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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1923

7,397 stories in Sydney's papers · page 60 of 250

Husband in Gaol Wife's Divorce

Evening News · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 4

Lodda Paisley Flenady (formerly Flude) petitioned to-day for a divorce form Raymond Bede Flenady on the grounds that respondent had been…

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"Have You in Trap" Alleged Stealing

The Sun · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 8

Alfred Johnson, aged 27 was committed for trial at the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of having on December 19 broken and entered the…

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SETTLED! Assault Cases a Banksia Solicitor

Evening News · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 3

"Defendant walked round some rocks on my property, and was about to sit down between two shrubs. I was lying down about 14…

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Ex-minister's Apples Stealing Charge Fails Katoomba

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 8

Mr. Arthur [?]fith, ex-State Minister, prosecuted Leslie C. Owen, at the local Police Court, on a charge of stealing apples, valued at £5, his property…

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Our Debating Club. Murder, Mutilation, and Robbery in Ireland

Watchman · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 2

Sir,—Permit me through the truly loyal "Watcman" to appeal to all fellow-Protestants and British Loyalists on behalf of our suffering…

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"Crook" Drinks in Dry America Amount to Murder New York

Evening News · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 1

Several of the Mrd-Western State Legislatures have passed or are considering Bills characterising the sale of intoricants causing…

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Murder Charge Nurse Mitchell Committed for Trial Yarra Case Detective Piggott's Many Interviews

The Sun · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 7

Hannah Elizabeth Mitchell was committed for trial to-day on a charge of wilful murder in connection with the Yarra mystery. The 14-year-old son of Margaret Milward said he saw a…

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Hard to Follow New Court Ways Perplexed Accused

Evening News · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 11

A good deal of dissatisfaction exists in the police courts owing to the attitude which Messrs. Jennings and Peisley, stipendiary…

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The Fair Rents Court. How Law Defeats Justice

The Catholic Press · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 25

Nothing is more interesting to the meditative citizen than the perpetual warfare between law and justice. We pay excessive salaries to an excessive number of…

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District Court. (Before Judge Scholes.) Potts Point Flats

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 6

Hearing was concluded of the action in which Charles Henry Sumner, of Astona, Kirribilli Point, North Sydney, accountant, claimed £50 from Mary Parker, of 121 Macleay-street, Potts…

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Too Crafty Chinese Masons a Police Alarm BATHURST Thursday.s

Evening News · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 8

Two stalwarts recently called at the Chinese Masonic Lodge rooms and explained that they were constables, and had been instructed to search for…

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Industrial Court. (Before Judge Curlewis.) Public Service Professional Officers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 6

His Honor gave his decision with regard to certain objections made on behalf of the Crown in connection with the award for Public Service (professional) officers employed…

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A Baby's Body Looking After Women "Money in It" N.Z. Murder Trial Wellington

Evening News · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 4

When the Newlands murder trial was resumed to-day Dr. Wright, of Johnsonville, said that Cooper told him in October last that many…

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Murder Trial Two Persons in the Dock an Infant's Death . "Baby in a Hole" Wellington (N.e.)

The Sun · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 7

The trial of Daniel Cooper and Margaret Cooper on a charge of having murdered the infant child of Margaret Mary McLeod and William James…

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NO. 1 Jury Court. (Before Mr. Justice Campbell and jury.) Myerson V "Smith's Weekly."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 6

The case remains part heard…

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London Police Ban Birth Control Book. Seize Copies of Margaret Sanger Work as Obscene. London, December 28

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 8

Margaret Sanger's book on birth control has been banned by Scotland Yard as obscene, and every copy was seized by the police in a raid on the premises…

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Detective Piggott Gives Evidence in Murder Inquest ——See Page 7 the Russell Case Toe to Trigger Love-lorn Husband's Sleepless Nights Wife's Story of Childlike Innocence Despite Student Days in Paris "I Married a Fool!"

Evening News · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 1

EVIDENCE of an astounding nature was given by Mrs. Russell, the respondent in the divorce petition brought by her husband, John Hugo Russell, Lord Ampthill's heir, who charge her with misconduct with Edger Jacquard Mayer. The co-respondent denies…

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Law Report. Full Court. (Before Sir Wm. Cullen, C.J., Mr. Justice Gordon, and Mr. Acting Justice Ralston.). Verdict Against B.M.A. Thompson v New South Wales Branch British Medical Association

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 March 1923 · page 6

Argument was continued in the appeal instituted by the New South Wales Branch of the British Medical Association against a verdict and judgment entered in the trial…

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Assault Alleged

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 March 1923 · page 3

On Wednesday afternoon' James Keenan (42), a fireman, was knocked down in George Street North. He was admitted to Sydney Hospital with a…

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Kicked a Policeman Magistrate's Comment

The Sun · Friday 9 March 1923 · page 8

This kind of thing has got to stop, and the police must be protected. It is men like you who run to the police when anything goes wrong."…

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