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Courts & crime, 1902

8,422 stories in Sydney's papers · page 73 of 250

Alleged Child Murder. the Mother Charged

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 9

BROKEN-HILL, Friday.--Maggie Keogh, about 25 years of age, has been arrested on a charge of the murder of her newly-born infant. Keogh is a wardsman at the Broken-hill Hospital. The…

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Charge of Horse Stealing

The Australian Star · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 6

The charge of horse- stealing against Walter Rosewarne, William Montague Parker and William Dunk, which occupied the attention of Judge Heydon at the Quarter Sessions…

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Charge of Horse-stealing

The Australian Star · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 11

The-horse-stealing charge against Walter Rosewarne, William Montague Parker, and William Dunk was. continued before Judge Hoyden at the Quarter Sessions yesterday…

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A Magistrate and a Pensioner

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 10

ALBUKY, Friday.--At the police court, John Donaldson Selby, an old-age pensioner, pleaded guifty to a charged of being helplessly drunk in the street. Ho was lined 5s, or imprisonment…

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The Tonbridge Murder

The Australian Star · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 3

The toils of circumstantial evidence coiled around the prisoner Harold Apted, who was found guilty, condemned to death, and who confessed his guilt of having, on New Year's…

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The Murder of Ah Won. The Cingalese Before the Court. MACLEAN

The Australian Star · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 6

The trial of Cornelius Peara, the Cingalese charged with the murder of Ah Won at Yamba on or about January 10, was continued yesterday. On the preceding day a…

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Peculiar Assault Case. Committal fop Trial

The Australian Star · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 11

The charge of assault preferred by Mary Byrne against Edward Morris and Henry Parkes, which occupied the attention of Mr. Smlthers, S.M., at the Central Police Court…

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Police Courts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 11

Breach of the Liquor Act.—At the Newtown Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Payten, S.M., Je[?]nette Dunne, licens[?] of the St. Peters Hotel, St. Peters, was charged with having on Sunday,…

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Central Police Court. Report by Dr. Armstrong. Liable to Be Rat-infested

Evening News · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 6

After our first edition went to press yesterday, the health committee of the City Council continued its deliberations. Alderman Kelly: I move— "That the Trust be…

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Balmain Police Court. Wednesday, March 5. (Before Mr. Edwards, S.m.) Illegally at Abattoirs

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 3

Three small boys, named Basil Rodney, George Cormick and Joseph Iyles were each fined 5s, in default 24 hours, for having illegally entered…

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The Millionaire Murder. Patrick Tried Fob the Murder of Mr. Rice in New York

The World's News · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 6

Mr. Albert Patrick, an attorney of New York, was brought up for trial recently In New York before Recorder Goff, charged with the murder of an aged millionaire, Mr. William Rice, in…

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Land Appeal Court

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 19

The Land Appeal Court sat at Darlinghurst on Monday. Messrs Oliver (president), Brandis and Houston (commissioners), comprised the bench, and dealt with the following cases:—…

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Legislation and Laziness. Goulburn Half-holiday Case. a Magistrate's Comment

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 8

GOULBURN, Friday.--The half-holiday test case, in which Alfred Mitchell was charged with a breach of the Act, was resumed this morning before the Police Magistrate and…

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Ah Won's Murder. Charge Against a Cingalese

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 10

MACLEAN, Friday.--The charge against Cornelius Peara, a Cingalese, with the murder of a Chinaman named Ah Won, at Yamba, on or about the 10th January, was proceeded with,…

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Assault and Robbery. a Metropole Visitor Victimised. Attacked in Bright Lamplight

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 9

Considerable excitement was caused in the vicinity of Bathurst and Elizabeth streets, about 12,30 this morning, by a brutal assault upon an elderly man, and the subsequent shooting by a…

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Country News. Alleged Infanticide. a Hospital Nurse Charged. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 14

Maggie Keogh, wardsmaid at the Broken Hill Hospital, was arrested by the police last night and charged with the murder of a newly born male child. She made a statement to the resident surgeon…

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Police Courts. Selling Liquor on

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 12

At the Newtown Court, before Mr. C. N. Payten S.M., Jennette Dunne, licensee of the St. Peters Hotel St. Peters, convicted of selling liquor on Sunday, February 23rd. Defendant (for whom Sir. C. Bull appeared)…

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The Honor of the Well-bred. Rehabilitated by Murder

The World's News · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 10

LONDON, January 24.—That "well-bred" nation, Germany, to wit, should by this time have had instances enough of the insane folly of the duel as a social instituion for the preservation…

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Laid Appeal Court. Reserved Decisions

The Australian Star · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 5

Reserved decisions by the Land Appeal Court were given yesterday. The Minister's reference for determination of the capital value of the land comprised in…

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Prison Labor in Bathurst Gaol. To the Editor of the "Evening News."

Evening News · Saturday 8 March 1902 · page 2

Sir,— Mr. Wise, in his reply to the deputation from the Marble and Slate Workers' Union, states "he would be no party to giving away to the sentiments expressed in press reports by delegates…

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