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Courts & crime, 1910

8,183 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 250

Russian Police Methods. Concocting Sensations. London, Feb. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 13

M. Lagovsky, a police inspector at Lubny, Russia, has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment for concocting a series of imaginary murderous plots, in order to…

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Police As Rifle Shots. a Successful Year's Work

Evening News · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 5

The third annual report of the New South Wales Police Miniature Rifle Club was read it the club's annual meeting on Friday night, and recorded a successful year's work…

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Criminal Libel Action. the "Academy" in Court

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 13

LONDON, Friday.—The trial is proceeding of Mr. T. W. H. Crosland, assistant editor and director of the "Academy," on a charge of criminal libel, concerning the Hon. Henry…

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Quarter Sessions. (Before Judge Murray and a jury.) Mr. Herbert Harris prosecuted for the Crown. Stealing From a Warehouse

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 18

Wm. M'Kinnell pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking, entering, and stealing from the warehouse of Chowne Brothers and Mutholland, Limited, 50 tin trunks. Mr. Brad[?]ury appeared for the accused, and…

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Law Notices. Monday, February 14. High Court of Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 8

At 10.30 a.m.—Before Mr. Justice O'Connor.—For hearing: Price v Price; Mason v the Commonwealth of Australia…

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De Beers Monopoly. Declared Void by Chancery Court. London, Feb. 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 13

The trial in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice of the claim of the De Beers Consolidated Mines, Limited, to be entitled under certain agreements to all…

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The Darlinghurst Procession. Confessed Revolutionist in Court. Came Here for Political Liberty

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 18

The hearing of the charges of offensive behaviour against the men arrested in connection with Tuesday's procession and demonstration at Darlinghurst, was continued yesterday, before Mr. Clarke, in the Water Police…

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Parramatta Court. Wednesday, February 9. (Before Mr. E. L. Maitland, S.m.) on the Loiter

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 4

Samuel Muir was charged with loitering in Good-street, Granville, after having been requested by a police constable to refrain from doing so…

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Coal Crisis. Judge Heydon's Decision. £100 Fines "A Mere Fleabite." the Court Must Not Be Trifled With

The Star · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 5

When Judge Heydon took his seat on the bench in the Industrial Court yesterday afternoon he said he had come to the court because he understood an application was to…

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Castle Hill Show. The Publican's License. A Fight in the Licensing Court. Application Granted. The Rev. Bernard Deane's Discoveries. The Bringing-Up of a Parson

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 11

Before the Parramatta Licensing Bench, Mr. Maitland, S.M., on Wednesday afternoon, an application was made by Ernest E. Shayler, licensee of the…

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Law Report. Court of Marine Inquiry. (Before Judge Backhouse and Captains C. Taylor and J. B. Carpenter, assessors.) the Accident to the Steamer Eden. Master's Certificate Suspended for Six Months

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 8

This was a case in which Stephen Bishop, master of the Illawarra S. N. Company's steamer Eden, had been called upon to show cause why his certificate as master of the…

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Charged with Intent to Murder

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 February 1910 · page 12

Robert Stephen Blacker, aged 25, laborer, was brought before the Mittagong Court and charged that he did cause grevious bodily harm with intent to murder one Ah Fung, a Chinese…

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Fifty Years in Gaol

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 February 1910 · page 19

A petition has been presented to the State Board of Pardons of Connecticut (U.S.). praying for the release of John P. Warren, who has been in prison for 50…

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Four Months' Gaol for Child-beater

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 February 1910 · page 12

W. E. Fisher was sentenced to four months' gaol at Hobart for beating a little boy, aged 3 years, with a heavy horsewhip, because he had annoyed him. The punishment indicted on the…

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Train Murder Mystery. How Two Soldiers Were Forced to Confess—woman Kicked to Death. Paris, January, 4

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 February 1910 · page 20

The mysterious murder of Mme. Jules Gouln, the widow of the lat Governor of the Bank of France, more than a. fortnight ago. has been solved in a manner…

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What English Suffragettes Object to in Gaol. the "Torture" of the Tube. What It Is Really Like to Have Food Forcibly Administered by the Feeding Tube

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 February 1910 · page 21

I have undergone the "Torture of the Tube," as tho suffragists hysterically described it. In other words, i have bad nourishment administered through a…

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"Shop Lifting." Enormously on the Increase in Sydney. Effect of Prosecutions. . Too Much Responsibility on Business Men—duty of the Police

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 February 1910 · page 7

The numerous cases of shop-lifting published and talked about—the majority do not come under general public notice— caused a "Sunday Times" representative…

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Man Charged with Assault. Bellingen

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 6

William Powrie has been committed for trial for assaulting Bob Wilson near Raleigh. The evidence disclosed that Powrie and a man named Richardson were fighting under…

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Burglary at Stanmore

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 8

Particulars of a burglary at the residence Mr. George F. Blackmore, of Locksley, Newington-road. Stanmore, have been reported to the police. The family were absent from home on…

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Language and Assault

The Star · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 6

Noah Schofield, of 17 Crescent street, Newtown, struck come trouble while riding on a St. Peters tram on Friday night last, and as a result he appeared at the Nowtown…

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