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Courts & crime, 1914

7,545 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 250

Law Repoet. High Court of Australia. in Chambers. (Before the Chief Justice, Sir Samuel Griffith.) Federated Builders' Labourers' Award. Application for Writ of Prohibition

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

In this matter, Mr. G. S. Beeby and Mr. H. N. MacLaurin, instructed by Mr. H. C. Ellison Rich, applied on behalf of the Master Builders' Association of New South Wales,…

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Conspirators Sentenced

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 21

The Barisal conspirators convicted last June have been sentenced to terms of trans-portation varying from two to 12 years…

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Frank Taylor Sentenced. Fifteen Out of 187 Charges. Ten Years' Gaol

Evening News · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 5

Few prisoners about to be sentenced for a serious offence have appeared more cool of at case than Frank Stanley Wallace Taylor, a young man, who had pleaded guilty to is out…

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Theft Charges

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 10

At the Central Court, Chas. James Machan 28,and Henry Nicholls, charged with stealing 12 ladies undervest, 8 pairs of men's socks, and 10 pairs of ladies stocings, valued at £210, the property of Edward Irvine…

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Serious Assault Allegations

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 10

A thick-set young man named William page answered to a charge of assaulting an old man named Nicholas Green, at Piermont, on January 17. Green is the caretaker of a hulk moored close to the Glebe Abattoirs,…

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Imprisonment for Assault

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 10

Four, months' imprisonment with hard labor was the sentence impost on Henry Connors([?]), Frankly (41), and Henry Thomas (36), for having aspirated Joseph Alexander Miller on January 21, at Sydney…

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A Murder Superstition

Evening News · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 12

A verdict of Manslaughter was returned at Ulster Assizes, Ireland, recently, against Thomas Flyan, charged with the murder of John Pryor, near Ballconnell, County Cavan,…

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Police Court MONDAY. (Before Mr T B Clegg, P.M.)

Nepean Times · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 2

John O'Connor, 50, was charged with being an habitual drunkard, and pleaded guilty. Constable Baker stated that shortly…

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The Modern Gaol. a Contrast. I.

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 6

The prospective passing of old Darlinghurst gaol in the near future is calculated to suggest the immense and essential contrast between the old and the new standpoints in the…

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Smuggled Opium. Ship's Engineer Sentenced. Brisbane

Evening News · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 9

The [?] of customs has received a [?] to notifying that Fourth-engineer Robertson, of the steamer [?] from Hong Kong, was caught smuggling three [?] of opium into Fort…

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Notes. Police Fallibility

Evening News · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 8

In a Melbourne police court recently three plain-clothes constables swore that they had seen a woman, charged with vagrancy, about the streets at a time when she was actually in…

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District Court

Nepean Times · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 4

A sitting of the District Court will be held at Penrith on Tuesday next. Only two cases are listed, viz., W D Lough, of Katoomba, v. E Grepinet…

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Charge of Assault and Robbery. Jury Acquits Accused

Evening News · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 9

James Gordon pleaded not guilty at the Darlinghurst Sessions, before Judge [?] to a charge of having, on December [?] at North Sydney, assaulted Daniel Snow, and robbed him…

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Ten Years. Young Man Sentenced. 188 Houses Broken Into

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 13

A young man, concerned in the 188 forceful entries into houses and various kinds of buildings during the last ten or twelve months, was sentenced at the Darlinghturst Quarter…

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The Miners. Employees Charged with Insincerity. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 21

The special meeting of the delegates' board of the Colliery Employees' Federation called to consider the position of the northern miners, now that the proprietors have…

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Police Court THURSDAY. (Before Messrs W H Wrench and E C Burrows, J's.P.)

Nepean Times · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 6

Herman Schwarze, for being drunk in Station Street on 21st January, was fined 5s or 24 hours' imprisonment; and for resisting Constable Baker in…

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Cheque for £900. a Charge of Stealing. Money Spent at Races

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 8

Frederick Dutton, alias Louis Frost, 36; was charged before Mr. Clarice, S.M., at the Water Police Court yesterday, with stealing £900, the property of the Bank of Australasian Mr…

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Reeks' Companion. Liverpool Police Searching

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 13

LONDON, Friday Morning.--The Liverpool police are searching for Rocks' companion, T. H. Ramsden, of Chicago. They appeared to be close friends, and spent the week-end…

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Telephone for Court House

Nepean Times · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 3

We take off our hat to the Justice Department. The other day we pointed out the necessity for the installation of a telephone at Penrith Court…

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Indian Conspirators. Murder of an Inspector. Accused's Confession

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 January 1914 · page 13

CALCUTTA, Friday.--Nirmolkante Roy has been charged with the murder of Inspector Ghose. The hearing is taking place in camera, as the evidence is sensational…

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