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Courts & crime, 1914

7,545 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 250

St. Ives Tragedy. Bail Application Refused. Brown Objects to Gaol Treatment

The Sun · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 8

Thomas Edwin. Brown charged with the murder of Sergeant Hickey at St. Ives, was, it will be recalled, recently granted a new. trial by the High Court of Australia,…

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Awful Crimes. Charged Against German. Scientific Murders. Cholera and Typhus Germs

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 9

BERLIN, Monday Evening. -- The trial of Karl Hopf has been commenced, and is exciting great interest on account of the terrible crimes with which he is charged…

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Heads of the Western Australian Police Force

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 19

THE Commissioner of Police for Western Australia (Mr. Robert Connell) is a native of…

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Law Notices. Wednesday, January 14. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 8

Chamber List.—Before Mr. Justice Gordon, in No. 4 Court.—At 10 a.m.: Ex parte Clarence Potts, prohibition; ex parte William S. Boyd, prohibition; Rex. v T. E. Brown, for bail. Before the…

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Trial of Hopf. a Sensational Case. Wholesale Murder Alleged. Berlin, Jan. 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 13

The trial of Karl Hopf, formerly foils champion of the world, has commenced. He is charged with poisoning by arsenic his father, his first wife, and two children,…

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Stolen Jewellery. Police Want Owners. Stock at Detective Office

The Sun · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 7

Superintendent Roche has has had stored in the vault at the Detective Office a large quantity of jewellery which was obtained by Senior detectives Hawe and Campbell and…

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Wholesale Murder. Karl Hopf on Trial. How Bacilli Were Obtained. Berlin, Tuesday Evening

Evening News · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 10

The case was continued to-day in which Karl Hopt is charged with the wholesale murder of his relations, by means of administering arsenic and infecting them with cholera…

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Motor-car Mystery. Man with His Head Cut. Alleged Assault and Robbery. What Happened at Under Cliffe

The Sun · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 7

William Kew, aged 21, was before the Newtown Police Court today. on a charge of assault and robbery. Evidence was given that shortly before 8…

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A Penny or a Minute. Fine at Water Court

Evening News · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 8

"Next to Nothing" was taken out of its regular place in the dictionary of phrases by Mr. Love, magistrate at Water Police Court this morning, and placed in another section…

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Zabern Court-martial. Emperor Summons a Conference. Berlin, Jan. 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 13

Colonel Von Reuter has received 15,000 congratulatory telegrams on the result of the court-martial which acquitted him of the charges in connection with the Zabern…

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Parramatta Court. Monday, January 13. (Before Mr. E. L. Maitland, S.M.)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 1

Samuel Curry, 65, laborer, for drunkenness, was fined 10s, or seven days' imprisonment. Arthur Pitney, 25, slaughterman, was…

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Titanic Disaster. Claims of the Relatives. Supreme Court to Decide. Washington, Jan. 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 13

Claims aggregating 13,000,000 dollars are awaiting the Supreme Court's decision as a result of the Titanic disaster. The Oceanic Navigation Company is…

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The Sentence of the Court. (All Rights Reserved.) Chapter Xxxii. an Eye for an Eye

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 January 1914 · page 8

The sudden defection of his child had been a bitter blow to Harley. There were reasons for his rage and his seeming impotence in the matter far deeper than any that Gilray dreamt…

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Wanted in Gaol

Watchman · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 1

The Boston "Pilot" insists that the Massachusetts State Prison should have a Papal chaplain rather that a Protestant chaplain, and says the inmates "would…

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Police Officer's Death

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 11

Sub-inspector Robert Morrine, until lately in charge of the stores at the Police Depot, Bourke-street, Redfern, dropped dead in his office on Tuesday afternoon, the cause of death…

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Scrutineer Charged. Case Under Commonwealth Electoral Act

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A case under the Commonwealth Electoral Act was heard in the Hamilton Court to-day, when C. A. M. M'Donanld, scrutineer for Mr. Rodgers, M.H.R., at the…

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As Good As in Gaol. Capetown, Wednesday Night

Evening News · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 7

Two or three hundred men, fully armed, are inside the Trades Hall, determined to resists all attempts to storm the place. The police do not so yet intend [?] the…

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Police Courts. Dirty Restaurant

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 12

Peter Spelos, the proprietor of a sixpenny restaurant in George-street West, was fined 50s and costs at the Central Police Court yesterday, on the information of Inspector Lloyd, of the City Council, for not keeping…

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Divorce Court Judgments

Evening News · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 12

His Honor, Mr. Justice Gordon, gave reserved judgment in several petitions in the Sydney Divorce Court yesterday. The petition of Lily Callaway (formerly…

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A Cook in Court

The Australian Worker · Thursday 15 January 1914 · page 25

At the Cooma Police Court on Monday, January 5, cases were heard in which a summons for wages due and a cross-summons for leaving hired service, were…

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