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Courts & crime, 1917

5,120 stories in Sydney's papers · page 66 of 250

Strange Gun. Devised to Fire Dynamite. Investors and Police Looking for Lost Inventor

Evening News · Friday 30 March 1917 · page 4

A man who declared he had a remarkable invention has succeeded during the past few months in obtaining a large rum of money from prominent commercial and professional men in…

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Border Traffic Small Business Doing. Will Mr. Ryan Go to Court?

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 30 March 1917 · page 15

The border trade is going on without incident. Mr. Symons, Chief Inspector of Stock, told a '"Stock Journal"…

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Work and Wages Union's Registration Engineers in Court Penalising a Member

The Sun · Friday 30 March 1917 · page 7

The Amalgamated Society of Engineers, New South Wales District, was summoned in the Industrial Court to-day to show cause why its registration as an industrial union…

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News of the Pay From the Four Quarters. Fraud and Theft The I.W.W. Note Forgeries the Sentences on Ferguson .And King

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 30 March 1917 · page 4

John James Ferguson and John Benjamin King were both found guilty at the Sydney central criminal court on Tuesday on a charge tgf forging an Aus…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 March 1917 · page 9

Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate.—At 10 a.m.: For hearing—Clegg v Eitel, Wright v Whitfeld, Gregory v Edwards Laundry, Limited, same v Pocklington. At 11 a.m.: Denford v Chief Commissioner…

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R S.a. Secretary. Charged with Stealing

Evening News · Saturday 31 March 1917 · page 4

[?] Lesic Bathurst, 25. charged was teh [?]…

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Charge of Stealing

Nepean Times · Saturday 31 March 1917 · page 6

At the Penrith Police Court, before Messrs T M Masters arid C H Fulton, J's.P., Arthur Richmomd (59), on remand, was charged with having, on…

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R.s.a. Secretary. Alleged Stealing

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 31 March 1917 · page 17

Thomas Leslie Bathurst (25), secretary of the R.S.A., appeared again at the Central Court yesterday on a charge of stealing the sum of £10, the property of Albert Edward Talbot and…

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Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 March 1917 · page 9

Cause List.—In Banco Court, St. James's-road.—At 10 a.m.—Cleland v Jones. In No. 1 Jury Court, King-street.—At 10 a.m.—Smith v Closer Settlements, Ltd. In No. 2 Jury Court, King-street.—At 10…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 March 1917 · page 9

Before his Honor Judge Backhouse.—At 10 a.m.: All undefended actions. Motions: Rogers v Fes[?] and Co., Limited, Talty v Burns, Philp, and Company, Limited. All actions in which the "hearing fee"…

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Fair Rents Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 March 1917 · page 9

Several applications for reduction in rent were dealt with at the Fair Rents Court yesterday in respect of a terrace of houses, comprising Nos. 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16…

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Luskintyre Tragedy. Verdict of Murder and Suicide

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 31 March 1917 · page 16

WEST MAITLAND, Friday.--The adjourned inquest concerning the deaths of Thomas and Clara May Thorley, victims of the Luskintyre tragedy, on the 27th inst., was held at West…

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Court of Marine Inquiry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 March 1917 · page 9

Before his Honor Judge Backhouse with Assessors, in No. 1 District Court.—At 10.15 a.m.: Re the mast[?] of the Wollongbar…

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Fair Rent Court's Decisions

Evening News · Saturday 31 March 1917 · page 3

Mr. Jamirson. in the Fair Rents Count, dealt with applications in respect of a terrace of bouses comprising [?] Kendell-street, Surry little in cacb case the fair rent…

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Court of Industrial Arbitration

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 March 1917 · page 9

No. 1 Court.—Before Mr. Justice Heydon.—At 10 a.m.: Re F[?] Supply and Distribution (No. 1) Group, No. 6 (Confectioners, State) Board: Application by New South Wales Manufacturing Confectioners'…

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No. 2 Jury Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 March 1917 · page 9

The hearing of the action, Denham Brothers v Clan Line of Steamers, Ltd., is still unfinished…

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Brave Brothers Bennett, Sons of Mr. William Bennett, Dsputy-governor of Parramatta Gaol

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1917 · page 4

BERT, Wounded in France…

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The Moving Picture Show Court of Honor

The Sun · Saturday 31 March 1917 · page 4

This wools the court of Honor has considered the application on behalf of Mr. Brookfield to be admitted as a Knight Commander of the Order of Persnurkus…

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