Serious Disturbance. Crowd Fight with Bottles and Stones. Police Threaten to Use Revolvers. Portland
Northern Star · Wednesday 13 May 1908 · page 5
A serious disturbance occurred here on Saturday night among a number of men who recently arrived in search of employment…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Dead Man" Returns. Wants His Property Back. Court Refuses to Make an Order
Northern Star · Wednesday 13 May 1908 · page 7
In the Banco Court on Wednesday, before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Pringi and Mr. Justice Sly, the proceedings which were opened some time ugo in a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Habitual Criminal. Sentenced to 29 Years' Gaol. Sydney
Northern Star · Thursday 14 May 1908 · page 3
Sydney Wakehhm pleaded guilty to-day to five charges of stealing from a dwelling and larceny; and was sentenced to two terms of seven years and three of five…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Actor Charged with Bigamy. Melbourne
Northern Star · Thursday 14 May 1908 · page 3
James Atholwood, a wall-known actor, was committed for trial at Melbourne today, on a charge of bigamy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lismore Police Court. Wednesdy, May 13
Northern Star · Friday 15 May 1908 · page 4
Before Mr. Fitzhardinge, P.M. Dr. Muller was charged with driving a motor car at more than six miles an hour round the corner of Dawson-street. He…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Poisoning. Young Girl Charged. Sydney
Northern Star · Friday 15 May 1908 · page 3
Annie Maria Barrett, aged 16 years, was charged at Braidwood with maliciously administering poison to a dressmaker named Annie Ware. Evidence was given to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Paltry Salary. Magistrate's Severe Comment. Melbourne
Northern Star · Friday 15 May 1908 · page 3
At the Footscray Police Court, Victoria, yesterday, Richard Perey, Vivian Nicholson was found guilty of embezzling £83 from the Commercail Bank…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Solicitor and Magistrate. "Ability As Good As Yours." Sydney
Northern Star · Friday 15 May 1908 · page 3
A solicitor was ordered out of court by Stipendiary Magistrate Smithers to-day. The latter told the former that he did not know how to conduct a case…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Special Mining Court. Sydney
Northern Star · Friday 15 May 1908 · page 3
Judge Heydon has stated that owing to the great pressure of work before the Arbitration Court, it will be quite impossible for him in find time to resume…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charge of Murder. Two Sailors Arrested. Wellington (N.z.)
Northern Star · Friday 15 May 1908 · page 3
Olaf Hanan and Andrew Andorsen, belonging to the crow of the Collier Canopus have been arrested at Westport on a charge of murdering [?]nest Burke, of Reefton,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Asmysterious Death. Body Exhumed. Possible Poisoning Charged. Startling Developments. the Detectives' Inquiries. Peculiar Circumstances. Sydney
Northern Star · Friday 15 May 1908 · page 2
To-day the body of a man who died lately at one of the city hospitals, was exhumed from the Waverley Cemetery by order of the City Coroner, and it is possible…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Assault and Robbery. Heavy Sentence. Sydney
Northern Star · Saturday 16 May 1908 · page 9
Jumes Harris, convicted of assault and robbery, was sentenced to five years penal. srrvitude. The Judge suid the prisoner got into thoe company of those othor men who…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wholesale Secret Murder. LONDON, 8
The Byron Bay Record · Saturday 16 May 1908 · page 8
The American police have discovered a system of wholesale murders, the bodies of the victims being disposed of by burial on a farm occupied by a man named…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Shocking Disclosures. Son and Daughter Charged with Manslaughter Wellington (N.z.)
Northern Star · Saturday 16 May 1908 · page 9
Margaret Robinson, a widow, agted 61, died suddenly at Christchurch. The police who wont to rcmove the body found revolting conditions and the body was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Charged with Child Murder. Melbourne
Northern Star · Monday 18 May 1908 · page 3
A young woman, named [?]izzie Anderson, was arrested at Melbourne on Friday night on an alleged charge of wilfuly murdering an infant by strangling it with a piece of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Car-drivers Assault Motor Bus Men. London
Northern Star · Monday 18 May 1908 · page 3
Car-drivers of Dublin assaulted the motor ' busmen because the 'buses were brought from London. Serious fighting took place and many…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Attempted Murder
The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 19 May 1908 · page 4
AT the Croydon Police Court last week Alexander Wilson, who is 18 years of age, had been for some time keeping company with a young girl…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Casino Police Court. Saturday, May 16. Before Mr. R. Page, J. P.
The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 19 May 1908 · page 2
James Summergreen, charged with being drunk at the rececourse gates on Friday, was fined 10s or four days; charged with using indecent language, fined £2 or one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local Option Court
The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Tuesday 19 May 1908 · page 2
THE Special Court under the amended Licensing Act was held in Grafton, Messrs. M. H. Fitzhardinge (P.M., Lismore) and Mr. Allautt (P.M. Glen Innes) taking their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Franco-british Exhibition. Westralian Court Completed. London
Northern Star · Tuesday 19 May 1908 · page 3
The West Australian Court at the Franco-British Exhibition is completed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →