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Courts & crime, 1898

7,686 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 250

Land Tax Assessments. Court of Review. A Parramatta Dispute

The Australian Star · Friday 28 January 1898 · page 5

The Court of Review, presided over by his Honor Judge Murray, resumed the hearing of appeals against land tax assessments in No. 2 District Court this morning. Mr. J…

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Court of REVIEW.—Friday, January 28. (Before his Honor Judge Murray.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 January 1898 · page 3

Appeals against land tax assessment will be taken in No. 2 District Court at 10 a.m.; Belubula Mining Company (James W. Johnson, public officer), Edith Binnie, Florence Binnie, Jane Binnie Frederick J. W. Boulton,…

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Probate Court. (Before Mr. Justice A. H. Simpson.) Probates and Administrations

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 January 1898 · page 3

Probate was granted is the will of Abraham Sonenfild. Letters of administration were granted in the estate of Margaret Chinnery. A CONTESTED WILL…

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Court of Review. (Before Judge Murray.) Appeals From Land Tax Assessments. Re Australian Gaslight Company (part heard)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 January 1898 · page 3

Mr. Scholes, instructed by Messrs. Allen, Allen, and Hemsley, appeared for the appellants; and Mr. J. L. Campbell, instructed by the Crown Solicitor, for the Commissioners. The legal gentlemen consulted…

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Law Report. Thursday, January 27. Equity Court. (Before Mr. Justice A. H. Simpson.) an Injunction Matter. Rudd v. Callaghan and others

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 January 1898 · page 3

On the application of Mr. Adrian Knox, who appeared for the plaintiff, this matter was adjourned to February 18, the injunction to continue in the meantime. On the 11th instant the plaintiff…

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Brutal Assault in a Police Cell

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 January 1898 · page 7

At the Central Court yesterday, before Mr. Delohery, S.M., John James Tierney (25), a groom, was charged with being drunk in Belmore Park, and, secondly, with assaulting Daniel Cain, a man who was confined in the…

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Alleged Assault

The Australian Star · Saturday 29 January 1898 · page 11

James Gallagher appeared at the Court of Quarter Sessions today, before his Honor Judge Backhouse, charged with assault. The alleged assault was said to have been…

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Alleged Assault

The Australian Star · Saturday 29 January 1898 · page 5

The jury, which was locked up last night in the case of James Gallagher, charged at the Metropolitan Quarter Sessions with having assaulted a girl, of the age of 5 years…

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Children at the Water Police Court

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 January 1898 · page 9

The Water Police Court yesterday afternoon took to itself the semblance of a nursery. A desperate character, aged 9 years, headed the juvenile procession. He was brought up on a…

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Stealing the Great Seal

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 January 1898 · page 6

The Great Seal of the Privy Council was once stolen by burglars. It was when Lord Thurlow, was Lord Chancellor. One night in March, 1784, his Lordship's residence in Great Ormond-street…

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Police Courts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 January 1898 · page 7

Fraudulent Appropriation.—At the Water Police Court, yesterday, before Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M., Andrian Lupion, a[?]as Charles Gibson, alias Charles Glover, was convicted of fraudulently appropriating…

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Bankruptcy Court

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 29 January 1898 · page 233

The following sequestrations were male during the past, week:— William Rhodes, of Dungog, labourer. Mr. W. H. Palmer, official assignee…

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Charge of Stealing a Money Box. The Prosecutrix Withdraws

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 29 January 1898 · page 6

At the Parramatta Police Court on. Monday afternoon, before Messrs. T. E. MacNevin P.M. and S. J. Pearson, J.P., Thomas McAdam 12 and Richard…

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The Court Jester's Competition

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 January 1898 · page 10

Teacher: What's a lake? Scholar: A tin kettle with a hole in it. HE KNEW WHAT HE WOULD BE. There was some talk between two boys about…

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Bankruptcy Court. Creditor's Petition

The Australian Star · Saturday 29 January 1898 · page 6

Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney V. Edmund Coleman, storekeeper, of Lismore. Petition to be heard February 9. The favourite steamer Newcastle will leave…

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Bankruptcy Court. Voluntary Sequestrations

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 January 1898 · page 15

Charles Cooper, of Lane Cove-road, North-Sydney, at present out of employment. Mr. W. H.Palmer, official assignee. Frederick Worpel, of Gipps-streat, Carrington,…

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Liverpool Police Court. Thursday, Jan. 72, 1898. (Before Messrs. Chapman and Brainoe J'sP.) Removing Timber

Liverpool Herald · Saturday 29 January 1898 · page 6

Charles Pobjee was charged with removing a quantity of timber, valued 7s, from land at Bankstown owned by the Benevolent Society. Defendant, who pleaded guilty, and made a…

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Police Courts. Fraudulently Appropriating a Portmanteau

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 January 1898 · page 7

Andrian Lupion (27), alias Charles Gibson, alias Charles Glover, was charged at the Water Police Court yesterday with fraudulently appropriating to his own use a leather portmanteau, containing wearing apparel…

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An Absconding Medico Arrested in 'Frisco. Charge of Murder

The Australian Star · Saturday 29 January 1898 · page 5

Intelligence has come to hand of the arrest, at San Francisco, of Dr. Orpen, who some few weeks ago absconded from Auckland, N.Z., and for whom a warrant had been issued,…

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The Granville Assault. The N. W Year's Eve Riot - Accused Committed for Trial

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 29 January 1898 · page 2

At the Parramatta Police Court on Monday, before Messrs. T. E. MacNevin P M., S. J. Pearson J.P., and C. O. Lamb J.P., James Kerr, 27, on remand and Thomas…

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