Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M.)
On the application of the Australian Agricultural Company, judgment creditor, for whom Mr. B. A. Helmore appeared, a summons was ordered to issue…
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Courts & crime, 1923
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Licensing Court. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw. S.M., and Dr. W. Nickson, L.M.)
A transfer was granted of the license of the Terminus Hotel. Merewether, from W. J. Oakley to C. Priest. An application by H. R. Chadwick for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Assault
John Sylvester Bradley was charged with having improperly assaulted Jennie M'Carthy, at Lambton, on April 26, 1923 Accused, who pleaded not guilty, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Escape From Gaol
A message from Chester, Illinois states that 17 convicts who escaped from the State Hospital for Criminal Insane are still at large. They are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fight in a Gaol
A telegram from Napanoch, New York, states that, led by a giant negro, 400 rioting convicts attacked fifteen unarmed guards In the mess hall of the…
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A Frankfurt message states that as the outcome of fierce street demonstrations by Socialists and Communists, Dr. Hans the State Attorneys was brutally…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Assault and Robbery Abermain Case Thirty Months Sentence
"While awalt[?] trial, my wife died. That was a big punis[?], and I have three children left to the mercy of the world" was the p[?] for leniency made…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Valueless Cheques 15 Months' Gaol "Not Very Scientific"
"I would have Riven him 18 months only for that." said Judge Hamilton at Maitland Sessions yesterday afternoon, in reply t Mr. Carlton, who…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, July 25. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M.) Dunkenness, Etc
The bond of one first offender, charged with drunkenness, was forfeited. Two ethers similarly charged were admonished and discharged. Edward Kennedy,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Lambton Park Alleged Assault On Girl. Bradley Acquitted Jury Locked Up All Night
John Sylvester Bradly pleaded not guilty yesterday afternoon at the Ma[?] Quarter Sessions to a charge of indecent assault on a girl at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Threatened King Ex-Inspector's Dismissal "Murder Me In Prison" LONDON
Ex-Inspector Syme. a notorious figure in the law police courts since his dismissal from the metropolitan police in [?], in consequence of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →De Valera in Court Sued by Government Republican Trust Funds LONDON
[?] Cosgrave, General Mulcahy, and other are suing De Valera and others in the Dublin court for the return of 10,000 dollars which was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Murder Death of Young Woman Newcastle Chemist Charged Dying Depositions in Kurri Hospital
"The defendant is a chemist The dying depositions taken of a young woman at Kurri Hospital implicated the accused as using an instrument upon her, causing septicaemia. When the accused was taken to Kurri. the woman wan unconscious, and…
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Thompson Cecil Hibberd (22) and Charles Kennedy (25) were similarly charged before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M., at the Newcastle police…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Against World's Court Harding's Plan Attacked "Futile Agency" European Policy Denounced VANCOUVER
President Harding, on his arrival at Vancouver, declined to comment on Senator Hiram Johnson's attack last night on the president's world court…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Penalty for Assault
In the Adelaide Criminal Court, Mr. Justice Poole ordered six years' imprisonment with hard labor for a man who had committed an assault…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Teralba Police Court. Thursday, July 26. (Before Mr. J. Laidlaw, S.M.)
Alexander Roy, senior, for being drunk, was fined 10s, or 21 hours. Thomas Steele, for being drunk and disorderly, was fined £2, and 8s costs,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court Friday, July 27. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
Two persons, charged with drunkenness for the first time, were admonished and discharged. Joseph Ross, 40, was fined £1, with the alternative of seven…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Quarters For Merewether Police
Merewether police quarters will be removed on August 6 from the present rented place in Railway-street to new premises in Hickson-street, next…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Trunk Murder Mystery Another Remand Granted. Sydney
Alfred Heaydon, 32, Frank Taylor, 33, Edward Riley, 41, and Ellen Kreigher, 26, who are together charged with being accessories after the murder of Gertrude…
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