The New Shah. "Severed Heads the Best Police."
LONDON, Tuesday.--The new Shah of Persia, Mohammed Ali Mirza, is vigorously enforcing order. He declares that a few severed bonds are the best policemen…
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Fraternal Festivities Court Commonwealth (I.o.f.)
The annual reunion of the members and their friends of Court Commonwealth, J.O.F. Petersham, to the number of 90 took place on Saturday last, the 12th inst., at Rodd…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Hours' Imprisonment. a Practical Joke in Court
A practical Joker in Clerkenwell County Court, London, last month, quietly approached the counsel's robing room while a number of barristers were within, turned the key, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →See-saw. High Court and Privy Council. What May Happen
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--As a result of the conflicting decision of the High Court and Privy Council in regard to the liability or otherwise of Federal politicians and civil servants to pay…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Ju-jitsu. the Police Practising a Pernicious Pastime. an Ill Advised "Advanoe."
The action of the Inspector-General of Police in issuing orders for the instruction of the members of the police force in the so-called art of ju-jitsu, can only be regarded…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Central Criminal Court. (Before Mr. Acting-Justice Rogers and a Jury.) Mr. Pollock prosecuted for the Crown. Alleged Serious Offence. Jury Insists on the Trial Proceeding. First Offender's Section Applied
William Henry Ellison, aged 17 years, was presented on a charge of having committed a capital offence upon a girl aged 11 years at Emu Plains, Penrith, on August 24 last. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stealing Brass
At Balmain Police Court yesterday Leslie Francis Shaw, 18, a labourer, was charged with stealing about [?]b or brass, value 36s the properly of Overall and Overall, at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Glebe Police Court. Congestion of Business
Although the Justice Department has found it necessary to considerably extend the office accommodation at the Glebe Court of Petty Sessions, owing to the increase in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Nurse Charged
Alice Hansen, married, 42, described as a nurse, appeared at the North Sydney Police. Court this morning on charges of having illegally used an instrument on three young…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Extraordinary Theft Gate Stolen From a Cemetery
How thieves managed to get a pair of gun-metal gates, weighing between 2cwt. and 3cwt over a 9ft. wall at the Kensal Rise Cemetery, London, Is a mystery…
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James Pyrman Millington, 35, a steward charged with maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm upon James Isbester on the 11th of January last, was brought before Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Js.p
The undermentioned superintendents of police hare been appointed to the Commission of the Peace:— Abraham Robert Sherwood, Sydney; William Richard Elliott, Albury; Alexander…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Courts. Committed for Trial
At the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Isaacs, S.M., Samuel Anthony, 18, labourer, and Thomas Laidlaw, 18, dealer, were committed for trial on a churge of having, between January 5 and 7, broken…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Courts. Liquor As Medicine
Thomas Crowe, licensee of the American Hotel, Kelly- street, was charged, at the Glebe Court, with selling liquor during prohibited hours on January 7. According to the evidence a woman came for brandy shortly after…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bankruptcy Court. Voluntary Sequestrations
James M'Innes, of wyangree, near kyogie, dairy farmer, Mr. L. T. Lloyld, official assignee. Annie Edith Amand Hokin, trading as Mrs. Hockin, of Millitary-road, Mosman, milliner. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Widows' Fund. a Prosperous Year
The N.S.W. Police Widows' Fund was founded some 17 years ago, with the object of doing away with the necessity of sending subscription lists among the members of the force on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Breach of the Bankruptcy Act Charge Against a Butcher Proceedings at the Water Police Court Accused Committed for Trial
At the Water Police Court yesterday Mr. Smithers S.M., continued the hearing of the charge against Francis William Seaton, formerly carrying on business as a butcher…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Alleged Murder of a Chinese. on Board the Steamer Ardmount
NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--At the City Police Court to-day, before Mr. Love, S.M., Jas. Robert Jeffrey and John Black, first and second engineers on the steamer Ardrnount, now lying at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When the Irish Charged. the London Unemployed Ran. Attempt to Raid a Church
The tactics of Tom Mann in disturbing the decorum of Melbourne churches ostensibly to direct attention to the unemployed did not extend for obvious reasons to the Catholic…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Whilst on His Holidays Alleged Theft of Forty Five Pounds Woman Committed for Trial
At the Water Court yesterday Cha[?]es Cha[?]ker, described as a labourer, was the prosecutor in a charge against May Hill alias Murphy…
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