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Courts & crime, 1908

8,880 stories in Sydney's papers · page 63 of 250

Law Notices. Friday, February 28. Supreme Court. Term List

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 February 1908 · page 7

District Court Appeals.—M'Namara v Martin, Lawler v. Cummings, Gilchrist v benjamin, White v Barnes. Prothonotary's Office.—Before the Prothonotary; Borthwick and others v Birt and another, 11 a.m.; same v…

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Censorship of Plays. Court of Arbitrators Wanted. London, Feb. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 February 1908 · page 5

Mr. J. M. Barrie, Sir W. Gilbert, Mr. A. W. Pinero, and many other dramatists, in a deputation, interviewed Mr. Herbert Gladstone, Secretary of State for…

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Cash Conveyor a Shop Machine Dispute in the Equity Court

The Australian Star · Friday 28 February 1908 · page 6

In the Equity Court yesterday Mr. Justice A. H. Simpson commenced the hearing of a dispute in connection with the rights of an over-head cash conveyor or "cash railway,"…

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Russian Naval Officer's Suicide Fears Court-martial. London, Feb. 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 February 1908 · page 5

The captain of the cruiser Askold, at Vladivostock, committed suicide, no was about to be court-martialled for his attitude towards the mutineers in the fortress…

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Fortunes in Opium. the Adelaibe Disclosures. Police and Customs at Loggerheads. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 February 1908 · page 5

Locally no further developments have taken place in connection with the startling disclosures relative to the wholesale traffic in opium; but it is reported that as the…

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The Coal Court Hearing Evidence in Camera the Miners Object Newcastle

The Australian Star · Friday 28 February 1908 · page 7

In the Special Court to-day, Mr. Lewis said that the miners objected to any evidence being heard in camera, and if such a course were persisted in, their representative (Mr…

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Another Labor Crisis. Coal Court Adjoured. Very Serious Position. Evidence in Camera. Objected to by the Federation

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 February 1908 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--A very serious development of the coal-mining situation in the north took place to-day, before the special mining tribunal, and it is feared that grave…

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The Coal Outlook. the Harassed Court Hearing Evidence in Com[?]ra Minees Refuse to Go-on, a Serious Deadlock. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 February 1908 · page 5

When the Royal Commission arbitrating o[?] matters in dispute on the northern coalfields resumed work this morning, Mr. Lewis said a position had arisen in…

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Arbitration Court. (Before Mr. Justice Street, Deputy President, and Mr. T. E. Spencer and Mr. E. Riley, members.) Cold Storage Work and Wages

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 February 1908 · page 7

The Cold Storage Employees' Union, claimant, and the Pastoral Finance Association, Limited, and others, respondents. Mr. Beeby (Brown and Beeby) appeared for…

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Stealing a Kookaburra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 10

At the Newtown Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Clarke, D.S.M., Selina Ahern, 47, was charged with having stolen a laughing jackass. Mrs. Purnell gave evidence that the bird was her property, and…

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Penrith Police Court MONDAY. Before the P.M.

Nepean Times · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 4

Sydney Lannon (clerk Blue Mountain Shire Council) v Rhoda Griffen, for allowing cow to stray at Springwood. Mr Waldron appeared for Mr Lennon and…

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Goes Mad in Gaol

Evening News · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 14

An Englishman named Dawnes, one of several Englishmen sentenced in Paris lately to somewhat long terms of imprisonment for robbery, has gone mad in the Sante Prison from…

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Obstruction on Railway Line. Small Boy Charged

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 9

WELLINGTON, Friday. -- A lad, aged 11 years, was remanded till Friday next on an alleged charge of placing a sleeper on the railway line. A stock and mail train struck the obstruction…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 10

Before his Honor Judge Rogers, K.C,—At 10 am.: All undefended actions; afterwards the following defended actions:—The Commonwealth of Australia v Milne and others. Hicks v Walters. Parsons v Barker…

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Local Option Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 10

Judge Backhouse (President), and Messrs. Simthers and Macfarlane, S.Ms., members of the Local Option Court, continued' the hearing of matters relating to the closing of…

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Court of Arbitration

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 10

Before the Deputy President and members, at 2.15 p.m.—For hearing: Cold Storage Employees' Union, claimant, and the Pastoral Finance Association, Limited, and others, respondent (part heard)…

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A Prison Poet. Literary Highwaymen. Happy Though in Gaol

Evening News · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 3

Poets have song of the unconfined joy of their work. In the Language of one .of them stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a case. And in fiction we have had literary…

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Parramatta Police Court. Wednesday, February 26. (Before Mr. E. L. Maitland, D.s.m.) Bad Language

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 8

William Austin, for whom Mr. H. A. Richardson appeared, pleaded guilty to a charge of using obscene language. The defendant was fined 40s with 9s…

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Police Courts. the Conductor's Basket

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 10

At the Water Police Court yesterday m[?]orning, before Mr. Donaldson, S.M., Frank Clark, 35, was charged with stealing a basket containing a billycan and a cap cover, of the value of 4a, the property of…

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Police Courts. Committed for Trial

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 February 1908 · page 18

Laura Beveridge and Florrie Clifford ware charged at the Water Police Court with stealing £20 from John Ivor Waeling, on February 6. Accused were committed for trial…

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