Circuit Court
The Maitland Circuit Court was opened at the East Maitland Court House, yesterday, before Mr. Justice Campbell. William Anxham and R. F. Leaver…
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Courts & crime, 1927
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19-Year-old Co-re. Assault Charge Fails
"I dismiss the case." said Mr. Perry, S.M., after having heard evidence. In the case in which Helen Jessie Worley, of 63 Albert-street, Wickham…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, April 19. (Before Mr. W. I. Perry, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
Four offenders, charged for the first time with drunkenness, forfeited the amount of their bonds, and another one was fined 5s, in default detention to the…
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Yesterday Constables Waldock and Fisher, of Newtown, went to Penshurst, where they arrested a man on a charge of having caused serious…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Licensing Court. (Before Mr. W. I. Perry, L.M.)
A booth license for the football match at the Soccer Ground. New Lambton, on April 23, was granted to Thomas Leslie Fines, licensee of the Lemongrove Hotel,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. W. I. Perry, S.M.)
In the claim by Hodgson's, Limited, against G. Whatling, of Toronto, for £6 7s, for goods sold, the sum of 5s had been paid off the account and a judgment was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, April 20. (Before Mr. W. I. Perry, S.M.) Stole Employer's Money
Leslie Roy was charged with stealing the sum of £20 17s 4d, the property of Frederick Charles Warburton, at Waratah, on November 18, 1926. Constable T…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wrong Boards Actress Scrubs Gaol Floor New York
Mac West, a popular author-actress and leading lady, was set to work scrubbing floors at the beginning of a nine days' sentence…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Circuit Court. Two £2500 Claims
Mr. Justice Campbell presided at the Maitland Circuit Court at the East Maitland Court-house yesterday, when evidence was continued in cases of William…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soviet Unmasked Its Chinese Policy Murder of Foreigners (Australian Press Association.) SHANGHAI
The following is a translation of a document, seized in the Soviet Embassy raid, marked "Strictly confidential":— "Herewith are enclosed instructions…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Licensing Court. (Before Mr. W. I. Perry, S.M.)
C. Bacon, licensee of the Toronto Hotel, was granted six months' leave of absence, to enable him to take a trip to England, and Mrs. Bacon was granted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Daring Theft. at Police Station
A daring theft of a ten shilling note was committed in the charge room at the West Maitland police station yesterday. A young man called at the police station…
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That he stole a 10s note from a drawer at the West Maitland police station, was the charge made against James William Thompson, before Mr…
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"It's no use reiterating that I don't like sending men to gaol," said Mr. Perry, S.M., at Newcastle Police Court to-day, "but sentences of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gibraltar Murder London
A message from Gibraltar reports that Lieutenant A. C. Duffield, 2nd East Surrey Regiment, was charged at the Police Court with having murdered his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court Thursday, April 21. (Before Mr. W. I. Perry, S.M.) Drunkenness
Donald Berriman (27) was fined 10s, in default two days' imprisonment, for drunkenness. A Violent Prisoner…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Murder in Brisbane Woman Shot Dead. Brisbane
There was a sensational occurrence in the heart of the city this morning at about 11 o'clock, when a woman was shot dead in the street…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Body in Sack West Australian Murder PERTH
The body of T. H. Currell, an old identity, who was farming with his son it Bowganda, 236 miles from Perth, was found near a haystack yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District Court. Two £2500 Claims
Mr. Justice Campbell presided at the Maitland Circuit Court at the East Maitland Courthouse yesterday, when evidence was continued in cases of William…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Rare Blooms Flower Seller's Theft SYDNEY
An interesting case of stealing was heard in the Parramatta Court yesterday, when George Siddall, a horticulturist, was convicted on a charge…
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