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Courts & crime, 1907

8,293 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 250

Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 January 1907 · page 9

Diverce Court.—Before the Deputy Register: Which v Winch, Devin co-respondent, 11 a.m. In Lunacy.—Before the Chief Clerk.—10.15 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., general inquires and mintenance matters…

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Police Courts. Charge of Housebreaking

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 January 1907 · page 10

At the Water Court, William Morris (20), a laborer, was charged with breaking and entering the dwelling-house of James Daniels, Ridge-street, Sydney, and stealing a gold chain, a pair of boots, two razors, three…

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Police Courts. Committed for Trial

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 January 1907 · page 9

At the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Donaldson, S. M., William Morris, 20, labourer, was committed for trial on a charge of breaking and entering the dwelling-house of James Daniels,…

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Court Chamberlain for Freedom

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 January 1907 · page 7

The Czar has dismissed Prince Paul Dolgoruki, Court Chamberlain, who is a member of the Parly of Freedom of the People, and brother of the Vice-president…

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Bankruptcy Court. Voluntary Sequestration

Evening News · Thursday 3 January 1907 · page 5

Henry Thomas Bray, of Cooma, contractor, Mr. L.T. Lloyd, officila assignee. The [?] P. and A. committee has accepted a tender for the erection of a…

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Ham and Chicken a Charge of Theft Against Four Railway Porters

The Australian Star · Thursday 3 January 1907 · page 5

Four well-dressed young men appeared before Mr. King, D.S.M., at the Central Police Court this morning. All were described on the sheet as railway porters, and the…

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Murder Plots in Russia. the Tiflis Mutiny. "Freedom for the People."

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 January 1907 · page 7

LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--A plot to murder the members of the Imperial Financial Council in St. Petersburg has been accidentally discovered, and the intended…

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Law Notices. Thursday, January 3. High Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 January 1907 · page 9

District Registrar's Office.—Before the Deputy Registrar: Scott Fell and Co. v Lloyd, 10.30 a.m., to settle minutes of order…

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Country News. Tweed Heads Court. Murwillumbah

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 January 1907 · page 11

Some months ago it was decided to establish at Tweed Heads a court of petty sessions, but nothing has been done yet. During the past few days Mr. Arnott, P.M., who is…

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Surry Hills Stabbing Case on Christmas Morning Accused Women Before the Court

The Australian Star · Thursday 3 January 1907 · page 5

Mary Drew, or Lamb, married (26), and Clesy Drew, machinist (24), sisters, were brought up, on remand, at the Water Police Court this morning, before Mr. L. S…

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North Sydney Sensation a Serious Charge Three Persons Before the Court a Further Remand Granted

The Australian Star · Thursday 3 January 1907 · page 1

The sensational case at North Sydney which had such a tragic development on Thursday last, when Harriot Wallace, a married woman, who had been arrested in…

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Police Courts. Stealing From His Mate

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 8

At the North Sydney Court, Charles Robert Brady (20) was charged with stealing, at Chatswood, on December 28, five sovereigns, the property of Walter Riley, a fellow-employee. Accused pleaded guilty, and as there were…

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Stealing Food

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 3

At the Redfern Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Smithers, S.M., Lillian Matthews, aged 22, was charged with having stolen a dipper, an umbrella, a skirt, a quantity of groceries, and some milk, of…

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The Lewisham Church Burglary

Evening News · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 4

No further developments have resulted in connection with the safe robbery at St. Thomas R.C. Presbytery, Lewisham, on Wednesday, excepting that the detectives in charge…

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Convicted of Stealing

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 8

Thomas Lewis, or Ward (40), fisherman, William Pryor (17), dealer, and William Nash (17), dealer, were charged at the Redfern Court with, in company, stealing a quantity of household goods and a hank passbook, the property…

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Charge of Assault

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 3
Also in The Daily Telegraph

James Sanderson, 17, labourer, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment it the Water Police Court yesterday on a charge of unlawfully assaulting Mclinda Violet Swinson at Sydney on January 2 last…

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Language and Assault

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 3

John Farrington, 40, labourer, was yesterday, at the Paddington Police Court, fined £5, or two months hard labour, on a charge of using indecent language. The same accused was also fined £3, with the…

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An Unprovoked Assault

The Australian Star · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 6

At the Paddington Police Court yesterday John Farrington, 40, a labourer, was charged with unlawfully assaulting William Jesson, at Paddington, on Wednesday…

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Alleged Assault and Robbery

Evening News · Friday 4 January 1907 · page 5

At the Central Police Court this afternoon. Hugh Bedford, 43, a dealer, was charged with having assaulted George Moore, and robbed him of the sum of 18s…

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