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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1914

7,545 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 250

Baby's Escapades. Crawls on Hotel Floor. Police Charge Dismissed

The Sun · Thursday 22 January 1914 · page 7

Although only five months old, Lavelle Lee has already acquired habits of staying out late at night, and passing the evening in public-house parlors. She also has seemed…

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Indian Crime. Police Investigations. Women Curse the Murderer Calcutta, Wednesday Evening

Evening News · Thursday 22 January 1914 · page 1

One of the [?] arrested [?] with the murder of Inspector [?] has been [?] having been discovered that he was only [?] drunken fellow, was had been captured…

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Murder or Suicide ? Sydney Man's Fate. Found Shot in Disused Shaft. Wolverhampton Mystery. London, Thursday Morning

The Sun · Thursday 22 January 1914 · page 8

What looks very much like, a murder, of which Thomas Recks, a young an, formerly' of Sydney, was the victim, was brought to light yesterday, at Bliston, near…

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Found in a Pit. Marine Engineer's Death. Police Trace Movements. London, Thursday Morning

Evening News · Thursday 22 January 1914 · page 7

Fuller investigations into the death of Thomas Reeks, the marine engineer who was found dead in a pit at Wolverhampton, show that be recently arrived from Canada…

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The Sentence of the Court. (All Rights Reserved.) Chapter XXXVIII.—Continued

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 January 1914 · page 4

Gilray was sitting on the balcony of his pleasant sitting-room overlooking the garden. He rose as he heard his visitors coming, but his face fell when he saw that the princess…

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Coal Miners. Board's Jurisdiction Challenged. Matter Referred to Court. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 January 1914 · page 10

The Northern Coal Miners' Wages Board resumed its sitting this morning. Judge Edmunds presided. The chairman announced that the board had…

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Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 4

Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate. -- At 10 a.m.: Durack v. Cornish (three)…

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Charge of Stealing. Three Youths in Court

The Sun · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 5

At the Newtown Police Court today James Champion,. aged 18; James William Coutts Hairband, 17; and George William Homer, 16, were charged with having broken and entered…

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150 Years' Gaol Taylor the Robber. Sentenced at the Sessions. the Man and His Destiny

The Sun · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 7

Frank Stanley Wallace Taylor, a seaman, 20, years of age, who had pleaded guilty to 15 out of 16 charges of housebreaking in Sydney and suburbs, was sentenced at the…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Coukt

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 4

Next Water Police Court, Phillip-strett.—Before [?] Chief Industrial Magistrate.—At 10 a.m.—For [?] Durack v Cornish (3)…

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Rand Strike Over. Trades Hall Men Prosecuted. Magistrate Decides Against Police. Johannesburg, Jan. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 9

Five of the men who were besieged in the Trades Hall were charged at the police court to-day with resisting and obstructing the police during the attempted raid on the 14th…

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Industrial Magistrate's Court. (Before Mr. G. C. Addison, Chief Industrial Mugistrate.) Further Chinese Cases

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 4

Again there was a large gathering of Chinese at the Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court yesterday, when 42 cases were heard, most of them being failures to exhibit awards and…

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Wholesale Housebreaking. Taylor Sentenced to Ten Ye Ass

Evening News · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 7

Frank Stealey Wallace Taylor, who pleaded guilty to is out of over 180 charges of house breaking. was sentenced by Judge Docker at the Dorlinghurst Sessions this afternoon to…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 4

The following transfers of publicans' licenses were granted at Thursday's sitting of the Metropolitans Licensing Court:—From Robert B. Bell to Frank [?] Unity Hotel, Lane Cove-road, North Sydney;…

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A Woman Police-chief

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 10

Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, is credited by the newspapers with the intention of appointing Mr. Gertrude Howe Britton. Chief of police to…

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The Pit Murder.. Sydney Engineer's Death. the Police Investigations. Looking for [?] Companion. the Inquest Opened. London, Thursday Evening

Evening News · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 1

The issues on Thomas Rooks, Marice on sister of Sydney, who was found food in a disused pit at Wolverhampton, with three bullet rounds in his head, was opened to-day…

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Railway Carriage Murder Little Boy Strangled. What a Signalman Saw. Dramatic Scene£ in Court. London, Friday Morning

The Sun · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 7

At the inquest yesterday concerning the death of the six-year-old boy, Willie Starchfield,, more, evidence was forthcoming, The dead body of the little fellow, was found a…

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Money for the Races. an Extraordinary Story. Charge of Stealing £900

The Sun · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 5

An extraordinary story was told in the Water Police Court this morning by bank officials when Frederick Dutton, alias Louis Frost, was charged with stealing £900, the…

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Police-courts. an Army Pension

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 4

Yesterday four army veterans came face to face [?] the Water Police Court, when one of their number Michael Buckley, alias Bert Buckley, alias William Hall, 67, had to answer a charge of obtaining a…

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East Maitland Tragedy. Verdict of Murder and Suicide

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 12

WEST MAITLAND, Thursday. -- The circumstances of the double tragedy which occurred at East, Maitland on the evening of January 16, when Richard Francis Marsh, an engineer and…

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