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Courts & crime, 1910

8,183 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 250

Russia and Free Speech. a Police Decree Fails. London, Friday Afternoon

The Star · Saturday 15 January 1910 · page 9

A police decree forbidding speeches against the Russian Government's vodka monopoly at the Pan-Russian Anti-Alcohol Congress has collapsed…

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Correspondence a Recent Court Case. To the Editor of the Nepean Times

Nepean Times · Saturday 15 January 1910 · page 7

Sir,—I respectfully beg to point out to you that the report given in your paper is in some instances not only incorrect, but also misleading…

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Parramatta Court. Wednesday, January 12. (Before Mr. E. L. Maitland S.m.) an Auburn Artist

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 15 January 1910 · page 10

Andrew Jamieson on remand, was charged with being, on April 13, unlawfully on the promises of one Edmund Conroy Hopkins, at Auburn, with intent…

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Parramatta Licensing Court. Wednesday, January 12. (Before Mr. E. L. Maitland, S.M., and Mr. C. J. Byrnes, J.P., Licensing Magistrates.)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 15 January 1910 · page 4

John Brayley applied for permission to make material alterations to the bar of the Rising Sun Hotel, Canterbury.—Permission granted…

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Two Brothers Charged with Murder

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 January 1910 · page 12

At Stanley (Tas.) an inquest was held on the body of John Butt, who disappeared from his home at Forest on December 21, and whoso body was discovered last week…

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Sentenced to Death

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 January 1910 · page 12

The trial of the, Italian Peter Robustell on a charge of having, on October 11 last, ac Cool gardie, wilfully murdered a fellow couatryman ruined Giovanni Forentti, was concluded at the…

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Gaol Much Preferred to Workhouse

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 January 1910 · page 12

"It I had the alternative of serving six months in a workhouse or in a prison, I would prefer a prison." This view was expressed by the chaplain of an English…

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Drinking Under Age Police Opinion

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 January 1910 · page 5

At a suburban polled court recently the magistrate remarked on the number of cases of youthful drunkenness. "I don't remember during the whole…

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Big Theft of Jewels. a Chase and a Capture. Paris, December 11

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 January 1910 · page 20

Jewels belonging to Lady "Wallace, the wife of an irish knight, and valued at £10,000, are Alleged to have been stolen from her by a German woman, Fraulein…

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Dramatic Evidence in Great Mystery. Charged with Killing His Cousin. London, December 6

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 January 1910 · page 20

Further dramatic surprises marked the closing scenes of the police court proceedings against Cornelius Howard, who stands charged with the murder of his…

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Horse-stealing

The Star · Monday 17 January 1910 · page 6

At the Parramatta Quarter Sessions today, before Judge Docker, David Hall was charged with stealing at Ermington on October 1 a ware, the property of E. A…

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North Sydney Police Court. Returns for 1909

The Star · Monday 17 January 1910 · page 6

The office of the North Sydney Clerk of Petty Sessions during the year 1909 received by way of revenue the sum of £3443 0s 10d. The total number of charges dealt with in…

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Magistrate and a Fine. Not an Intentional Act

Evening News · Monday 17 January 1910 · page 2

During the hearing of a cattle straying case at the Paddington Police Court this morning Mr. Barnett, the magistrate, asked the inspector of nuisances for Randwick if any fines in…

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An Infant's Body Found. Suspected Murder

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 January 1910 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.—The body of a female child was discovered in a stormwater channel at Plattsburg to-day by two boys. It was wrapped up in brown paper. The child's head…

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Council and Magistrate. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1910 · page 8

Sir,—In your issues of 9th and 10th inst by a strange coincidence you report complaints by two municipal councils, Redfern and Paddington, against magistrates' decisions in…

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Dastardly Assault at the Glebe. City Business Man Attacked

Evening News · Monday 17 January 1910 · page 5

Mr. David Walker, one of the proprietors of the Sutton Forest Meat Company, George-street, near the Railway Station, was brutally assaulted on Saturday night by two men, and…

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Police Assist Sufferers. Dispatch of Boats

Evening News · Monday 17 January 1910 · page 5

On Saturday afternoon, two boats for use by the police at Wee Waa and one boat for Narrabri, were dispatched, under instructions of Inspector-General Garvin from Newcastle…

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The High Court. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1910 · page 5

A rule of court is gazetted fixing tho siting of the High Court at Sydney on February. 14, for the trial of causes…

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Petty Sessions Court at Manly

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1910 · page 5

For some years the Manly Council has been agitating for a local petty sessions court, and now the Justice Department, after shelving the matter for some time. has accepted the old council-chambers as a site…

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Law Notices. Monday, January 17. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1910 · page 3

In Fquity.—Before the Deputy Registrar.—In Fquity. — At 11 a.m.: Minister for Works and Cahill, to settle minutes of Order: 11.30, Taylor v Murry, to settle minutes, of de[?]rce…

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