Alleged Assault What the Police Think of It
A girl seven years old is reported to have been molested by a man while she was returning home from school at North Ryde. The man, it is said,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Courts & crime, 1924
9,738 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 250
Alleged Sheep Stealing Sporting Man Arrested
ADELAIDE, Saturday.—A sensation was caused at Mannum to-day by the arrest of H. J. Werner for alleged sheep-stealing. Werner is the owner of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gaol for Forgery Anti-Saloon League Boss
NEW YORK. Saturday.—William Anderson, Stale Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of New York, has been sentenced to prison for a term of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Coming Traffic Court
It is gratifying to learn that the Justice Department has advised the National Roads and Motorists' Association that traffic cases will shortly be heard at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Paddington Murder Father Returns Violin Visit to Botany
A dramatic turn to the Paddington murder has been given by the discovery that Williams, the missing father for whom a warrant on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fisherman's Fractured Rib Beer and Bother at Bondi Assault Charge Fails
CHARGED with assaulting Albert John Feeney, occasioning actual bodily harm, a well-known contractor, George White, pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Veteran Offender Suspect With a Record Sentenced to 18 Months. Tell-tale Burglars' Jemmy
AN aged sinner, in the person of William Henry Allen, was convicted at Sydney Sessions of having been found with a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Chiefs Coming Campaign Against Crime MELBOURNE
Australian police chiefs are planning a new anti-crime offensive. Brigadier-General R. L. Leane, Chief Commissioner of the South Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grave Accusation Against Brisbane's Murdered Politician Did Whitford take Mrs. Laydon to Gay House While Her Husband was Fighting in France ?—Startling Disclosures at Police Court Hearing—Wife of Accused Ridicules Allegations of Unchastity—Laydon Urges Police to ask "Adelaide Annie" Excited Crowds Throng Brisbane's Court Grounds
BRISBANE was horrified last week at the ghastly shooting down of one of its most prominent politicians-Albert Whitford. WHEN it became public property that the accused man was one of Whitford's friends, surmise and speculation were rife. Rumor ran red-hot as to the motive for the crime; all sorts of stories mostly senseless and stupid, were invented. VARIOUS and varied were the theories advanced, but for the most part they were wide of the mark…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Suicide Threat Alleged Constable Dillon Would Kill Himself—Serious Charge Pending—Further Remand Magistrate Refuses Bail
THE startling statement that Constable William Dillon had; threatened to take his life was made in Kogarah Court…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Potts Point Sly-Grog Drinker Refused Hawker's License Doubting Bobbies Challenge Bona-Fides of Harry Lane. A Passport for Burglary
That the police must exercise a very careful discrimination in a matter of necessity in the interests of the community…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →That Katoomba Thousand Rolls-Royce Hearing of Stealing Charge Continued, But Finality Not Reached. Septuagenarian's Mixed Fortune
The Baby Rolli Royce ease, or the Katoomba Thousand winning ticket cases was advanced another stage at the Water Police Court during Monday and Tuesday, when every inch of the route was fought hard by Mr. Clegg, who is appearing for…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Had Only Five Pints Frank Page Picks a Row With His Father-in-law. Assault at Parramatta
Occasionally a man is brought up at a police court and charged with committing some offence while "under the influence of intoxicants", and although the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Little Mite Assaulted at Newtown Raymond Browning Sent to Gaol for Five Years. Crime at Newtown Carnival
"The offence is a most serious one, especially when it is remembered that the little girl is only seven years old. "It is a horrible crime. The law empowers me to sentence you to penal servitude for five years, and that sentence I now impose…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Ruffled Dignity Constable Thinks He Was Treated Offensively Magistrate Does Not Agree—'Xmas Night Echo Car Collision Argument
THE ruffled dignity of Constable King, of the Blakshurst police station, caused him to bring to the Kogarah Court on…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Skin and "Hair!" Cannibalistic Campbell Tries a Mouthful of Policeman—Done it Before, Too—Got the Also Got Gaol Again
WITH blood all over his unwashed, and unshaven face, with his shirt torn right open revealing his chest down to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Homes Burgled Western Suburbs Clean Up Police Obtain Evidence, But Little Stolen Property
BURWOOD Court was once more the stage upon which Patrick Ronal McEvoy appeared to answer several charges of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Is Williams Dead? Latest Police Discovery Father Redeems Violin and Returns It to Friend
There was a new development yesterday in the police inquiries relative to the disappearance of Edward Williams after the finding of the bodies of his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Maori Murderer Frail Wife Martyr To Brutal Husband Shoots His Wife and Suicides Mad Affair at Mercer Potato Digger's Dementia—Insane Jealousy Unhappy Mother Tells Pitiful Tale to North Sydney Court— Terrified, Cursed and Bashed by Drunken Spouse—Child's Sad Lot. Magistrate in Merciful Mood
THE latest sensation of the Auckland province, which is becoming more than notorious in the matter of murders of late, is the shooting by a Maori of his wife, followed by the immediate suicide of the murderer. Magistrate Jennings was in an extraordinarily benevolent mood at North Sydney Court on Monday last, when he treated a brutal husband, who had dealt shockingly with his wife, as if he went a child who had stolen an apple or two…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Row at Rose Bay Grocery Store Police Surprise Convivial Drinking Gathering. Hourigan Says He Was Smacked on Face
There was a little convivial gathering at the grocery shop of Mr. Jackson, at the corner of Wilberforce Avenue and Old South Head Road, Rose Bay, on December 11 last. The police and Winds of the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →