Indecent Language. Teacher Charged. Sydney
Stanley Mortlock, 29, described as a music teacher, pleading guilty to sending through the post a letter containing words of an indecent character…
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District Court. Local Slander Action. Madame Mussen.V Edgar Conkay. Plaintiff Two Hours in the Box. Afterwards Collapses. Subpenaed Witnesses do not Come. Verdict for Defendant Before Judge Bevan on Friday
At 11.40 the appeal case was adjourned to allow of striking the jury in the above civil case. Mr. Mason, instracted by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Guilty of Stealing. Sydney
Hannah Hughes, aged 17, was found guilty on a charge of stealing wearing apparel and chocolates valued at £3. She was sent to goal for two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charged with Causing Death. Sydney
George Rutherford, a barman, was charged at the Police Court to-day with having caused the death of Henry Dibley on Saturday. He pleaded not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wagga Police Court. Monday, February 25. (Before Mr. C. J. B. Helm, P.m.) Obliterated Number Plate
Cyril Heathcote Watson, appeared in answer to a summons, issued at the instance of the police, charging him with that be being the driver of a motor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lockhart Police Court Strange Case Against a Hotelkeeper
At the Lockhart Police Court last week, Mr. R. McLean, hotelkeeper, Milbrulong, was charged with using obscene language in a public place…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American Army. German Heavily Sentenced. Vancouver
At New York, Captain David Henkes, formerly a German, has been dismissed from the United States Army and sentenced to 25 years' hard labor by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Guido Baracchi. Three Months' Gaol. Melbourne
Guido Baracchi, the well-known law student, who was recently fined £50 for making statements likely to cause disaffection among the civil population and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court Tuesday Before Mr. F. E. Crook, J. P Under the veg
Very Townhand, pleaded not guilty [?] charge of having insufficient [?] of support. The evidence showed that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Recruiting. New Scheme Explained. Determining the Numbers High Court Judge to Act
The Prime Minister, Mr. W. M. Hughes, in elaborating the Federal Government's new recruiting scheme, made the following statement:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Modern Jack Sheppard. Prisoner's Ingenious Escape From Berlin Gaol
The escape of a criminal named Baronowski from the Moabit Prison at Berlin has created a sensation. Baronowski was in a cell between…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police and Firemen's Carnival
The members of the police and fire brigades have organised a mammoth art union in aid of the hospitals of the State. As the prizes have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court. To-day. Before Mr. H. H. Chippendall, P.M.
For cruelly illtreating a home, by working it whilst suffering from sore shoulders, Frank Barnett was tined £3 and 6/- costs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Missing Mail Bags. Sorter Charged. Sydney
Hugh Robert Riddell, postal sorter, was charged at the police court to-day with stealing, on or about February 25, a letter, the property of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Convoy. Attacked by Six Seaplanes. Enemy's Fruitless Assault. London
Reuter's Amsterdam correspondent, telegraphing on Saturday, says: A British tug, while towing the Swedish barque Maozilands from Rotterdam to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga Police Court. Monday, March 4. (Before Mr. C. J. B. Helm, P.M.) Alleged Stealing from the Person
Herbert Gray and John Harris were charged with having stolen a ten shilling bank note from the person of John Nathaniel Thomas, a farmer, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court. Saturday, March 2. Before Mr. E. Harrison, J.P.)
Daniel Holland was fined 2s 6d or imprisonment until the rising of the court, for being found drunk in East Street on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wagga Police Court. Tuesday, March 5. (Before Mr. J. K. O'Reilly, J.P.) Alleged Stealing
Japheth Ham Shan Bowen, 25, was charged with on or about March 4 at The Rock, stealing 10/, the property of Patrick O'Connor. No evidence was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Breaking and Entering. a Youth Charged. Sydney
Albert Goyen, 17, who gave his occupation as electrician's improver, was charged at the Burwood police court to-day with having, at Enfield, broken…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Appeal to Full Court. Sydney
During the referendum campaign. James Breen was fined £5 on a charge of having used insulting words. He was also ordered to enter into…
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