Attempted Murder Charge Against Mental Patient Withdrawn
At the Wollongong Police Court, last week, Roy Henry Hoyland (47), mental patient, was charged with shooting at…
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Ten Years’ Gaol for Vicious Attack on Young Girl
Sentence of 10 yearsâ penal servitude passed on powerfully built aborigine, Clive Francis Merritt (23), pugilist, follower…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bega Court (Before Mr J. A. Balmain, Police Magistrate)
On Tuesday last the following cases were heard:— A Young man a first-offender, was fined 10s or the rising of the Court,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nowra’s Slum Area Worse Than Anything in the State Says Police Sergeant
Within the Nowra town area, according to the health inspector (Mr. J. J. Carrall) are houses in a dilapidated…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →[?]Pplied Wine to Aborigine Man Fined Five Pounds at Nowra Police Court
Jack Carroll, an aborigine, well known in Nowra, was probably denied a swell âplonkâ party on December 15th last,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Caught Stealing Spuds From Farm at Cambewarra During Vegetable Shortage
When charged with stealing potatoes to the value of one shilling, Oliver James Rossitor told Constable Hale, of the Nowra…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Had Pistol Under Pillow Boy’s Mother Complained to Police
James Frederick McGrath, a youth about 18 years of age, was fined £1, with 8/- costs of Court, at the Nowra Police…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wife Gives Evidence Again Husband Who Called Woman a “Kromo” and Said She Should Be in Gaol
âSpeak the truth and be a man for once,â said Mrs. Sarah Quinn to her husband, Herbert Francis Quinn, when he was…
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