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Courts & crime, 1920

6,028 stories in Sydney's papers · page 67 of 250

Warehouse Clerks. Claim for Arbitration Court

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 April 1920 · page 3

A strenuous fight for position is being played between the Australian Clerks' Association (Warehousemen's Section) and the proposed Softgoods Warehouse Employees' Society,…

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Central Criminal Court. (Before Mr. Justice Wade.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 April 1920 · page 3

Mr. W. T. Coyle, Crown Prosocutor. SENTENCE FOR MANSLAUGHTER. Annie Edith Naughton, a maternity nurse, 61 years of age, who was tried for murder and…

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Supreme Court. Banco Jury Court. (Before Sir Wm. Cullen, C.J., and jury.) Motor Vehicles in Collision. Salter and others v Delandro

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 April 1920 · page 3

Cross actions were brought for damages sustained in a motor car collision at Gilliesavenue, near Annandale, on Sunday, August 24 last. In the one action Archie Salter,…

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NO. 2. Jury Court. (Before Mr. Justice Ferguson and jury.) Railway Passenger's Accident. Sheppcard v Railway Commissioners

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 April 1920 · page 3

This action was brought on hehalf of Harold Stewart Sheppeard, a youth of l8 years of age, by his father. George Sheppeard, against the, New South Wales Commissioners of…

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NO. 1 Jury Court. (Before Mr. Justice Pring and jury.) Wheat Pool Operations. Heavy Damages Against the Government. De Lauret and Co., Ltd., v Whitfeld

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 April 1920 · page 3

Evidence was concluded in an action against George Whitfeld, as nominal defendant for the State Government, in which de Lauret and Co., Ltd., wheat merchants, and brokers, claimed…

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Law Report. High Court. Sheepskins Injunction Application. (Before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Knox, Mr. Justice Isaacs, Mr. Justice Gavan Duffy, Mr. Justice Rich, Mr. Justice Starke.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 April 1920 · page 3

Sir Edward Mitchell, K.C., and Mr. J. P. Sheridan (instructed by Messrs. Laurence and Laurence), on behalf of the Wool-sliping and Scouring Company, Proprietary, Limited, of…

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Hornsby Police Court. Thursday, March 25

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 3 April 1920 · page 12

Mary Jane Jones proceeded against her husband, Joseph James Jones, of Mount Colah, seeking to have him bound over to keep the peace. It was alleged against…

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Coogee Murder Meagher Not Guilty

The Sun · Saturday 3 April 1920 · page 5

The. trial of John Meagher, on a charge of murdering his wife, Marjorie Kathleen Meagher, at Coogee, on November 20 last, was concluded before…

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Industrial Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 April 1920 · page 8

Industrial Registrar's Office, 78 Elizabeth-street.—At 12 noon.—For settlement of Court's Order: Re Cravediggers (Cumberland) Award…

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Court of Review

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 April 1920 · page 8

Before his Honour Judge Scholes.—At 10 a.m.: Appeals against income tax assessments. Note: The list of appeals will be called over after the undefended actions in the District Court have been dealt with…

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Wednesday, April 7. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 April 1920 · page 8

Cause Lists.—In Banco Court.—At 10 a.m.—wade v Rosehill Racecourse Co., Ltd. Notice to jurors.— The jurors summoned to attend Banco Causes on Wednesdiy. April 7, will be required to attend at 10…

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Ireland. Police Barracks Attacked. London, March 31

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 April 1920 · page 11

Between fifty and one hundred armed men attacked the police barracks at Durrus at midnight. They dropped explosives on the chimney, completely wreeking the building…

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Law Notices. Tuesday, April 6. District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 April 1920 · page 8

Before his Honor Judge Scholes.—At 10 a.m.: All undefended action. Note: The list of undefended actions will be called over punctually at 10 a.m. All cases in which the hearing fee has not been paid will be…

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Probably Suicide Police Theory of Domain Shooting

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 April 1920 · page 2

After further consideration of circumstances and facts, the police officers investigating the death of Matrofan Koropets, whose body was found in the…

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Organised Murder Mr. Lloyd George on Sinn Fein and Crime

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 April 1920 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.—In the course of his letter to the Lord Mayor of Dublin Mr. Lloyd George proceeded: "It may be that authority will have no option [?]…

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The Third Degree Indignant Denial by Inspector-General of Police Practice Not Prevalent

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 April 1920 · page 5

Mr. Mitchell, Inspector-General of Police, gives an emphatic denial to recent statements that there exists in this State something approximating to the…

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Jewel Theft Guest and Gema Disappear Amiable Captain

Evening News · Monday 5 April 1920 · page 4

A theft of jewellery on a large scale recently [?] to light at the Carlton Hotel. a fashionable place of resort at Southsea (England)…

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Lawn Tennis. Hard-court Competition

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 April 1920 · page 3

The close of the fourth round placed the clubs in the following order as to competition points:--Corinthian I., Hiawatha I., Stanmore and Rosedale, 16 each: Kiowa, Eskville, Burwood I., and Thurse, 12; Stanmore and…

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Appalling Picture Torture, Murder, Disease Russia a Vast Cemetery LONDON

Evening News · Monday 5 April 1920 · page 1

British refugees [?] stories of torture and wholesale [?] in Russia. Leprosy and typhus are [?]…

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