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Courts & crime, 1928

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German Communists Clash with Police Berlin

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 May 1928 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

A clash occurred at Charlottenburg, three miles west of Berlin, in connection with the assembling of 70,000 Communists at Berlin from all over…

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"Error of Judgment" Asylum Patient on Murder Trial Jury Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 May 1928 · page 2

The report of the Inspector-General of Mental Hospital, Dr. Hogg, into the reason why Henry Beroard Raine, a voluntary military patient at Callan…

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Local and General Quarter Sessions and District Court

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 28 May 1928 · page 2

We understand that there is one ease for the Quarter Sessions to-morrow, before. Judge Coyle, and one for the District Court to follow…

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Police Court Thursday, May 24

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 29 May 1928 · page 2

Charles Kirby was charged with stealing a horse valued at £10, the property of Ernest C. Smith. Plea, not guilty…

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£1000 Furs Stolen Malvern Burglary MELBOURNE

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 29 May 1928 · page 1

The furrier's shop of Alfred Jackson, at Malvern, was broken into, and furs valued at £1000 stolen…

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Wagga Police Court Monday, May 28 (Before Mr. D.F. Parker, P.m.) Hotelkeebers Fined

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 May 1928 · page 4

Henry Theodore Cooper, licensee of the Pastoral Hotel, Wagga, pleaded guilty to a charge of having allowed persons to be on his premises during…

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Young Woman's Death Police Inquiring Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 May 1928 · page 2

Doctors who conducted a post [?] examination of the body of Delsie Smellie aged 26 years, single, who was found dead at the home of Mrs…

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District Court TO-DAY Before Judge Coyle. JENKINS v. KEAST

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 29 May 1928 · page 2

This was a case in which Thomas Jenkins had sold and delivered goods to the value of £26/15/, and court costs had brought the claim up to…

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Stealing From Railway Trucks

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 31 May 1928 · page 2

Norman Patrick Kane and Gordon Cyril Kane, railway employees, were convicted at the Murrumburrah police court on stealing two bags of…

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Criminal Escapes Walked Out of Court. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 31 May 1928 · page 1

Calmly lettering behind his escort, an accused man, said to be an inter-State criminal, eluded the officials at Redforn Court, and escaped. He was…

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Escaped Prisoners Alleged Criminal Walks From Court Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 May 1928 · page 4

Calmly loitering behind his escort an accused man, said to be an interState criminal, eluded the officials at the Redfern Court and escaped. He…

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Police Court To-day Before Mr. Harrison, P.M. Slaughter Yard Prosecution

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 1 June 1928 · page 2

E. E. and L. T. Guinlan, for whom Mr. Maxwell appeared, pleaded guilty to their Slaughter promises being round not up to the requirements of…

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Theft of Money Man Sent for Trial Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 June 1928 · page 2

At the Central Police Court to-day William Sullivan, aged 48 years, laborer, was charged with having stolen a [?] box containing £1799 the…

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Murder Charges Crown Not Proceeding SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 1 June 1928 · page 1

The Crown has declined to file a bill against Ethel Barber, who was committed from Macksville Court on a charge of having murdered her…

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Ordered to Shoot Alleged Assault Intent to to Steal Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 June 1928 · page 5

In the Central Police Court to-day William Clarke was charged with having with menaces and by force, demanded of Harold Frederick Browne the sum of [?]…

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Man Poisoned Arsenic Administered Wife Charged with Murder London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 2 June 1928 · page 4

The prosecution of Mrs. Pace, who is charged with having poisoned her husband, Harry Pac, opened at Col[?]ford to-day. The accused is…

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Junee Embezzlement Case Railway Clerk Sentenced

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 2 June 1928 · page 6

Before Mr. D.F. Parker, P.M., at the Junee Police Court on Thursday Hamilton Adair Duprez, railway goods clerk, was charged with having,…

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Sheep Stealing Forbes

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 5 June 1928 · page 1

Sheep stealing is rife in the Forbes district. The president of the Graziers' Association reports the stealing of two…

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Items of News Fined for Assault

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 June 1928 · page 2

Thomas Bateman was fined £4, with doctor's expenses, £1/0/ added, in [?] one month's imprisonment with hard labor before Mr. D.F. Parker, at…

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