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Courts & crime, 1927

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First Big Blaze of New Year Metter's Building Wiped Out Damage May Exceed £150,000 Flying Embers Cause Other Outbreaks Police and Firemen Make Many Good Rescues

The Labor Daily · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 1

TODAY METTER'S six-storey building in Elizabeth Street, home of stoves and heating appliances, is a blackened shell, with its walls pointing starkly to the sky, as the result of a great fire which broke out there Yesterday afternoon and swept almost…

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Racecourse Theft

The Sun · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 10

At Randwick races on Saturday Mr. Frank Gahan, of Tattersall's Club, was robbed of a pair of field glasses worth £10,…

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Murder Charge Darlinghurst Tragedy Mousset in Court

The Sun · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 9

With head slightly bowed. Pierre Altrien Mousset aged 32, on a cook appeared before Mr. M. J. McMahon. S.M. at the Central Police Court…

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Police Court Procedure. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 10

Sir,—As a countryman I wish to protest against the actions of magistrates in city and suburban police courts suspending charges against defendants conditionally on their…

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Shot Dead in Street Tragedy at Darlinghurst Frenchman Charged with Murder Man Who Was Called "Froggy"

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 1

During an argument between four boys and a Frenchman in a side street at Darlinghurst yesterday afternoon, a revolver was produced and one of the lads, George Dunne (15), of 263 Crown Street, City, was…

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Stole Poppy Dat Money Society Woman Sentenced

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 3

MRS. EMILY CHALLENGER (69). of independent means, of Goodhawk Road. shepherd's Bush, pleaded guilty at West London police Court to…

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Prisoners Escape. From Bega Gaol. Bega

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 11

Two prisoners, Algenon Frederick Pilkington and Frank Wallace, escaped from the Bega Gaol last night by breaking through the iron bars of their cell and scaling the wall. They…

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Alleged Attempted Murder. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 13

A charge of attempted murder was preferred against Edward Villiers in the Adelaide Police Court to-day. He was accused of having shot Harold Henry Hollard, part…

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Alleged Assault Writ Against Ex-m.l.a

The Sun · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 9

A sequel to an alleged brawl at Parliament House on Christmas Eve occurred to-day, when Mr. W. M. Niland, acting on behalf of John Walter…

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Three Months' Gaol Stole Hospital Cabbages Albury

The Sun · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 3

Robert Guidy, who was at the Albury Court charged with having stolen two cabbages, worth one shilling, from the garden of the Albury District…

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Escape From Gaol Two Men at Large BEGA

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 2

Two prisoners, Pilkington and Wallace, escaped from Bega gaol on Sunday night, by breaking through the fro[?] bars of their cell, and scaling a…

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Typhoid in Gaol Another Prisoner in Hospital Goulburn Outbreak Goulburn

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 5

A NOTHER prisoner from Goulburn Gaol has been removed to the District Hospital, This man developed a temperature…

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Suspicious Fire. In Bathurst Street. Police Investigation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 11

The top floor of Oakes Building, a three floored structure at 18-20 Bathurst-street, city, was severely damaged by fire shortly before midnight last night. Firemen from…

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Murder Charge. Man Shot Dead. Quarrel Between Italians Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 11

The Coroner at Trayning committed Angelo Delguzzi for trial on a charge of having murdered Sabatino Fattore at North Yelbeni on Christmas Eve…

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Police Seeking Bathurst-road Smash Where Is Motorist?

The Sun · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 10

So far the Katoomba police have not been successful in tracking down the motorist who, on the Bathurst-road, near Mount Victoria, on Sunday,…

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Law Notices Tuesday, January 4, 1927. District Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 11

(Before the Deputy Registrar.) At 10.30 a.m., Rule and anor. ats. Automobile Suppliers Associated, Ltd.; at 10.45 a.m.. Baker v. Flana[?]: at 11.5 a.m., Gasco[?]gne v. Newland: at…

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"I'm Shot!" Chinese Cook Wounded Man Arrested Attempted Murder Charge Rockhampton

The Sun · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 10

Aramac in the Central West, was the scene of a serious shooting affair about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. It appears that an employee at the…

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At the Gap Police Seize Woman, "Going to End It"

Evening News · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 11

ANOTHER woman who contemplated jumping over the Gap, was saved by Constables Gore and Post, of the Vaucluse…

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Chef Held on Murder Charge Boy Is Shot Dead Bullet Pierces Heart Alleged Self-defence

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 1

A fracas between four boys and a man in East Sydney yesterday resulted in the man being charged with murder one of the lads,…

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Darlinghurst Tragedy Murder Charge Against French Chef Story of Shooting Bail Fixed at £500

Evening News · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 8

PIERRE Titrien Mousset, 32, a French chef, was charged at the Central Court to-day with having murdered George Dunne…

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