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Courts & crime, 1904

8,539 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 250

Bankruptcy Court. Creditors' Petition

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 January 1904 · page 8

Tillock and Co., merchants, of Sydney, against W.H. Wagstaff, storekeeper, of Emu Plains. Petition to be heard on January 18…

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Parramatta District. Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 January 1904 · page 9

The Parramatta Licensing Court sat yesterday, when there were two applications for wine licenses—one from Charles Risbey and the other from John M'Donagh. In respect of the firstnamed the clerk of the Court…

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Divorce Court. Marriages Declared Dissolved

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 January 1904 · page 8

The decrees nisi granted in the following cases were made absolute by Mr. Justice Stephen:-- Dorothy Mackay v. James Clune Mackay (with custody of children). Emma Ann Thomson v…

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The Divorce Court. An Ominous Chamber

The Australian Star · Thursday 14 January 1904 · page 4

It would seem to be only appropriate that a legal chamber where so much sundering, and Severing, and breaking up is done should have its own troubles. The Sydney Divorce…

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Law. Wednesday, January 13. Customs Court

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 January 1904 · page 8

The Customs Court, consisting of the Collector (Mr. N. Lockyer), sat at the Customs-house yesterday, and the following cases were dealt with:--…

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Probate Court. (Before the Acting Chief Justice.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 January 1904 · page 3

Probates were granted in the estates of Thomas Rowley Briggs, Charles Green, and William Edmund Strong, deceased…

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The Newtown Tragedy. Inquest on the Victims. Verdict of Murder and Suicide

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 January 1904 · page 7

At the Lloyd Hotel, George-street North, yesterday, the Acting City Coroner opened an inquest on the bodies of Alexander William Bedford Sly and Ellen Sly, who were found dead in…

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Newtown Tragedy. The Inquest. Description of the Wounds. Verdict of Murder and Suicide

The Australian Star · Thursday 14 January 1904 · page 6

An inquest was opened by the Acting-City Coroner (Dr. R. H. Todd) yesterday, on the bodies of a man named Alexander William. Bedford, Sly, aged 34, a tailor's presser,…

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Divorce Court. (Before the Acting Chief Justice.) Decree Nisi. Lawler v LAWLER

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 January 1904 · page 3

Mr. Windeyer, instructed by Messrs. Pigott and Stinson, appeared for petitioner, Emma Victoria Lawler, and moved for a decree nisi for dissolution of the petitioner's marriage…

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Law Report. Wednesday, January 13. Equity Court. (Before the Acting Chief Justice.) Motion for Injunction. Windred v Windred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 January 1904 · page 3

Mr. Curlewis, instructed by Mr. Maurice [?] Price, appeared for the applicant. Charley Albert Melbourne Windred, and moved for an interim injunction to restrain his wife, Emily…

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Cowardly Assault on a Chinese

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 5

Lee Woon, an old decrepit Chinaman, was carrying water to his camp at Maryborough this morning when he was brutally assaulted. His condition is critical, and his…

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Hypnotism and Murder

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 6

Paris is being entertained with the memoirs of Gabrrelle Bompard, the woman who helped her paramour Eyraud to hand the process-server Gouffe in her rooms, and who was lately liberated. The…

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Newcastle. Alleged Stealing From the Railway

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 6

At the Newcastle Police Court yesterday, before Mr. G. F. Scott, S.M., Charles Cavell (28), a fireman, was charged with having, at Newcastle on or about the 11th January, stolen a…

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Hungarian Swell. Sentenced to Three Months

The Australian Star · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 6

Erdmann Raimund, the stylish young Hungarian who was arrested the other day for having in his possession a quantity of jewelery which the police rightly surmised had…

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Murder of an Infant

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 6

A company of dredgers, employed by the Harbor Trust on the Yarra, discovered a bag containing the decomposed remains of a female infant. The bag held bricks and pieces of blue…

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Alleged Criminal Assault. Accused Remanded. [By Telegraph.] MELBOURNE

The Australian Star · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 6

Ernest Martin, charged with criminal assault on a little girl, was before the City Count to-day, and remanded till the 23rd inst., pending the recovery of the child…

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Quarterly Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 3

The Parramatta Licensing Court held its quarterly sitting in the court-house on Wednesday. Messrs. T. E. Mae Nevin. S.M., and C. J. Byrnes and D. D. Henderson. L.Ms., were on the bench…

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Police Courts. Alleged Jewellery Robbery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 8

In the Charge Division of the Central Police Court yesterday, before Mr. F. S. Isaacs S.M., Ralph Weldon, 20, described as having no occupation, who was previously before the Court in connection with the robbery…

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Court of Marine Inquiry

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 3

Before his Honor Judge Backhouse and Assessors, in No. 1 District Court.--At 11 a.m.: Re the Innamincka. INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION OFFICE. Secretaries of industrial unions registered under the…

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Police Courts. Alleged Robbery of Jewellery

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 3

At the Water Police Court, Erdman Raimand (21), clerk, was sentenced to three months hard labor for having in his possession a quality of jewellery reasonably suspected of having been stolen. It was alleged by…

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