Stealing Charges Widow Pleads for Childbrn Sydney
Sentenced to two months' hard labor on two charges of stealing, Esther Allison, aged 34 years, widow, pleaded not to be separated from her children…
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Licensing Court To-day
The Wagga Licensing Court will meet this morning at 10 o'clock, when Mr. H. V. Wells, L.M., of Sydney, will hear an application by Lionel M. Scott…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Seizure of Motor Parts Sydney
Motor car parts and motor tyres, valued at more than £1000, were seized by police when they visited several houses in the suburbs, to-day. There…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colonel Mitchell Arrested to Appear in Court Next Week Melbourne
Lieut.-Colonel John Wesley Mitchell, 48, was arrested by detectives to-night and later charged at the city watchhouse with having between September…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →False Pretences Psychiatrist Favors Gaol for Women Sydney
The view that a gaol sentence would be the best means of correcting a woman who pleaded guilty to 24 charges of obtaining goods by false…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FORGED £5 NOTES 12 Persons Charged to Report to Police Daily Sydney
Arising out of the distribution of forged £5 Commonwealth Bank notes in the metropolitan area on Saturday, 11 men and one woman were remanded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gaol Escapee Elusive Brisbane
The police unsuccessfully searched to-day for Arthur Halliday, aged 30 years, who escaped from the Brisbane Gaol during a religious service…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wagga Police Warned
The Wagga police yesterday advised business people in Wagga to exercise care in cashing £5 notes with serial numbers beginning R over 22 and R…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court At Lockhart (Before Mr. I. Beavers, P.m.) Motor Traffic Cases
For offences against the motor traffic laws, F. W. Belling, Michael A. O'Leary and John J .McLean were each fined £1 and 2/4 costs; and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charged with Posing As A.i.f. Captain
Alleged to have been wearing the uniform of a captain of the Second A.I.F. when arrested, a man was charged at the Wagga Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →50 Posts Burnt in Grass Fire Police Enquire
APPROXIMATELY 50 posts of a fence running parallel to the Leeton-Yanco road were burnt in a grass-fire on Sunday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crowd Sees "Aunt Salty" Incident Police to Prefer Charges
MORE "knockouts" than would be witnessed in two or three stadium programmes was seen in two or three minutes during…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Youths Before Court Tried to Steal From Police Patrol Car Sydney
According to evidence at the Central Police Court to-day, Thomas M'Alistar, aged 18 years, and Ernest Robinson, aged 18 years, attempted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Assault Boats Ordered Contract for Sydney Firm Sydney
The minister for supply Development (Sir Frederick Stewart) announced to-day that Chapman Engineering Pty. Ltd.. Sydney, had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FORGED £5 Notes Twd More Men Charged Sydney
Charged at Kogarah police court to-day with having uttered a forged £5 note at a hotel on Saturday. Alan Stanley Clayton, aged 21 years, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£10,000 Damage Police Probe Queensland Fire Brisbane
Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed a hotel and eight shops at Manango last night. The police are investigating in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Escape From Lock-up Two Brothers Elude Police Sydney
Two Drainers, aged 23 and 28 years, who were committed for trial at Manly to-day on a charge of breaking, entering and stealing, escaped from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sensational Fracas in Leeton Street Police Court Sequel Leeton
A melee in Church-street Leeton on Anniversary Day in which about a men were engaged with bare [?] and in the course of which four…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Inquiry in Closed Court Sydney
After inquiring in a closed court in connection with the death of Allan Ford Dunstan, 48, the Hornsby coroner returned a finding of suicide. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Finding of Suicide Inquiry in Closed Court Sydney
After inquiring in a closed court, to-day, in connection with the death of Allan Ford Dunstan, aged 48 years, the Hornsby Coroner (Mr. Johnston)…
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