Pawned Blankets Kitchenman's Theft
Joseph Booth (29), cook, was charged at the Newcastle Police Court this morning with having, on May 12, stolen two blankets, valued at £2 10s, the properly…
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Courts & crime, 1922
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Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, May 24. (Before Mr. M. Longfield, Deputy S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
Five persons, charged with drunkenness for the first time, were each fined 5s, or two hours' imprisonment. Thomas Bell, 46, and John M'Donough, 32, were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Hollow Log Unemployed Man's Home Police Arrange Burial
The man named Frank Hughes. 57, who died this week in Wallsend Hospital from injuries received at Boolaroo, was said by the police to have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →World's Law Court
The difficulties confronting the Permanent Court of international Justice were discussed by Lord Sterndale, Master of the Rolls, in an address to law…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, May 25. (Before Mr. M. Longfield, Deputy S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
Five persons, charged with drunkenness for the first time, did not appear, and their ball deposits were forfeited. Carl Sonerson, 49, was fined £1, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gordon Murder Bail for Griffiths SYDNEY
[?] Griffiths, who is under committal for trial on a charge of the murder of Mountford Cook, at Gordon, was to-day granted ball of £500…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Italian Riots 121 Men in a Cage Strange Scenes in Court LONDON
Rome messages report an amazing spectacle, at the trial at Bari yesterday, reminiscent of the Mania and Camorra murder trials…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"No Smokes" Maitland Gaol Comptroller's Report SYDNEY
The attention of the Minister for Justice, Mr. Ley, was recently drawn to the following letter by a prisoner in Maitland goal to a friend outside,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Murder of a Woman. Brisbane
A brutal murder is reported from Biggenden, the victim being Mrs. Marlon Foster, aged 48, who lived with her husband on a selection seven miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Court Tick-tacking
Judge Woinarski has aroused much comment by recently informing barristers and solicitors in the Criminal Court that he was strongly opposed to the method…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, May 26. (Before Mr. M. Longfield, Deputy S.m.) Summons Division. Costs Against Complainant
A. E. Young, who was represented by Mr. J. D. Reid, pleaded not guilty to a charge of having assaulted Ernest. Lahiff on May 16. There was no appearance of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Kurri Court Wife Desertion Charge
Yesterday afternoon Robert Arthur Lawlor, 32, arrested at Singleton, was brought before Mr. Richards, J.P., at Kurri Police Court, and remanded to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Appeal Poison Murder Case Armstrong to Die LONDON
The Attorney General has refused permission for Herbert Armstrong, convicted of the murder of his wife by administering a dose of poison, to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Friends Fall Out Street Corner Blow Murder Charge Follows MELBOURNE
Percy Draper, of Ascot Vale, was charged at the City Police Court today with the murder of Eugene Patrick Walsh (25), of West Brunswick…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court
At the Newcastle Police Court on Saturday, before Mr. A. G. Chiplin, C.M., three persons, who had been charged with drunkenness for the first time, did…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Month for Stealing
Glyn Raynes pleaded not guilty at Maitland Court this morning to the theft of a quantity of rope and a tent-fly, the property of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Queensland Murder. Brisbane
Clive Beckett, 16 years of age, who was wanted in connection with the Biggenden murder, was brought into Biggenden in a buggy by a bullock driver named…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Child Murder Trials Suggested Change in Law
Where a woman is charged with the murder of her infant child, and upon the trial evidence is given that at the time the offence was committed the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Factories on Fire Belfast Incendiaries Attack on Police London
Last night six factories in Belfast were completely destroyed by incendiary fires, and one particularly burnt down…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Is It Legal? Basic Wage Full Court Argument Big Bar Engaged Sydney
Nine barristers occupied the whole length of the Industrial Court to-day, when the fell bench of four judges sat to hear argument on the question…
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