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Courts & crime, 1908

8,880 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 250

Dream Reveals Murder

The World's News · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 3

An extraordinary crime, which was brought to tight through the agency of a dream, is engaging the attention of American psychologists. While staying with her husband at the house…

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"Let Me at Him" a Peculiar Assault

The Australian Star · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 15

John Colefan, a young labourer, was charged at the Central Court yesterday with unlawfully assaulting Henry Wall on January 4…

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Female Police in Norway

The World's News · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 19

A female police carps will soon be started at Christiania. Its main task will be to protect children and young persons. Next to America, Christiania is the first place to have…

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Italian Court Scandal

Evening News · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 3

A scandal affecting the royal home Is reported to be shaking all Italy, and especially aristocratic Naples society. It, centres around the Duke d'Aosta, the King's cousin. The…

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Newtown Revision Court

The Australian Star · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 15

The Newtown municipality Revision Court was held yesterday at the local courthouse for the purpose of revising the electoral list. Mr. W. B. Smith, P.M., presided…

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Darlington Revision Court

The Australian Star · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 15

The court for the revision of the municipal roll for Darlington sat at the Redfern Police Court on Thursday. Mr. W. B. Smith, P.M., presided. Two names were struck off, proof…

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Penrith Police Court MONDAY. Before Messrs A Colless, W c Fulton and L Perkins, J'sP

Nepean Times · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 4

Charles Beynolds, [?] Walter Dempsey, an old age pensioner, from [?]brook, pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk and disorderly in High-street on Saturday…

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Then and Now Modern Gaol Treatment and Its Effect on Prisonrs

The Australian Star · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 1

The effect that modern gaol treatment has upon certain criminals formed the subject of an interesting interview which a "Star" man had with Captain Neltenstoin…

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Ryde Police Court. (Before Mr. W. Clarke, A.S.M., and Mr. H. St. John Tucker, J.p.) Unregistered Dog

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 10

James Cole, for keeping an unregistered dog, was fined 10s, with 6s costs of Court, or seven days' imprisonment in default. TRAFFIC CASES…

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Police Courts. Selling Liquor to a Girl

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 17

Max Lemkin, licensee of the Sir William Wallace Hotel, Balmain, was charged at the local Court with selling liquor to a person under the age of 18 years. The liquor was sold to a girl 16 years of age, and for the defence…

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Telephone Tells Tales Police Make a Discovery

The Australian Star · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 13

Telephone subscribers frequently have reason to complain of the trouble caused by "cross-talk" on the wires, but the grievance is not usually a matter for such keen regret…

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Murder Every 70 Minutes. General Booth on the American Nation

The World's News · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 11

FILLED with vitality and brimming with plans for the future. General Booth is back again in England from his tour in America and Germany…

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Lawless Tenantry. Irish Police Retreat. London, Jan. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 13

Peasantry of the Geevagh Mountains, Sligo, prevented a postman delivering registered letters containing processes to tenants on two estates who refused to pay…

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Country Police and Seaside Holidays. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 11

Sir,--I trust you will grant me space in your valued paper to ventilate a grievance that a section of the New South Wales civil servants have to put up with. The police force in the country are debarred from taking…

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"The Supreme Court of N.s.w."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 11

is a most successful picture, showing the Court in full session. This and other interesting work is on view in the vestibule of the NEW FALK STUDIOS…

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"Murder Will Out." Confession of a Three Years Old Crime. Mystery Solved

The World's News · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 23

A murder mystery of three years ago has been apparently solved by a sensational confession just made by an inmate of a lunatic asylum in County down—a confession which there is every…

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Increase in Crimes of Violence. Police Return for 1907

Evening News · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 7

A return for 1907 has been supplied by the Inspector-General of Police, showing the total number apprehensions for serious and other offenes in the metropolitan area, as…

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A Police Grievance. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 14

Sir,—I trust you will grant me space in your valued paper to ventilate a grievance that a section of the New South Wales civil servants have to put up with. The police…

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Royal Love Story. Romance of the French Court

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 7

The romance of an Emperor's love story was recalled at the London Law Courts in a case before Mr. Justice Parker, when Mr…

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Special Mining Court. Visit to the Mines Postponed

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 January 1908 · page 10

NEWCASTLE, Friday.--The members of the special mining tribunal (Judge Heydon and Messrs., H. Forsyth and P. Bowling) did not pay their contemplated visit to the Rhondda…

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