"Only a Joke." But Carried Too Far. Theft From Local Draper
While Thomas Rowe, a draper in Church street, Parramatta, was serving two customers in his shop on Wednesday afternoon, a man named Edward Kable, who…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Courts & crime, 1924
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A Girl and a Gun in Police Court Case Alleged Threatening Demand--A Night Incident at Darlinghurst
It had been stated to the police that a man named Claude Brown wits bailed up in a girl's room at Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, on. January 31, by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Alleged Murder. Discovery of Body. London, Feb. 1
The disappearance in September last of George Cooper, an engineer's patternmaker, who occupied a modest villa at Brilington, a suburb of Bristol, had sequel in the arrest…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →"Stick Together" Police Association Sundering Opposed
The contention reported to have been made at a conference of the officers' Association of the police force that It would be more in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tuesday, February 5. Supreme Court
In Chambers.—Before the Deputy Prothonotary—In the Prothonotary's Public Chamers—At 10 a.m.: [?] v Ford, examination of judgement debtor; [?] and Sons, Ltd., v Woolgar, same…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Audacious Plot What Warders Found Gaol Sensation Five Men for Trial MELBOURNE
Great public interest was manifested to-day in the continuation of the case in which Leslie ("Squizzy") Taylor and four others were charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motorist in Court. Sequel to Accident
Ernost Walker Abercrombie, at the Paramatta Police Court on Thursday, was charged with driving a motor car, while under the influence of intoxicating liquor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →America Frees Only Real German War Spy Left. Sentenced to be Hanged:—Saved by President Wilson
LOTHAR WITZKI, alias Pablo Wiberski, the only man tried and convicted as a German spy in America during the World War. was recently released from the…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Gaol Plot. Plans to Escape. Help For Angus Murray. Sidelights on Prison Life. Melboubne
Further remarkable details associated with the Crown case in regard to the alleged attempt to give Angus Murray his freedom were heard at the City Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Breaking Into Melbourne Gaol Another Plot To "Rescue" Murray Victoria's Walk-in Walk-out Prison
AN outline of the three separate plots with the apparent object of releasing Angus Murray from the Melbourne Gaol that ended in the fiasco of Sunday morning, January 13, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Law Notices. Monday, February 4. District Court
Before his Honor Judge Scholes.—In No. 1 Court 10 a.m.: All undefended actions, and afterwards [?] following matters:—In the matter of the [?] Compensation Act, 1916, and in the matters [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Family Tragedy Murder and Suicide Four Persons Found Dead LONDON, January 31
A fourfold family tragedy has occurred near Portsmouth. Albert Gamblin. licensee of the Vine Inn, which is a well-known huntinga…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"For Discipline" Move by Police Officers Mr. Fortescue's Reply
The passing of the resolution at the annual meeting of the Police Officers' Association to the effect that noncommissioned officers of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Convicted, Insane, and Then Emigrated Newcomer Charged at North Sydney --In Trouble in the Old Land
The list of criminals who get into Australia under the immigration scheme grows dally. One young man of twenty years, who was arraigned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Girls Insulted On Illawarra Trains Story in Court
That girls [?] subjected to [?] on the illawarra trains front men attemptiny to rub Knees, whistling to and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Body in the Bag Slow and Silent "Murder" of the O.b.u
The O.B.U., which at odd times over the past three years seemed so real a menace to social peace, is being slowly strangled to death. The body is even now bagged up, but the undertakers may allow it to die properly before conducting the burial…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Chum's Threat to Shoot Thief He Loses His Cash, and Also His Revolver--A Dangerous Man, Says Magistrate
Arthur Lethier Watts, a country worker, who recently arrived in Australia, admitted to Constable Nuss that he had made a threat to shoot a thief…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Labor's Ladies No Court Dresses Queen Changes Custom London, January 31
As a corollary to the King's concession in the matter of men's dress at Royal levees, it is believed that the Queen approves of ladies attending…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Love of Humanity." Rehabilitating the Prisoner. Tribute to the Police. Local Association's First Banquet
O, God! that men would see a little clearer, Or judge less harshly where they cannot see!…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Turmoil in Japan Political Riot Flasks Thrown--fists Used Police Patrols Ready SHANGHAI, January 31
Reuter's correspondent at Tokio telegraphs that the Japanese Diet has teen dissolved. "The dissolution proclamation was…
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