To Save Her Husband Wife Confesses to Murder
PARIS, Saturday.--A woman, charged at the Isere assizes to-day with killing her aged father with a sandbag, had confessed her guilt, but during the trial it…
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Courts & crime, 1924
2,959 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 6 of 148
A Savage Sentence Seven Years for Servant Girl. Theft of Diamond Ring
HOB ART, Saturday.--Una Wills (23) was sentenced by Mr. Justice Crisp to seven years' imprisonment for theft of a diamond ring valued at £60…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder of Heinz Entry of Germans Stopped. Rhine Bridges Closed
PARIS, Saturday.--A message from Mayence states that as the result of the assassination of Herr Heinz (the leader of the separatist movement) the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Not the Dinkum Oil the Lake Eva "Discovery." Two Men Charged With Fraud
PERTH, Saturday.--The Lake Eva oil find, which was dissipated by the sensational results of the analysis by Government officials, had a sequel in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Germany's Troubles Renewed Separatist Activity Aftermath of Heintz's Murder Allies Close Rhine Bridges (Reuter.)
BERLIN, Saturday.—Germany is practically depending upon London and Paris, for news of the Speyer affair. Presumbly the Separatists have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Around the Ferries Novel Sight for Passengers. Police Fish Out Naked Swimmer
SYDNEY, Saturday.--For a wager last night a man divested himself of all his clothing, dived into the harbor at Circular Quay and for about 15…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murwillumbah Police Court
At the Murwillumbah Police Court yesterday, before Mr. E. A. May, P.M., Robert Blair was fined 10, in default three days' hard labor for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gang Brutally Assault Boy
SYDNEY, Monday.—James Harden (14) was standing at the coiner of Fronton Avenue and Sydenham. road, Marrickville, last night, when a gang whose ages ranged from 14…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ex-bank Official Charged
BRISBANE, Monday.— Benjamin Carr, who resigned the position of Acting-manager of the Redhill branch (Brisbane) of the Commonwealth Bank three months ago, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gaol to Hospital Operation on Gandhi. Appendix Suppurating
BOMBAY, Sunday.--Gandhi, the Nationalist leader, who is undergoing a term of imprisonment for sedition, was removed from gaol yesterday morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Quarterly Licensing Court
When the quarterly Licensing Court opened yesterday the Police Magistrate (Mr. J. L. Shropshire) said that the amending bill of 1923 had been passed, but no copy has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nipped in Bud Alleged Scheme for Escape Melbourne Gaol Episode
MELBOURNE, Monday.—A young man named Albert Edward Arms, chauffeur, was arrested by Detectives Duffie and Sakie on a charge of loitering with intent to commit…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →North Coast District Court Work
At the meeting of the Grafton Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday last a paper on law reform by Mr. Frederick McGurren, senr., solicitor, was read, in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Prohibition in America. Radical Police "Shake-Up."
NEW YORK, Sunday.--Two of America's largest cities are undergoing an extremely radical police shake up as the result of an effort to rid the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Clean-up "Crime and Vice Must Go" Wholesale Police Dismissals
NEW YORK, Sunday.—The two largest American cities are undergoing an extremely radical police shake-up in an effort to rid the municipalities of crime and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Amusements To-night's Star Court Film "The Third Alarm"
A large attendance saw "The Third Alarm" the thrilling master picture, at the Star Court Theatre last night. The mariner in which Mr. Emory Johnson, the producer,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nurse Mitchell. Charged with Murder
MEELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Nurse Mitchell, fashionably attired in a blue costume, with a hat to match appeared in the city count to-day for the first…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cowardly Assault
Considerable excitement was occasioned at Greenmount boardinghouse, Coolangatta, on Thursday morning when it was known that a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Gaol Episode. £50 for Gaol Warder
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The autherities are still reticent regarding the alleged attempt to secure the release of the prisoner Angus Murray from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Attempted Gaol Escape
MELBOURNE Tuesday.—Although it is generally conceded that the prompt action by the authorities frustrated the plot to rescue a notorious criminal from the Melbourne…
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