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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1911

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Monday, January 9. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 8

In Equity.—Before the Deputy Registrar.—At 11 a.m.: Commissioner for Railways and Pendergast, to tax costs. At noon: Marks v Marks, to settle minutes of order, 2.15 p.m.: Leith v Attorney-Genernal, to…

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Police Courts. Failed to Dntir a Purchase

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 8

At the Central Police Court on Friday, Robert Suckamore, a secondhand dealer, was charged with not having entered in his books the purchase of certain old wares purchased. Defendant bought a canvas bag and other…

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Police Courts. Friday, January 6. Alleged Bigamy

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 21

At the Redern Court, before Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M., Colin M. Campbell (42), a sanitary inspector, was charged with having committed bigamy on August 16, 1909, by going through the form of marriage with Annie…

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The Clapham Murder, Perpetrators Brand the Body. London, Jan. 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 13

At the inquest on the body of Beron, a miser, who had been living at a Rowton house, Whitechapel, and whose body, wounded with stabs, was found on…

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Boxing in Germany. Police Object to Public Displays

The World's News · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 18

Although the German Emperor has frequently given expression to his strong desire that the youth of Germany, especially the University students, should devote less time to…

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London Tragedies. Clapham Common Murder. Inquest on the Victim. Supposed Anarchist Spy

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 13

LONDON, Thursday Night.--At the inquest on the body of Beron, the French Jew miser who was found murdered on Clapham Common early in the week, Dr…

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Criminal Dumping-ground. West Australia's Position. Police Commissioner's Report

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 15

PERTH, Friday.--The Commissioner of Police, in his annual report, states that indecent assaults on female children are becoming very prevalent. He recommends that flogging be…

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Latest Cables. For continuation of Latest Cables sea Pago 10. Anarchists Arrested. London Crowd Swarm City Court. Hostile Demonstration Averten by Police Prisoners Hissed and Hooted. London

The Sun · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 9

Intense feeling was expressed by crowds of people at the Guildhall today, when five suspected anarchists were arraigned before the city magistrate…

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Hangman Evangelist. Executioner's Week-end Mission and a Court Sequel

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 7

[?] are built up of such stranger contrast as that of lames [?] who was formerly the public [?] and now on [?]…

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Anarchists in England. the Murders of Police. Identity of Assassins. London, Jan. 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 13

The inquest was continued to-day respecting the death of the three constables who were shot at Houndsditch by Russian burglars, who were escaping from a jeweller's…

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Law Report. Bankruptcy Court. (Before the Registrar.) Hearing of Creditors' Petition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 8

Basur Abdullah, Stanton Melick, and Aziz Melick, of Sydney, merchants, versus George Abraham Howlie (commonly known as George Howlie), of South Grafton, general dealer…

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Parramatta Small Debts Court Wednesday, January 4. (Before Mr. E. L. Maitland, S.M.)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 11

J. A. Doyle v. Green, same v. Jessop, same v. E. Wells.—No appearance of defendants. In these matters the plaintiff sought to have examinations of the…

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Parramatta Court. "Wednesday, January 4. (Before Mr. E. L. Matland, S.m.) a Serious Matter

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 9

Cecil Rustin (19) and Clifton James Luckey (25) were charged with, on the 26th December, in company, criminally assaulting, in Parramatta Park, a young…

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Ryde Court. Tuesday, January 3. (Before Messrs. E. L. Maitland, S.M., and H. A. Brigg, J.P.)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1911 · page 8

William Thompson, an old offender, was fined 20s and costs 6s, in default 14 days, for drunkenness. Joseph Depena, Thee. Depena, and…

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Bank Manager Charged with Theft

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1911 · page 14

The Farmers' Bank of Canada, whose head offices are at Toronto, with 31 branches through out the province of Ontario, recently suspended payment…

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Italian Duke Sentenced

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1911 · page 13

Duke Luigi Lante, brother of the Master of the Ceremonies at the Court, was on December 1 charged at the police court, Rome, with assaulting a cabman. The…

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Mayor Gaynor's Assailant Sentenced

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1911 · page 14

Gallagher, the man who shot Mr. Gaynor, Mayor of New York, and afterwards shot at Air. Edwards, the Commissioner of Street Cleaning of New York, has been convicted of assault with…

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Sensational Sheep-stealing Case

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1911 · page 14

Early last month three snipe-shooters in South Australia found a lair which revealed an organised system of sheep-stealing and slaughtering unequalled in the annals of Australian pastoral…

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Secret Society Murder

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1911 · page 14

Signor Vita, manager of a sulphur mine in Sicily and a member of the Mafia, was accused of betraying the members of the society. The supreme tribunal of the Mafia condemned…

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Police Coincidences

Truth · Sunday 8 January 1911 · page 9

The Senior Superintendent of the N.S.W. Police Force, is Mr. A. B. Walker, stationed at Goulburn. He and the new Inspector-General earned their first promotion in a…

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