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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1899

7,595 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 250

The Quay-street Outrage. Police Still Investigating

The Australian Star · Wednesday 4 January 1899 · page 6

The necessary inquest in connection with the death of Robert Crooks, the victim of Sunday morning's outrage by alleged members of the "Cow lane Push," will he initiated…

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Police Courts. a Boom in Alarm Clocks

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 January 1899 · page 8

At the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. E. H. Wilshire, S.M., Charles Lutherborough (2a) was charged with stealing an alarm clock, value 15s. the property of Benjamin Clark, a wharf laborer, residing in Yurong-lane,…

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West Africa. Murder of a British Officer Avenged. London, Jan. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1899 · page 7

News from West Africa states that the British forces have avenged the murder of Major Keating by the natives on the Niger. Seven of the ringleaders were…

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Parramatta Court Business. Returns for the Year

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1899 · page 8

The following is a return of the business transacted by the Clerk of Petty Sessions, Registrar of the District Court, &c., at Parramatta (exclusive of land agency business), and of moneys received by him in…

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The Greater Britain Exhibition. New South Wales Court Abandoned, £3500 Wasted

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 January 1899 · page 8

A meeting of the committee appointed to arrange for exhibits in the Greater Britain Exhibition, which it was proposed to hold in Earl's Court, London, during the current year, was held…

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The Ultimo Outrage. Robert Crooks's Death. Initiation of the Inquest. the Carrolls Before the Court

Evening News · Wednesday 4 January 1899 · page 4

The City Coroner initiated an inquest to-day at his court, Queen's Square, relative to the death of a horse trainer named Robert Crooks, who died in Sydney Hospital yesterday from the effects of…

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Earl's Court Exhibition. Non-representation of New South Wales. Meeting of the Committee. Mr. Neild on Parliament

Evening News · Wednesday 4 January 1899 · page 5

A meeting of the committee appointed to arrange matters in connection with the representation of this colony at the Greater Britain Exhibition, Earl's Court, London, was held yesterday…

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Police Courts. Newtown Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1899 · page 3

At the Newtown Court yesterday, Air. Edwards, S.M., dealt with a number of applications for licenses. Auctioneers' special general licenses were granted to the following:--Robert Francis Murphy, Septimus Charles…

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Charges of Assault

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1899 · page 3

At the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Wilshire, S.M., Emily Bortha (27) was charged, on remand, with unlawfully assaulting Catherine Head, a woman 70 years of age, residing in Stanley-street. It…

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"There's No Place Like Gaol"

Evening News · Thursday 5 January 1899 · page 3

James Leary, 54, calling himself a laborer, was charged at the Parramatta Police Court yesterday with vagrancy. Be gave himself up to the police the day before, stating that he wanted to…

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Theft of Handkerchiefs by a Girl

Evening News · Thursday 5 January 1899 · page 3

A girl of respectable appearance, named Elsie Frazer. 14, was charged at the Glebe Police Court, on Tuesday, with the theft of two dozen silk handkerchiefs, of the total…

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Alleged Assault on a Railway Employer

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1899 · page 3

At the Newtown Court yesterday, James Blythe (26) and Robert Hardie (19) were brought before Mr. Edwards, S.M., on a charge of, in company, assaulting, with intent to rob, William Robert Matthews, at…

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Police Courts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1899 · page 3

Assault.—At the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. E. H. Wilshire. S.M., Emily Bertha or Kenny, aged 27, was fined 30s and 5s 10d costs, with the alternative of 21 days' imprisonment, for…

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Police Investigations

Evening News · Thursday 5 January 1899 · page 5

GATTON, January 3.—Yesterday the police had Information which led to the hope that some trace of the murderers would be discovered, but on a searching inquiry being carried out it was proved…

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The Detective Police

The Australian Star · Thursday 5 January 1899 · page 4

The recent Yarra mystery and the Gatton outrage—the latter iniquity seldom paralleled in the annals of felony—urge attention to the inadequacy of the means for detecting…

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Assaulting the Police

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1899 · page 3

Thomas Donnelly, the young man who got mixed up in a street disturbance at the Haymarket early last Monday morning, was charged at the Central Court yesterday, before Mr. Love, D.S.M., with having behaved…

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Newtown Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1899 · page 3

The annual meeting of the Licensing Court for the petty sessions district of Newtewn was held yesterday at the Newtown Police Court. Mr. Edwards, S.M., presided. Applications from the…

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Water Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1899 · page 3

The weekly meeting of the Water Police Division of the Metropolitan Liceusing Court was held yesterday. Messrs. Smithers and Wilshire, S.Ms., and F. Penny, L.M., occupied the bench. The…

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Central Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1899 · page 3

At the weekly meeting of the Central Licensing Court yesterday, the following transfers of publicans' licenses were granted:--Henry Truelove to Emily Hughes, Enmore Hotel, Edgeware-road, Newtown; Edmond Doyle…

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The City Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1899 · page 5

At the City Court to-day William Peake, 27, a fireman, was fiued £1, and ordered to pay £2 damages, in default two months' imprisonment, for having maliciously injured a globular lamp, valued…

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