District Court
Before his Honor Judge Curlewis, in No. 3 Industrial Arbitration Courtroom.—At 10 a.m.: Motor Repairs Ltd., v Gelme: Skeels v Tost; National Motors, Ltd. (In liquidation), v Naylor; Noel v Tory; Dowling v…
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Gaol Becomes College Technical Works Darlinghurst to Be Remodelled
ORGANISED Labor's appeal to most commonsense folk finds a response because it is humane and progressive…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder and Suicide Wealthy Woman Shot Man's Jealousy
Mrs. Alice Ruby Paul (40), a wealthy widow, was shot dead at her residence, in Shirley Road, Wollstonecraft, yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shot Dead. Man and Woman. Supposed Murder and Suicide
A tragedy, said to have arisen from quarrel, took place at a house at Wollstonecraft yesterday, when a woman was shot dead, and a man taken to hospital suffering…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Menace of Drunken Motorists Appalling Loss of Life Timely New Law Gaol Faces Offenders
The alarming frequency with which fatal accidents have been occurring recently--as a result of collisions with drunken motorists will cause…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Slander Claim Fails Bookmaker and Police Bathurst
Alfred Melntosh, [?] well-known western bookmaker, claimed £400 damages from Senior-Sergeant Austin Joseph Daley at the Bathurst Quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Law Notices. Thursday, February 3. Supreme Court
Prothonotary's Office.—Before the Deputy Prothonotary. at ll a.m.—Lowson, H. G., v Perpetual Trustee Co., Ltd., 12 noon: Lawson, W. G., v same. 2.15 p.m.: Blackman v Blackman. 2.30 p.m.: Wills v Wills…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Goods Worth £200. Seized by Police. Four Persons Arrested
The police arrested a man in exciting circumstances at a house at Waverley yesterday. Later they seized softgoods worth nearly £200, and arrested three women,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Woy Fatality Police Dragging for Second Victim Newcastle
The police are still engaged in dragging for the body of Fred Morris the second victim of the Woy Woy boating fatality last Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Huge Haul in Waverley House Garments and Cloths Police Make Big Raid
When Detective-Sergeants Comans and Keeble and Detective[?] Gilbert and Jourdain, together with Constables Gill and Clifford, of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Men Are Shot Dead Hillston Camp Murder and Suicide Tragic End to Long Friendship Hillston
THE violent [?] of two men at a roadside camp near Hillstons on Tuesday evening have given the police a puzzling mystery to solve…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Quarter Sessions. No. 1 Court. (Before Judge Cohen.) Crown Prosecutor, Mr. Neil McTague. FORGERY
Harold Harvey, 29, broker, pleaded guilty to forging a cheque for £55, at Sydney, on December 24. He also pleaded guilty to forging a request for the allotment of shares in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Alleged Theft. Bank Manager Charged
Charged with having stolen £1019 from the Government Savings Bank of New South Wales between June 16, 1926, and January 9 last, Leyborne Ernest Tafe, aged 35 years,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court
Queen's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate. —At 10 a.m.—For hearing: The Federated. Liquor and Allied Trades Employees' Union v Blackburn…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fired at Wife Husband Sentenced Three Years Gaol
In passing sentence of three years' penal servitude on William Harold Lang, aged 31, laborer, convicted on a charge of having fired a shot from a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bowling Club Theft
Henry Sullivan (47), bootmaker, and Harold Cleary (28), laborer, were charged before Judge Cohen, at Darlinghurst Sessions, with breaking and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Gaol for Seaman
George Frost (54), seaman, wax sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment at the Central Police Court yesterday on a charge of stealing a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Damaged Meat Cargo. Decision of Police Court
It is not often that police courts are concerned with matters of any importance to marine underwriters, but recently the West Ham police Court had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fired at Wife. Three Years' Gaol
"There is nothing more heinous. You triad to shoot your own wife. Mercifully, she was saved by the window cash,."…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Alleged Conspiracy Insurance Case Ends. Magistrate's Comments
"In view of their loose and slip-shod way of doing business, it would appear that these three men have acted together in a scramble to get in money, and so benefit their own…
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