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Courts & crime, 1905

8,785 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 250

Youthful Cricketers. Crowd at Radfern Court

The Australian Star · Tuesday 17 January 1905 · page 4

The veil of seriousness customarily worn by officers of the Redfern Police Court was lifted this morning for some time, when a couple of dozen little boys toddled in and…

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Shipments of Slate. District Court Appeal

The Australian Star · Tuesday 17 January 1905 · page 7

Mr. Kelynack (instructed by Messrs. Sly and Russell) had an ex parte application before Mr. Justice A. H. Simpson (Chief Judge in Equity), sitting in Chambers yesterday…

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Law Notices. Supreme Court.—tuesday, January 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 January 1905 · page 7

In Equity.—Before his Honor the Chief Judge in Equity.—At 10.30 a.m.: Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Company, Limited, v Cooper Sheep Shearing Machine Proprietary, Limited, to be mentioned…

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Constable's Lively Chase. "Street Pests" in Court

Evening News · Tuesday 17 January 1905 · page 5

Ernest Garnett and Thomas Wall, youths of 17, were charged at Redfern Police Court to-day with riotous conduct. Constable John Henry Webber told a…

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Probate Court. (Before Mr. Justice A. H. Simpson.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 January 1905 · page 8

Probate was granted by Mr. Justice A. H. Simpson of the wills of William Thomas Hart and James Cobban Smith. Probate was, on the application of Mr. Mann,…

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Shearing Machine Patent. Application to the Equity Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 January 1905 · page 8

An application was heard, the parties being the Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Company, Limited, and the Cooper Sheep Shearing Machine Proprietary, Limited…

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The Arbitration Court. Will There Be a Special Sitting?

Evening News · Tuesday 17 January 1905 · page 5

It is possible that a way may yet be found out of the difficulty that threatens to involve the whole of the northern coal-mining industry. The opinion is growing that a special sitting of the…

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Attempted Assassination. Grand Duke Sergius Fired At. Chief of Police Wounded

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 January 1905 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.--While General Trepoff, ex-Chief of Police in Moscow, was escorting the Grand Duke Sergius to the Moscow railway station on his relinquishing the…

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Newcastle Mining Trouble. the Position Becomes Critical Sympathetic Strikes Ordered. Wheelers Want a General "Call Out." Colliery Proprietors Stand Firm. Miners View Position with Alarm. the Police Court Proceedings

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 January 1905 · page 5

The Newcastle wheelers have committed themselves to a continuance of the strike. At a mass meeting yesterday they decided to "call out" all wheelers now employed in the…

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Bankruptcy Court. (Before the Registrar, Mr. Arthur Henry.) Petitions for Sequestration

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 January 1905 · page 7
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Port Stephens Hardwood Company, Limited, v E[?]l Snow. On the application of Mr. D. M. Myers, who appeared for the petitioning creditors, an order was made sequestrating…

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Phobate Court. (Before Mr. Justice A. H. Simpson.) Probates and Administrations

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 January 1905 · page 7

Probate was granted of the will and codicil of William Thomas Hart, late of Kensington, builder; the will of James Cobban Smith, late of The Briars, Redmyre-road, Strathfield,…

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"Pink Rats!" a Misogynist in Court. He Lived at a Ladies' Seminary

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 January 1905 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.--"He who trusts a woman trusts a den of thieves" is the view of a man who was proceeded against by his wife to-day on a charge of threatening to cut her…

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Law Report. Monday, January 16. Equity Court. (Before Mr. Justice A. H. Simpson.) Alleged Infringement of Patent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 January 1905 · page 7

Mr. Leverrier, instructed by Messrs. Stephen, Jaques, and Stephon, appeared for the plaintiffs, and moved for an injunction to restrain defendants, their servants, agents,…

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In Chambers. (Before Mr. Justice A. H. Simpson.) a Consignment of Slates. District Court Appeal. Lorimer v Slade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 January 1905 · page 7

Mr. Kelynack, instructed by Messrs. Sly and Russell, appeared for the defendants, C. H. Slade and Co., and moved under section 108 of the District Courts Act for a rule nis[?]…

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Charged with Libel

The Australian Star · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 7

Florence Thompson, of Spring-street, Paddington, proceeded against Margaret Brown, or Bignold at Paddington Court yesterday on an information charging her with "having in…

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Charge of Stealing Fat

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 10

At the Redfern Court Joseph Matthews and Denis Kelly were each fined £5, in default two months' gaol, with hard labor, for stealing a tin of fat valued at 59, the property of the Sydney Soap and Candle Company,…

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Regent-st. Sensation. Charge of Attempted Murder. Gardiner Before the Court

The Australian Star · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 7

The hearing of evidence in the case in which Percival John Gardiner, 18, a tinsmith, is charged with feloniously wounding, by shooting, Amy Forbes Black, at Sydney,…

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Woollahra Tram Incident. Accused Owns Up to Theft

The Australian Star · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 7

A labourer, aged 29 years, named Matthew Devoy was charged at Paddington Police Court with having at Woollahra, on the 11th inst, stolen from the person of May…

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Charge of Assault. Two-Men Committed For Trial

The Australian Star · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 5

Archibald Miles and James Boyd appeared before the Newtown Police Court to-day to answer a charge of assaulting one John Kerr And robbing him of a lead-pencil in the…

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