Shooting on Schooner. Bangor's Mate Charged. Fired in Self Defence
Trouble on board the United States [?]Bengor now lying in Sydney Hartor, on the morning of December 21 resulted in Joseph James [?]…
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5,632 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 250
Complaint of Extortion Soldiers at Gilgandra Charged Excessive Rents. Inferior Grazing Land
At a meeting of the Gilgandra (N.S.W.) repatriation committee on Wednesday, Mr. W. Barden referred to the high rental values placed on land…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Events of the Day Murderers of Chinese Escape From Gaol. Re-arrested Very Smartly
The two murderers, Frank E. Leigh and Edward A. Steiner who cleverly escaped from Bathurst (N.S.W.) gaol last week, were re-arrested on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Inquiry Opened To-day Questions for the Court
The Sardina inquiry was opened this afternoon on the vessel, which is berthed on the east side of Circular Quay…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Jumped Into the Harbor. Man Before the Court
The man who is stated to have jumped into the harbor on Wednesday, to escape arrest-- William Henry Kent (18), a laborer--appeared before Mr. Adrian, S.M., at the Central Police…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stealing From a Church. Tailor Sentenced
A charge of stealing a suit-case, silver communion set and case, linen sachet, four linen d'oyleys, and half a bottle of wine, valued in all at £7, was that on which Anton Peter…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Lidcombe. Stealing Gravel
People inclined to steal will steal in a cemetery, notwithstanding the general acceptance of the theory that the sacredness of such a scene of operations ought…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Broaching Cargo. Pillager Sentenced
"I have come to the conclusion that the losses from cases of this kind are too great. It is my opinion that they can only be met by imprisonment in every case," said Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mother and Son Charged
On Monday afternoon at Parramatta Court a mother (52) and a son (16)— Philomena Kirby and Wm. Francis Kirby, of Church-street, Parramatta, were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Appointments
Superintendent Atkinson, of the eastern district section of the State's police force, and who was relieved by our own Parramatta inspector, Mr. A. H. Lucas, a few…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Parramatta Police Court Monday, December 30. (Before Mr. M. H. Fitzhardinge, S.M.)
William Carthray, for behaving in a riotous manner in the bar of the Railway hotel, Lidcombe, on December 23, was fined 10s, or seven days' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bolsheviks Set Free Omsk Gaol Broken VANCOUVER
A Vladivostock message states that Bolshevik sympathisers effected a wholesale gaol delivery on New Year's Eve at Omsk. They released 205…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pennant Hills. Licensing Court
At Ryde Licensing Court on Thursday, a renewal of the license of the Hampden Hotel, Pennant Hills, was granted to Elizabeth Jacobs. The hotel was assessed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →German Escapees. Seeman and Carre Recaptured. a Cook Charged with "Assisting."
Two more of the Germans who escaped from the Darlinghurst Military Gaol--Seeman and Carre--were recaptured early yesterday. There is now only one--Shallock--at large…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Law Notices. Monday, January [?]. District Court
Before the Registrar.—At 10.30 a.m., Callen ats. Page; at 10.50 a.m., Street ats. King…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →CONSTABLE J. Williams Dead Tallest Man in Police Force
The death occurred at the Cost Hospital Little Bay, this morning, of Constable John Williams. He was wellknown in sydney being [?] high…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Epics of a Gaol Prison Life in Bathurst Free and Easy Old Days Escapes and Mutinies
Some of the most amusing as well as the most thrilling incidents in connection with gaol life have happened at Bathurst. The escape and recapture…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Income Tax Not Charged Twice Alteration in Period of Assessment to Meet Convenience of Tax-payers Will Not Cause Hardship
The issue by the State Taxation Department of forms calling for a return of incomes earned in the year starting July 1, 1917, and ending June 30. 1918, has caused…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldier Sent to Gaol
Albert Bert Egan, 23, a soldier, was at the Central Police Court this morning sentenced to two months' hard labor for having assaulted Police Sergeant James…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →More Complaints Police Court Congestion Crown Law Officer's Predicament
Reference was made at the Central Police Court this morning to the delays caused by the Crown not having a sum[?] number of advocates to proceed…
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