Fined for Assault. a Champion Athlete
SYDNEY, Thursday.—E. W. Carr, the New South Wales champion athlete, and Ernest Burn were each fined £3 at the Central Police Court for having assaulted Leslie Nicholson,…
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Courts & crime, 1923
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Medical Man Charged. Jury Fail to Agree
ADELAIDE, Thursday.—The trial of Dr. Frank Gladstone Cowan on a charge of having committed a serious offence against a young woman has concluded. The jury…
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WELLINGTON, Thursday.—Three young men, William Makin, Leonard Makin and Percy Hawkins, were committed for trial on eighteen charges of forging Government…
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A selection at random from recent incidents in London Courts:— Applicant: "But the public courts are the places where justice is done."…
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SYDNEY, Thursday, Mr. C. W. Oakes, Acting Premier, in a statement to-day, said that, in view of the improved financial position, he intended to ask the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Stephen Tucker, after an exciting chase by two constables among the market gardens on the Macquarie River flats, says a message from Bathurst…
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BATHURST, Thursdayd.--Stephen Jas. Tucker, who was released from Bathurst gaol on Firday, was re-arrested after an exciting chase to-day and was charged…
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SYDNEY, Fridav.-- At the Darling hurst Quarter Sessions to-day Alexander Robertson, 24, who had posed as a cousin of Lord Louis Mountbatten at the…
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At the Lismore Police Court on Tuesday last, before Mr. T. W. Cohen, acting P.M., John Suiki, a sailor belonging to the s.s.Coolebar, was charged with stealing 45 feet of…
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At the, annual meeting of the Lismore branch of the New South Wales Police Association the following officers were appointed:—President, Mr. C. E. Cradock;…
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If the Inspector-General of Police would re-assume the role of the blithe young constable he once was, and undertake again the difficulties…
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Before Mr. A. E. Budd, Licensing Magistrate, at the Murwillumbah Licensing Court yesterday, David Cashell was granted a booth license, to operate at the…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. Alfred Carter, secretary of the Factory Employees' Union of Australasia, one of the largest unions of the Commonwealth, is severely critical of the…
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James Wilson, M.L.C., appeared at the Central Police Court on two charges, one of having been drunk in King-street, Sydney, on Tuesday night, and…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Three women, Nurse Hannah Mitchell, Queenie Mitchell, he daughter, and Margaret Milward, a sister of Hannah Mitchell, were arrested in Melbourne…
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The Queensland Justice Department is extending the accommodation at the Coolangatta police station. A new room, 27ft. x 16ft. 6in., is being erected…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—Benjamin Osgetta, a motor car driver, has been committed for trial at the Kurri Kurri coroner's court on a charge of manslaughter in connection with…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.--The police court was crowded to-day when Hannah Elizabeth Mitchell, 45, nurse, was charged with that she did on about November…
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PERTH, Saturday.—The condemned Malay murderer, Frank Matinem, who escaped from custody while being conveyed by train from Cue to Fremantle, surrendered to the police…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—The presence of lady stenographer in the Melbourne Criminal Court in the place usually occupied by a male shorthand reporter was viewed with…
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