Duel in Street Police Officer Killed San Francisco, January 22
Two special officers employed as watchmen decided to settle an argument with guns. They stood almost toe to toe in a…
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"Toss for It" Said S.M. and Heads Won Novel Court Scene Hobart
A NOVEL WAY of settling a protracted legal argument was witnessed in the Hobart Police Court. A union claimed the payment of £25…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Magistrate Perry's Humanity Mooney's Epileptic Fit in Burwood Court Saves Him from Trial
TO Mr. Perry, the Magistrate at Burwood Court, Alfred Mooney was a man charged with three serious offences—being in a house with the intention of stealing, assaulting the tenant, and assaulting a constable. He was a man who, if the weight…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Newtown Match. Shopkeepers v. Police
THE cricket match, Newtown Shopkeepers and Citizens versus tho Newtown Police, will take place on Wednesday next, January 27, at Petersham…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Use of Police Bruntnell Protests
"After the extraordinary scenes witnessed in and around the Legislative Council," said Mr. Bruntnell, M.L.A,. yesterday, "one begins to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In a Paddock Woman's Startling Story of Serious Assault Man Sent for Trial
A TAXI was whirling along Swan-street, Rozelle, shortly after Sydney had greeted the advent of 1926, when the driver…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Man's Strange Death Prompts Police Action ADELAIDE
An unusual fatality is reported from Norwood. William Ernest Bryant, aged 47 years, was making a canary aviary, when, it is said, the plank on which he…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lost, After Chase, Alleged Thief is Caught by Police
A smart arrest was made yesterday morning by Detectives Hubert. Thompson, Royal, and Nye, of police headquarters. On Wednesday they saw , a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Where Was Kelly When Bellamy Blew In? Hubby's Raid For Divorce Evidence Leads To Charge Of Assault
"THERE'S a lot of weight in this case," remarked Mr. J. W. Abigail jocularly, at the outset of the complicated cross-action for…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →BRIBERY ! Alleged Against Police Bookmakers in the Case Adelaide
Serious allegations have been made against certain members of the detective force over the alleged acceptation of bribes from bookmakers. It is alleged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Serious Allegations Against Married Man in Glebe Charged With Assaulting His Wife's School Friend While Wife Was in the House Upstairs
ONE of the most sordid tales ever heard in the courts was alleged during the preliminary hearing of a serious charge against a married man named Joseph Conroy at Glebe last Tuesday. POLICE evidence produced alleged that…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →"Get the Money and Get Out!" When Bank Teller Almeida Was Murdered Police Produce Alleged Confession by Robertson
ALTHOUGH only one witness could swear positively that Robertson was one of the men at the shooting of Bank-teller Almeida at Hampton. Robertson himself is said to have made a statement to the police in which there is talk of an…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Levanting Lothario Leaves His Lonesome Lady-love Lamenting How an International Wedding Was "Unavoidably Postponed" Reconciliation Prevents Court Proceedings
IN a certain street in a salubrious quarter of Darlinghurst the neighbors are still chuckling over the discomfiture of a twice-married lady who, on the day of her third contemplated venture into the matrimonial whirlpool, found that the prospective groom had levanted, and that her bank-roll waa missing. ARDLY had her first paroxysm of grief subsided when the ex-bride…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Magistrate Injured
BATHURST.--Mr. H. L. Meads, chamber magistrate at Bathurst, while viewing the Great White train, was knocked down by a motor cycle, the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Parramatta Police Court Monday, January 25
Leslie Meadows pleaded guilty to a charge of having used indecent language in South-street, Granville, on January 24. He was fined £2…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Industrial Arbitration Court
Before the Industrial Re[?]ar, 78 K[?]h-st.—For settlement of minutes of Court's order. 10 a.m.: Re Pithcane and St[?] Workers' (State) award. 10.15 a.m.: Re Wire Workers etc. (State): re Wire Fence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder." Talk of a Row Over Letters
DETECTIVE-SERGEANT Matthews gave particulars of a visit paid to a hours in Brook-street. Coogee, and described what he saw there…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Give Me Three Months" Woman Asks for Gaol Chief Witness Against Husband
People sometimes resort to all kinds of subterfuges In order to escape imprison imprisonment. A young woman who appeared at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coogee Assault Mrs. Timson Tells Her Story Curtis's Plea Alleged Confession on Board Boat
A startling story of an alleged confession in the Coogee assault case was heard at the Central Police Court to-day, when William Henry Curtis, or George H. Lacey aged 43, was charged with feloniously wounding Annie Louisa Timson, with intent to murder…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Law Notices. Monday, January 2[?]. District Court
Defore the Registrar.—At l0.30 a.m.: Schlink v [?]orton. At 10.45 a.m.: Parker v W[?]y. At 11 a.m.: Browne v Hamilton…
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