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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1909

7,627 stories in Sydney's papers · page 67 of 250

Parramatta Police Court Wednesday, February 24. (Before Mr. E. L. Maitland, S.m.) a Heavy Fine

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 6

Edward Power, 5th, charged with using indecent language in Church-Street, Parramatta, pleaded guilty, and was fined (having a long list of convictions) £5, or…

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Court of Marine Inquiry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 6

Before his Honor Judge Murray and Assessors, in No. 1 District Court.—At 11 a.m.: Re the Kooyong…

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Woman's Dramatic Defence Leads to ACQUiTTAL in Murder Charge

The Arrow · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 9

ACTING in the witness-box of the most sensational kind marked a trial at Media, Penn., America. Mrs. Florence Erb and Mrs. Beisel, her sister, were…

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Law Notices. Monday, March 1. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 6

Term List.—Motions generally. Motions nisi for new trial: Mansfield v Newcastle and Wallsend Coal Company, Carter v same. Special case: In re J. 1. Dent and R. Hall (executors, etc, of John Dent,…

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Police Courts. Friday, February 26. Charge of Opium Smugling

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 18

At the Central Court, a Chinese named Wong Kee (55) who described himself to the police as a commission agent, was charged with having smuggled 17 tins of opium at Sydney on February 25…

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Industrial Court. (Before Judge Heydon.) Summonses for Penalty

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 6

Elizabeth Kirby, trading as Mrs. P. Kirby and Son, Ltd., was sued by the Undertakers' Employees and Assistants' Union for penalty for an alleged breach of the award. It was…

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District Court. (Before Judge Murray.) a Case Settled

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 6

After a hearing extending over two days and a half the case of Potts v. Alexander was settled with a verdict by consent for £7 7s, each party to pay his own costs. The action…

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Great Glasgow Murdur. Police Suspect a Passenger on an Atlantic Liner

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 6

There has been a sensational development in connection with the work of the detectives who are hunting for the murderer of Miss Marion Gilchrist, the…

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The City Tragedy. Police Find the Shop. (Continued from page 5.)

Evening News · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 7

LATER.—Shortly after 5 o'clock this afternoon several plain-clothes constables from No. 1 Station acting upon certain information went to a shop and dwelling in Trafalgar-street…

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Shooting in City Bar. Attempted Murder and Suicide. Narrow Escape of "Miss Venus." a Bullet's Strange Billet

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 13

A sensational shooting affray was enacted in the Empire Bar at the corner of Pitt and Hunter streets, city, a few minutes before 6 o'clock last evening, when a young man, said…

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Parramatta Small Debts Court Wednesday, February 24. (Before Mr. E. L. Maitland, S.M.)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 6

James Granger find Son v. William Henning.—Claim, £1 8s (less £1 2s paid into court). Verdict for amount and costs…

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Russian Terrorism. Still the Lopukhin Affair. Statements in the Douma. the Mystery of a Police Agent's Fate

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 9

LONDON, Friday. -- In the Douma yesterday a member rend a letter from the notorious agent provocateur Azeff to a police official, lauding himself for founding the…

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Land Appeal Court. (Before Mr. H. A. G. Curry, President, and Commissioners C. Brandis and W. Houston.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 6

Mr. Hanbury Davies appeared for the Crown. WALGETT C.P. AND C.L. The hearing was continued in the matter in…

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THE newsletter. a Paper for the People. Great Grime Wave in Sydney. Police Report an Army of Burglars at Work

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 1

Every day the newspapers report a serious burglary or robbery of some kind as occurring in Sydney or [?] the suburbs; and hundreds of…

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Floggings for Assault

Sunday Times · Sunday 28 February 1909 · page 12

In the Melbourne Criminal Court on Friday, Mr. Justice Cussen ordered two men to be flogged. Patrick M. Lynch had been found guilty of an assault upon a constable, occasioning actual bodily…

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Australian Charged with Forgery and Uttering

Sunday Times · Sunday 28 February 1909 · page 12

Duncan McIntyre [?] in the employ of Younghushared, [?] was remanded in the [?] charge of the forgery of a telegraps, by[?]…

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Murder and Suicide in Art Gallery

Sunday Times · Sunday 28 February 1909 · page 12

Visitors to the National Gallery, London, on Wednesday, were startled by a well-dressed man suddenly shooting and killing his woman companion and then committing suicide. The man…

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Court Ball Tragedy

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 28 February 1909 · page 8

A sudden and tragic end was put last evening to the court ball of the Grand Duke of Baden, the first festivity of the kind to the held in the Palace at Carlsruhe for some…

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National Gallery Murder. Identity of Dawson. London, Friday Afternoon

Sunday Times · Sunday 28 February 1909 · page 7

Mr. Dawson, who committed suicide at the National Gallery on Wednesday, was one of the best known business men of Montreal, Canada…

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A Ghost Story in Court

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 28 February 1909 · page 8

As a circumstantial ghost story, and one that stood the cold scrutiny of a court of law, Booty's case is without a parallel. The date given is 1688, when Mrs. Booty brought…

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