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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1902

8,422 stories in Sydney's papers · page 63 of 250

The Water Police. Jack Ashore and His Guardians

Evening News · Thursday 27 February 1902 · page 7

A common object of the sea shore that calls for our respectful admiration is that strange, amphibious creature, the water policeman, who, though he may be a constable afloat, is always a seaman…

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Land Appeal Court. The Granting of Costs

The Australian Star · Thursday 27 February 1902 · page 5

The sitting of the Land Appeal Court was continued at. Darlinghurst to-day, the president, Mr. Oliver, presiding. An appeal by J. Snarkey against the…

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Adams's Hotel. The Proposed Extension, Application to the Full Court

The Australian Star · Thursday 27 February 1902 · page 5

An application was made to Mr. Justice Owen and Mr. Justice G. B. Simpson in the second Full Court to-day in respect of the proposed extension of Adams' Hotel from…

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The Tonbridge Murder. Prisoner Sentenced to Death

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.--The prisoner Harold Apted has been found guilty and sentenced to death for the Tonbridge murder. The jury strongly recommended him to mercy…

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Assault

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 8

Edward Cummins (29), laborer, was charged at the Central Court, before Mr. Smithers, S.M., with assaulting Edwin Mole, on February 12, at an hotel in George-street. The prosecutor said he was attacked without provocation…

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The Tonbridge Murder. Accused Sentenced to Death. London, Feb. 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 5

At the Central Criminal Court yesterday Harold Apted, 20 years of age, a carter, was tried on a charge of murder of a little girl named Frances Eliza O'Rourke, near…

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Alleged Assault

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 6

The jury, in the case of Acland Oronhyatikha, medical practitioner, who was charged with criminal assault on Elizabeth James, type-writer, visited to-day the I.O.O.F. rooms, where the…

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News by Cable. [Copyright.] The Tonbridge Murder. Accused Sentenced to Death

Evening News · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 5

LONDON, February 27.—At the Maidstone Assizes yesterday, Harold Apted, 20 years of age, a carrier, was charged with the murder of a little girl named Frances Eliza O'Rourke,…

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A Charge of Assault

The Australian Star · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 8

At North Sydney Police Court yesterday, before Mr. E. H. Wilshire, S.M., James Lyons (65) was charged with indecently assaulting one Diana Lewis, a girl under the age of 14…

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Melbourne University Frauds. Dickson Sentenced

Evening News · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Thursday Afternoon.—Fredk Thomas James Dickson, late accountant of the Melbourne University, was brought up for sentence before Mr. Justice Hodges, in the Criminal…

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A Princess Charged with Forgery

Evening News · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 5

LONDON, February 27.—Princess Catherine Radziwill has been arrested at Capetown oh a charge of having forged the name of Mr. Cecil Rhodes to bills for £23,000…

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Police Courts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 8

Theft.—At the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. King, D.S.M., Thomas Wells, 36, driver, was charged with stealing two drums of white zine, valued at 15s, the property of Messrs. John Keep…

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A Confession of Murder

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 6

A telegram received to-night from Mitiamo states that Richard Henry Wills, who is detained by the police on a charge of vagrancy, has confessed to the murder of an old man named Edward Woods at…

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Melbourne University Frauds. Dickson Sentenced. MELBOURNE

The Australian Star · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 7

Frederick Dickson, late accountant at the Melbourne University, was to-day sentenced to two years on the charge of making false bocks, to two years on the charge of…

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Melbourne University Frauds. Dickson Sentenced. Five Years' Imprisonment

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 5

Frederick Dickson, formerly accountant at the Melbourne University, who was on Tuesday found guilty of making false entries in the books of that institution with intent to defraud,…

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Police Courts. Thefts

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 8

Thomas Wells (36), driver, appeared before Mr. J. N. King, D.S.M., at the Water Police Court, on a charge of stealing two drums of white zine, valued at 17s, the property of John Keep and Co., on February 10. He Was…

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Arrest of a Princess. Charged with Forgery

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--The Princess Catherine Radziwill has been arrested at the Cape for forging Mr. C. J. Rhodes' name to bills for £23,000…

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Land Appeal Court

The Australian Star · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 6

The sittings of the Land Appeal Court were continued at Darlinghurst yesterday afternoon References were made by the Minister to…

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The Federal High Court

Evening News · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 4

IT has been officially announced that the Federal High Court is to consist of five Judges, in place of the three originally proposed. It may be fairly said that this resolve will give…

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Bankruptcy Court. Voluntary Sequestration

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 February 1902 · page 8

George Dowers, tailor's manager, 40 M'Evoy-street, Waterloo. Mr. W. H. Palmer, official assignee. Walter Knox M'Millan, hotelkeeper, Cobar,…

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