An Island Tragedy. Murder in the Solomons. an Engineer Butchered. Sydney
News of a cold-blooded murder in the Solomon Islands readied Sydney to-day. It appears that a white man named Jones, an engineer on the…
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Sensation in Court. Prisoner Throws Stool at Judge. London
Thomas Field, a burglar, while on trial at Birmingham, picked up a stool and hurled it in the direction of the bench…
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Says the Daily News:— A strange tale was told to the Wagga police on Monday by Robert Arthur Roach, who had come from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga Police Court. Monday, December 11, 1911. Municipal, By-law Offenders
For riding a bicycle on the footpath Louis Homann and Herbert Cowellwere fined 5/, and 6/ costs. On information laid against George Bellair…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mysterious Case. Alleged Assault and Robbery. Under a Cootamundra Bridge Patient in Wagga Hospital. the Police Sceptical
A peculiar case, emanating from Cootamundra, is occur[?]tion of the Wagga H[?] the Wagga police, an[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Monday. Before Mr. H. Giles Shaw, P.M. DRUNK, &c
Joseph Blake pleaded guilty to drunkeness and using indecent language, and was fined 5/- and 20/- BICYCLE CASE…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court. Monday, December 11, 1911. (Before Mr. Geo. Stevenson, P.M.) Drunkenness
Edward Heston, an elderly man, who was arrested in Fitzmaurice-street on Saturday night on a charge of drunkenness, pleaded guilty when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Evasion of Duty. Motor-car Importer Charged. Sydney
Mr. Flannery was instructed by the Commonwealth Solicitor to appear in the High Court to-day for the Minister of Customs in support of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charge of Blackmail Countess with £12,000 a Year. Case at the Bow-street Police Court. London
The three men, Francis Henry Page, William Henry Glendining, and Frederick Marshall, the last an ex-solicitor, were before the Bow-street police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court for Revising Lists, Etc
There was a large attendance of honorary magistrates to revise the jury lists for the year 1912. Mr. O. Stevenson, P.M., presided, and…
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Messrs. J. D. Walker, C.M., and J. Jeremy, J.P., were on the bench at the Wagga Court House yesterday morning, when Morley Alexander…
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Several cases under the Pure Food Act were dealt with at the Albury Police Court on Monday before Mr. H. F. Roberts, P.M. Mr. Guy Aubrey…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Cook at Salisbury Court. Refuses to Cook for Non Unionists, and Is Summoned.—case Won for the Cook
At the Uralla police court on November 30, before G. Atkin, Esq., Police Magistrate, James Higgins was charged, under the Masters and Servants Act, "that on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Adulterated Milk Comments by the Magistrate. Sydney
Albert Davey, a milk vendor, was fined £5 for selling adulterated milk. The magistrate remarked that fraud on the public had been carried out in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wagga Police Court. Tuesday, December 12, 1911. (Before Messrs. J. D. Walker, C.M., and J. Jeremy, J.p.) Insobriety
William Morrall, who was found in a very drunken state in Fitzmaurice-street, admitted his guilt, and was fined five shillings or one hour in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disorderly Council the Police Called In. Sydney
Great disorder prevailed at a meeting of the Randwick Council last night, during which the aldermen indulged in such epithets as "blithering…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Land Appeal Court Retirement of Mr. Brandis
Mr. C. Brandis is to retire, voluntarily, at the end of the year, from the position of a Commissioner of the Land Appeal Court, which he has held…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Looking for Notoriety the Alleged Cootamundra Assault. the "Injured" Man Abuses Hospital Staff. and Decamps on Early Sydney Express
Robert Arthur Roach, of 26 summers, a shearers' cook, who came to Wagga by train from Cootamundra on Monday morning, and reported that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Case for Wages Due. Belated Claim, and in Wrong Court
In the Sydney District Court last week T. H. Brandt, who had been a lift attendant in the employ of L. D. Borsdorff, proceeded for the recovery of £23…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Claims of the Merchant Service Guild. Preliminary Hearing in Commonwealth Arbitration Court
At Darlinghurst last week, Judge Higgins opened his hearing of the claims of the Merchant Service Guild of Australasia against the Commonwealth…
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