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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1907

8,293 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 250

High Court V. Privy Council. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 6

Sir,—As a member of the legal profession, I have been looking forward to reading the full text of the report of the Privy Council judgment in the case of Webb v Outtrim,…

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The Bankruptcy Act. Alleged Breach by a Butcher. Seaton Before the Court

Evening News · Saturday 12 January 1907 · page 5

Francis William Seaton, 50, a butcher, was at Water Police Court yesterday afternoon charged with a breach of the Insolvency Act. The information set out that Seaton, on August…

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Burglary on a Steamer

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 January 1907 · page 12

An attempt was made to rob the purser's safe on the "Frisco mail liner Sierra when lying at Circular Quay, Sydney. Besides valuable documents, there was over £1000 in gold in the safe…

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Police and Press

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 13 January 1907 · page 3

The Sydney detectives and other plainclothes members of the city police force made a presentation last evening to Mr. T. M. de Warre, of the literary staff of the "Town and…

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Police Union Fails

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 January 1907 · page 12

Policemen at Tours, in France, recently formed a union, and placarded walls with notices setting forth their grievances. Troops and gendarmes then took possession of…

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Charged with Receiving Stolen Property. Committed for Trial

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 January 1907 · page 7

At the Water Police Court yesterday Nathan Samins was charged with receiving 21 pairs of boots, valued at £8, the property of E. E. Sayer Manufacturing…

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Pressman Honored by Police Officers

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 January 1907 · page 7

Last night at the "Evening News" office there was a unique function, the occasion being a gathering of prominent police officers, who assembled to do honor to a…

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Supreme Court Judge Resigns

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 January 1907 · page 12

Mr. Justice W. C. Walker, of the N.S. Wales Supreme Court Bench, has resigned owing to continued ill-health…

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Girl Left to Drown. Remarkable Admission in a Murder Trial

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 January 1907 · page 12

Many fashionable women were present in New York last month at the trial of Cheater Gillette, the University student, who is accused of murdering Grace Brown, a pretty…

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Detective Confesses Murder. Reconstitutes Crime and Kills Himself. Rome, December 4

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 January 1907 · page 11

The detective instinct triumphed to-day over a man's love of life, and incidentally the Italian police force lost one of its most promising young detectives…

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Theft of Jewellery

The Australian Star · Monday 14 January 1907 · page 1

Mrs. Florence Fraser, who resides in Francis-street, Glebe, has reported the loss of a quantity of jewellery to the police. The theft seems to have been of a somewhat daring…

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Bankruptcy Court

Evening News · Monday 14 January 1907 · page 5

HEARING OF CREDITOR'S PETITION. Tiy Sang and Company, versus Edgar B. Warren. An order sequestrating the estate was made, Mr. L. T. Lloyd being appointed official…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 January 1907 · page 9

Before the Registrar, in No. 2 Court.—At 10 a.m.: Burns v M'L[?]od, Morgan v De Lissa. At 10.30 a.m.: Gibbs ats. Bosci…

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Burwood Court Returns

Evening News · Monday 14 January 1907 · page 2

The following return of business transacted at the Burwood Court of Petty Sessions for the year ended December 31, 1906, has been, prepared by the clerk of petty cessions, Mr. H. S…

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Central Criminal Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 January 1907 · page 9

Charles Longfield Flint, assault…

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Police Courts. Committed for Trial

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 January 1907 · page 9

At the Water Police Court on Saturday Nathan Samin was committed for trial on a charge of having received 21 pairs of boots, valued at £8, the property of the E. E. Sayer Manufacturing Company,…

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Mental Arithmetic in Court

Evening News · Monday 14 January 1907 · page 5

A husky-voiced man named Thomas Simpson Stevenson was charged with begging, at the Central Police Court this morning. He pleaded not guilty and gave evidence as to work he had…

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Death of an Old Police Officer

Evening News · Monday 14 January 1907 · page 4

Ex-Inspector Samuel Dillon Johnston, whose death took place in his 83rd year, at his residence, Louisa-road, Balmain, on Saturday, belonged to a past generation of metropolitan…

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Death of a Police Officer Ex-inspector Johnston

The Australian Star · Monday 14 January 1907 · page 4

Ex-police Inspector Samuel Dillon Johnston, who died at his late residence at Louisa-road, Balmain, at the age of 83 years, was a very old police officer. He was born…

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Chief of Police Assassinated London, Sunday, 2 p.m

The Australian Star · Monday 14 January 1907 · page 1

M. Breshesniovski, Chief of Police at Degeston, on the Caspian, has been murdered. The assassin escaped…

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