Police Presentation
Ex-sergeant J. E. White, who was connected with the traffic office at police headquarters, but had to resign from the force because of bad health, was yesterday the…
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Licensing Court
At Thursday's sitting of the Metropolitan Licensing Court, the license of the New Zealand Hotel, William-street, Sydney, was transferred from Ezra A. Rose to Thomas Barrett…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Macquarie. Seat. a Magistrate to Conduct inquiry
The inquiry into the allegations of fraud in connection with the recent election for the Macquarie seat, in which Mr. Thrower (Labor) was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Gaol Site. School or Hospital? Doctor's Proposal
A leading Sydney medical man writes:— "Darlinghurst Gaol is to go, and on the site the Government proposes to erect a Girls' High School. It is stated that some of the…
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Extraordinary interest is being manifested in the trial at Frankforton-Main, of karl Hops, formerly foils champion of the world, who it is…
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Before Mr. Smithers, S.M., at the North Sydney Police Court yesterday, Thomas Charles Hammett was charged with the embezzlement of 5s 2d, the property of John Cooney, of Mosman. Cooney stated that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Books From the Library. School of Arts Member Charged
Before Mr. Barnett, S.M., at the Central Policc Court on Friday last William Henry Pritchard, 49, pleaded [?]ot guilty to a charge of stealing 21 books and magazines of the value of £2 4s 6d, the property of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Methods. Cajoling Confessions From Suspects
Considerable dissatisfaction is felt by the detective force in Victoria at the action of the Chief Secretary (Mr. Murray) in confirming a minute of his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Strangled Boy. Railway Murder Mystery. Reconstructing the Crime. London, Friday Morning
The inquest into the mysterious murder of the seven-year-old boy William Starchfield, who was found strangled under the seat of a railway carriage at Shoreditch last week…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Law Notices. Friday, January 16. Supreme Court
Chamber List (Before Mr. Justice Gordon). In No. 4 Court. At 10.30 a.m.; Exparte Clarence Potts, prohibition. Prothonotary's Office. -- (Before the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butchers' Hours. Arbitration Court Appeal Reported Settlement
A matter of interest to the whole of the butchering trade was to have been heard by His Honor Judge Edmunds, in the Industrial Arbitration Court this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Courts. Thursday, January 15. Kept the Council's Money
Bernard Halle (61) appeared at the Central Court, charged with having embezzled the sum of £17 19s 2d, the property of the City Council. Accused was employed by the City Council as a bailiff, with authority to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Riotous Crowds. Bomb Thrown at Police. London, Friday Morning
A huge crowd gathered outside the gaol in Johannesburg yesterday and hustled the police, who promptly scattered the mob with a baton charge…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Daring Burglary. at Rushcutters Bay Tramway Depot Broken Into Box of Sovereigns Stolen. Window Jemmied While Clerks Work. Carefully-planned Robbery
One of the most impudent robberies imaginable was committed at the Rushcutter's Bay tram depot, in Bayswater-road, last night, when, despite the presence of a clerk, who had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Law. Thursday, January 15. Bankruptcy Court. Voluntary Sequestration
Lionel Edward Collins, of No. 62 Spit-road, Mosman, general merchant. Mr. W. H. Palmer official assignee…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Street Fracas. Police and Strikers Meet. Two Strikers Bayoneted
CAPETOWN, Thursday, Morning. -- A large menacing crowd made a demonstration, in the street to the northwards of the Trades-ball, but after some…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Sentence of the Court. (All Rights Reserved.) Chapter XXXIII.—Continued
"Honestly I cannot. He struck me as the average type of miser—a man in whom the greed of gold has become an overwhelming passion."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"An Absolute Failure." Ship-owners and Workers' Conference. Arbitration Court Suggested
MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- The conference between the representatives of the ship-owners and the waterside-workers, which was opened on Tuesday, and was adjourned nominally to…
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At the police court on Wednesday, before Mr H J F Neale, J.P., John O'Connor, on a charge of drunkenness, was fined 5s or 24 hours…
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