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Courts & crime, 1910

8,183 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 250

Millionaire's Wife Charged with Drunkenness

The Arrow · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 8

RICHLY attired, and holding prominently in her hand a cross inset with precious stones. Agnes Sarah Wakefield. aged 42, giving, her address as 115 Queen's…

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Murder in a Fog

The Arrow · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 7

AT Old Bailey. London, last months, before Mr. Justice Channell, Luke Brannan 32, stoker. a short set, clean-shaven man, appeared in the dock to answer to…

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Court Returns. Business at Parramatta Court

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 11

Through the courtesy of the able young officials in the office of our popular C.P.S., Mr. G. Addison, J.P., we have been enabled to glance through the records of…

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Police and Federal Rolls

Evening News · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 16

Members of the New South Wales police force who compiled the Federal rolls have not yet reived their allowance from the Commonwealth Government. Some four months have elapsed…

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Rough on the Police

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 6

Local protectors of the peace have been busily engaged during tho week visiting the various holdings in the district for the purpose of collecting information on…

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Marquis Court-martialled

Evening News · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 13

The Marquis Octavien de Quinsonas December 13 tried by court-martial at Le Mans on a Charge of desertion from the French Army. The MarquiS was a recruit in the 14th Hussars…

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Hunter's Adventure. Charged by a Lion and a Rhinoceros

The World's News · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 3

MANY British big-game hunters hare been attacked by a lion, and not a few have encountered an infuriated rhinoceros, but it has fallen to few to be…

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Police Courts. Inciting a Prisoner

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 8

At the Newtown Court, before Mr. Charke, S.M., David God[?]ey, 20, deck hand, was charged with having incited a prisoner to resist. Constable Butcher sta[?]ed that he had a man in custody. The acc[?]ed came up…

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Law Notices. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 8

Before the Registrar in Bankruptcy, at 11 a.m.—Hearing of credi[?]rs' petitions; Resch's Ltd., v T. Rankin, the New South Wales Mont de Pietc Deposit and Investruent Company, Ltd., v Giovanni Pulle, Joseph…

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City Cornoer's Court. a Lumper's Death

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 8

Mr. H. S. Hawkins held in inquiry yesterday respecting the death of William Henry Martin, which took place on the German mail steamer Seyd[?]tz, lying at Circular Quay, on the 26th instant. Evidence was…

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The Teralba Distubbances. Woman and Two Men Charged. Ordered to Find Sureties. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 14

At the police court this morning, before Mr. F. G. Adrian, D.S.M., Albert Thornton and Patrick Purcell, miners, and June Handcock, all of Teralba, were charged with having…

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Charges of Murder. the Death of Julia Nightingale. Statements by the Accused. Bathurst

The Star · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 8

When the inquest concerning the death of Julia Nightingale at Lithgow on January 10 was continued, yesterday afternoon, at the Bathurst Courthouse, Senior-sergeant…

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Baroness Vaughan's Chateau. French Court Orders Removal of Seals

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 13

LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--The French Court has ordered the removal of the seals placed upon the doors of the chateau of Baroness Vaughan at Balincourt…

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Disgnised as Judges. B[?]face Swindlers in Berlin Court. Successful Imitation of the Cobbier of E[?]

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 10

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Ape Witness in Murder Case

Sunday Times · Sunday 30 January 1910 · page 12

Mr. Akerman, the owner of a menagerie at Devallslanding, Louisiana (U.S.A.), was murdered while feeding an ape. After the murder the animal, whenever it saw Starr, an employee of…

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"Shadowed" by Police. Melbourne, Saturday Night

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 30 January 1910 · page 1

The hearing of the charge against Patrick Hill, a postal department pensioner, of suborning witnesses in the Ronald versus Harper case, has been adjourned to…

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Bomb Crusade in Russia. Police Official Decapitated. St. Petersburg, December 23

Sunday Times · Sunday 30 January 1910 · page 19

Colonel Karpoff, chief of the secret police in St. Petersburg, was killed early this morning by an infernal machine at a suburban lodging occupied by a certain…

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Stealing From a Till

The Star · Monday 31 January 1910 · page 6

Aaron Stanley Solomon, aged 36, figured in the North Sydney dock this morning, charged with stealing the sum of £1 from the till of a confectioner's shop in Mount-street, North…

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Theft by a Workman

The Star · Monday 31 January 1910 · page 5

Last Monday Lancelot Lennon, 29, a chair fitter, of 68 Hay-street, Sydney, was angaged on some work at the residence of Mr. A. W. Hall, of Kroomblt-street,…

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Trouble Among Boxers. Brothers Unholz Charged. O'beble Gets a Black Eye. Proceedings at Padddigton Court

Evening News · Monday 31 January 1910 · page 5

As soon as the doors of the Paddington Police Court were opened this morning there was a rush, and the limited accommodation for the public was soon crowded. It had become…

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