogulnik, a tailor, shot and seriously wounded Sir Andrew M'Phail, a former professor of medicine in the M'Gill…
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Further evidence was given concerning the murder of Wong Sam. Constable Peters said he was in charge at the watchhouse when accused were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Police Views
The decision of the police not to take action in connection with the alleged kidnapping of Miss Partridge is based on inability to secure evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Valuation Court
After the disposal of the Quarter Sessions list, the Valuation Appeal Court was opened, and Mr. G. H. Legge, on behalf of the Valuer-General, announced that figures had…
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Ellen Chappell, licensee of the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, appealed against a conviction recorded against her at the Newcastle Police Court for having allowed a person to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, November 16. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.) Drunkenness
Bonds worn forfeited in the cases of two first offenders for drunkenness, and another one was lined 5/-, in default two hours' detention. William Stewart (40), miner, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder at Redfern. a Brutal Crime. Sydney
Marie Ward (32), of Redfern-street, Redfern, was so badly battered about the head at her residence last night that she died in Sydney Hospital…
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Alexander McCallum, of Bonnie Doon, Boyce-road, Maroubra, was brutally assaulted and robbed at Kensington last night, and is in Sydney Hospital in a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accused Man Dies Murder Sequel Suggestion of Poison SYDNEY
There was a sensational sequel this morning to the murder of Mrs. Marie Ward, or Copeland, who was battered to death in her home at Redfern on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Milk Prices. Court Refuses Decontrol. Sydney
In the Profiteering Prevention Court to-day, Judge Beeby refused to decontrol the price of milk. He will hear on November 28 whether the price to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cold-blooded Murder Chinaman's Death Confession in a Cell Mackay (Q.)
The case against four men, George Sinclair, Samuel Templeton, George Waters, and Harry Perry, for the alleged wilful murder of Wong Sam,…
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Six police officers were encased in the arrest yesterday of Harry Slater, alias Fitzhardinge, who is wanted in connection with the murder of Thomas Peter…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →House of Representatives. the Arbitration Court. Melbourne
In the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. Hughes, the Prime Minister, asked leave to make a statement, presumably about shipping and shipbuilding, but Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Amy's Heart Love in a Hut Divorce Court "Poems" SYDNEY
Love, kissing, and verso were mixed up in a case in the Divorce Court in which Adia Nunn petitioned Mr. Justice James to-day to dissolve her marriage with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Committed Perjury" Mother's Compulsion Magistrate's Comment
There is no doubt in my mind that this boy committed perjury under the direction and compulsion of his mother," said Mr. Le Brun Brown,…
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