Dress Fitting in Court
An amusing case "was heard in Bloomsbury (London) County Court, before Judge Bacon, when a domestic servant named Morris, sued a dressmaker for £2 2s 9d, being the value of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Courts & crime, 1903
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Parramatta Police Court. "Wednesday, January 14. (Before Mr. T. E. MacNevin, S.m.) Bathing Within View
Leslie Jenkins, Ernest Dickens, Frank Ralph, and Stanley Pickering; were charged with bathing within view of a dwelling house. Sergeant Nies stated that there had been a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Early Morning Episode. Police and Revolvers
At the Newtown Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Barnett, D.S.M., Thomas Phillips, alias Nelson, alias M'Grory, 40, was charged on remand from the Central Police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Peculiar Irish Story. Dramatic Incident in a Murder Trial
A murder trial opened at Sligo recently, in which the prisoner, James Doherty, was charged with shooting his son. Counsel for the prosecution stated that the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Ten Years for Murder. the Artistic Temperament As an Extenuating Circumstance
LONDON, December 5.—"Heavens, man, would you kill the father of your children?" This agonised exclamation, in a recent French play, by a guilty wife to a husband who is about to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ryde Police Court. Tuesday, January 13. (Before Messrs. G. M. Pope, H. E. Jordan, and T. G. Dole, J's.P.) the Eastwood Stabbing
Charles Sing surrendered to his bail in answer to the charge of wounding one Arthur Zartman, with intent to do grevious bodily harm, at Eastwood, on the 16th November…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Law Notices. Supreme Court, Monday, January 19
Before the Registrar in Bankruptcy.--At 9.30 a.m. Examination section 30. At 10 a.m. August Gorling; creditor's petitions, the Kauri Timber Company, Limited, v. Francis Percy Warner; land trustees of the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Liverpool Policecourt. Saturday, Jan. 10Th,. 1903. (Before Mr. P. Smith, J.p.) Assault and Attempted Robbert
EDWA[?]D Devaney and Robert Anderson were charged, with assaulting and attempting to rob John Bruton, an old man, at Liverpool, on the night of the 8th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Inter-tribal Troubles in New Guinea. Report by the Resident Magistrate. a Punitive Expedition. Skirmishes with the Natives
Mr. C. A. W. Monckton, Resident Magistrate in the north-eastern division of British New Guinea, recently made a tour of inspection through his division, and in the course of a report to the Acting…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Kite-flying in Hyde Park. a Case in Court
Andrew Johnson, of Marrickville, was proceeded against at the Central Summons Court by Inspector John Duncan yesterday on an information charging him with flying a kite in Hyde…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Hartopp Divorce Suit. Smart Society in Court. (Special to "The World's News.")
LONDON, December 5.—Not since the notorious baccarat case of 1891 has smart society evinced such interest in any lawsuit as in Hartopp case, which, resumed on Tuesday, has lasted…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Alleged Fortune Tellers. Cases at the Central Court. a Woman with "Second Sight." Committed for Trial
Mary Scales and George Scales were summoned at the Central Court yesterday, the former to answer a charge of having unlawfully undertaken to tell Joseph Hamilton his fortune, and the latter for aiding and abetting…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Charged with Fortune Telling
At the Central Police Court, Sydney, Mary Scales was charged with fortune—telling, her husband, Geo. Scales, being charged with and abetting her…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →JAPANESE ChARGED WiTH Two Murders
The Japanese Yuto was committed for trial at the Kerowna Police Court, West Australia, on charges of having wilfully murdered a countryman named Yano and a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Sax on Court Scandal
Continental newspapers publish accounts of former esupades with women of M. Giron, the French tutor who eloped with the Crown Princess Louise of Saxony…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Salacious She. a University Scene. Mary Smith Accuses William Parker of Indecent Assault, but be Pleads Financial Justification
At the Newtown Court, on Monday, before Mr. Barnett, S.M., William Parker, alias Russell, was charged with indecently assaulting one Mary Smith, at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lawlessness and Police Helplessness a Scandalous State of Affairs. (To the Editor.)
We have received the following letter, and think we are Justified in the public interest in giving it Special prominence. The facts disclosed (we do not question them) are a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bent on Business Burglars. Have a High Old Time. Some "Snared," Others "Wanted." Crooks Before the Court
While the policemen snooze at night Bill, the burglar, "does all right." —John Bunion. The depression prevailing for some time…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →POLICE V. PEOPLE. Constable Lynch's Freak Sydney Savages "Slog" Seamen But although One Seaman has His Skull Fractured, Lynch Arrests, Not the Savages, but the Seaman's Innocent Companions
Constable Thomas Lynch is a "broth of a bhoy," but he would do well to take greater care in future as to whom tut charges, what offences he charges…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While the Lames Were Low. a Witness Swears that by the Gaslight Glitter He Saw His Brother Badly Bruised and Beaten, but the Police Prove that the Lights were Out
At the Glebe Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr Macfarlane, S.M., Walter Donovan was charged with assaulting Constable Dan Travers…
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