Court Case Ends Witness Faints in Box LITHGOW
The illness of a constable was responsible tor the withdrawal of a speeding charge against Perce Farthing, a Lithgow lad, at the police court…
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" Shoot Me Dead " Young Man's Request "High Jinks" in Court
The complainant in a case In the Central Summons Court yesterday admitted handing a revolver to an elderly lady and dramatically asking…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Penalties Asked for Waterside Award Application to Court Melbourne
Drastic penalties for acts in combination tending to breaches of the waterside workers' award were sought by the employers in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →'Like Tram Conductors' Melbourne On Our Police Proud of Uniforms Melbourne
The Victorian police are proud of their uniform, which they claim is the best in the Commonwealth. It is urged be uniformity in police garb…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mysterious Forgeries to Death Certificate Decide Foy's Family Fortune Circumstances Demand Police Attention
Here is a document upon which the fortunes of a family may depend. It is a declaration regarding the parentage of a man who died without means, an old-age pensioner, but who was regarded as heir to an estate of half a million. A strange story runs through the record of this family contest for its supposed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Industrial Arbitration Court. (Before Mr. Justice Edmunds.) Variation of an Award
Mr. M. J. Connington appeared on behalf of an application by the Operative Painters and Decorators' Employees' Union for a variation of the State award relating to that…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Lawless Gangs Wreck Sydney Motor 'Buses Police Put Temporary Stop to Outrages Organised Sabotage on a Grand Scale
AN attempt to wreck two motor 'bus organisations in Sydney has been thwarted by the police. A Darlinghurst gang which resorted to outright sabotage and completely disabled half-a-dozen 'buses was put to flight after a "party" had been held in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court of Criminal Appeal. (Before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Gordon, and Mr. Justice James.) Rex V McDONALD and Stirling
The appellants here were William McDonald and Louis Stirling who were tried before Mr. Acting Judge Sheridan at Sydney Quarter Sessions in September last, under Section 97…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Law Report. Full Court. (Before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Gordon, and Mr. Justice Ferguson.) Contractors' Debts Act. Richard Taylor, Ltd., v Yandarlo Land Company, Limited
The plaintiffs in this action, Richard Taylor, Ltd., sued under a money count to recover £200 from the Yandarlo Land Company, Ltd., under the provisions of the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Magistrate Believes Police Before Pearce Prominet Manly Tailor Charged with Betting
"Wild Goose" Chase Ends in Discovery of Golden Egg—Magistrate's Warning to Defence Witnesses—Private Detective Mitchell Makes Some Bets—Many Witnesses Declare No Bets Were Made But They Are Disbeleved…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Stale School Teacher Souter Charged with Stealing Watch Pedagogue's find at Pratten Park Failure to Advertise Discovery of Gold Watch Lands Him in the Dock Magistrate's Severe Strictures
WALTER ROY SOUTER, a 34-year-old State school teacher, with 1 5 years of service to his credit, appeared in an unenviable role at the Ashfield Court on Friday, when he was charged with the theft of a gold watch, the property of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"A Pull with the Police"
No. 2. Regent-street last years champions, winning the tug-of-war from North Sydney at the Police Carnival yesterday. Inset is the man who pulled his weight, and that says a good deal…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sought the "Good Oil" Philip Lussich Charged with False Pretences
FOUR followers of the sport of kings, two fair punters and two proprietors of sporting: rags, indulged in a two-day…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Out of Reach of the Police
An aeroplane view of the Show Ground and the Police Carnival taken by "The Sun" photographer yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Youths to Die Murder of Constable LONDON, February 27
William Crossley, aged 19, a laborer, and Edward Heggerty, aged 17, a waiter, have been sentenced to death for the murder of Constable Willlitts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Burden Bavin's Acknowledgment Wearne and the Banana
"When I was a small boy," said the Minister for Lands (Mr. Wearne) at the luncheon at the Police Carnival yesterday, "If I happened to have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brown's Battle Out Second Round of Domestic Discord Hubby's One Win and One Loss Burton-street Brawl Settled in Court—Located by His Size Nines—Game of Peep-oh in a Second-Hand Shop "Equal Contributors" Decrees Magistrate
A DOMESTIC battle of remarkable intensity has lately been aging between George William Brown and Evelyn May Brown APPARENTLY they have only to see one another for a nitched…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Swooned Thrice Usher has a Busy Day at Newtown Court
THREE times the swooned and three times the court usher carried her in his arms and laid her upon a table in one…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →His Honor Of the District Court Received £1500 in '83 and Still Receives it in '25
Comparisons are sometimes necessary to show the unevenness with which progress is made in channels where one would expect to see circumstances move with equal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cross Summons Cases Follow Cross Words in Glebe Road Revised Puzzle for Magistrate Mrs. Mison and Tanner Sullivan Indulge in a Wordy Bout—a Host of Witnesses to Unravel the Tangle Double Dust-up Ends in a Draw
A BATTERY of bright eyes, dazzling costumes, pretty faces and guileful ways failed to away Mr. Jennings S.M., either way He is old and sophisticated in the wiles of women and as a character reader he's out on his own…
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