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Courts & crime, 1906

8,464 stories in Sydney's papers · page 72 of 250

Police Courts. Fraudulent Appropriation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 6

At the Central Police Court yesterday a labourer named Edward George Herbert, 30, pleaded guilty to a charge of having franduiently appropriated an organ, the property of George E. Ardill, to his own use…

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Central Criminal Court

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 13
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Francis Bernard Barrett, criminal assault; Richard Small, indecent assault; Percy Latham, assault and robbery…

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Court of Arbitration

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 6

Before the President and Members, in the Probatc Court, Chancery-square.—At 10 a.m.: For caneellation of registration, Master Butehers and Live Stock Buyers' Association of N.S.W.; to be stroek…

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Parramatta Police Court. Monday, March 12. (Before Mr. T. E. MacNevin. S.m.) Wolfe's Schnapps

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 1

Surah.E. Bignell was charged with, on the 9th day of February, at Parramatta unlawfully selling to the prejudice of the purchaser, W. H. Bulmer a certain…

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Acting-district Court Judge

The Australian Star · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 7

At the meeting of the Executive Council yesterday Mr. H. M. Hamilton was appointed Acting-District Court Judge, to take the place temporarily of Judge Rogers, who…

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Supreme Court Bench Appointment

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 10

The Cabinet has appointed Mr. Leo F. C. Cussen to the vacancy on the Supreme Court bench. He is a graduate of the Melbourne University, has a large practice at the Bar,…

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Divorce Court. Played Many Parts

Evening News · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 3

Euphemia Stoddart asked for a divorce from Henry Harley Stoddart, on the grounds of adultery and cruelty. The petitioner deposed to having married the…

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W.n. Willis. Why the Extradition Failed. the Arguments Used. Powers of the Magistrate

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 13

DURBAN, February 15.--The appeal of W.N. Willis against the decision of the Durban Circuit Court, by which he was ordered to be returned to New South Wales under the…

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M'Nair and Hoskins Before the Court

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 10

George M'Nair and Bernard Hoskins were again before Mr. Smithers, S.M., at the Water Police Court, Sydney, on Friday, charged with conspiracy…

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Law Notices. Wednesday, March 14. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 6

Cause Lists.—Banco Court, St. James's-road.—Baume v the Commonwealth of Austalia (part heard). Notice.—The jurors who were in attendance at Banco Court on Monday, the 12th inst, and who were…

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Her Husband's Career. a Divorce Court Story

The Australian Star · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 1

Mr. Justice Simpson, in the Divorce Court this morning, heard argument in the part-heard case of Evans v. Evans. His Honor pointed out that it was a new…

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The Position of Country Police Magistrates. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 11

Sir,--Every five years the Public Service Board goes through the list of officers engaged in the Civil Service, and makes a general re-grading. I understand that the heard is at present so…

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Divorce Court. (Before Mr. Justice Simpson.) Decrees Absolute

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 6

His Honor made absolute the decrees nisi in the following suits and declared the marriages dissolved:—Mary Ann Thomson v William Henry Thomson; Charles Goodman v…

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Lands Commission Charges. M'nair and Hoskings in Court

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 671

Before Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M., on Friday morning at the Water Police Court, the charge of conspiracy preferred acainst William Nicholas Willis. George M'Nair, and Bernard Hoskings was proceeded…

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A Country Assault Case. Serious Charge Against Young Man. Woman of 30 From Wollongong Never Been to Church or School

The Australian Star · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 5

A young man of about 20 years of age named Francis Bernard Barrett was placed on trial, before Mr. Justice Cohen, at the Central Criminal Court to-day, on a charge of…

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Coal Lumpers' Dispute the Jurisdiction Question. Judgment of Arbitration Court

Evening News · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 4

Judge Heydon, President of the Arbitration Court, and Messrs. J. P. Wright, and E. Riley (members of the Court) attended in the Probate Court today, when judgment was delivered…

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Arbitration Court. (Before the President, Judge Hoydon.) an Appeal Struck Out

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 6

The matter of an application by the Country Storekeepers' Association of New South Wales for registration as an industrial union of employers, to which the Master Retailers'…

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District Court. (Before Judge Backhouse.) Claim for a Horse. Leventhal v Blake

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 6

Mr. M. Abbott (Messrs, Abbott, Tout, and Dale) appeared for the plaintiff, Morris Leventhal, of Pymble; and Mr. Lyons, instructed by Mr. H. S. Harden, for defendant, M. H…

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A Post-office Embargo. Judgment of the High Court. Application Dismissed. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 March 1906 · page 9

The High Court delivered its reserved judgment to-day on the application by Messrs. Freeman and Wallace for a mandamus directing the Deputy Postmaster-General to…

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