McCourt Memorial Fund
Mr. Ebb Davis (hon, sec.) interviewed Mr. F. A Badgery, M.P., at Parliament House on Wednesday, to ascertain what progress he was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Southern Highlands · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1914
97 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 2 of 5
Angry President. Threat to Court-martial 100 Officers. Burlesque Dinner
President Wilson and his Cabinet are highly incensed at the frolics of the Carabao Club, consisting of officers of the United States Army and Navy, who at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Golden Rule Gus." Giant on Giant's Job. Police Chief Who Cleaned Up City
Berkeley, the university city of California is said to be one of the cleanest towns, mor-ally ana physically, in the world, and the giant chief of police, Gus Vollmer, gets most…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Ghost. Latest Phase of "Third Degree."
The use of a ghost by the Los Angeles police in working the "third degree' on a man accused of murder has been denounced by the lawyers of the prisoner, who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Town Mourns Murderer. Hanged for Brutal Crime. March on the Gaol. One Youth Reprieved
Seldom does the execution of a murderer evoke such a demonstration of Indignation on the part of the populace as occurred at Manchester, when Ernest Kelly, aged 20…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Convict Captain's Sin. Breaks Down in Court
Contain William H. Heal, formerly of Hills-road, Cambridge, who is now serving a sentence of three years' penal servitude, broke down in the Bankruptcy Court in making an application for his discharge…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Girl Cashier and Man Friend Pathetic Scene in Court
Bobbins bitterly, Edith Overton, a girl cashier, pleaded guilty at Birmingham Quarter Sessions to stealing £350 from her employer. She blurted out, "I was drawn into it by bad company."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Link by Link; or the Chain of Evidence. a Great Detective Story. Chapter Iv. Murder and Mystery
I was a bachelor, but managed to maintain a cosy little household in a cottage near the water's edge, and a little east of the bridge that spans the Harlem at the head…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bowral Police Court. Seizing a Horse
The attention of Mr. Edwards, P.M., was occupied the whole afternoon at the above court on Tuesday last in hearing a case in which Alick…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Women As Police
Chicago is greatly satisfied with its experiment with the police women, ten of whom were appointed last August to assist in reforming the morals and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Little Girl's Travels. Mother's Right to See Her Child. Uncle Sent to Gaol
A little blue-eyed girl of seven or eight, with flaxen curls and a large hat with blue ribbons, was brought into Mr. Justice Astbury's Court in the Chancery Division,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Theft of Iron
A case presenting peculiar features was heard before Mr. O. A. Edwards, P.M., at the Moss Vale police court on Wednesday last, when an aged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →With the North-west Police. Tracking Fugitives. Hardships of the Journey
The authorities at Ottawa have received from Sergeant C. S. Harper an account of the journey made by a police patrol sent out from Lake Saskatoon early in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Strange Murder Case
St. Petersburg, May 4.—The trial has been opened at Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, of a man named Haletzky, who is charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Woman Charged
Alice Mabel Rankin, the young woman who was arrested on March 7 and charged with having [?] David Irvine, with intent to murder…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shocking Murder
A frightful crime was committed in Sorry Hills on Friday night, a married woman, Mrs. King, residing near the corner of Devonshire and Crowns' reels,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Federal Arbitration Court
The Federal Arbitration Court, during the time of my predecessor and myself has done a great and beneficial work for the people of Australia. It…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Threats of Murder
Melbourne, Tuesday.—Love so ardent but it found vent in three's of murder was alleged in the City Court to-day, or have centered the breast of a young…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Force
The State Parliament will in all probability be invited during the next session to consider the condition of the police force, and the various police…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Case of Julia Decies. London's Sympathy with Girl Shot Sleeping Lover. Seven Years' Gaol
The plea that at the time she shot Basil Piffard—a man with whom she had lived—she was in such a state of exasperation, jealousy, rage, and hopeless despair that…
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