Land Appeal Court
A SITTING of the Land Appeal Court will be held at Darlinghurst Sydney, on Monday 22nd Feb. commencing at 10 a.m. Amongst the cases set down for hearing are the following : --…
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Courts & crime, 1909
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Council in Court. Mow Sing and the Water Supply
At the Police Court on Friday, before Mr. W. Burton Smith, P.M., Mow Sing was charged by the Municipal Council with interfering with the…
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A meeting of gentlemen to consider the best form of recognising the public services of Mr. W. Burton Smith was held on Monday afternoon, the 15th inst., Mr. G, H…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Narromine. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Police Court
A case of unusual local interest was heard at the Narromine police court on Thursday last, when Mrs. May Ci[?] her husband, Herbert Thomas Cluff, for leaving his child…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Tuesday, Feb. 16Th. (Before Mr. W. Burton Smith, P.m.) the Tipplers
ONE elderly ri[?]t offender was fined 2d, 6d. Another offender, a women, was 10s THEFT OF A CROWBAR James Hobbs, a man about 30 years of age,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. Tuesday, February 16. (Before Mr. W. Burton Smith, P.m.) Alleged Larceny
James Hobbs was charged with stealing a crowbar, the property of Quong Lee, on or about the 1st of January. The accused pleaded not guilty, but at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Petty Debts Court. Monday, February 15. (Before Mr. W. Burton Smith, P.m.) Wheller v. PRINCE
This was a case in which G. A, Wheeler, sleeper contractor, sued Charles Prince, sleeper cutter, of Balladoran, to recover the sum of £23 10s 6d alleged to be due for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Assault Case Hunting for a Magistrate
THAT Wellington is not short of a magistrate is a well known fact, but judging by appearauoes on Tuesday last an outsider would think we were. An assault case in which two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court. Thursday, Febrauary 18. (Before Mr. L. A. McDougall, J.p.) Alleged Stealing
William Jeffries was charged with stealing l[?]s from the person of Edward Rope, at Dubbo, on the 17th instant. The case for the police was that on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Tangled Web. a Dublin Cashier's Murder
The story of the murder of Air Little, cashier of the Midland Railway Co., of Ireland, is tragic In a double sense. Tragedy was of course contained in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Unwritten law Murder Trial. Fifty Thousand People crowd to hear Sensational Case
RARELY even in America have such scenes oi excitement marked a big criminal trial ae those witnessed on Monday at Flushing, Long Island, when Mr. T. Jenkins Hains,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Land Court Humor
Extracting information from witnesses unused to Court proceedings is often more appreciated by those who frequent the Court as listeners than by the advocates…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court. (Before Mr. W. Burton Smith, P.m.) a Rabbit Case
Mr. R. G. Dulhunty proceeded against C. Kearney for alleged failure to destroy rabbits on his holding. The defendant was fined £4, and 6s costs…
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Robert Hall Book, a miner, VM remanded on the charge of feloniously slaying John Niddrio, and was liberated on bail. Counsel for accused said it was a most…
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Mary Jones, 60 boarding house keeper, was on Thursday committed for trial for seriously injuring Mary Ann Moore, aged 64, by hitting her with a bucket and afterwards with a broom…
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Visitors to the National Gallery were startled by a well dressed man shooting and killing his female companions. The man then committed suicide…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court. Friday, February 26. (Before Mr. L. A. MCDougall, J.p.) Two Offences
James Gerald Hennessey pleaded guilty to the charge of using indecent language in Talbragar-street on the 25 th inst. He was fined 20s. On the charge of resisting…
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At Sydney, on Thursday, the Minister for Lands made a reference for the determination of the capital value of the, land comprised in James Patrick Joseph-Bull's conditional…
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Three young men named Philip Walls, John Walls, and Edward Roughly were charged before Mr. W. Burton Smith, P.M., on Friday with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court and Council
In the course of a discussion at the meeting of the Municipal Council on Thursday evening in regard to the collection of sanitary charges, the…
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