Police Court Comedy
It is not often that the courts of Now South Wales lose their dignity; but it hung perilously in the balance at the Glebe Police Court on Thursday last. The…
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Courts & crime, 1924
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Prison Escapee Sentenced
PERTH, Thursday.—Paul Lempriere, whose identity with Claude Devere, the Victorian prison escapee and holder of a long record, was established on his arrest in Perth last…
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AUCKLAND, (N.Z.), Thursday.--Robert Henry Scott (33) has been arrested for the outrage and murder of Gwen Murray (14) at Gisborne…
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Before Messrs. J. D. Condon, and J. R. Goodsir, J's.P., at the Mullumbimby Police Court on Wednesday, William George Lindsay King, of Myocum, was…
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MELBOUKNE. Thursday.—The City Court was crowded to-day, when "Squizzy" (Leslie) Taylor, Michael Costello (exwarder), Albert Arms (chauffeur), Charles…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.--The hearing of the charge against Ernest Baxter, inquiry agent, George Hessman and Ronald Shakleton, of having endeavored to…
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Recently two police prosecutions, heard before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, P.M., at the Mullumbimby Police Court, failed. One was a prosecution of an hotelkeeper…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Joseph William Clark (72), employed for a number of years as watchman in Ferndo Buildings, Flinders Lane, was…
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At the Murwillumbah Police Court yesterday before Mr. E. A. May, P.M., Nellie Lewis was fined 5, in default five minutes imprisonment for…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The detectives have been busy making inquiries into the whereabouts of Norman List, who is wanted for the murder of four…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--Late on Tuesday night a young woman, 22 years of age, a resident of Hurstville, was walking home with a man she had known…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The story of an alleged attempt to assault a young woman in a lonely part of Hurstville came out on Wednesday night, when a constable was…
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At the Copmanhurst Police Court last week, before Mr. W. B. Geddes, P.M., Patrick Carroll McGowan butcher, Copmanhurst, was charged…
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Gwen Murray, aged 14, was brutally murdered at Mokeraka, near Gisbourne, N.Z. on Monday night. She went to get the mail, and after…
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At a meeting of the Wingham Municipal Council, the Mayor (Ald Bird) brought on the matter of a demand by the Local Government…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--The story of an alleged attempt to indecently assault a young woman in a lonely part of Hurstville came out on Wednesday night, when…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.--Hundreds were unable to gain admission to the city court to-day when the trial was resumed of five men charged in…
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Mr. W. T. Missingham, M.L.A., has been informed by the Public Works Department as follows:--"With reference to your personal inquiry on 28th…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Police Officers' Association thinks that sergeants and constables should belong to different associations and has submitted a proposal to the…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The hearing of the charges of conspiracy to aid Angus Murray to escape from Melbourne gaol against Leslie Taylor,…
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