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Courts & crime, 1907

8,293 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 250

State Full Court. (Before Chief Justice Sir Frederick Darley, Mr. Justice Owen, Mr. Justice Cohen.) Sale of the Peregrine. Howard Smith and Co. V. VARRAWA

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 February 1907 · page 18

Mr. Justice Cohen delivered the judgment of the Court in this matter. This was an action by the plaintiffs to recover damages from the defendant, for not…

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Cornfield Murder

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 February 1907 · page 12

Thomas Connan and Mario Fraicoise le Guen, brother and sister, were last month Indicted at Jersey assizes for the murder of the female prisoner's husband…

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Alleged Assault at Ashfield

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 17 February 1907 · page 1

The Petersham police were informed last night of an alleged assault on a little girl in Victoria-street, Ashfield. Up to a late hour no arrest had been made by the police…

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Thaw Murder Trial

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 February 1907 · page 12

Continuing her evidence, Mrs. Thaw declared that White had plotted with the notorious lawyer Abe Hummel, with the object of inducing her to break off her relations with Thaw, by means of…

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58 Suffragists Sent to Gaol

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 February 1907 · page 12

A great convention of women, held in the Caxton Hall Westminster passed a resolution expressing profound indignation at no allusion being made in the King's Speech to women's suffrage…

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Murder and Suicide at St. Peters

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 February 1907 · page 12

St. refers was the scene of a domestic tragedy on Wednesday night when Samuel James Leith who was living apart from his wife shot Henry [?]lbert Medhurst a man nearly 20 years…

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W. P. Crick Before the Full Court

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 February 1907 · page 12

On Thursday the adjourned hearing of the matter in which William Patrick Crick had been called upon to show cause why he should not be struck off the roll of solicitors came on before…

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A Brutal Crimb The Murder of Miss Lake LONDON, Friday, 3.10 p.m

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 17 February 1907 · page 1

The police have arrested a tailor named Bayerl for his alleged complicity in the murder of Miss Lake near Essen, ermany. [Miss Madeline Lake, of Richmond, Surrey…

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Seamen Assault a Constable

Evening News · Monday 18 February 1907 · page 3

William Webb and William Love, two seamen, off the Orontes, Were chained this morning at the Water Police Court with in company assaulting Water Police Constable Kemp while…

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Theft of Pictures. London, Feb. 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 February 1907 · page 7

Nineteen good pictures have been stolen from the Art Gallery at Pwllhelf, Wales…

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Indian Sedition. Newspaper Directors Sentenced. London, Feb. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 February 1907 · page 7

The proprietor and the editor of the native newspaper "Punjabi" have been charged at Lahore with sedition, in publishing fictitious and wicked statements…

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The Eureka Murder. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 February 1907 · page 7

The police have gained further evidence connecting Ah You with the murder of Wong Ah Cheong at Eureka on February 9. The work of pumping out the shaft in which the…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 February 1907 · page 5

Before his Honor Judge Murray, and a Jury, at 10.30 a.m.—Rebello v Williams. Note.—Jurora summoned for Monday, 18th instant, will not he required to attend until the 20th idem, at…

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Miss Lake's Murder. London, Feb. 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 February 1907 · page 7

A tailor named Bayerl bus been arrested for complicity in the murder of Miis Lake, an Englishwoman, in a wood near Essen, in October last, and in connection…

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State Court of Arbitration

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 February 1907 · page 5

Before the President and Members, at 10 a.m.—For hearing: The Amalgamated Miners' Association, Wrightville, claimant, and the Great Cobar Copper Mining Syndicate, respondent; same v Mount…

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Powers of the Arbitration Court

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 February 1907 · page 4

Those who agree with the dictum of the late Sir George Dibbs, that "there must he some liberty left in the country," will be pleased to learn from a decision of the State…

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Charged with Treason a Son of Count Tolstoi London, Sunday, 2 p.m

The Australian Star · Monday 18 February 1907 · page 1

A son of Count Tolstol, the Russian novelist, has been indicted in Russia on a charge of treason, for printing a political pamphlet by his father…

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Law Notices. Monday, February l8. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 February 1907 · page 5

Term List.—Equity Appeal: Perpetual Trustee Co. v A.J.S. Bank. Divorce Appeal: Josephson v Josephson, Motion: In re Harry John Barnes, ex parte Incorporated Law Institute, attachment for…

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Bankruptcy Court. (Before the Registrar.) Hearing of Creditors' Petitions

Evening News · Monday 18 February 1907 · page 5

Frederick Allen Morgan and Reginald Ashenhurst Morgan v. Henry Jensen. An order sequestrating the estate was made, Mr. W. H.Calmer being appointed official assignee…

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Alleged Contempt of Court Preparing a Transfer a Layman Cited

The Australian Star · Monday 18 February 1907 · page 1

The Full Court (the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Owen, and Mr. Justice Pring) to-day had before it an application by the Incorporated Law Institute to make absolute a…

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