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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1902

8,422 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 250

Dog Days in Sydney. The Police Make a Raid. Survival of the Fittest

The Australian Star · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 11

Mr. Fosbery, Inspector-General of Police, having been informed that mangy, ownerless, and undesirable dogs were becoming too numerous in the metropolis, recently ordered…

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Secret Marriage Romance. Divorce Court Sequel to a Strange Wedded Life

The World's News · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 13

The story of a romantic secret marriage, after which the contracting parties said good-bye at the church door, was told to Sir Francis Jeune in the London Divorce Court on November 18…

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Anti-foreign Influences at the Court. Recent Massacres of Christians. London, Jan. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 9

Although a decree has been issued ordering the punishment of those implicated in the murder of a missionary and native Christians at Ninghsia, in Kansu, the anti-foreign…

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Boys to Be Birched. Gaol Warders and Police Refuse the Job. Melbourne, Saturday Night

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 January 1902 · page 7

The two youths ordered try the Ballarat City Court Bench to be birched for illtreating an aged Chinese, whom they nearly drowned, and to remain in prison until this…

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Stealing Betting Tickets a Randwick Shark

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1902 · page 6

AMONG a few other people on the flat at Randwick races on Saturday, December 28, was John Schultz, a German carpenter, and an ideal John Stofel in appearance and…

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Double Murder and Suicide

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 January 1902 · page 8

A settler named Blennerhasse and his son were killed at Taranaki (N.Z.) by another settler, named Hill, who afterwards committed suicide…

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The Towitta Murder. Local Suspicion. Adelaide, Saturday Night

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 January 1902 · page 7

The horrible tragedy at Towitta where the little girl was done to death on New Year's night, is exciting intense interest. The detectives and a black tracker are on…

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Police V. People. Evans in Error

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1902 · page 3

BEYOND a doubt the number of prostitutes frequenting the public thoroughfares of the city at nights constitutes a nuisance which is ever assuming greater…

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Alleged Disorderly House. Police Peeping-toms. Some Lively Evidence. Accused Committed

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1902 · page 3

SENIOR-CONSTABLE MANKEY and Constable Hardiman are not members of the Social Parity Brigade, so far as TRUTH is aware, yet, like some estimable persons connected with that…

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Redfern Ructions. When Greek Meets Greek. Police Have a "Divarshun!" a Hot Time in the Old "Sub-bub!" Policemen Get in "Holts!"

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1902 · page 3

THE Police Force of New South Wales, more particularly the division distributed in the metropolitan districts, is almost universally regarded as an institution where…

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Old Sydney. the Rocks. a Model to be Made—More Scribbling Libeliers—Frith—Scott's Defence—Indiscriminate Liquor Licenses—Two Indent Citizens—Raid on a Police Station—A Man-o'-War Trouble—Sailors' Boarding Houses—Mr. See and the Cold-water Presbyterians—An Old Sydney Merchant

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1902 · page 7

MR. E. W. O'SULLIVAN, the Minister for Works, has given instructions to have a complete model of the Rocks made; also that special sites and picturesque bits should…

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Hotel Burglary

The Australian Star · Monday 6 January 1902 · page 2

The licensee of the Golden Lion Hotel, Devonshire-street, discovered yesterday morning that in the course of the previous night thieves had entered his premises, and…

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Burglary at a Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1902 · page 6

Early yesterday morning the licensee of the Golden Lion Hotel, Devonshire-street, discovered that his place had been entered by thieves during the previous night, and about £20 worth…

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The Towitta Murder

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1902 · page 8

No fresh developments have taken place in connection with the Towitta murder case, but revelations of a serious character are expected to be made at the adjourned inquest on Thursday. A large force of…

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Police Decline to Flog

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1902 · page 5

The police authorities at Ballarat are in a dilemma in regard to the case of two lads who were sentenced to birching at the hands of the flagellator for cruelly ill-treating an aged…

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The Arbitration Court

The Australian Star · Monday 6 January 1902 · page 4

That with respect to the principle of industrial arbitration New Zealand has furnished warnings, as well as examples, for New, South Wales is a fact which is not to…

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China. the Court

Evening News · Monday 6 January 1902 · page 5

LONDON, January 4.—The Chinese Court is at Pao-ting-fu. LONDON, January 5, 2 p.m.—The . Chinese authorities have requested the Legations to keep…

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Industrial Arbitration Court. Employers' Representative

The Australian Star · Monday 6 January 1902 · page 6

'A' meeting of a number of employers was held at the Australian Buildings, 289 Pitt-street, on Friday afternoon, for the purpose of furthering the candidature of Mr. J. P…

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The Chinese Court. London, January 4

The Australian Star · Monday 6 January 1902 · page 4

The Emperor and the Empress Dowager have arrived at Paoting-fu…

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China. Return of the Court. London, Jan. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1902 · page 7

The Emperor and the Empress Dowager have arrived nt Paoting-fu. [The Court left Knifung on December 14, and it was proposed to reach Peking on the 7th instant…

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