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Courts & crime, 1920

6,028 stories in Sydney's papers · page 78 of 250

Industrial Arbitration Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 5

Industrial Court-house, Queen's-square.—No. 2 Court. —Before his Honor Judge Rolin.—At 10 a.m.—For Hearing: Re Bricklayers (State) Award, motion by court on its own initiative; re Restaurant…

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Armidale Circuit Court

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 3

ARMIDALE, Thursday.--The Armidale Circuit Court was opened yesterday, before Mr. Justice Ferguson. Mr. W. J. Bradley was the Crown Prosecutor…

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Prisoners Freed. General Strike Off. Better Gaol Treatment London, April 14

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 5

A Dublin message from the Exchange Telegraph Agency says that the Mountjoy prisoners are being released immediately…

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Supreme Court Powers. Prohibition to Industrial Court. Judges Will Ignore It

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 4

The length to which the Supreme Court can go in issuing an order of prohibition against the Industrial Arbitration Court was the subject of announcements made by Judge Rolin…

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Unclaimed Prizes Police and Firemen's Art Union

Evening News · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 5

Ten of the prizes in the Police and Firemen's Charity Art Union have not yet been claimed. The most valuable still being held is the fifth, which is £100…

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Soldier's Troubles Told in Divorce Court

Evening News · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 5

In the Divorce Court, before Mr Justice Harvey, this morning, Legite William Soater asked for a dissolution of his marriage with Martha Ruby Souter…

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Two Charges of Murder Molong Tragedy. a Verdict of Not Guilty

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 6

DUBBO, Thursday.--At the Dubbo Circuit Court, before Mr. Justice Pring, a young man named Alfred Aksel Syrjalainen, a native of Finland, was arraigned on a charge of…

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Post Office Thefts. Youth Before the Court

The Propeller · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 2

At the Kogarah Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. Hawkins, S.M., Henry Robert Horner, aged 17 years, an employee at the Sutherland…

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Law Notices. Friday, April 16. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 5

Cause List.—In Banco Court, at 10 a.m.: McClintock and others v Union Bank of Australia, Ltd. (part heard). Notice to jurors:—The jurors engaged in the above part-heard case are required to attend at…

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Hanged in His Cell Awaiting Charge of Murder Wellington (N.z.)

Evening News · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 4

Harry Deeley, on remand on a charge of murdering a woman at Palmerainn hanged himself in the local gaol this morning…

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Industrial Court. (Before Judge Curlewis.) Type Foundry Employees

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 5

The application by the Printing Industry Employees' Uniou for an award to cover workers within the constitution of the Type Foundry Products (State) Board stands part heard…

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Mr. R. D. Meagher. Application to High Court

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 8

Application was made to the High Court yesterday (Mr. Justice Knox, C.J., Mr. Justice Isaacs, Mr. Justice Gavan Duffy, and Mr. Justice Starke) by Richard Denis Meagher for…

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Mistaken Identity Another Mystery of the Seine. Paris Police Nonplussed

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 4

The Paris police are endeavoring to unravel the circumstances of two mysterious murders that have benn porpetrated, some Features of which are…

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Law Report. High Court. Mr. R. D. Meagher's Application

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 5

Appearing in person, Mr. Richard Den[?]s Meagher applied for special leave to appeal against the judgment of the Full Court of New South Wales in refusing to restore him…

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A Mysterious Tragedy Sydney Police Officers Fuzzled. a Young Woman's Death

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 4

The Sydney police are ba[?] by the discovery on Tuesday last of the body of a young woman in an uncompleted house at Watson's Bay. The body was…

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Supreme Court. Banco Jury Court. (Before Sir William Cullen, C.J., and Jury.) McClintock and others v Union Bank

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 5

At the conclusion of the plaintiff's evidence in this case, the nature of which was outlined yesterday, counsel for the defendant bank moved for a non-suit, on the ground that the…

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Judicial Conflict. Supreme Court and Arbitration. Prohibition Order Not Observed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 6

An interesting question has arisen as to whether the Industrial Arbitration Court should observe a certain prohibition order issued by the Supreme Court…

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Divorce Court. (Before Mr. Justice Gordon.) McLAREN v McLAREN

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 5

The petitioner, Walter McLaren, sued for a divorce from Alma Frances McLaren (formerly Longburst), whom he accused of having committed adultery with one John LittlewoodwooJ,…

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Fruit-growers Justice Higgins Restive Under High Court's Ruling. His Power Taken Away

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 5

In making his award for the fruit-growing industry in the Arberation Court in Melbourne on Monday last the chairman (Mr. Justice Higgins)…

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The Dark Avenue a Story of Murder and Mystery, by Fergus Hume. Forty-fourth Instalment. (Continued from the Last Issue.)

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 16 April 1920 · page 8

Gervase moved restlessly. "About this confounded will. Unless I marry Victoria I lose the property, and I cannot take up the title unless I have the…

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