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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1919

5,632 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 250

Thefts From Farmers Eleven Employees Charged W[?] Special Constable Found

Evening News · Saturday 8 February 1919 · page 3

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Doctor Refuses Mask Prefers Gaol to Bail. Legality to Be Tested

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 February 1919 · page 13

Dr. George Fox, of 37 Llewellyn Street, Balmain, objects to the wearing of masks, and he told the magistrate (Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M.) who presided at the Balmain Court yesterday…

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Lost Undola. Court's Finding. Disappearance Unexplained

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 8 February 1919 · page 4

Further evidence was heard yesterday afternoon in the Marine Court, consisting of Judge Scholes and Captains J. Simpson and J. Vine Hall,…

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The First £100. Police and Firemen's Hospital Carnival

Labor News · Saturday 8 February 1919 · page 6

The committee of the Police and Fire-men's Hospital Carnival has received the first cheque for £100 in aid of the funds from Sir Samuel Hordern. This…

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Law Notices. Monday, February 10. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 February 1919 · page 9

Prothonotary's Office.—Before the Deputy Prothon[?]tary.—Thom[?]son v Back, at 11 a.m.; Watson v O'brien, at 12 noon. Before the Chief Clerk.—Glen wright v Glenwright, Gobbe v Gobbe, at 10 a.m.;…

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Quarantine Deadlock Queensland Takes Action Application to High Court MELBOURNE

The Sun · Saturday 8 February 1919 · page 5

Argument was heard to-day in the High Court, before Mr. Justice Duffy, in an application by the Queensland Government to restrain…

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Queensland Government Applies to High Court To Restrain Federal Government MELBOURNE

Evening News · Saturday 8 February 1919 · page 5

In [?] to-day, Mr. Justice [?] sitting as the High Court, heard [?] Queensland Government for an in[?] to restrain the [?]…

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"Making Vacancies" Judges Age Limit Act Political Trick Charged Invoke the High Court

The Sun · Sunday 9 February 1919 · page 2

Suppressed feeling of resentment is entertained against the Government by the judges who have been compulsorily retired under the Judges Age Limit…

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Wire Netting Contract Rand wick Alderman Charged

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 February 1919 · page 3

The hearing of the case in which Henry Clarke, an alderman of Randwick Council, was proceeded against upon information that he acted as alderman while…

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Police and Firemen's Carnival

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 February 1919 · page 5

Although the aim of the Police and Firemen in their eighth carnival and art union now being organised is the able one of raising £30,000 for…

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Russian Court Secrets

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 February 1919 · page 17

Mr. William Le Queux has an extraordinarily intimate knowledge of European courts as these institutions existed before the war. He knows the most…

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Seaman Collapses at Police Station

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 February 1919 · page 2

On Friday night a man named Jacob Turoff, a seaman on the s.s. Rosamond, in Double Bay, was discovered in a semiconscious condition on the steps of No…

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Police and Firemen The £30,000 Objective

The Sun · Sunday 9 February 1919 · page 17

Although the aim of the Police and Firemen's Carnival and Art Union is the raising of £30,000 for the hospitals, the organisers realise that the influenza…

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He Died a Hero Harris Atonement Prisoner Released from Life Sentence in Parramatta Gaol Dies Fighting for His Country. Officer Praises His Bravery

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 February 1919 · page 3

Early in September last we published the dramatic story of the career of Private George Harris, who was killed in action in France…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 February 1919 · page 5

Queen's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate.—At 10 a.m.—For hearing: Reid v Fitzgerald, Reid v B[?], Reid v Webster, Reid v Waldron, Reid v Turley, Reid v Mears, Reid v Lysaught, Reid v…

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Fatal Stabbing Affray. Man Charged with Murder

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 February 1919 · page 6

Johann Laukas Huovinen (26), a Russian, seaman from the steamer City of Sydney, died in Sydney Hospital early yesterday morning from a stab wound over the heart, sustained during…

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Charge of Assault

The Sun · Monday 10 February 1919 · page 6

On Saturday afternoon Egelbert Schwer. 68, and his wife wore taken to Prince Alfred Hospital by the Newtown Ambulance, where Schwer was…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 February 1919 · page 5

Before his Honor Judge Scholes.—Speed v Byrne and another, to be mentioned; Einerson and others v Malavta Co., Ltd. (part heard); Somerville v Williams; Higson v Noble; Payling v Coombes and…

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Dr. Fox Accepts Bail Complaint About Gaol Treatment

Evening News · Monday 10 February 1919 · page 4

Dr. George Fox, who was at the [?] Police court, on Friday, committed her trial on a charge of not wearing a [?] and refused to accept light hall, is…

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100 Police at Manly

The Sun · Monday 10 February 1919 · page 5

Police reliefs, totalling over 100 men, were sent to Manly to-day. They will patrol the foreshores and the quarantine walls. They are under the…

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