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Courts & crime, 1927

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Massacre Native Police Butchered Serious Unrest Trouble in Solomon Islands

The Sun · Saturday 5 March 1927 · page 7

Because an official ordered native police to oust a native who was observing the custom by having two wives, serious trouble has broken out at Guadal -canar Island, in the Solomon Group…

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Native Police Beheaded While Asleep in the Solomons Rebels Take Rifles

Evening News · Saturday 5 March 1927 · page 5

THE greatest secrecy is being [?] served by the British solomen authorities regarding the murder of native police by Soloman Is…

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Not to Proceed Federal Court Decides Railways Dispute Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 March 1927 · page 22

In the arbitration Court today, before Judge Lukin, an application was made in the matter of an industrial dispute between the Association of…

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At Rosebery Marion Court May Win Again My Rose Reads Well

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 March 1927 · page 4

Marion Court won her division of the Novice at Victoria Park on Wednesday so decisively that there appears little likelihood of…

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Royal Tour Making Pace Hot Police Body Guard Chase Royal Train Takapau, N.Z.

Evening News · Saturday 5 March 1927 · page 6

TO keep up with the progress of the Royal Train, the members of a special body of picked policemen, all six feet in height, who…

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Sydney's Most Dangerous Woman: Sworn in As a J.P. While Awaiting Trial Philomena Best, Who Claimed Minister of Crown As Friend, Gaoled for Theft Vile Accusations against Police Inspector and Sergeant and White Slavery Charges against her victim mark most sensational criminal trial of the year Chief Crown Witness Nearly Blown to Death

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 5 March 1927 · page 1

ON FRIDAY, February 4, at No. 1 Darlinghurst Courthouse, Philomena Mary Best, of 38 Great Buckingham Street, Redfern (Sydney), was sworn in as a J.P. by Judge Cohen, who congratulated her on her appointment. THREE WEEKS LATER -- on Friday, February 25 -- in No. 2 Court, Judge Edwards…

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Court of Criminal Appeal. (Before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Gordon, and Mr. Justice Campbell.) Rex v Cummings and Troy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 March 1927 · page 12

Arthur Cummings and William Troy, who had pleaded guilty before his Honor Judge Cohen at Sydney Quarter Sessions in February last to a charge of being found at night…

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Law Report. Full Court (Before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Ferguson, and Mr. Justice Campbell.) Warranty with Second Hand Goods. Anderson v Carrington Motor Company

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 March 1927 · page 12

A District Court action was tried before his Honor Judge White without a jury at East Maitland in December last, in which Allen Anderson, secretary of the Maitland…

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Native Rising Police Massacred Attackers Seize Arms Trouble in Solomons

The Sun · Sunday 6 March 1927 · page 5

Seven police were massacred in an outbreak by natives at Gundaleanar Island, in the Solomon Group, and further serious trouble is feared…

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Just a Tear or Two But Reconciliation Did Not Come Divorce Court Pathos

Truth · Sunday 6 March 1927 · page 13

A PATHETIC figure, broken under hard work and worry, she entered the witness box. "THE evidence you are about to give shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth," gabbled the usher,…

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Car Thief Shot in Thrilling Chase by Constable Stolen Machine Dashes Into Commandeered Police Car at Darling Point

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 March 1927 · page 1

A sensational arrest of a car thief, having all the elements of a movie thriller, was made in New South Head-road, Darling Point, late, last night. A young constable commandeered a car to chase another car which he had seen being entered and driven towards the Stadium by…

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Why Thieves Rob Police Taking the Pants off a Limb of the Law. The Playful Ways of Sydney Criminals

The Sun · Sunday 6 March 1927 · page 25

THE robbery reported this week at the house of Constable Malt, at Croydon, is one of many. Why do thieves rob the police?…

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Receiver Sentenced

Evening News · Monday 7 March 1927 · page 10

Convicted of receiving, Allen Reginald, Collis, 26, laborer, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment by Judge Edwards at Darlinghurst Sessions…

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Alleged Fraud Town Clerk Charged

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 March 1927 · page 11

Samuel Tolbart Green (41), town clerk of the Municipality of Blackheath, was charged, before Mr. Shepherd, S.M., at the Central Police Court on…

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Assault in Cell Prisoner In Hospital

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 March 1927 · page 10

James Neville (67), of Rose Street, Sydney, was assaulted in a coll at George Street North Police Station on Saturday night. Neville occupied the…

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Town Clerk Charged Council Book Entry

Evening News · Monday 7 March 1927 · page 13

SAMUEL TOLBART GREEN. [?] was charged at the Central Court, to-day, with having while Two's Clerk at BPORT OF FREMANTLE.ath, concurred in the…

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Labourer Sentenced. Letters to Young Women. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 March 1927 · page 12

Posing as an organiser of a travelling opera company, Bert Colin William Cheer, 27, labourer, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment on a charge of vagrancy…

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Police Seek Man

Evening News · Monday 7 March 1927 · page 7

[?] Sergeant Keogh of Police Headquarter would like to communicate with Edward Herbert Hughes who it is stated, [?]…

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TRAMS v. 'Bus Newtown Crash Driver Is Charged

Evening News · Monday 7 March 1927 · page 9

FOLLOWING the smash on the night of January 21, when a 'bus, driven by Cecil Clifford Walton, was jammed between two…

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Osteopaths Charged. Under the Medical Act. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 March 1927 · page 12

Charges under section 17 of the Medical Act were preferred against five osteopaths in the City Court. They were James Washburn. Clymer Eleaner Keam, Milton Conn, Martha…

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