Smith Helps Himself But Is Caught Singleton Shop Theft
It took over three minutes at the Newcastle Quarter Sessions to-day to read out the list of things taken by Walter Smith (36) from the general…
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Courts & crime, 1922
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Gaol Escapees Lads From Scone Pleas at the Sessions
The two lads who escaped from Scone look-up, while awaiting for trial for breaking and entering and stealing, were before the Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court. Monday, August 28. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
Ten Person, charged with drunkenness for the first time, did not appear, and their bail deposits were forfeited. Two other first offenders were each aged 58, or…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sentenced to See Movies Bad Boys' Novel Punishment Advised To Take Troubles To Mother
Bad boys in the American Juvenile Court were lectured by the Judge, and then ordered to see an uplifting film drama, which teaches the wholesome lesson that boys will keep out of gaol if they confide their troubles and temptations to their mothers…
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Mr. F. W. C. Crane, P.M., occupied the bench at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday. Victor Swanson was fined £1, in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fur Coat Theft Six Months' Gaol Australian in Trouble LONDON
Described by the police as the leader of a gang of Australian hotel thieves, George Oliver, a bookmaker's clerk, was sentenced to six months'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Maitland Assault
Rex Ambrose Waldon (27) pleaded guilty to having assaulted a female under the age of consent at West Maitland in June last "The depositions…
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Albert George Cullen was charged with having embezzled the sums of £20 and £20 at Boolaroo on April 7 and 21 last respectively, while employed as an…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Small Debts Court
W. A. B. Hunt, ex-hotelkeeper, of Sydney, V Henry J. Rose, hotelkeeper, of Newcastle, claim for £24 alleged to be due for goods bargained and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Tuesday, August 29. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.) Drunkenness
Five first offenders, who had been locked up for drunkenness, and admitted to bail, did not appear, and their bonds were forfeited…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Trouble Over Rings Alleged Theft From Shop Story of Chase Accused Committed SYDNEY
At the Central Police Court to-day Percy Lawrence, 34, was charged with having on August 22 stolen one tray of 20 diamond rings, of the value of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mrs. Kemmis on Her Way to the Coroner's Court
The widow of the victim of the Hor as by tragedy, photographed outside the Coroner's Court…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Verdict of Murder Some Person Unknown Hornsby Inquest Concluded Powell Says He Knows Nothing SYDNEY
The City Coroner, Mr. Jamieson, to-day resumed his investigation of the murder of Frank Cecil Kemmis, manager of the Hornsby branch of the Government Savings Bank. As on the first say, there was no crowd in the public part of the Court. There were not…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Licensing Court. (Before Messrs. W. Le Brun Brown and C. Hibble, L.Ms
The license of the Royal Crown Hotel, Dudley, was transferred from Henry Slavers to Albert John Hassall, and additional bar licenses were renewed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court. Wednesday, August 30. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.) Drunkenness
One first offender charged with drunkenness forfeited his bound, and three others were each fined 5s, with the alternative of two hours' detention. Ada Wilson (40)…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hornsby Murder. an Open Verdict. Sydney
Mr. Jamieson, the city coroner, to-day concluded the Inquiry into the murder of Frank Cecil Kemmis, the manager of the Government Savings Bank branch at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boy Merchant Annual Turnover, £12,000 Gaol for a Change
The commercial enterprises of a young merchant, who, at the age of 16, carried on a successful business with a turnover of something like £12,000 a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Youth and Age French Murder Case Two Sisters Sentences
The case of two sisters at the Loir-et Cher Assizes recently provides an interesting study for international criminologists (Says the "Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →General Strike French Expedient Police Use Aeroplanes LONDON
The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Mail" reports that a 24 hours' general strike was proclaimed throughout France, as a protest…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Suspected Robbers Strange Actions Police Take Serious View SYDNEY
Officials and police were in a state of alarm last night, owing, it is believed, to there having been a plan arranged to rob the New South Wales…
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