A Young Girl's Trouble Youth Before the Court
It will be remembered that yesterday week a young girl named May Bentley was charged at the Newtown Police Court with attempting to drown herself in Cook's River,…
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Arbitration Court the Calling Together of Parliament Mr. Wade Interviewed
Referring to the subject of the calling together of Parliament to deal with the Arbitration Act, which will expire by effluxion of time on June 30, Mr. M'Gowen, M.L.A.,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Use of the Bike. Cyclist Police.a New Corps of Thief-catchers
The "agent cycliste" is nowadays so familiar a feature of the streets and boulevards of Paris that it seems hard to realise that his existence only dates from the Exhibition year of 1900,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parents Charged with Child-murder
At the South Brisbane Police Court, Arthur William Smith and his wife, Ellen Elizabeth Smith, were charged with the wilful murder of their child, Ellen Catherine Smith, aged two years…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Forgotten in Gaol. Paris, December 30
On Christmas Day a tramp applied at the Town Hall of Chaumont for shelter for the night. The one policeman of the town took…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Women Attack Police Station
More than 1000 women workers who are on strike at Hycres (France), attacked the police station there. They smashed the windows, broke in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal-mining Court
The special Mining Court at Newcastle on Tuesday had to adjourn till Wednesday owing to the boys at Dudley colliery not returning to work on Tuesday morning. The proprietors would not…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mask Murder Confession. Details of Tragedy in a Garrison Town. Love Frenzy. Berlin, January 2
Captain von Goeben's confession of the murder of Major von Schoenebeck, at Allenstein, on Christmas Eve, was wrested from him by confronting him with the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Before the Police Court
Robert Duggan, aged 24, was charged bo- fore Mr. Payten, SM., at the Newtown police Court this morning with breaking and entering the International Hotel and stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Mysterious Assault
Thomas O'Brien, 42, dealer, residing in Goul-burn-street. city, was taken to the Sydney Hospital on Sunday morning, suffering from a gash in the side of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chinese V. Gaol-birds
The Chinese having undercut the Europeans in the vegetable market,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Locked Up. Arresting Respectable People. Complaints at the Police Court
A young man was charged at the Water Police Court- this afternoon with using indecent language in Oxford-street, Darlinghurst, on Saturday night. He was arrested and taken…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Slashed with a Knife. a Night Assault
While a man named Thomas O'Brien, 42, a dealer, residing in Goulbuni-street, city, was walking along Geerge-street west between City-road and St. Benedict's Church about 2…
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Before his Honor Judge Rogers, K.C., and jury.—At 10 a.m.: Williams v the Chief Commissioner for Railways and Tramways. Before the Registrar: in No. 2 Court.—At 10 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder at the New Hebrides. Native Arrested
The auxiliary schooner Countess of Ranfurly, which arrived on Saturday from the New Hebrides, brought news of a murder at the Island of Sanio. Just before the vessel called, it…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →£1000 Worth of Jewellery. Recovered by the Police
ADELAIDE, Sunday. -- On Saturday evening the detectives recovered the jewellery stolen from Mrs. M. A. Stewart's residence at Paynham on Wednesday night. Two detectives in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Hotel Robbed. Smart Police Work. the Matter Solved
One of the smartest pieces of work recently performed in the metropolitan police district must be credited to the plain-clothes officers attached to the Newtown Station…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sentenced for Stealing
At the North Sydney Court, Hubert Baker (38) appeared to answer several charges of stealing workmen's tools and other articles at North Sydney and Mosman. A sentence of six months' imprisonment with hare labor…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Police Courts. Alleced Stealing
Sydney Collins, 16, labourer, was charged yesterday at the Central Police Court with stealing jewellery and other articles in the dwelling-house of James Warwood, at George-street, on September 2[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Bricklayer Charged with Stealing Workmen's Tools.)
Before Mr. Isaacs, S.M. at the North Sydney police Court yesterday, Hubert Baker 38. described as a bricklayer, was charged with breaking and entering the workshop of…
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