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Courts & crime, 1904

8,539 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 250

Court of Marine Inquiry —Friday, January 8

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

Before his Honor Judge Backhouse and Assesso[?]s in No.1 District Court,—At 11 a.m.: Re the St. George…

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Law Notices. Supreme COURT.[?]Friday, January 8

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

Prothonotary's office—Before the Chief Clerk.—N.S.W. Shalo and Oil Company, Limited, v Australian Kerosene Oil and company, United, at 11 a.m. In Equity.—Before the Depoty Registrar in Equity—At…

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Law Report. Thursday, January 7. Bank[?] Court. Voluntary Sequestration

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

Malcoim M'Novin, late of Mount Hunter, dairy farmer. Mr. W. H. Palmer, official assignce…

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The Coogee Collision. Marine Court Inquiry. Chief Engineer's Graphic Account. the Steamer's Chew and the Boats

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 January 1904 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Coogee and Fortunate Figari Inquiry was continued to-day. Captain Holyman, of the steamer Australian, trading between Melbourne and Tasmanian…

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Coogee-fortunato Figari Collision. Court of Marine Inquiry. Some Independent Testimony. the Chief Officer of the Coogee. Why He Left the Vessel. Denial of Tanic. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1904 · page 4

The investigation into the Coogee-Fortunato Figari collision was continued to-day by the Court of Marine Inquiry. Thomas Henry Holyman, captain of the…

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Police Courts. Assault on a Police Officer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 9

George Welch, 47 who described himwlf as a gentleman. waschirged before Mr. W. M. Macfarlane, S.M., at the Central Police Court yesterday with having on January 7, ass[?] William [?] police constable, wh[?] in…

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Newtown Police Court

The Australian Star · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 5

A return just issued by Mr. W. Carson, Chamber Magistrate of Newtown Police Court, shows the work of that court during last year to have been the heaviest of any…

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Police Courts. Alleged Assault and Robbery

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 18

At the Water Police Court yesterday Hugh Muller. (35), fireman, was committed for trial on a charge of assaulting Percy Golschiener and robbing him of 30s, the property of Eva Heffernan on January 1. It was…

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Alleged Horse Stealing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 9

In the Charge Division of the Central Police Court yesterday, before Mr.W M. Macfarlane, S.M., William Bennett, 26, labourer, and Walter [?], 28, jockey, were presented by Constables M[?] and Surridge on a charge…

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A Gaol Tragedy

The Australian Star · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 3

Two Indian boys, aged 13, were burned to death in the City Gaol at Bonanza, a small town in Oregon (U.S.), on November 29. They were arrested for drunkenness, and set fire…

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Charge of Horse-stealing

The Australian Star · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 2

Two young men, William Bennett and Walter Bennett, were committed for trial from the Central Bodice Court yesterday on a charge of having stolen a mare, the property…

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Theft of a Racehorse

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 12

ALBURY, Friday.--The local police are engaged searching for a well-known racehorse, named Valiant, which was stolen from the stable of the owner, John Connors, of…

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Charge of Murder

Evening News · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 4

Richard Carlson, 22, a Swedish seaman, was brought before the Water Police Court to-day on a charge that he did, on the 8th day of January, on board the barque Do wan Hill, lying…

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Murder and Suicide

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 13

THE daily papers have been full this week of the particulars of two painful tragedies—a wife murder at Waterloo and a murder of three children by a…

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Aix-les-bains Murder

The Australian Star · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 7

Henri Bassot, the man who is charged with having planned the murders of Eugenie Fourgere, the demi-mondaine, and her servant at Aix-les-Bains, France, in September last, has…

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Alleged Assault and Robbery. Charge Not Sustained

The Australian Star · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 5

Arthur Derwent Cohen related, at the Water Police Court yesterday, an experience which he swore had befallen him at the Bristol Arms Hotel on the night of October 31…

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Penrith Police Court Saturday, Dacember 26th. Before Mr R Green, J.P.

Nepean Times · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 4

James Barlow, who pleaded guilty to a charge of using obscene language, on Christmas Eve, was fined 20[?]; in default, seven days lockup. Monday, December 28th…

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Elizabeth of Austria Attempts Murder

The World's News · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 9

Early last month the cable announced a royal scandal, in which Prince Otto of WindischGraetz, his youthful and immensely wealthy wife, Princess Elizabeth Marie, whom he…

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Balmain Police Court. Wednesday January 6th 1904 Before Mr. Isaacs, S.M. DRUNK

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 3

Thomas H. Oughton, 62, for being drunk in Cameron-street, was fined 5s or 24 hours. BEHAVIOUR…

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Assaults on This Police

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 18

At the Newtown Court before Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M., John Henry Quinn (50), miner, wart fined £1, or seven days' hard labor for assaulting Constable Freeman in the execution of his duly, at Newtown, on January 1…

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