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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1903

8,645 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 250

The Stirling Murder. Adelaide

The Australian Star · Thursday 15 January 1903 · page 2

The inquest on the body of the murdered man Cullen was continued yesterday. The first witness was the widow, Mary Cullen, who stated that she had been separated from…

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Western Australia. Daring Burglary at Boulder. a Woman Drugged. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 January 1903 · page 7

A robbery surrounded with mysterious circumstances was perpetrated on Sunday at the residence of Mr. Cummins, Burt-street, Boulder. It appears that Mrs. Cummins went to bed, and awake on…

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Assaults on the Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 January 1903 · page 4

"J. P." writes:—"No doubt many people beside myself have noticed the increasing number of assaults on the police, and the totally inadequate punishment meted out to the offenders. How much do the offenders care for…

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Metropolitan Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 January 1903 · page 4

The quarterly meeting of the Metropolitan Licensing Court was held at the Water Police Court yesterday, Messrs. Smithers, Isaacs, and Donaldson, S.Ms., presiding. The following transfers of…

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Police Courts. Committed for Trial

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 January 1903 · page 8

John M'Guire, alias While, or "Wilson (30), laborer, was charged, at the Central Police Court yesterday, before I Mr. Payten, S.M., with breaking and entering the store of William Hermon Slade, 257A Sussex-street, and stealing…

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The Stirling Murder. Numerous Family Quarrels. a Woman's Remarkable Prophecy

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 January 1903 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--The inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of George Cullen, aged 82, who was found dead at his late residence, Stirling East, on January .2, with his…

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A Search for Stolen Soversigns. the Police Hoaxed

Evening News · Thursday 15 January 1903 · page 2

The heads of the Police Department have (writes the Launceston correspondent of the Melbourne "Rerai[?]") been made the victims of a huge hoax. In November, 1901, 300 sovereigns…

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New South Wales Police Widows' Fund. a Self-helping Institution

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 January 1903 · page 8

The thirteenth annual meeting of the members of tho New South "Wales Police Widows' Fund was hold at the Police Station, Newtown, on Tuesday evening. Sergeant G. Bradley…

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Loading Coal at Newcastle. Claims for Demurrage. Judgment of the Court of King's Bench

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 January 1903 · page 5

Early in December last Mr. Justice Kennedy delivered a judgment in the King's Bench Division of the High Court in three actions which had been brought to test the question whether demurrage for detention in the port of…

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Committed Suicide Because Charged with Theft

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 6

MUDGEE, Thursday.--A young woman, aged 22 years, named Mary Ann Bender, a domestic servant in the employ of Mr. G. M. Rouse, of this town, committed suicide last night by taking…

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A Contemptible Theft

Evening News · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 7

George Graham, a man with several aliases, appeared before Mr. Smithers, S.M., at the North Sydney Police Court to answer a charge of having, at Sydney, on January 4, stolen from…

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Floggings in Gaol

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 6

Two men were, as part of their sentences, flogged to-day at Pentridge. One a negro, who received 12 stroke, shricked for mercy after cash blow. The other, who received 15, and…

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In the Police Court. the Pathetic Side

Evening News · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 6

Girls who appear at the Central Police Court have various characteristics. Many or them are defiant, many repentent, or seemingly so, and not a few display a callous indifference to the whole…

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Sentenced on Two Charges

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 8

William Groves, 18, a laborer, was charged at the North Sydney Court, on remand from Balmain, with stealing in company one copper boiler, of the value of 25s, the property of Alexander Bruce, jun., at Chatswood…

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Theft of a Ring

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 8

George Graham, alias Gordon Graham, alias Thomas Graham, alias Arthur King, alias M'Donald, alias M Kenzic, 57 years of age, a seaman, was charged on remand at the North Sydney Court with stealing at Sydney on…

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Duellists Sentenced. London, Jan. 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 5

Herr Guggenheimer, a Judge at Munich, Bavaris, and M. Stueb, the Belgian Consul, have been sentenced respectively to four and two months' imprisonment for duelling…

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Police Courts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 8

Committed far Trial.—At the North Sydney Police Court yesterday, before Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M., Alfred Huxtable, 28, a commission agent, was charged with breaking and entering the…

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The Mosman Robbery. Police Court Proceedings. Mr. Eberle Describes His Encounter

Evening News · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 3

Before Mr. Smithers, S.M., at the North Sydney Court yesterday, Alfred Huxtable, alias Sydney Charles Abraham Phillips, 28, described as a commission agent, was charged with, on…

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Police Widows' Fund

Evening News · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 3

The thirteenth annual meeting of the members of the New South Wales Police Widows' Fund, held at the Newtown Police Station, was presided over by Sergeant G. Bradley. The committee's…

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Judge and Consul Sent to Gaol a Munich Sensation

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 January 1903 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Judge Guggenheimer, of Munich, and M. L. Steub, the Honorary Consul-General for Belgium at Munich, have been sentenced to four and two months…

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