Gap Tragedy. Motherless Boy. Taken to Police
Neatly dressed and gazing around with eyes of Infant curiosity, a sturdily-built, fairhaired boy, of about 2[?] years, was taken into the Vaucluse Police Station yesterday…
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Law Notices. Monday, February 23. Supreme Court
Term List.—In the Banco Court—At 10 a.m.—Motions generally Motion, Rofe v Smith's Newspapers, Ltd., Privy Council appeal; demurrer, Couston and another v Smith and others; new trial motion, Mullaly v…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Police Witnesses in Civil Cases Should They Be Called?
Should police officers be called so witnesses in civil cases? That question was raised at Canterbury Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Quarter Sessions. No. 1 COURT. (Before Judge Edwards.)
Crown Prosecutor, Mr. F. J. Newell. CALLED UP FOR SENTENCE. Norman Clifford Austin, a one-legged man, who was bound over last Monday week on a…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →District Court. (Before Acting Judge Monahan.) a Street Collision
Arising out of a collision in Wyandraavenue, near the Manly-Narrabeen-road, [?] the evening of October 24, between a fourhorse lorry and a tram, Walter Reginald…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Court Op Criminal Appeal. (Before Mr. Justice Street, C.J., Mr., Gordon, and Mr. Justice James.) REX v WILSON
Frederick Wilson, who was convicted before District Court Judge Mocatta, at Sydnev Quarter Sessions, in December last, on a charge of conspiracy, for which he was…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Bother, Batons and Bloodshed Defendant's Wild Allegations of Assault Against Police Echo of Anniversary Day Disturbance at Lidcombe—Bernard Hill Sent to Gaol for Assaulting Police Epileptic Fit in the Charge Room
AT the Parramatta Court on Thursday charges of ill-treating prisoners under arrest were made against members of the police force. ON Anniversary Day there was a disturbance at Fame's Hotel,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sentenced to Death The Romance of Arthur Lynch
The Story of My Life; by Arthur Lynch. Publishers, john Long and Co., London. It is impossible to do the author of this book adequate justice in u review…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Old George Brown's Attempted "Hop-over" Quaint Inmate of Yatala Gaol
It was in 1903 that George Brown was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for housebreaking. Thrice during the first three years of that…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Frame-up Fails Prisoner Takes Blame for Assault Bench Blames Bert Smith
An obvious frame-up wherein "I'll be the goat and take the blame" policy was expected to have the desired result, came…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Fisticuff Fracas at the Shell Walter Brown in the Wars Auctioneer Williams Charged
STRAINED business relations between a well-known picture show proprietor and the husband of his tenant culminated in the doctors being given a job and the appearance of both at the Central Police Court—one as prosecuting witness and the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Recent Bride Charged with Bigamy Echo of Parramatta Road Motor Smash A Wedding at 14
"I SAW my wife in January of this year," Stanton Morrell, a musician of Potts Point, told Mr. Jennings, S.M., in the Newtown Police Court on Tuesday last when that lady was committed for trial on a charge of bigamy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Surry Hills Puppy Reared on Bottle Rover Roves His Way Into Dealer's Dug-Out John Fenick Sidesteps Stealing Charge
"OH where! Oh where! has my little dog gone; Oh where! Oh where! can he be!" DOUBTLESS this popular ditty—with a lingering emphasis on the "where"—may have been appropriately applied to Irene…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Tilly Devine Gets Her Reward "The Worst Woman in Sydney" Fails to Impress the Magistrate Salutary Sentences Imposed
MATILDA DEVINE—"Queen of the Night"—undisputed chaperone of a dissolute, wanton bunch of Magdalenee whose "beat" takes in the city area from Goulburn-street, extending towards Campbell-street, and, by her long list of police…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gas Employees Application Before High Court Unionists and Non-unionists MELBOURNE
Acting on behalf of the Melbourne Gas Cc. J G. Lath[?]n, K.C., to-day applied to the [?] Justice of the High Court, Sir Adrian Knox…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Skin and Hair Fly at Miller's Point Two "Cot" Cases, but Police Unable to Locate Chief Victim Harry Davies Escapes Committal
AN unusual sequel to the arrest of Henry John Davies, at the instigation of Edward Hayes, for alleged assault occasioning him actual bodily harm, took place at the Central on Wednesday, when Davies appeared to plead not guilty to the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Preferred Soiled Darlings to Virtuous Wife Foolery and Falsity of Scroucher Simpson Loves and Hates of Rose Bay Romeo Related in Divorce Court—Soulful and Sour Screeds Deceived Wife Freed
And days may come, thou false one! yet, When even those ties sholl sever; When thou will call, with vain regret, On her thou'st lost for ever!…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →After Four Years Charge of Burglary
In 1921 Steve Peters, aged 29, motor driver, was charged with having broken and entered the house of Thomas Flannery, at Penrith, and stolen…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Accident or Murder? Woman Over Cliff Police Looking for Man
"Following on Inquiries made this morning, and Information supplied we have now a fairly accurate description of the man we are looking for…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Stole From Widow Contemptible Theft
The story of a mean theft ma told at Newtown Court to-day, when Cecil Cameron, a young man, was alleged to have taken three £1 notes…
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