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Courts & crime, 1920

6,028 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 250

Germany Still Evading Treaty "Security Police" Number 100,000 LONDON, Friday

Sunday Times · Sunday 15 February 1920 · page 2

General Niessel, lately Commander of the Allied Mission in the Baltic, speaking to the Foreign Affairs Committee in Paris, declared that both official and unofficial…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 5

Queen's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate. —At 10 a.m.For hearing. Pereival v Capital Investment Co., Ltd., Quill v Anlezark, same v Bates, same v Furnev, same v John[?]on, same v May, same…

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Tyres Worth £880 Stevedore and Watchman Charged with Stealing

Evening News · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 5

Francis Augustus, 43, stevedors, and George William Jones, 45, watchman, appeared at the Central Police Court to-day, charged with stealing about June 26…

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Canvasser Charged Serious Allegation Made by Police

The Sun · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 5

Reginald Charles Russell, 26, a canvasser, was remanded until February 25 at the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of having criminally…

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Alleged Fraud Seaman Charged

The Sun · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 5

Richard Walsh, 37, a seaman, was charged at the Central Police Court to-day with having stolen one bankbook and the sum of £2, the property of…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 5

Before his Honor Judge Cohen.—At 10 a.m.—Weine v Baker, Roach v Jones, Murphy v King, The Australian Postal Linesmen's Union v tile PostmasterGeueral, Watts v Nieliolson. Note.—The list will…

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TREASON M. Greece. High Officers Sentenced. London, February 18

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 4

a message from Anions states that General Metaxas has been convicted of high treason for surrendering Port Rupel to the Bulgarians, and has been condemned to deat…

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Industrial Arbitration Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 5

Industrial Court house. Queen's-square.—No 1 Court. —Before his Honor Mr. Justice Edmunds.—At 10 a.m.—For hearing Re Photographers (State) Board, application by the Photographic Employees Assn. of…

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Stolen Motor Cars Three Youths Charged Series of Robberies

Evening News · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 4

At the Darlinghurst Sessions, William Henry Archer, 13, Charles Casey, 19, and Clarence Chambers, 17, were charged with having, on October 22, at North…

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Bankruptcy Court Voluntary Sequestration

Evening News · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 5

Cyril Athelred Johnson, of Kensington, New South Wales, grower. Mr. C. F. W. Lloyd, official assignee…

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Providing for Youths Industrial Court Application

Evening News · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 4

[?] to an application in the Industrial Court this morning by a [?] for permission to [?] man at less than the…

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Sweep Swindles. British Police Suspicious. London, February 13

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 6

Since February 5, on police instructions, the Post office has detained, hundreds of thousands of lectors addressed to Continental sweep promoters. The remittances usually range from…

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Law Notices. Monday, February 16. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 5

Term List—In Raneo Court, St. James-road.—At 10 a.m.—Continuation of Orders.—Motions re Articled Clerks.—In re gent. one, etc., Wicks v Jobnson, Rulmu v Water Conservation and Irrigation…

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Aussie Gunman Police-sergeant Shot The Too-handy Automatic LONDON, Sunday Night

The Sun · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 1

Scotland Yard reports that while three detectives, headed by Sergeant Cooper, were raiding a house in Pimlico they encountered inside an…

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20 Years Service Traffic-supt. Edward Retiring From Police Cycling to Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 5

One of the most popular and successful officers in the Police Department Superintendent Edward, who has been head of the traffic branch at police…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 February 1920 · page 5

Queen's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate. —At 10 a.m.—For hearing: Burgess v Fitzgerald, Operative Stonemasons' Society y Batho, same, v [?]re[?]ell, Journeymen Farriers' Union v Maroney,…

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Man's Leg Stolen Theft at Central Station

Evening News · Tuesday 17 February 1920 · page 4

Taking with him his artificial leg and a camera in a small trunk David Dobie of Park-road South Melbourne went to the assembly platform at the…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 February 1920 · page 5

Before his Honor Judge Cohen.—At 10 a.m.: Crowley v Kirkpatrick (for judgment), F[?]oessell v Watson, Bath v Nyberg, King v Conroy, Thom v M'Donough, Elkan v Barnett, West v Holmes, Bostook and…

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Motor Tyres Charges of Theft Over £800 Involved

The Sun · Tuesday 17 February 1920 · page 5

Francis Augustus, 43, a stevedore, and George William Jones, 45, a watchman, were charged at the Central Police Court yesterday with having…

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News of the Day From the Four Quarters Foreign Cables an Australian Charged with Murder in Scotland. a Mons Veteean's Fate

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 17 February 1920 · page 4

An Australian soldier named Albert James Fraser has been arrester in Belfast, with another man and two women, on the charge of having murdered…

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