Central Criminal Court. (Before his Honor Mr. Acting Justice Rogers.)
Mr. J.C. Gannon was Crown Prosecutor. ALLEGED WOUNDING WITH INTENT TO MURDER. Frank Adam Benjamin Holmes, a young…
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A Third Suit. a Litigant's Failures. Again Before the Court
In Chambers to-day, before his Honor Mr. Justice Cohen, the matter of the Rev. James Clarice and the verdict which he obtained against the Sheriff and some of his officers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Central Criminal Court. (Before Acting Justice Revers and juries of 12.)
Mr. J. C. Gannon. Crown Prosecutor. WOUNDING WITH INTENT TO MURDER. A young man pained Frank Adam Benjamin Helmet pleaded "Not guilty" to an indictment charging him…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Bankruptcy Court. (Before the Registrar, Mr. Arthur Henry.) Applications for Certificates
The Registrar adjourned the following applications:—Henry Palmer, to March 8; Hartley Blackburn, to March 1, for the attendance of the bankrupt; Charles Henry Beale, to March 8, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Divorce Court. Riddle v.RIDDLE. the Respondents Version. (Continned from page 4.)
Catherine Maria Riddle the respondent, gave her version of the domestic trouble. She lived happily with her husband, she said, until 1892. A school teacher, Miss Badham, came to live with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Land Appeal Court. (Before Messrs. Oliver, president, Freeman, and Brandis, commissioners.) Reserved Decisions
The appeal of B. G. M. Englehardt against the appraised value of his conditional purchase, No. 91-76, was dismissed, the land being valued at £1 15s per acre…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Equity Court. (Before Mr. Justice A. H. Simpson.) Gold-mining Company Case. Gale v. Maguire
Mr. Mann, instructed by Messrs. Thompson and Nott, appeared for the plaintiff, Walter Frederick Gale; Mr. Knox, instructed by Mr. W. G. Parish, for the Mount David Gold-mining Company, No…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Divorce Court. (Before Mr. Justice Simpson.) RIDDLE v. RIDDLE. Allegations of Cruelty against a Wife
This was a case in which the petitioner, Walter Riddle, sued for a dissolution of his marriage with Catherine Riddle on the ground that between the month of June, 1896, and June, 1897, she had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Probate Court. (Before Mr. Justice A. H. Simpson.) Accounts and Commission. Discovery of Notes Worth £3700
His Honor dealt with a number of applications for the passing of accounts and granting commission, nearly the whole of which were unopposed. In the matter of the estate of Ann Harriet de Philipsthal,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Dreyfus Case. M. Rocheforts Charge. Repudiated by General Billot. Extraordinary Scenes in Court. Free Fights on the Floor. London, Feb. 13
General Billot, the French Minister for War, has repudiated the charge of M. Rochefort that he had intrigued with M. Matthieu Dreyfus to have the sentence…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Law Report. Tuesday, February 15. Banco Court. (Before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Stephen, and Mr. Justice Cohen.) Admission of a Barrister
On the motion of the Attorney-General (Mr. J. H. Want, Q.C.), Mr. Herbort Incledon Pilcher, barrister-at-law and member of the Inner Temple, was admitted to the Bar of New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Vice-admiralty Court. (Before his Honor Sir Frederick Darley, Judge Commissary.) Claims Against the Canadian-australian Royal Mail Steamship Company. Brown and another v. Steamship Miowera
Mr. James, instructed by Messrs. Richardson and Thompson, appeared for the plaintiffs, J. and A. Brown, who claimed £100 against the owners of the Miowera for towage services, and moved for an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Burglary at Homebush
The Newtown police yesterday reported that a burglary had been effected early that morning at a house at Homebush Creseent, Homebush, occupied by Mr. John Howman and his sister. About 4.30 in the morning Miss…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Theft of Jewellery
John William Woodley (37) was charged yesterday at the Water Police Court, with stealing Jewellery, valued at £8, the property of Joseph Cornelius O'Brien. O'Brien is a retailer of time-payment jewellery, and he employed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stealing From a Dwelling
Thomas Bryan, alias O'Brien, alias M'Grath, 26, appeared at the Newtown Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Addison, S.M., to answer a charge of stealing from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Frivolous Charges. a Magistrate's Remarks
Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M., who presided at the Central Police Court yesterday, made some forcible remarks about the reckless manner in which charges were made against people, and the after, perhaps…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alleged Theft From a Warehouse
At the Water, Police Court yesterday James Thompson, 49, cook, and James Bain, alias Sutherland, 62, laborer, both on remand, were charged with stealing about ten drums, containing oil…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stealing Posts and Rails at Willoughby
At the North Sydney Court yesterday, Thomas Johnson and John Ward, were proceeded against by Inspector M'Culloch, of the Railway Construction Branch, for stealing three pieces of fencing wood, the property of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Alleged Theft From a Bonded Store
James Thompson (49), cook, and James Bain, alias John Sutherland (62), laborer, were yesterday charged at the Water Police Court, with stealing about 10 drums of oil, to the total value of [?]5, 12s 6d, the property of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Courts
The Camping [?].—At the North Sydney Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Whittingdale Johnson, S.M., D. R. M'Culloch railway inspector, proceeded against two men named respectively…
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