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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1928

3,215 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 6 of 161

Alleged Cattle Stealing. Case From Mongogarie

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 2

On Monday Sergeant W. J. Ennis, officer in charge of the Casino police, proceeded to Leeville and arrested a well-known resident on a charge of…

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Alleged Assault on Driver Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 5

Leslie Sargent, one of the five youths charged with assaulting and robbing a taxi driver near Bowral, was remanded it Balmain Palice Court to-day on a charge of…

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Police Suspicious

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- The police are now inquiring into numerous bush fires and false alarms which have occurred in country districts recently…

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Confessed. to Brutal Murder

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 2

NEW YORK, Monday. -- A Flint (Michigan) message states that an elderly man confessed to killing Dorothy Schneider, who was kidnapped, and…

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Car Insurances Conspiracy Alleged Company's Assessor Charged Unusual Case

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday. -- An unusual case came before the Central Police Court to-day, when William Leonard Chambers (38), insurance assessor, was…

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"I Settled the Boy." Murder at Rydalmere

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday. -- Cecil Norman Crouch (23), an inmate of the Rydalmere mental hospital, was yesterday found strangled in his bed…

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Amusements Star Court Theatre

Northern Star · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 4

Once again picture patrons are to see the popular Ronald Colman-Vilma Banky combination in a spectacular and entrancing photoplay, "The Magic Flame," which is…

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Confession Murder of School Girl Flint (Michigan)

Northern Star · Wednesday 18 January 1928 · page 5

All elderly man has confessed to the killing of Dorothy Schneider, who was kidnapped on her way home from school and whose dismembered body was found in a…

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Police Court Murwillumbah Cases Unlawful Assault

Tweed Daily · Thursday 19 January 1928 · page 2

At Murwillumbah Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. F. R. H. Sutherland, P.M., Raymond Alfred Simpson, of Uki, proceeded against Percy Thorpe…

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Charge of Murder Melbourne

Northern Star · Thursday 19 January 1928 · page 5

John Hanson was committed for trial to-day on a charge of having murdered Florence Melvin at Ballarat on January 2. Evidence was given that Hansom when arrested…

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Astounding Court Scenes

Northern Star · Thursday 19 January 1928 · page 4

Filmdom has never achieved a greater realism tham is provided in the court scenes that are so prominent in "The Only Way," an adaptation from Charles Dickens' "Tale…

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Amazing Crimes Committed by French Youth Robbery, Fraud Murder

Tweed Daily · Thursday 19 January 1928 · page 3

PARIS, Wednesday.—The detention of a youth of 17 years, named Prieur, for robbing his great aunt of 60 francs, led to the discovery…

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Tin Hare Coursing Appeal to High Court

Tweed Daily · Thursday 19 January 1928 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—It was stated to-day that an appeal is to be made to the High Court of Australia against the decision of Mr. Justice Campbell,…

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Burglary at Grafton

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 2

Between one o'clock on Saturday afternoon and eight o'clock on Monday morning, the premises of Pratt and Schaffer. tailors, in Prince-street,…

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"International Police" Charged with Demanding Money Sydney

Northern Star · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 5

At Manly Police Court to-day Eric Rasmussen (21), a Dane, was charged with having demanded money from Maja Puhl by menaces and threats, and George Spieleglas…

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Theft of Shoes Alleged Sydney

Northern Star · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 9

Arthur James Dalrymple (37), a plumber, and Albert Iake Fitzsimmons (24), a machinist, wore remanded at the Central Police Court yesterday charged with having…

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Theft of a Car Accused's Admissions

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 1

At Tweed Heads Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. F. D. H. Sutherland, P.M., of Lismore, George Cecil Battye, and Mervyn Tod were charged with the…

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To Stand Trial. Alleged Theft of £2000

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 3

Police Court proceedings in the charge against Joseph James Petrie, commission agent, of having stolen £2000 belonging to William John…

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Assault on Policeman. Man with a Hammer

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 2

Sydney, Friday. -- A man attacked a policeman with a hammer outside the Criterion Theatre last night. After a terrific struggle he was overpowered…

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Murder Will Out. Motorist's Confession

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 20 January 1928 · page 2

London, Thursday. -- A Paris message statets the mangling of a Czech laborer at a railway crossing at Meaux (France) had…

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