Charges Against Police. Hearing Adjourned. WOLLONGONG
Charges against members of the police force, which were to have been heard to-day, were adjourned until March 14, because the mother of Constable A. Bleechmore, a…
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Police Seize £300 Worth Of Opium On Ship
Suspicions that Sydney is being used as an intermediate depot for drugs was confirmed by police and Customs officials…
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Swooping down on the Union Line freighter Hauraki at Walsh Bay yesterday, detectives and Customs officers seized 26 [?]ins of opium, valued at £300. They found the drug concealed in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Was Homesick" Maltese in Court Forgery Charge
The lapse of Antonio Attard, a young son of Malta who stood in the dock at the Parramatta Quarter Sessions on Monday, was attributed to homesickness…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Would Send Drunks To Doctor, Not Court
"It would pay the community to bring drunks before a doctor rather than before a magistrate, Canon Hammond said today, when reviewing his 25 years as a Police Court Missioner…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Traffic Court Has Record Day Funeral Plea Failed
Today was another record day at the Traffic Court. In the morning Mr. Goldie, the Chief Traffic Magistrate, dealt with 210 undefended cases. In adjacent courts, Magistrates Scobie and Wells, who had been sent to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Duke & Canberra a "Royal Court" at Capital London
I understand that an announcement will be made simultaneously from Buckingham Palace and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Justice Brandeis. Retirement from U.S. Supreme Court. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14
Justice Louis Branders has retired from the the U.S. Supreme Court Bench, While he did not give a reason for his retirement, it is known that he has been suffering from…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Probate Court. (Before the Probate Judge, Mr. Justice Nicholas.) Distribution of Intestacy
Application was made by the Public Trustee for payment out to him by the Treasury of a sum of money which had been lodged by him to the credit of an intestate estate on the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Supreme Court. Full Court. (Before the Chief Justice, Sir Frederick Jordan, Mr. Justice Halse Rogers, and Mr. Justice Maxwell.) Alleged Short Payments. Williams v Tooth and Co., Ltd
E. T. Williams brought an action in the Supreme Court against Tooth and Co., Ltd., for £573/12/4, being rental alleged to have been short-paid by defendants to him under a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Changed Betting Tickets. Man Sentenced for Theft
At the Central Police Court yesterday, John William Gough, 34, labourer, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour for having stolen a betting ticket worth £11 from…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Theft of Bicycle
Edwin Donald Kaye, 37, sign-writer, who, it was stated, had previously been in trouble, was sentenced by Mr. Atkinson. S.M., at the Central…
Continued on Trove, page 48 →Assault on Boy
At Parramatta Quarter Sessions yesterday Sydney Reginald Victor Short, 49, labourer, pleaded guilty to a charge of common assault on Kenneth John…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Theft Charge Fails "Nothing More Than Suspicion"
"I am sure there is nothing more than suspicion in this case," said Mr. Mahoney, S.M., at Manly Court today, when Bob Mair. or Robert…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Bail of £1,000. Company Director Charged
When Edgar Ranking, 34, company director, apppeared at the Central Police Court yesterday on a charge of misappropriation he was remanded to the City Court, Melbourne, on…
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MR. G. O. KELYNACK, solicitor (in Workers' Compensation Court): A middle-aged person is one three years older than yourself…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Quarter Sessions Appeal. (Before Judge Fuller.) Charge of Stealing
Reference is made in another column to an appeal which was dismissed by Charles Louisson against his conviction and fine of £5 imposed upon him by Mr. Oram, S.M., at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Acquitted of Assault. Husband Warned by Judge. BATHURST
At the Bathurst Quarter Sessions, Clarence Victor Bardsley, textile worker, was acquitted on charges of unlawfully assaulting his wife, Jessie Bardsley, and Henry Charles Streatfield…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Warning by Judge 3 Years' Gaol Youths Had Revolver
Saving it was his duly to protect the public, Acting Judge Herron, at Parramatta to-day, sent two…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Armed Robbery at Bondi Two Charged, One Pleads Guilty
Charged with armed robbery of £750 from two postal officials at Bondi on September 22, Jack Charles Monford Adams, 20, and his brother,…
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