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Courts & crime, 1910

8,183 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 250

Trouble at Clontarf. Police Officers Hustled. Maoris to the Rescue

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 3

Before Mr. W. Clarke, D.S.M., yesterday, at the Water Police Court, a case arising out of a disturbance the previous day at Clontarf was heard. Frederick Horton 21, labourer, was charged with having been…

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The Sackville Barony. Claimant in Court. London, Feb. 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 7

The Probate Court is considering Mr. Ernest Sackville-West's claim to the Sackville Barony as son of the late Lord Sackville…

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Police Courts. Thursday, February 3. for the Pig and Poultry Farm

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 10

Alfred Patterson, who keeps a pig and poultry farm at Bondi, was proceeded against at the Paddington Court on a charge of carrying offensive smelling matter through the street of the municipality. the…

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The Paris Floods. Police and Brigands Fight. the Seine Falling. Temporary Bridges Laid

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Marines encountered a party of brigands pillaging a house at Asnieres, a suburb of Paris, and fired upon them. The brigands…

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The Porte. Tension with Bulgaria Increased. As Result of Court-martial

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 7

LONDON, Thursday.--The slight tension which has existed for some time between Bulgaria and Turkey has been increased. The contributory cause is that the…

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A Bedside Court. at the Little Bay Hospital. Serious Allegations Against a Woman

The Star · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 6

A ward in the Little Bay Coast Hospital was turned Into a temporary court-room yesterday evening, when one of the patients, Mrs. Amanda Constance Marie Mendham,…

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Judge Scholes Speaks Out. Miners in Court Applaud. Men Give Evidence. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 7

The sittings of the Compulsory Mining Board, of which his Honor Judge Scholes is chairman, with Messrs. H. S. Forsyth and J. Paterson, representing the proprietors and…

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Law Report. Equity Court. (Before Mr. Justice Cohen.) a Transaction in Shares. Taylor and another v Bridge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 3

Mr. Maughan, Instructed by Messrs. M'Elhone and Barnes, appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Rich, instructed by Messrs. Hughes and Hughes, for the defendant. This was a…

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Liverpool Police Court

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 5

MONDAY, JANUARY 31. (Before Dr. Birch and Mr. I. B. Bossley, J's.P.) MARRIAGE A FAILURE…

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Sentenced at the Sessions

Evening News · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 2

At the Darlinghurst Sessions, Josiah Chivers, a clerk, was convicted of having forged and uttered a cheque for £1 13s upon e storekeeper at Randwick, on December 31 last. The gaol…

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Not Wanted in Gaol

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 9

Some of the strikers at Newcastle who wore fined £100 or two months gaol, not paying the fine, have presented themselves at the…

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Emigration and Murder

Evening News · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 6

A woman of the Italian village of Cellino in the Abruzzi area, recently Reported to the local police that she found the body of her fatherin-law burning in a field…

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The Country. Four Murder Trials

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 21

ARMIDALE, Friday.--Four murder trials are set, down for hearing at the Armidale Circuit Court, the sittings of which commence on Friday, April 22. The cases come from Ashford,…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 6

Before Ins Honor Judge Backhouse, at 10 a.m.—Brown v M'Mahon (part heard), Ducros v Bernard, Dorval v Nocoll, Khan v Mahomed, Rudge v Newton, Buckinghanm v Daldwood, Aroney v Chengen…

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Tragedy in New Zealand. Brutal Assault Followed by Suicide

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 15

WELLINGTON, Friday.--Late last night William Anderson, aged 34, visited the house occupied by the parents of a girl named Anton, with whom he had been keeping company. He…

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Central Criminal Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 6

Bowling and others, conspiracy (part heard)…

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Police Courts. Counterfeit Coin. Alleged Uttering

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 14

Maud Sandering, 20, was charged at the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. W. Clark, D.S.M. with having on January 30 last uttered a counterfet coin resembling a half-sovereign to Joseph Pirotrina, well…

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Anarchy in India. Mr. Jackson's Murder. London, Feb. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 13

Kanare, a Brahmin, who is fatally shot Mr. A. Jackson, Collector at Nasik, a seditious centre in the Bombay Presidency, while at the theatre in December last, and six other…

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Zelaya's Wooing. Law Court Comedy

Evening News · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 6

A breach of promise suit in which young Dr. Anibel Zelaya, nephew of the "baleful" President of Nicaragua, was figuring as defendant, excited great merriment in the Supreme Court…

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Penrith Police Court MONDAY. Before the P.M., Mr. T. G. Clegg, and Mr. T. R. Smith, J.P.

Nepean Times · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 4

Inspector Harvey of St. Mary's Municipality v. Augustus An[?], for riding a bicycle on the footpath in Victoria Road, St. Marys, on 22nd January pleaded guilty and was fined…

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