Motorist Robbed Brutal Assault Footpads Hold Up Car
SYDNEY, Thursday.—While returning by motor car from Mittagong to his home at Colo Vale at about 10 o'clock last night, Frank Walto was…
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Courts & crime, 1928
3,215 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 7 of 161
Ten Years Gaol Espionage Trial Guilty on All Counts
LONDON, Thursday.—James McCartney and Paul Hansen,who are charged with espionage at the Old Bailey, were to-day sentenced to ten…
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Adolph Hotelling, who fiendishly murdered a five-year-old girl, Dorothy Schneider, has been sentenced to life imprisonment on the grounds of insanity. He previously…
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A ballot of carpenters and joiners throughout Australia has resulted in the decision to abandon the Arbitration Court as a means of settling disputes. The men from…
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The police had to be called to the office of the Breadcarters' Union at the Trades Hall yesterday when several men dashed into the office declaring that they were…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—George Saunders (25), pugilist, and William McRitchy (27), laborer, were sentenced to three months' hard labor at the Central…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"It Was Foolish." Traveller Charged With Stealing Letter
SYDNEY, Friday.—At the Central Court to-day, Reginald David Warren (39), a traveller, was committed for trial on a charge of having stolen a…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--John Charles Stewart, aged 23, who escaped from Yatala labor prison, South Australia, last year, and was re-captured some…
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At the Central Police Court to-day Roy James Reid (250, a labourer, was committed for trial on a charge of having assaulted John Mullane and robbed him of £7…
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Erik Rasmussen (21) and George Spiegle-glass (20), described as "international police," were committed for trial at Manly Police Court to-day on a charge of having…
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PARIS, Thursday.—The murder of the chauffeur, L. Faure, has developed into a first class mystery, his body not being found at the spot indicated…
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LONDON, Sunday. -- The week-end witnessed cinema like police activities in London which may be associated with the brutal murder of Police…
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Burglars broke into the proimses of Frank Bevan and Sons, Ltd., last night, forced the safe, and stole over £800, including cheques…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Like a Cinema London Police Surprise Motorists Murder of Constable Discovery of Loaded Revolvers London
The week-end witnessed cinema-like police activities in London which may boe associated with the brutal,murder of Police Constable Gutteridge on…
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PARIS, Saturday: -- Indignation has been are used all over France by what is described as one of the most baffling and dramatic crimes that country has…
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A somewhat sensational development has taken place in the case of the murder of the footballer-Lewis on October 29. There is a definite medical challenge that Lewis…
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LONDON, Saturday: -- A somewhat, sensational development in the Lewis murder case in which John and Edward Row[?]ands and Deniel Brisocoll…
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Jampa Kenny (17), clerk, was remanded to February 21 on £1000 bail at the Ceutral Court to-day on a chage of havag stolen £5265 8s, the properly of the Melville Road…
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NEW YORK, Sunday: -- A message from Albany, N. Y., says the most serious charges of malfeasance in office made against a woman since power to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Casino Police Court Charge of Burglary Casino
At the police court this morning, before Mr. P. H. D. Sutherland, P.M;, John Williams, a young man, described by the police as a stranger to the district, appeared…
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