Mr. Upton Sinclair. a Term in Gaol for Breaking the "Blue Laws."
The old puritanical ordinances of New York, nicknamed the "Blue Laws," because of the general melancholy they create by forbidding all…
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Court Proceedings. Case Against Hoskins Firm
On Monday the illegal action of the Hoskins firm in working its coal mine with persons unqualified as miners came before the local Police Court, when John…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Father's Awful Crime Saw a Moving Picture Murder Repeated It at Home. New York
Seeing a father shoot his daughter in a moving picture film, a man named Richetti, living in the Italian quarter of the city, went home and killed his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Motor Murder. Millionaire's Trial. Death of His Wife. a Peculiar Story. Chesterfield (Virginia), Tues
Giving evidence in his own defence Henry Beanie flatly contradicted almost the entire testimony of his cousin Paul, particularly the alleged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Strike at Hoskins' Works. Other Unions Prepared to Act. Strike Leaders Arrested.—police State Press Reports of Rioting Are Greatly Exaggerated
The big body of about 100 police that was concentrated in Lithgow as soon as possible after the trouble of Tuesday night, is still maintained there with little…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Wagga Police Court
At the Court House yesterday before Mr. J. D. Walker, C.M., John Fletcher was charged with drunkenness and with using bad language…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Saturday, September 2Nd. Before Mr. S. J. Hamblin, J.P.
William Jones, charged with being drunk in Larmer Street, was fined 2/6 or imprisonment until the rising of the court…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charge of Horse-stealing. Mother and Son Committed
James Donovan and Susanna Schouten were charged with staling a mare and foal, the property of M. J. Fahy. Mr. Lane appeared for Donovan,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Land Appeal Court at Hay
ALEX. McARTHUR appealed against the capital value of his c.p. and c.l. being conversion of two settlement leases, as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Land Appeal Court at Hay. Narandera Appeals
The Land Appeal Court sat at Hay on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday last week. Mr. Hanbury Davis appeared for the Crown…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sequel to the Crippen Case. Mr. Arthur Newton Before, the High Court. Serious Allegations by Law Society
Mr. Arthur Newton, the well-known solicitor, was respondent yesterday in a case it the Divisional Court, in the law Society was complainant (says…
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On Thursday, John Fletcher appeared before Mr. J.D. Walker, C.M., charged with being drunk and having used bad language. In defence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scoffing at Cadets. Police Court Action. a Salutary Fine. Adelaide
Since the establishment of the cadet force more or less trouble has been experienced at the drills of the lads owing to the interference of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murdered Stewardess. Lascar Sentenced to Death. London
The Lascar charged with the murder of a stewardess on the mail steamer, China, has been convicted and sentenced to death…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Thief Sentenced. Twenty-four Charges. Attributes Fall to Bereavement. Sydney
To account for numerous acts of stealing Walter M'Farlane told Judge Docker at the Sessions to-day that he had been driven to drink through…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cholera in Europe. Epidemic Rapidly Spreading. Turkish Soldiers Attacked Officers and Doctors Court-martialled. London
There is strict censorship over telegrams concerning the cholera outbreak in Italy, but alarming reports are current of widespread ravages of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Double Murder. Alleged Blackmailer's Revenge. St. Petersburg
An extraordinary double murder has been committee by an official of Uralsk. Two leading citizens of the place charged M. Livikin,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Constable Arrests Constable. Charged with Bad Language. Sydney
Plain-clothes Constable Quinn, while on a sly-grog shop hunt at Surry Hills yesterday, was arrested by another constable and charged him with using…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Killed in Quarrel. Alleged Murder in Hotel. Brisbane
At the Police Court to-day, James Lox Croft was charged with killing George Narborough. It was alleged the two men quarrelled in a hotel and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga Police Court Monday, September 11. (Before Mr. George Stevenson, P.M., and Mr. E.A. Fitzgerald, J.p.) Lurid Language
Thomas Strongman, charged with having used offensive language in a private yard, pleaded not guilty. Constables Grant and Corbett deposed…
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