Wanted His Aunt. But Was Sent to Gaol
Herbert Sewell, 29, who is semi-paralysed, was charged at Glebe Police Court with having no visible means of support. In answer to Mr. Donaldson, S.M., accused said he was not…
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Old Age Pensions The Commonwealth Commission. Sydney Magistrate's Evidence
The Federal Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the question of old age, pension sat again this morning under, the presidency of the Hon. A. Chapman, and in his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Clairvoyant Attempts Suicide. "Don't Send Me to Gaol."
Gordon Foster, the well-known medical clairvoyant, was charged at the Water Police Court to-day with attempting suicide by taking a solution of match-heads on the 22nd…
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For travelling by the s.s. Monowai from Wellington (N.Z.) to Sydney, without paying the fare, £3 15s, John Tighe (44), a carpenter, was, at the Water Court, ordered to pay a fine of £7 10s, or go to gaol for a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Police Courts. Alleged Counterfeit Coin
At the Central Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Smithers, S.M., James Gordon was charged with uttering a counterfeit coin on Annie Flood. The prosecutrix the daughter of the licensee of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Facts Established at Court
In an action, the cause of which was flagrant misuse of our firm name by an imitating company, which was tried before his Honour Chief Justice J. Madden, K.C.M.G., LL.D., in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lovers' Quarrel at Newtown "Remittance" Man Fined for Assault. an Unsatisfactory "Explanation."
A peculiar case was heard at Newtown Police Court, when Fred. Hiddleston was summoned for assaulting Bridie Costelloe. Prosecutrix said she had known defendant for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Greengrocer and Preacher. Charged with inciting a Prisoner. They Trusted in the Bench
"Inciting one John Fitch to resist Constable Robert Cobcroft whilst in the execution of his duly" was the charge preferred at the Central Police Court to-day against, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District Court Act and Commercial Causes Act
In a volume of handy size, Mr. James Moriarty, of the Middle Temple, has dealt compendiously with the District Court (Amendment) Act, 1905, and the Commercial Causes Act, 1903. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Court of Petty Sessions for St. George
The residents of St. George district, from Cook's River right up to Sutherland, have for years past been agitating for the establishment of a court of petty sessions in a central position in order to meet the requirements of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tough Work for the Police. Officers Assaulted by Violent Stonemason
On the evening of the 2nd instant Constable Robert William Cobcroft was on duty in Abercrombie-street. He noticed a man in a drunken state throwing stones at some children, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Probate Court. (Before Mr. Justice Pring.) Probates and Letters of Administration
Probates were granted in the estates of Mary Chenhall, late of Corowa, hotelkeeper, and Mary Hasler, late of George-street, Sydney, widow. Letters of administration…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Law Report. Wednesday, January 10. Supreme Court of New South Wales. Equity Court. (Before Mr. Justice Pring.) Litigation As to a Hotel Business. Coghlan v Peel and another
Mr. Flannery, instructed by Mr. B. A. M'Bride (agent for Mr. A. A. Lysaght, of Wollongong), appeared for the plaintiff, Charles Coghlan, in support of a motion for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Will Conspiracy Charge. Solicitor and Others in Court. Burcher Wants the Whole Truth
Frederick Burcher, 45, solicitor; Joseph John Rochester, 54, contractor; Alma White, 43, married; and Constance Cato, 22, spinster, were charged at the Water to-day on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Charge of Conspiracy. M'Nair and Hoskins Before the Court. "It Is Very Hard on These Men."
At the Water Police Court to-day, before Mr. G. H. Wilshire,. S.M., George M'Nair (42), a clerk, and Bernard Hoskins (41), station manager, were again charged by warrant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Theft
Nellie Franklin appeared before Mr. Isaacs, S.M.,, yesterday at the North Sydney Police Court to answer a charge of stealing a gold brooch, doll, tin of condensed milk, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Courts. Theft of a Writing-case
A Cook named John Harvey (48) pleaded guilty, at the Central Court, to the theft of a writing-case, valued at 15tt, the property of, Robert Koops, at Sydney on December 20. A fine of £2 was imposed, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Vagrant Sentenced
"When I arrested him about 11 o'clock on Wednesday night he was trying the locks of houses to Kent-street. He hasn't been seen about that locality before, but in the vicinity…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Harry Diamond's Death. the Case at the Police Court
The case in which a married woman named Annie Johnston, or Hammel, was charged, by warrant with feloniously slaying Harry, Jarvis Diamond on December 16 last, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Beaudesert Murder
At the Beaudesert Police Court to-day, Andrew David Nicoll was charged with the wilful murder of his brother, Alaric M'Donald Nicoll, at Allen's Creek, Upper Logan, on…
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