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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1915

5,681 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 250

Lonsdale Not to Die. Twenty Years in Gaol. London, Monday Night

The Sun · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 1

Private Lonsdale, the British soldier who was sentenced to death for striking one of the guards at Dorberitz detention camp, just outside Berlin, has had the sentence…

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Chief of City Police. Vacancy Filled

Evening News · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 5

The inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mitchell announced this afternoon that Superintendent John Tait, who was in charge of the Aibury district had been appointed Acting Metropolitan…

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New York's Unemployed. Collisions with the Police

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 4

Thousands of the unemployed gathered in New York on New Year's Day, and paraded the streets, demanding to be found work. The demonstration ended in…

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Men From the Country. Arrested on Suspicion. Sent to Gaol for a Month

The Sun · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 6

In the dock of the Central Police Court this morning there were two tough-looking young men, who were charged with being suspected persons. Their names were John Willis, aged…

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Theft and Fraud Violence and False Pretence an Old Man of Seventy-five Sent for Trial

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 4

An old man named Kelso, seventy-five years of age, was committed for trial at Sydney on Friday on a charge of having falsely pretended to James Alexander…

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Law Report. Equity Court. (Before. Mr. Justice Pring.) Injunction Granted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 6

Mr. Davidson, instructed by Messrs. Dawson, Waldron, und Glover, agents tor Messrs. Hawdon and Marks, of Gloucester, applied on behalf of George Edward Furness for an…

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Fortune Teller at Mosman. Reviews Patron's Life. Would Live to Be Eighty. Police Take Action

Evening News · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 3

At the North Sydney Court, Jeasle Swan, of "The Pines," Military-road, Mosman, was proceeded against by Sub-Inspector Fullerton, on a charge of pretending to tell the fortune of…

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Police Courts. Alleged Assault

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 12

Three young men, James Mills, Robert Gray, and William Mair, were yesterday charged with robbing Alexander Snow, on the 1st inst., of £3, boots, etc. The latter stated that he was set upon and robbed in…

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Court-martial. Auckland Merchant Sentenced. (From Our Correspondent.)

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 10

SUVA, Fiji, January 6.--A well-known Auckland merchant, Mr. F. E. N. Gaudin, passed through here on his return to New Zealand from Samoa, where he was tried by…

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Fined for Assault

The Sun · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 6

Assault was the charge on which Sydney Davison proceeded against Hugh Schumler at Newtown Summons Court to-day. Davison said that Schumler called at his…

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Surry Hills Assault

The Sun · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 6

Inquiries relating to the assault on John Smith, near the Gulgong Hotel Bourkestreet. Surry Hills, on the night of December 18 are still being made by the Darlinghurst…

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Sentenced. Twenty Years' Imprisonment

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 9

LONDON, Tuesday.--Lonsdale, the English prisoner in the hands of the Germans, who was sentenced to death for assaulting a guard, but who was afterwards granted…

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£2000 in Notes. Lost on Way to Perth. Man Charged with the Theft. Melbourne

Evening News · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 7

In the City Court this morning, before Mr. Dwyer. Solley [?] was charged that he did on December 4, at Melbourne steal two packets containing notes valued at £2000,…

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Egypt. Turkish Spy Captured and Sentenced

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 14

There was great excitement at Cairo over the arrest of Almay Abdullah, Enver Bey's chief spy. He was captured in the act of endeavoring to…

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War Treason. Trial in the Island. Prominent Man Sentenced. "No Appeal Court in the World."

Evening News · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 5

On the arrival of the steamer [?] shortly after noon on December 23, F. E. N. [?] who had been detained in Auckland on a charge of breach of military regulations, was…

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Untrue Story. Woman Sent to Gaol

The Sun · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 6

Grace Russell a woman of many aliases, also known as Grace Darling, was brought before Mr. Love, at the Central Police Court this morning, and sentenced to six months'…

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Fourteen Days. Gaol Preferred to Fine

The Sun · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 6

"Not a penny will I pay. I'll do the fourteen days, Not a peeny will I pay!" This was the remark of Sophia Vincent, a young woman who at the Central Police…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 12

Before the Registrar.—At 10.30 a.m.; Simmons v Clarke and another…

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Soldier Loses His Boots. Alleged Assault and Robbery

Evening News · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 2

William Mair 23, James Patrick Mills, [?] and Robert Henry Grey, 26, appeared on remand before Mr. King at the Water Police Court charged with assaulting and robbing Alexander…

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Stolen Notes. a Sydney Clerk Charged. Melbourne

The Sun · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 5

Solley Burvill, 80, a clerk, was remanded for a Week at the City Court to-day on a charge of having at Melbourne on December 4 stolen two packets containing £2000,…

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