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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1915

5,681 stories in Sydney's papers · page 64 of 250

Divorce Court. (Before Mr. Justice Gordon.) DUNLOP v DUNLOP

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 4

Josephine Dunlop, formerly Wainwright, asked for the dissolution of her marriage with Ernest Dunlop, on the grounds of desertion. Mr. Fraser represented the petitioner. The…

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N.S.W. Land Appeal Court. Improvement on Sor[?] Leases

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 3

The N.S.W. Land Appeal Court, sitting in Sydney, on Tuesday, delivered ils reserved decisions in the following cases:—…

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Commonwealth Arbitration Court. (Before Mr. Justice Powers.) A.W.U. REGISTRATION

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 4

The hearing of the application made by Mr. W. W. Killen, pastoralist, of Bourke, for the cancellation of the registration of the Australian Workers' Union was concluded. The…

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Law Report. Supreme Court. Banco Court. (Before Mr. Justice Pring and a jury of four.) Architects' Claim. Baton and another v Commercial Travellers' Association

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 4

Mr. Shand, K.C., and Mr. Wyndham Davies, instructed by Mr. A. B. Davies, appeared for plaintiffs; and Mr. Kelynack and Mr. E. M. Mitchell, instructed by Messrs. Sly and…

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District Court. (Before Judge Rogers.) Claim for Alleged Slander. Hunter v Glover

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 4

Isaac Haddon Hunter, builder and contractor, of Jones-street, Ultimo, sought to recover £400 compensation from Isaiah Glover, iron founder, of Waterview-avenue, Abbotsford,…

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Central Criminal Court. (Before the Chief Justice and a jury.) Charge of Conspiracy. Accused Acquitted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 4

The hearing of evidence in connection with the trial of Louis Phillips, Henry Woolf, Joshua Phillips, Isaac Solomon, William Blank, and Sydney Robertson, on a charge of…

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NO. 2 Jury Court. (Before Mr. Justice Ferguson.) Restaurant's Poultry Supply. Keene and Co. v Mockbell

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 4

The case was concluded in which John F. Keene and Frank Graham, trading as J. F. Keene and Co., wholesale produce merchants and poulterers, sued Kabell Mockbell,…

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NO. 1 Jury Court. (Before Mr. Justice Sly and a jury of four.) Litigation Over a Poultry Farm. M'Crea v Marsden

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 March 1915 · page 4

Mr. H. H. Mason and Mr. Weston, instructed by Mr. Harry L. Brown, appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Pickburn, instructed by Messrs. Perkins, Stevenson, and Co. (agents for Mr…

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Story of Burglary Denied

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 14

MOLONG, Friday--Mrs. Kiernan, who reported a burglary at her house at Cumnock on Wednesday; has now admitted to the police that the story is untrue. She says she…

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Charged with Neglect

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 2

Headquarters of the Protestant Alliance Friendly Society of Australia are interesting themselves in a case in which, recently, a member of the Lord Clyde Lodge…

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Theft in a Hotel

The Sun · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 6

Mrs. Edith Crawford, a visitor from Cootamundra, was robbed at a leading city hotel this morning of a handbag containing £30. The Railway Department has directed that…

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St. George Police Court. Wednesday, March 17. Before Mr. Barnett, S.m

The St George Call · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 6

" I can see a lot of trouble for many of us looming in the distance,' as the sailing chaps say at Doll's Point," said P.C. Flanbranigan, 000 A, to the…

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New Zealand. Charge of Murder Withdrawn

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 14

WELLINGTON, Friday.--Although Charles Harvey made a statement implicating himself for the murder, of Ching, a Chinese who was found brutally done to death in a small shop in…

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A False Passport. Sentenced for Conspiracy. New York, Saturday Morning

Evening News · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 1

Richard Stegler, a German Reservist, has been sentenced to sixty days [?]; and his accomplices, Richard Maddon, and Gustav Cook to ten month, for compiring to secure…

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Military Stores. Stolen From Drill Hall. Four Men Charged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 20

Considerable interest attached to the hearing of a case at the Water Police Court yesterday, by Mr. William Clarke, S.M., in which four men were charged with stealing…

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A Patent Challenged. High Court Appeal

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 13

MELBOURNE, Friday.--To-day a patent matter, was before the High Court, consisting of the Chief Justice, Mr, Justice Isaacs, Mr. Justice, Duffy, and Mr. Justice Rich. An…

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Industrial Arbitration Court. (Before Mr. Justice Heydon.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 9

The Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia (N.S.W. division) applied to his Honor yesterday to have the constitution of the Iron and Shipbuilding Trade Group (No…

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Divorce Court. (Before Mr. Justice Gordon.) FOILAN v FOILAN

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 9

Elizabeth Noble Foilan, formerly Palmer, sought a dissolution of her marriage with John James Follan, on the grounds of desertion. Mr. Fraser appeared for the…

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Commonwealth Arbitration Court. (Before Mr. Justice Powers.) Waterside Workers' Application

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 9

The application made by Waterside Workers' Federation to re-open the award made in 1914, so that bulk coke could be treated as special cargo, was again before the…

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Law Report. Supreme Court. Banco Court. (Before Mr. Justice Pring and a jury of four.) Ejectment Action. Chadwick and another v Foley Brothers, Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 9

Mr. Shand, K.C., and Mr. Mann, instructed by Messrs. Holdsworth and Hamilton, appeared fon the plaintiffs; and Mr. Kelynack and Mr. E. M. Mitchell, instructed by Messrs. Sly and…

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