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Courts & crime, 1928

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Crime in Sydney Police Make Arrests Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 March 1928 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

After having worked all Friday night and Saturday morning, Detective-Sergeants Sedgewick and Quinn and Detective Clark arrested a man…

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Victorian Police No Additions, Says Minister Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 March 1928 · page 2

The Chief Secretary, Mr. Prendergast, has announced that he does not intend to increases the police force. He says that nothing warrants additions…

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No Mutiny or Court Martial London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 March 1928 · page 2

An Admiralty communique states that the report of the Malta court of inquiry which investigated disciplinary matters affecting the three…

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No Mutiny or Court-martial London

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 19 March 1928 · page 1

An Admiralty communique states that the report of the Malta Court of Inquiry which investigated disciplinary matters affecting the three…

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Leeton Police Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 3

At the police court on Saturday last John Peacock, aged 30 years, was fined 10/- for being drunk in Pine Avenue on Friday. To a charge…

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Found Hanging Goulburn Gaol Inmate Goulburn

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 2

Frederick Emanuel Collins, aged 36 years, who had been serving a short term of imprisonment in Goulburn gaol was found dead, his body hanging…

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Additional Police Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 2

The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mitchell, said to-day that everything possible would be done to expedite the training of the 200 additional…

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Leeton Petty Sessions Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 3

The monthly sittings of the Leeton Petty Sessions Court commence at 2 p.m. to-day (Tuesday), when the charge against B. Governa, for the…

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Prisoner Suicides at Goulburn Gaol Hanged Himself with Braces GOULBURN

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 1

USING HIS braces to achieve his purpose, Frederick Emanuel Collins (36), a prisoner undergoing a sentence of 18 months at…

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Wife Murder Charge Domestic Friction Verdict of Not Guilty Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 2

Robert Norman Urquhart, aged 30 years, wharf laborer, stood his trial at the Central Criminal Court to-day on the charge of having murdered his…

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Shot Dead by Police Inquest on Alleged Safe Breaker, Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 2

The inquest concerning the death of William Henry Wilks, an engineer, aged 52 years, who was shot dead by Constable Burns at Manly…

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School Girl Murder Perth

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 21 March 1928 · page 1

An inquest commenced at Williams into the death of ivy Lewiz, 12, whose body was found some miles from home with her head shattered by shotgun…

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Amazing Message Police Issue Flood Warning Old Information Used

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 March 1928 · page 2

Yesterday the Wagga police received advice from the Superintendent of Police at Albury to issue a warning to all persons living on low lying…

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Naval Dispute Court Martial to Follow Officers Relieved of Duty LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 March 1928 · page 2

The First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. W. C Bridgeman, has announced that the H. M. S. Royal Oak court martial will sit at Gibraltar…

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The Police Court Wednesday, 21t MARCH

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 22 March 1928 · page 2

Before Mr. S. H. Donnelly, J.P., Leo Norman Morris, was charged with having at Canberra on 14th inst., stolen a bicycle, the property of…

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Bigamist Sentenced Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 March 1928 · page 2

At the Central Court Alfred Madden, 34, a laborer. was charged with having escaped from the custody of constable Overs. It was stated that…

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Escaped From Train at Cootamundra Bigamist Sentenced Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 22 March 1928 · page 1

At the Central Court Alfred Madden 34, a laborer, was charged with having escaped from the custody of Constable Owers. It was stated that…

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Native Sex Crimes Gaol a Joie Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 March 1928 · page 2

According to passengers who arrived in Sydney to-day by the steamer Marsina from Rabaul, punishment other than imprisonment will…

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Essex Murder Statement by Accused London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 March 1928 · page 1

When the hearing of the case in which Kennedy aud Browne are accused of shooting Constable Gutteridge on a lonely Essex road last…

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