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Courts & crime, 1917

5,120 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 250

Police Inspectors. Four Promoted

Evening News · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 5

The Inspector General of Peter Mr.J [?]…

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Fair Rents Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 4

At 2 p.m.: 224-252 Edgeware-road, Newtown; 157-9 Bridge-road, Glebe…

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A Furnished House Linen and Plate Go Charges of Theft

The Sun · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 5

The three persons, Jane Goodson, or Mary Davis, or May Hooks, or May Petherick; Frank Henry Williamson, and Gladys Williamson or Gladys Lewis, who were…

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Child's Body Found. "Cold-blooded Murder." Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 8

Giving evidence at [?]n inquest held at Geelong to-day concerning an unknown infant found in the sewer on Saturday, Dr. Newman stated that the portions of the body…

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Crimes of Violence Son Charged with Shooting Father. a New Year's Day Quarrel

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 4

At the paddington police Court, on Thursday, Frank Arthur Toombs, seventeen years of age, was charged with maliciously wounding his father, on…

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A Charge of Graft. Chief of Police Arrested

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 4

Charles Healey, Chief of Police in Chicago, America, has been arrested. and charged with graft involving 20,000. dollars yearly for protecting the "under…

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Law Notices. Tuesday, January 30. High Court of Australia

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 7
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

In Chambers.--(Before Mr. Justice Rich), at 10 a.m.: Buchanam v. Horner, for leave to enter final judgment. SUPREME COURT…

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Law Report. Industrial Court. (Before Mr. Justice Edmunds.) Blacklisted Butchers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 4

A dispute as to the closing time of butchers' shops, as the result of which ten master butchers are alleged to have been blacklisted to prevent them obtaining supplies of meat,…

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"Gott Mit Uns," Court Chaplain Emphatic. Kaisers Birthday Sermon. New York, [?]

Evening News · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 1

A Colted Press message from states—At the Cathedral service [?] with the Kaiser's birthday was during the reading of the Lord's Payment emphasis was…

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Beating the Bookie Woman's Racing Experience Evidence in Case at Cen­tral Court

Evening News · Tuesday 30 January 1917 · page 2

Frank Coligny Listle, was charged at the Central Police Court with having, while [?]alice of £63 16s, belonging to Vanny Hill, fraude[?]tly converted the money to his own…

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Furs Valued at £2000. Wharf Laborer Charged with Stealing

Evening News · Wednesday 31 January 1917 · page 1

At the Water Police Court this morning, before Mr. Wilkinson, Henry Claude Jones, 27, a wharf laborer, was charged with stealing, on or about December 16, two cases containing…

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Charge of Stealing

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 31 January 1917 · page 10

Jane Goodson, alias Mary Davis (40), Frank Henry Williamson (49), and Gladys Williamson (24), appeared before Mr. MacFarlane, C. S. M., at the Central Court yesterday to answer a…

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Magistrate Speaks of Perjury

Evening News · Wednesday 31 January 1917 · page 6

At the Central Police Court the magistrate, Mr. Maclariane, directed Police Prosecutor Spyer to bring under the notice of the proper [?]rity[?] the fact that an [?]cused man who…

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£2000 Worth of Furs Wharf Laborer Charged

The Sun · Wednesday 31 January 1917 · page 3

Henry Claude Jones, 27, was charged at the Water Police Court this morning, before Mr. Wilkinson, with stealing, on December 16 last year, two cases containing 26 fur jackets…

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Sentenced for Perjury. Suggestion to Send Man to Italy

Evening News · Wednesday 31 January 1917 · page 6

Edward[?] Riccotta, [?] an Italian, who had pleaded guilty to perjury in connection with a charge of stealing, for which he was serving two years' imprisonment, came before…

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Naval Contracts. Clerk Charged with Embezzlement. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 January 1917 · page 10

David Flynn O'Donoghue, naval staff clerk, appeared at the City Court to-day to answer five charges of having embezzled sums of money, amounting in all to £2828, paid to him…

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Badge for Victorian Police

The Sun · Wednesday 31 January 1917 · page 6

The system in Victoria of recognising good work by members of tho police force differs from that in New South Wales. Speaking at Daylesford on Monday, Mr…

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Fair Rents Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 January 1917 · page 8

[?] Jamieson, S.M., sat in the Fair Rents Court yesterday afternoon. Two matters were before him, the first relating to a terrace of brick cottages, Nos. 224, 228, 230, 232, 234, 246,…

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Woman's Death. Verdict of Murder. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 January 1917 · page 12

At an inquest to-day on Elsie Rene Pretty, aged 17, machinist at a clothing factory, a verdict of murder against a certain person or persons unknown was returned. The Coroner…

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