Alleged Bogus Agent. Accused Before the Court. Sydney
Detectives have arrested William Joseph Evans on five charges of false pretences. It is alleged that the accused carried on wholesale frauds by…
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Joe Warner. Again Before Court. Fined for Riotous Behavior. Sydney
Joe warner, the leader of the unemployed, was charged at the police court with having behaved in a riotous manner, and with having assaulted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ireland Court Martial Two Soldiers Sentenced. London, May 11
A court martial has sentenced two privates to 8 years' penal servitude for allowing Teeling to escape from Kilmainham…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court. Tuesday, May 10. (Before Mr. G. S. Shepherd. P.M.)
Christopher Turner was fined 10s, in addition to 8s court costs, or seven days' hard labor, on a charge of smoking in the Public Hall…
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Allan Williams and William Watson were again at the Central Court to-day charged with having conspired to da[?]ud the Inter-Ocean Trading…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sentenced to Five Years Roy Shortus' Penalty Liabie to Life. SYDNEY
Roy Shortus (who was convicted a the Darlinghurst Sessions of having robbed a man whom he half choked, was sentenced to five years' hard labor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Victorian Murder Not Guilty On the Ground of Insanity. MELBOURNE
A verdict of not guilty, on the ground of insanity, was returned in the Supreme Court at Geelong in the case in which Ernest Schefferle, farmer, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local Mining Court Warden : Mr G. James
Mr W. Bartlet appeared for the three applicates, Mr Heath, solicitor of Wagga, for Manus Proprietary Co; Mr J. Kelly, for Tombarum[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ferry Fares. Referred to Court. Sydney
Cabinet has decided to refer to the Profiteering Prevention Court the matter of the increased fares charged by the Sydney Ferries, Ltd…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Children's Court Extending the Age. Sydney
A deputation of women waited on the Minister for Education to-day and urged that the Children's Court should be empowered to deal with offenders…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Hush Money" (Published by Arrangement.) Enormous Temptation to Police
Under the heading, "U S.A. Whisky Ring," the London Times reports another of the baleful aspects of Prohibition in America:—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →American Strike Desperate Seamen's Riots. Conflicts with Police. Montreal, May 11
Balitmore reports striking seamen numbering 1,500 desperadoes .made several flerce attacks on non-union workers, chiefly negroes, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tumbl[?]ng Tragedy. Mrs. A. B. Peden Found with Throat Cut. Charged with Manslaughter Sydney Doctors Say Wound Could Not Have Been Self-inflicted
Quito a gloom was cast over Tumblong on Saturday when the sad news spread that Mrs. Hannah Jane Peden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grave Situation. Dockers Strike in Glasgow. Government Will Land Coal. Under Police Protection If Necessary. London
A grave turn in the industrial crisis centres in Glasgow, where the dockers have declared a general strike to prevent the movement of coal. Sailings…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charge Against Judd "If You Don't Stand Back, I Will Drop Some of You!" Police Had a Joh to Sove Him SYDNEY
Ernest Edward Judd was charged at the police Court to-day with behaving in an offensive manner, and with having had in his possession a revolver without…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Stalwart Police Court Mystery. Sydney
At Newtown Police Court to-day. Patrick Anderson was charged with being found in the yard of the house of Mary Swift for an unlawful…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“A Social Leper” Garrotter Sentenced. Sydney
Roy Shortus, the giant garrotter who was found guilty at Darlinghurst Sessions, was to-day sentenced to five years’ hard labor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Collapsed in Court Illness of Judge Backhouse Sydney
Judge Backhouse collapsed to-day while hearing a case at Darlinghurst Sessions and was removed to his home, after he had been attended to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Domain Disorder. Judd Before the Court. Fined for Carrying Revolver. Sydney
Ernest Edward Judd was charged at the police court to-day with behaving in an offensive manner and with having had in his possession a revolver…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sinn Fein Prisoners. Attack Gaol Warders. London
A number of Sinn Fein prisoners rushed the warders at the Strangeways Gaol, Manchester. There wan a sharp fight, but reinforcements arrived in…
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