Melbourne Gaol Attempted Release of Prisoner. £50 for Gaol Warder
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The authorities are still reticent regarding the alleged attempt to secure the release of the prisoner Angus Murray from…
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Courts & crime, 1924
2,959 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 7 of 148
Missing Bonds Bank Manager's Alleged Theft
BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Benjamin Carr was charged with stealing three £100 Queensland Treasury bonds, while acting as manager of the Red Hill branch of the Commonwwealth…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--A girl aged 13 years, was the victim of a brutal assault in a lonely part of Sans Souci yesterday. A man followed her along…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—According to official returns supplied by the Department of Prisons to the Minister yesterday, there. were 1433 prisoners confined…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The important work of drafting regulations under the recently passed Police Appeals Act is proceeding at the Chief Secretary's office…
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For the second occasion this month, Casino Quarterly Licensing Court was yesterday adjourned. The Licensing Magistrate (Mr. J. L. Shropshire), after…
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LONDON, Monday.—As no one in court was able to translate the evidence direct from English into Estonian, when Minkel Nakk, a young Estonian, was charged at…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—On Monday a woman's handbag containing £182 was snatched from under the owner's arm. It was recovered, an arrest made, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder Gang Operations in India. Europeans Greatly Stirred
CALCUTTA, Monday.--A savage murder, which is generally accepted as the work of a member of the revolutionary party, has deeply stirred the Europeans…
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CALCUTTA, Monday.—An armed Bengalese ran amok yesterday morning and shot Mr. Ernest Day, an employee of Kilburn and Co…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Nurse Mitchell, who has been remanded from time to time during the past couple of months at her residence on a murder…
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The Licensing Magistrate (Mr. Shropshire) yesterday adjourned the quarterly Licensing Court till January 22 for the reason that the requisite copy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Amusements Drama of Real Life Star Court Attraction
How many individual study the types of people around them? How many find the characters they see on the screen in the broad daylight of real life, perhaps in the business…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--A thirteen-year-old girl was the victim of a brutal assault at Sans Souci yesterday. Later in the day three members of the…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.âFashionably attired, Nurse Mitchell appeared in the City Court to-day for the first time since the charge of having murdered Mabel…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--The important Work of grafting the regulations under the recently passed Police Appeals Act is proceeding at the Chief Secretary's…
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A case in which the witnesses flatly contradicted each other was decided at the Murwillumbah police court yesterday, when Patrick Cavanagh was…
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SYDNEY, Wednesdays.--An unusual case was heard at the Glebe police court yesterday, when Annie Torrance, the mother of 23 children, 22 of whom are…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—In the metropolitan area proper during last year, the amount of property stolen was valued at nearly £160,000…
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In the Lismore Police Court yesterday, before the Police Magistrate, James Ross and Herbert Slade were each fined 20s, with 8s costs, for driving motor cars in…
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