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Courts & crime, 1916

5,876 stories in Sydney's papers · page 53 of 250

Australians in Trouble. a Charge of Theft In England

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 7 March 1916 · page 4

A lance-corporal and a private in the Australian Army service were charged at Uxbridge (Eng.) with stealing three cases of cigarettes and tobacco, value £24, the…

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Police Courts. Forgery Charge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 March 1916 · page 5

Francis Hammond, 27, and Alfred George Lake, 24, were charged yesterday at the Water Police Court, before Mr. T. H. Wilkinson, S.M., with forging a Commonwealth security, viz., an Australian £3-note,…

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Fraud and Theft Criminals Uniform Highway Robbery in Sydney Streets

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 7 March 1916 · page 4

Judge Docker on Friday, in the Criminal Court, Sydney, sentenced a number of prisoners, who had admitted, or had been found guilty of various offences…

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District Court-martial Cases Adjourned

The Sun · Tuesday 7 March 1916 · page 5

A district court-martial assembled at the Victoria Barracks this morning with a view, of trying such accused persons as might be brought before it on charges relating to…

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German Prize Court. Claims Rejected

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 March 1916 · page 5

COPENHAGEN, Monday.--The Prize Court at Hamburg has decided that the torpedoing of seven Norwegian ships, also British and Danish steamers which were laden with wood and…

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Woman's Death Police Not Informed Coroner's Comments

The Sun · Tuesday 7 March 1916 · page 8

An inquiry into the death of Sarah Jane Evans (a married woman), at the Royal Oak Hotel, Parramatta, on February 17, after an operation, was opened at Parramatta…

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The Murder of a Soldier. The Disgraceful Milson Island Brawl

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 7 March 1916 · page 4

At the Sydney coroner's court on Thursday the coroner for Parrammatta, concluded the inquest on the death of Henry Joseph Brown, a soldier, who was killed on…

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Harassed Turkey Attempted Murder Enver Pasha. Reinforcements Asked For. Athens

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 7 March 1916 · page 2

Advices from Constantinople state that an atempt was made to assassinate Enver Pasha, Minister for War, who was wounded…

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Crimes of Violence The Heidelberg Mystery the Murder of Chauffeur Haines

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 7 March 1916 · page 4

A sensation development occurred on Friday in connection with the murder of William Patrick Hames, a chauneurn at Herdelberg, a Melbourne suburb, on…

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Law Notices. Tuesday, March 7. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 March 1916 · page 4

Term List.—To be taken in Banco Court.—Motion: Ex parte Rupert Ridley, prohibition. Demurter: Egan v Jinks and another. Motion: Ex parte H. E. Brooke and another, prohibition. To be taken in…

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Marine Court Inquiry. Sinking of a River Steamer

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 7 March 1916 · page 16

Before Judge Backhouse and Captains Chudleigh and Taylor as assessors, an inquiry was held into the circumstances connected with the sinking…

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Industrial Court. (Before Mr. Justice Heydon.) Cokeworkers' Appeal Granted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 March 1916 · page 4

Judgment was delivered in the cross appeals by the Cokeworkers' Association of New South Wales and by G. and C. Hoskins, Ltd., against the award of No. 24 Board (Iron and…

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District Court. (Before Judge Backhouse.) Damage to a Piano

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 March 1916 · page 4

Marcus Clark and Co., Ltd., on December 14 last consigned a piano to a customer at Manly. The piano, which was in a case, while, lying on the Manly wharf, was, it was…

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Law of Trespass. Appeal to the High Court. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 March 1916 · page 7

The caso in which Arthur Sydney Garnsey, boundaty rider of the Barilda Pastoral Company, New South Wales, had proceeded against Philip Whiteman and James Whiteman o…

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Big Court-martial Charge of Striking Officer Mention of Revolver

The Sun · Tuesday 7 March 1916 · page 5

The High Court was in military occupation to-day. On the bench where before only judges in wig and gown had presided sat the military officers of the general…

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Wily Germans. Munitions at Bottom of Well Police Find in China. [?], Monday Evening

Evening News · Tuesday 7 March 1916 · page 5

The need for a [?] German has been demonstrated by a discovery made by [?] police in the French conversion. This was no [?] than eight cases of [?]…

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Hotel Cook. Claim Against Union Trustees Echo of Broken Hill Strike Application Before Full Court

Evening News · Tuesday 7 March 1916 · page 3

A matter of importance to [?] argued before the Pull Court [?]…

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Court of Appeal. a German Contract Dissolved by War. Zinc Concentrates From N.S.W.

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 7 March 1916 · page 13

In the London Court of Appeal a few weeks ago, before Lord" Justice Swinfen Eady, Lord Justice Phillimore, and Lord Justice Pickford, the case…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 March 1916 · page 8

Phillip-street.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate.— At 10 a.m.—For hearing; Pickering v Jones; same v Webber (3); Griffiths v Montgomery; Davis v Sargents, Ltd.; Young and Lasker (2); Lee v Lawson;…

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