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Courts & crime, 1917

5,120 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 250

Probate Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1917 · page 8

The following probates and letter, [?] ministration were granted by the Regis[?] of Probates during the past week:- Probates.—E. G. [?]einrichs, H. Ne[?]te, [?]…

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Outrage and Murder. Little Girl's Fate

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 January 1917 · page 10

A little girl, Dorothy Myra Small (11). living with her parents in Rooky Point Road, Rockdale, was outraged and afterwards strangled to death near S[?]ddmore's Bridge, Rockdale, about…

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Fair Rents Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1917 · page 8

The Fair Rents Court yesterday dealt with an application in respect to No. 134 Chalmers-street, Sydney, a terrace brick house of six rooms and a kitchen, on land 15ft 6in by 93ft…

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Bankruptcy Court. Voluntary Sequestrations

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1917 · page 8

Charles Copel Mandel, of Manton, De[?] street, Bondi, formerly of Uralla, comm[?] traveller. Mr. W. H. Palmer, official assi[?]…

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Again Before the Court

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 13 January 1917 · page 6

At the Parramatta Court on Wednesday Eliza Clarke was charged with illegally using an instrument with intent on a female, E. E. Furlong. There was…

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Husband and Wife in Court

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 13 January 1917 · page 11

On Wednesday, William Robert Sherwood and Florence Sherwood, were charged with using bad language within hearing of persons in Harold—street…

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Law Notices. Monday, January 15. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1917 · page 8

Probate Jurisdiction.—The account set down [?] passed on Monday, 15th instant (Court [?] will be passed on 23rd instant at the same [?] In Equity.—Before the Deputy Rigistrar in E[?]…

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Broken Hill Steel Works Threatened Strike. Report to Industrial Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1917 · page 13

Mr. A. A. Rankin, representing the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, brought under the notice of Mr. Justice Edmunds in the Industrial Court yesterday a letter from the…

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Law Report. Industrial Court. (Before Mr. Justice Edmunds.) Wages Board Representatives

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1917 · page 8

Mr. P. E. Goleman, of the Trades [?] Sydney, was nominated as employees representative on the Professional and Shopworkers' group No. 9 (Clerks, metropolitan)…

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At Sydney Shows a Complete Change Passing Show Has New Turns Gibl Who Was Arrester on a Murder Charge

Arrow · Saturday 13 January 1917 · page 3

For the first times since the opening there will be a complete chance in the programme offered by the Fusing Shaw at the Tivoli to-day. Apart from the new business to be…

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Murder of Captain Fryatt

Sunday Times · Sunday 14 January 1917 · page 28

Despite the world-wide horror excited by the cold-blooded butchery of Britain's mercantile marine hero, Captain Fryatt, the complete details of that judicial murder never yet have been…

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Motor Driver in Court

Sunday Times · Sunday 14 January 1917 · page 2

The motor driver, May, whose vehicle ran over and killed Marie Quinn, in King-street, Newtown, on 6th inst., was brought before Newtown Police Court and remanded till…

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Alleged Embezzlement Some Statements in Court Melbourne

Sunday Times · Sunday 14 January 1917 · page 1

Arthur Stanley Conquest, a clerk employed by Mr. Batcman, solicitor, was charged at the City Court with embezzling three sums— £1, £6/14/, and £3/16/. Accused a few days ago…

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Child Done to Death Shocking Crime at Rockdale Young Man Before Court

The Sun · Sunday 14 January 1917 · page 24

Smidmore's Bridge, in The Avenue, Rockdale, where Dorothy Myra Small, aged 11, was outraged and murdered on Friday afternoon, in full daylight, is only 100 yards from…

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Work and Wages Called to Court. A.w.u.'s Constitution Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 14 January 1917 · page 4

No date has been fixed for the Commonwealth Arbitration Court hearing the application by the Australian Smelting Association to secure the cancellation of the…

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Theft From a Shop Six Months Gaol

The Sun · Monday 15 January 1917 · page 5

A peculiar case was dealt with by Mr. Payton, the magistrate at the Central Police Court, to-day. Charles Stewart Young was charged with…

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Alleged Stealing

The Sun · Monday 15 January 1917 · page 5

At the Newtown Police Court this morning, before Mr. King, S.M., Samuel Osborne, 26, was proceeded against on four charges of breaking and entering dwelling-houses in the…

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Rockdale Outrage. Arrested Man Charged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 January 1917 · page 8

Christian William Benzlng, 22, an electrician, who was arrested on Friday last on suspicion of causing the death of the girl, Dorothy Myra Small, who was outraged and…

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