"If You Were My Son" Magistrate Perry Talks to a Wild Young Man
"We ask to have this young man bound over, said Mr. C. P. White, when the name of William Davis Stebbing was called at the…
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Queer Decision Magistrate Asserts Witness Committed Perjury But Does Not Send Him for Trial
IN the opinion of Mr. Jennings. S.M., a defendant, who a appeared before him at the Summons Court on…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Trail of Cheques Company Promoter Charged with False Pretences Coal Contracts and Royalties
A TRAIL of cheques was laid before Magistrate Peisley in a charge of false pretences levelled against Bartley…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Lithgow Miner Triumphantly Acquitted of Serious Offence on Imaginative Girl Police Case Crumples Under Caustic Cross-examination After the Party—Love-making in a Lonely Paddock—The Man Who Was So Deaf He Didn't Hear Nellie Coleman's Cries for Help—"No, it's Only the Second Man I've Charged," She Says—Overcoat That Was Not Stained Above the Waist Magistrate Agrees That Girl's Charge Was Not Substantiated
A CAUSTIC and searching cross-examination of a twenty-year-old girl, who had levelled a serious charge at Arthur Dyer, a young resident of Lithgow, was responsible for extricating that person from a nasty mess. IT was an intensely dramatic cross-examination, full of unthought of possibilities, and as the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Percibald Usual Dock Oration Demands that " Truth " Should be Ordered from the Court
"I DEMAND that the representative of "Truth" be ordered to leave the court. They are only blackmailers, and I…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Sunday Times World News Correspondence. Cable News England Safe Breakers Receive Heavy Sentences Known to Australian Police LONDON
Dennis Harris, John James, Edward Wood and John Russell were sentenced at the Old Bailey to-day, Harris and James each to three year's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Busman Bowland Bashed in Barney with Fellow Busman Le Sueur Receives a Steadier When He Comes to Court Was Professional Jealousy the Cause ?
Professional jeslousy was apparently at the root of the trouble between Herbert Newton Le Su[?] a 'bus conductor and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →New Zealand Mystery Drama Strange Story of Boy's Abduction—Prominent Business Man's Death—Police Reticent About Amazing Tragedy Well-known Brothers Held on Manslaughter Charge Wellington (N.z)
AN extraordinary drama was enacted on the Marine Parade at Napier on Sunday night last. A STRUGGLE for the possession of a child culminated in the death of William Chalmers Clark, a well-known business man…
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Queen's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate. —At 10 a.m.—For hearing: Mackay v McKimmins, Croawell v same, Dellow v same; The New South Wales District of the Australian Journalists'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Problem a Picton Burglary Watches and Crocks Taken
Smith and Co.'s general store at, Picton was entered early on Sunday morning by hurglars. who got away with a big haul of metal watches…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Theft From Snow's Shoplifter Fined
Annie Pritchard Goodsell, 50, domestic, charged at the Central Court to-day with having stolen a purse and two cl[?]ps, value 3/- the property of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gaol at 20 She Would Steal
"THIS kind of thing cannot go on for ever. I will send her to a place where she will have to leave other people's things alone."…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mine Director Charged London, January 31
Joseph Myers, a New Zealander, was charged at Bow-street Court with fraud, and also with having circulated false statements relating to the Bingo…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Man in Kilts" Policewoman's Luck Fortune-teller Charged
"I see a man standing on a hill dressed in kilts, and he is pointing to a property through which you will come into money"…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Widow's Money Young Salesman Charged Proposal of Marriage
How an advertisement in a morning paper led to a proposal of marriage, and how later the prospective bridegroom was arrested,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Police Attacked Elsternwick Victims
Two policemen were stabbed in a desperate encounter at Elsternwick,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bank Robbery. Teller's Story. Theft in Broad Daylight. MELBOURNE
In an important shopping area at a busy time on Saturday morning another audacious bank robbery is alleged to have been committed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Well Armed Cripple Assaults Police
"With two crutches you're well armed for an assault, you know," the magistrate told Thomas Vidler, aged 40, a cripple, at the Central Pollice…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mr. W. Park. Police Superintendent Retires
Mr. William Park retired from the position of Metropolitan Superintendent of the New South Wales Police on Saturday, and was given a fitting farewell by all officers…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Charge of Murder. Elsie Cameron's Death. London, Jan. 31
Norman Thorne, until recently a poultryfarmer at Crowbrldge, was to-day charged at the Little Mark Cross Police Court with the murder of Elsie Cameron, whose…
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