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Courts & crime, 1913

9,727 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 250

"Snowy" Fulton's Death Campaign of Silence. Police Cannot Fix Culprit

The Sun · Monday 20 January 1913 · page 11

The police have never been able to gain sufficient evidence to fix definitely the perpetrator of the slashing and stabbing during a fight in Market-street on Saturday night,…

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Bankruptcy Court. (Before the Registrar.) Hearing of Creditor's Petition

The Sun · Monday 20 January 1913 · page 8

Re Matthew J. Gunning ex parte John Maurice Toohey. Mr. T. Hughes appeared for the petitioner, and Mr. Purcell for the respondent. By consent the matter was…

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Trouble at Helensburgh. Bottles in the Dark. the Need for More Police

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 January 1913 · page 10

HELENSBURGH, Saturday.--The fortnightly pay day in connection with the railway deviation works was again the occasion of a serious disturbance at one of the local hotels. In…

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Violent Women. New York Strike Riot. Police Attacked with Hatpins. New York

The Sun · Monday 20 January 1913 · page 1

One section of the garment workers on strike has had its demands conceded, and as a result of the agreement reached between the manufacturers and employees' committees…

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Someone Stole It. People Who Worry the Police. Mislay Their Jewellery. North Sydney Cases

Evening News · Monday 20 January 1913 · page 11

The North Sydney police district is notoriously undermanned, and when the plain clothes men have to spend two or three days following up what not infrequently turns out to be…

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Push Assault

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1913 · page 7

Thomas Walters, a tanner, living in Devonshire-street, Surry Hills, was walking down Foveaux-street late on Saturday night on his way home, when he was assaulted by a mob…

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Pigeon Shooting Cruel. Police Court Pronouncement

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 January 1913 · page 12

PERTH, Monday.--The Perth Police Court has pronounced pigeon shooting under the ban of the Cruelty to Animals Act passed last session…

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He Chose Gaol

Evening News · Tuesday 21 January 1913 · page 3

A Mens married woman named Flore[?] Loan, pro[?] against for husband William Arthur Loan at the Paddingtion Police Court, for not having maintained for during the last six months. [?]…

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Charge of Stealing Fails

The Sun · Tuesday 21 January 1913 · page 2

Walter Jones was charged before Judge Docker at the Darlinghurst Quarter Sessions yesterday with stealing three motor wheel tubes and several other motor car appliances,…

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Theft at Mark Foy's

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1913 · page 4

Margaret Isles, 42, was charged at the Central Police Court, before Mr. Barnett, S.M., with stealing, some handkerhciefs at Mark Foy's. Limited, last Friday, valued at 2s. The shopwalker said he saw…

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Alleged Assault and Robbery

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 January 1913 · page 4

At the Newcastle Police Court yesterday, Herbert Horsfield (wheeler) and William J. Morley (carter) were charged that, in company, they assaulted a Chinese named Gee Wing, and robbed him of £3. The accused,…

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Assault at Neutral Bay

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 January 1913 · page 5

George John Rickabe (59) appeared before Mr. Payten, S.M. at the North Sydney Court, to answer a charge of unlawfully assaulting James Smith, at Neutral Bay, on January 17…

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Sign the Pledge. Casual "Drunks." New Police Court Scheme

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1913 · page 8

Friday concluded a period of six days' operation of a new reform movement which has been put into operation by the Justice Department at the Central Police Court. The…

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The Pledge at the Police Court. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 January 1913 · page 5

Sir,--May I add a word to your account of the pledge-signing experiment now taking place at the Central Court? I brought the Sydney Total Abstinence Society into existence to enable me…

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Police Courts. Assaulting the Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1913 · page 4

William Carter, 24, was charged at the Central Police Court, before Mr. Barnett, S.M., with assaulting Constable White. Accused was fined £10 or two months' imprisonment…

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Removed From a Wharf. Charge of Assault Dismissed

Evening News · Tuesday 21 January 1913 · page 4

Has an official of a steam[?]hip company the right to forcibly remove a member of the general public from a wharf? That was the question which Mr. Sminthers…

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Talked Flippantly of Gaol. and Was Sent There

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 January 1913 · page 5

At the Paddington Police Court yesterday morning a husband was sued, before Mr. Clarke, S.M., for neglecting to contribute towards the support of his wife. When asked if he had anything to say why an order…

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Agra Murder Trial the Accused Committed

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 January 1913 · page 10

AGRA, Monday Morning.--The committal order against Dr. Clark and Mrs. Fulham on the charge of abetting the murder of Mrs. Clark emphasises that Clark and Mrs. Fulham…

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Alleged Conspiracy. Against the Colonial Mutual Life. Two Men Charged

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 January 1913 · page 11

Evidence was given at the Central Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Barnett, S.M., in the case in which Thomas Confoy (32) and William Langton (38) were charged on remand with…

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Bankruptcy Court. Creditor's Petition

The Sun · Tuesday 21 January 1913 · page 5

Re S. Hubbard, of 5 Pemell-street, Enmore, case merchant, exparte Richard William Vanderfield, of Huristone Park, laborer. Petition to be heard on February 3…

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