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Courts & crime, 1917

5,120 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 250

Petty Pilfering. Theft From a Transport

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 5

At the Central Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Payten, S.M., Sydney Harold Hines, 28, was charged with stealing two bottles of ale, the property of the captain of a…

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£50,000 INVOLVED Military Officer Charged Arrested at Races Lieut. Howell Price in Court

The Sun · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 5

Lieutenant David Clayton Howell Price, 36, who was arrested at the Victoria Park racecourse yesterday afternoon by Detectives Pattinson and Mitchell, appeared before Mr…

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Theft of 200 Gold Rings. Orange

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 10

An audacious robbery was committed on the premises of Mr. L. Schmidt, jeweller and tobacconist, at 2.45. this morning. Schmidt occupies two-story premises in Peisley-street,…

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Bank Directors. Charged with Embezzlement. Paris, Jan. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 10

Philippe Slmenoni, alias de Fierea, a former bankrupt, was charged with embezzling several million france as a bank director, Pr[?]s de Brogllerevel, chairman of the ba[?]t, has…

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Russians Stand Firm Enemy Assault at Kovel London. Monday Night

The Sun · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 1

A Russian official message says:-- In the direction of Kovel an enemy offensive entered our trenches southward of Rudkamirinskaia. Our reserves drove…

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Police Courts. Federal Land Tax Case

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 5

At the North Sydney Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Love, Joseph Alfred Smith was proceeded against by John H. Slattery, an offcer of the Federal Taxation Department, for failing to supply a Federal land…

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The Enemy Hunt Rounding Up Undesirables Friends of the Kaiser Sent to Gaol

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 2

At the Redfern (Sydney) police court lats week, a man named Oscar Neilson, who had described himself on different occasions at a Norwegian and a Swede,…

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Police Honors. Recipients of tho imperial Services Medal

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 4

The Imperial Service Medal has been conferred upon the following members of the New South Wales and Queensland prison and police services:—…

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Law Notices. Tuesday, January 23. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 5

Before the Deputy Registrar in Divorce.—At 10.30 a.m.: Johnson v Johnson. In Equity.—Before the Deputy Registrar in Equity.—At 11 a.m.: Perpetual Trustee Company v Roberts, to…

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News of the Day From the Four Quarters. Misdemeanors Fiji Murder Epidemic the Indians Quarrel Over Women

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 4

A number of murders have been committed at Fiji recently. Mom of the crimes have arisen from jealousy over women, but occasionally murders have been…

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German Escapees Caught Clever Attempt to Hood. Wink the Police. Disguised As a Woman

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 4

Two German prisoners, George Edward Knoff and Kall Krose, who escaped from the Holdsworthy (N.S.W.) concentration camp on Tuesday last, were recaptured…

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Judges Differ High Court Bench Conceptions of The Law Many Dissenting Judgments

The Sun · Tuesday 23 January 1917 · page 6

To hope for the attainment of uniformity in legal decisions would be setting up the millenlum. Some judges take a wide view of the limit…

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Soldier As Magistrate

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 11

It is announced that applications by returned soldiers for the position of temporary special magistrate, Sydney, should be made to the Deputy Commissioner of Pensions 17 Bligh Street…

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American Neutrality. German Agents Sentenced

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 9

SAN FRANCISCO, Tuesday.--Cornelius Bopp, German Consul at San Francisco, Baron von Brinken, German Military Attache, and the four other German agents recently convicted of a…

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The Wife's Request. Magistrate's Comment

Evening News · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 4

Kather Collins, a resident of Elgar-street Gleba, asked Mr. Barnets at the Glebe Police Court to bind over her husband Patrick Francis Collins, 58 in keep the peace towards…

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Charged with Bigamy. a Sodier's Marriages

Evening News · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 8

Peter [?] Moller 30, who was in Khaki, [?] charged at Redfers Court before Mr. [?] with having at wollongong on September [?] 1918 married Annie Hoffman, his wife…

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Police Inspector Retires

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 31

Police Inspector Simon Butler of Gundagai, N.S.W., has retired from the force, owing to…

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