Magistrate Praises Defendant
It is not usual for a man who, finding that intoxicating liquor has dulled his faculties, asks a policeman to lock him up, yet that was done by a man last Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1928
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Breeze in Court
There was a lively interlude between Judge Curlewis and counsel for an accused during a case heard at the Darlinghurst Sessions in Sydney yesterday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, July 18. (Before Mr. W. I. Perry, S.M.) Drunk and Disorderly
Thomas Albert Birkett (50), labourer, was fined £5, or two months' imprisonment, for improper, language, and 10s, or two days, for being drunk and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bankruptcy Court Newcastle Examinations
Sickness and slackness of work were the causes given at Newcastle Bankruptcy Court to-day by Henry George Pritchard, coal trimmer, of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Body Riddled Chinese Shot Dead N.Z. Murder Dunedin
With arms outstretched, a Chinese gardener, Joe Chen, stood on a knoll and cried to his partner, Sew Pee, to help him…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Union Congress Plan for Control of Disputes Group System? A.W.U. Charged With Dividing Workers MELBOURNE
An extensive plan for the future control of industrial disputes was submitted at the A.C.T.U. congress to-day. A second set of proposals urging the adoption of the group system of initiation, control and settlement of such…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Efficiency
The Cabinet sub-committee dealing with the question of what methods should he adopted to increase the efficiency of the police force, particularly in view of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Police Court Thursday, July 19. (Before Mr. W. I. Perry, S.M.) Drunkenness
One first offender was dealt with for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Murder of a Chinaman Wellington
Joe Shem, a Chinese, did from three bullet wounds inflicted by an unknown man at Kyeburn Diggings, an old settlement, about 106 miles from Dunedin…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Cornkiller" in Court
Theodore McLennan, aged 55, a wel-known figure in Sydney streets, who was convicted some days ago on a charge of offensive behaviour, made another…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Divorce Court Congestion
Mr. F. S. Boyce, K.C., Attorney-General, has had under consideration for some time the state of the Divorce List at the ensuing Supreme Court sittings. He…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wanted to Fish Got Gaol Instead Laborer Who Begged
Thomas Hennessey. 42. a laborer, from Carlton. Melbourne had planned to go fishing to-day. If he hadn't attempted to collect a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Arrest Made Murder of Chinese DUNEDIN
It has now been definitely established that robbery was the motive for the shooting of Joe Chen, the Chinese miner, on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Acting District Court Judge
As there is a heavy District Court and Quarter Sessions list in the metropolitan district during August, an Acting Judge has been appointed by the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland District Court-house Improvements
For many years jurors in attendance at the East Maitland Court-house have been inconvenienced during trials by the limited accommodation provided in the jury…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Murder of Obregon an Act of Revenge. Mexico City
Jose Deledntoral, an art student, aged 23. without accomplices, assassinated Geleral Obregon, according to a police announcement…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Alleged Serious Assault
Described by the police prosecutor as a "desperate man, belonging to a gang which terrorises citizens of Sydney, and a notorious gunman," Norman McDonald,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Assault at Taree
Arthur Schubert, a war pensioner, was remanded at Taree Police Court yester day for eight days on a charge of having inflicted grievous bodily harm on Emily…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Police Court Friday, July 20. (Before Mr. W. I. Perry, S.M.) Begged Alms
Thomas Hennessey, 42, labourer, pleaded guilty to a charge of having begged alms in Hunter-street, Newcastle, on July 19. Plain-clothes Constable Avery said…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Swore at Police Seaman Fined
Joseph Stacey Saunders, 34, a seaman, got drunk in Robertson-street, Carrington. yesterday, and was taken in charge by Constable Hollis. On…
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