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Southern Highlands · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1924

55 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 1 of 3

Bank Defrauded. Large Sum Involved. Two Men Charged

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 6 February 1924 · page 4

Senior detective Piggott ami Detective Ethel have attested two men upon a charge of conspiring to defraud the English, Scottish, and Australian…

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Paddington Murder

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 2

Edward Williams, for whose arrest a warrant had been issued on a charge of having murdered his three children in a room at 57…

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Moss Vale Police Court. Before Mr. O. R Williams, P.M.

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 2

At the Moss Vale police court on Tuesday, Joseph Wright, of Wilde's Meadow, was proceeded against by Inspector Morris, of the railway…

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Burglary In Nowra. Premises Broken Into, £200 Worth of Material Stolen

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 13 February 1924 · page 4

Business premises occupied by Glass and Co., situated in Junction street, Nowra were burgled on either Saturday or Sunday night last…

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Missing Girl. Man and Woman Charged

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 23 February 1924 · page 2

Isabel Higgs, a girl of 18½ years of age, who bad been missing from her borne at Braidwood since January 24, called at the Central Police Station in…

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Mittagong Police Court. Horse Stealing

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 18 March 1924 · page 2
Also in Robertson Mail

On 12th March, before Mesons. G. Williams, P.M., and Mowle, J.P., Charles Preddy was charged with stealing a piebald pony, the property…

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Stealing Sulky

Robertson Mail · Tuesday 18 March 1924 · page 2
Also in The Southern Mail

At the same court Edward Charles Preddy and Joseph Allan Niles were charged with stealing one sulky, one set of harnesB, two overcoats and…

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Mittagong Police Court. Alleged Horse Stealing

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 22 March 1924 · page 2

Before Messrs G. Williams, P.M., and Mowle, J.P., on 12th instant, Charles Preddy was charged with stealing a piebald pony, the…

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Wants Her Baby Girl. Emilie Polini in Equity Court. Husband Has Nothing Against His Wife

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 2 April 1924 · page 4

Emilia Polini, the well-known emotional actress, who is now appearing in "The Lie," at the Sydney Theatre Royal, made application in…

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Are Police Corrupt? Grave Allegations

The Southern Mail · Friday 25 April 1924 · page 3
Also in Robertson Mail

Affidavits have been sworn by exmembers of the licensing police who were dismissed for taking part in the police strike, in Melbourne,…

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Charge of Stealing

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 3 May 1924 · page 2

At the Goulburn sittings of the Supreme Court on Monday before his Honor, Mr. Justice James, Ed ward Charles Preddy was arraigned…

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Charge of Stealing

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 6 May 1924 · page 3
Also in Robertson Mail

At the Goulburn sittings of the Supreme Court on Monday, before his Honor, Mr. Justice James, Edward Charles Preddy was arraigned…

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Inquiry Agent Charged

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 14 May 1924 · page 4

Ernest William Baxter, aged 45 yearn, was charged by warrant, at the Central Police Court on Wednesday with having, on or about…

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Moss Vale Police Court. Tuesday, May 13, 1914. (Before Mr. G. R. Williams, P.M.)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 17 May 1924 · page 2

Police v. Stanley Napper and Herbert Wotton for being found on licensed premises at a time when such premises should not be, open…

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Shot Fired. at the Police Arrest of Supposed Burglar

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 28 May 1924 · page 2

When cornered by the police in a residence at Coogee on Sunday night a man who was found on the premises hiding under a bed in a back bedroom…

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Young Hart Sentenced

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 31 May 1924 · page 4

Herbert Clarence Williams, aged 23 years. of Rockdale, was as charged before Mr. M'Mahon, S.M. with [?] himself in the Prince Highway on…

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