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Courts & crime, 1901

7,451 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 250

Ormuz-ismaila Collision. Finding of the Court of Marine Inquiry. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 January 1901 · page 8

The Court of Marine Inquiry delivered its finding this afternoon in respect of the collision between the steamers Ormuz and Ismaila at Port Phillip Heads on the night of December 11. The [?]ding was…

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Law Report. Thursday, January 17. Vice-admiralty Court. (Before Mr. Justice Owen.) F[?]nwick v. Young Bun[?]ree

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 January 1901 · page 3

His Honor, in delivering his reserved judgment, said:—On January 15, 1900, the Young Bungar[?] was towing a Government p[?]nt laden with silt from a dredge at the top of the basin in the harbour of…

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Charged with Murder

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 9

The extradition of the man Lillywhite, who is accused of being Blatch, wanted for the Colchester murder, will be granted, but Habeas Corpus proceedings are pending. The…

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Parramatta Police Court Returns. For 1900

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 8

We are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. H. S. Hawkins, J.P., C.P.S., etc., etc., for the following return of the business transacted by him, and of moneys received by him in his several…

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Assault-at-Arms

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 155

An assault-at-arms occupied several nights of last week. It was begun in the Town Hall, and finished in the Gaiety Athletic Hall. There was a very large attendance, and the keenest interest was shown in the…

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An Embezzler Sentenced. London, Jan. 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 9

C. L. J. Alvord, [?]ashier of the First National Bank, New York, admitted embezzlements at the trial yesterday and was sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment…

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A Police Court. Sadness of the Show. and Its Humors

Evening News · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 3

YOU have missed your vocation in life. You ought to have been an actor or a writer for the "Dally…

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Police Courts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 7

Interfering with the Tramways.—At the Central Police Co[?]t yesterday, before Mr. F. W. Edwards, S.M., Lewellen Jones, aged 12, newsboy, was charged with unlawfully interfering with the mechanical…

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A Big Embezzler. Sentenced to Thirteen Years

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 9

LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Cornelius L. J. Alvord, the cashier of the First National Bank, New York, was tried yesterday. He admitted the embezzlement of 696,000 dollars. He was…

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Penrith Police Court MONDAY, Before Mr F. R. Wilshire, P.M.

Nepean Times · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 7

Ernest Verney, Walter Verney, and Stanley Duke[?] were charged on the information of Ellen Breeze, wife of Robert Breeze, that they wantonly threw stones…

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A Police Inquiry

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 8

Mr. W. M. Macfarlane recently inquired into some charges made by a constable against Sergeant Louis Parkinson, of Ashfield. The inquiry was conducted at the Central Court, and the…

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Revision Court

The St Georges Advocate · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 2

THE revision court of the municipal district of Rockdale, for the purpose of revising the municipal lists, will be held at the Town Hall on…

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Parramatta Police Court. FRIDAY, 11th JANUARY. (Before Mr. T. E. MacNevin, P.M.)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 8

Thomas McGrath, an old man, who claimed that he was a pensioner, and that he had fought at the Alma, in the Punjaub, and in the first Boer war, charged with being drunk and using…

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Central Revision Court

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 13

Mr. Edwards, S.M., presided at the Central Revision Court yesterday. Mr. C. A. H. Redgrave, acting Chamber Magistrate, produced the lists for Phillip and Pyrmont divisions. To the former, which contained 2171…

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Execution of Jimmy Governor. at Darlinghurst Gaol. Instantaneous Death

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 10

Jimmy Governor, the last of the notorious blacks concerned in the murders at Breelong on the night of July 20, was hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol yesterday morning…

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Recognition of Police and Military

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 164

The members of the Government, new that the Commonwealth celebrations Lave concluded, express themselves as highly gratified with the manner in which the police and the military worked during the…

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New Zealand. a Charge of Murder. Wellington

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 9

A journeyman printer named Lillywhite, who has been before the Court several times on suspicion of being a man named Blatch, who is wanted on a charge of murder committed at Colchester in…

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Parade of Mounted Police in Sydney

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 31

INSPECTION BEFORE PARADE…

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The London Police. One Year's Work

The Australian Star · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 9

The history of the London police force for 1899 is to be found, in the report issued by the Metropolitan Commissioner of Police. On the hist day of 1899 the strength of the…

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Liverpool Police Court. Tuesday, January 15. (Before Mr. F. R. Wilshire, P.M., and Mr. F. Chapman, J.P.)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 3

William Henry v. William Miller; for £11, wages. Mr. Landers appeared for plaintiff. Defendant pleaded that he was only indebted to the extent of £8 6s. The Bench returned a…

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