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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1900

6,560 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 250

District Court, Etc., Appointments

Evening News · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 2

His Honor F. W. Gibson, judge of the north-western district, to act temporarily as a judge of district courts and chairman of quarter sessions within the metropolitan, suburban, and Hunter…

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Police Courts. Disturbing a Religious Meeting

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 8

At the Central Court yesterday, before Mr. Macfarlane, S .M., John Henry Stratton, a coffee-staall keeper, was charged with having on Sunday night assaulted John Fischer, a clerk. The prosecutor deposed that he was at a…

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Golf. Inns of Court Golfing Union

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 6

An informal meeting of a few members of the Bar (says an English exchange) has just been held in the Temple to consider the advisability of forming a [?] union, for which members of the Inns of…

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Law Notices. Suppreme Court. —Tuesday, Jauunry 30

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 7

Before the Deputy Registar in Bankruptey. —Re Frede rick Freeman, taxation of petitioning creditors' costs, at 11.45 a.m. Re Tiy Chong, to Settle minutes of order, at noon…

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Robate Court. (Before Mr. Justice Walker.) Probates and Administrations

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 7

Probates wera granted in the ostates of Edward Gell, John Walker Jones, and Greorge Frederick Augustus Finlny. Letters of administration wera granted in the…

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British Traitor Seized. Court-martialled and Shot. He Taught the Boers

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.--A regrettable incident is reported from Capo Colony, where a British traitor has been called upon to pay the extreme penalty for most treacherous…

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Law Report. Thursday, January 25. Divorge Court. (Before Mr. Justice Walker.) Decrees. Absolute

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 7

His Honor made absolute the decrees nisi in the following suits, and declared the marriages dissolved:—Rebecca Louisa Curtis v. James Michael Curtis (petitioner to have the custody of the…

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Bankruptcy Court. (Before the Acting Registrar, Mr. F. H. Salusbury.) Hearing of Creditor's Petition

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 8

Tillock and Co. V. Peter Kruckow. Mr. Leverrier (instructed by Messrs. Waldron and Dawson) appeared for the petitioning creditor, and moved for the sequestation of the estate of respondent. There was no appearance on…

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Bankruptcy Court. (Before Mr. F. H. Salasbury, Acting Registrar.) Creditors' Pettion. Tillock and Co. v. Peter Kruckow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 7

Mr. Leverrier (instructed by Messrs. Waldron and Dawson appeared for the thr petitioning creditors, and moved for an order sequestrating the estate of the respondent, who did not appear. The order was…

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Burglary at Rockwood. Smart Capture by She Police

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 2

On Wednesday evening Constable Robert­son, of Rookwood, received a complaint from Miss Agnew that, during her absence from home that afternoon, her house on…

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Hunter's Hill Police Court

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 6

At the Hunter's Police Court on Monday, before Messrs. P. Leslie and J. Camden-Goodridge, J's.P., Sydney Lyall was brought up on remand charged on…

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Penrith Police Court

Nepean Times · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 4

The Bench congratulated Senior-Sergeant Thorndike on his promotion. Before Mr F H Galbraith, Acting P.M. and Messrs T R Smith and L Perkins, J.'sP…

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Liverpool Police Court. Thursday, January 18.0 (Before Messrs. N. G. Bull and F. Champman, J's.P) Stealing From a Tent

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 3

George Lawrence and Richard Aspinall were charged with stealing from a tent at Fairfield articles valued at £10, the property of Samuel Freeman Robert…

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Police Courts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 12

A Series of Charges.—At the Central Police Court yesterday John Landers, 35, engineer, charged with being drunk whilst in charge of a horse and vehicle, was fined 1Cs or three days'imprisoument…

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Bankruptcy Court

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 236

The following velantary sequestrations were filed :— William Headly Brooker, contractor, of Oxley-street. Cainden-road. Mr. N. F. Giblin, official…

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Out of Court

The Australian Star · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 8

In the good old days in Kentucky there was a court composed of three magistrates to try certain cases appealed from a single justice of the peace…

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Marsfield Revision Court

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 11

An open court for the revision of the municipal lists was held in the' Marsfield Council Chambers on Thursday evening. There were present:—The Mayor (Alderman…

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A Municipal Prosecution. A Townsman Charged with Wasting Water

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 7

At the Parramatta Police Court, on Monday, John C. Nicholson was charged with allowing the Borough water to run to waste. Mr. E. J. Love, Inspector of Waterworks,…

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Liverpool Police Court. Monday, Jan. 22, 1900. (Before Messrs. Bull, Chapman and Smith, J'sP.) Damaging Property

Liverpool Herald · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 7

CHARLES H. Childs, John Hearse and Thomas Lane were charged with damaging one of the windows of St. Aidan's Church of England, Moorbank…

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Ryde Police Court. Tuesday, January, 23rd. (Before Mr. G. M. Pope and Mr. J. Forsyth, J.'s.P.) a Maintenance Case

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 10

Mark Bellamy was charged at the instance of Jessie Florida Jordan, of Beecroft, with having left his illegitimate male child without means of support. Mr. McIntosh appeared for…

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