"Sydney Client" Letter to Bank Two Youths Charged MELBOURNE
A story of an alleged ingenious fraud was told in the City Court to-day, when Edward Potts and Albert Treloar, young men, were…
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Sane or Insane? Waikino Murder Trial AUCKLAND
The trial commenced in the Supreme Court of John Higgins on two counts of murder at Walkino school. The question at issue will be the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Brisbane Murder Laydon Identified "That Finishes You" Brisbane
In the Police Court to-day, John Matthew Robinson, recently quartor-master on the steamer Mackel[?], positively identified [?] Laydon as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Law Notices. Monday, February 11. Supreme Court
In Chambers.—Before the Deputy Prothonotary, in the Prothonotary's Public Chambers.—At 10 a.m.: Seccombe v Baker, examination of judgment debtor. Prothonotary's Office.—Before the Deputy prothonotary…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nose Broken District Court Story Wife Accuses Husband
Allegations of brutal treatment by her husband were made in the District Court to-day by Mrs. Ruth Matilda Phillips…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Some Cheap Watches Sold in Sydney Man Says Watch Cost 66--Magistrate Thinks it Worth Pounds --Salesman Confirms 66 Suspicions Evaporate
Holding a receipt that you have bought and paid for a gold watch ut a reputable business establishment is not necessarily a guarantee that the buyer…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Monastery" Murder New York's Biggest Crime for Years Beautiful Actress Millionaire Explains Gifts to Dead Girl New York
When detectives searched Louise Lawson's fight-swept room after her dramatic murder in "The Monastery," as her apartment was called, they first…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Still Search for Williams Wanted in Connection with Paddington Murders--No News from South Sydney Bushlands
Up to midnight last night no tidings had been received of the whereabouts of the man Williams, who is being sought for in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Desperado in Albury District Reappears and Fires at Police Bullets Whistle Over Sergt.'s Head Escapes Into Wild Bush Country Albury
THE whole district is in a state of excitement over the re-appearance at Holbrook of the armed man who fired seventeen shots at a picnic party at jingellic yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Donald Grant to See the I.G. Deeply Resents the Police Charge --Two of the Offences He Would Scorn Most of All
Mr. Donald Grant, speaking from the Communist platform In the Domain yesterday, made strong references to the action of tho policeman who are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Told in Gaol Story of Theft Missing Motor Car
An alleged confession made in Long Bay Gaol to-day by a pri[?] sentenced for car stealing, resulted in the clearing up of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Unprovoked Assault
Clifton Charles Clark, or Williams, aged 19, pleaded guilty yesterday at the North Sydney Police Court, with having used indecent language and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Joy Riders" Sentenced Auckland
Two young married men, who admitted five charges of "joy-riding" in motor-cars, which were subsequently abandoned, were sentenced to a month's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sailors Acquitted of Assault Charge
At the Quarter Sessions yesterday Walter John Nash, 19, of H.M.A.S. Platypus, and Cosmo William Bartush, 26 of H.M.A.S. Melbourne, were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Murder Charge Against Layden
BRISBANE, Monday,--People who claimed to have witnessed the shooting of Albert Edward Victor Whitford, ex-M.L.A., in Albert Square on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Williams Asks to Be Arrested Father of Murdered Children Surrenders to Newcastle Police--charged with the Crime. What the Police Think NEWCASTLE
Edward Williams, the man who is alleged to have murdered his three children at Paddington on February 5, gave himself up at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers' Wives and Vagrancy Charges Magistrate's Comment
The number of women living apart from their husbands, who coma before the Court under the Vagrancy Act, drew some pointed comment from Mr. Le Brun…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Jan with Revolver and Handcuffs Chinese Household Scared--Police Take Serious View of Matter So Does Magistrate
Chinese who occupy a house in Sussex Street became greatly alarmed at the presence of an intruder about 8 p.m. on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Chiefs Confer
The police chiefs of Victoria at South Australia are meeting in conference to-day at Police Headquarters, with the Inspector-General of Police,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Lash Ordered. Assault on a Girl. Melbourne
Charles Lemmer, a married man, who had been found guilty of having assaulted, with Intent, a girl aged l8 years, near West Footscray railway station on December 7, came…
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