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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1923

7,397 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 250

Law Notices. Thursday, January 11. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 January 1923 · page 6

In Chambers.—Before Mr. Justice. Gorden, in the Banco Court, at 10 a.m.: Robert Reid and Co., Ltd., v Chinnock, foreign attachment; smith and Wade, Ltd., v Charnock, foreign attachment; Edgat v Bartlett,…

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Charge or Question? Mr. Peisley's Methods New Court Procedure

The Sun · Thursday 11 January 1923 · page 7

"Sheet No. 2, your Worship, said Sergeant Napper at the Central "Police Court this morning. A defendant: was placed before the…

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His Terrible Secret Tailor's Dead Paramour Body in Bath Suicide as Police Break In

Evening News · Thursday 11 January 1923 · page 1

LONDON Wednesday [?] A shocking tragedy was [?] when the police to-day [?] into the house of a recluse [?]…

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Doors Nailed Up Mysterious Liaison Ends in Tragedy Woman Dead in Bath Man Shoots Himself as Police Break In LONDON, Wednesday Night

The Sun · Thursday 11 January 1923 · page 1

As the police, using crowbars, broke into a house in Regent's Park, which had been bolted and barred for ten days, a shot rang out. The police…

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Jockeys in Court Charge of Stealing

Evening News · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 7

[?] a hockey, was before Redfern Court to-day on charges of having stolen personal effects and other articles from two other jockeys…

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Alleged Assault

The Propeller · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 4

Dorothy Marguerite Booth proceeded against her husband, George Redvers Booth, for assaulting her. The defendant was ordered to enter into sureties…

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Fined for Assault

The Propeller · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 4

Horace Fisher proceeded against William Edward Hunter for assault. Mr. Leslie Gannon, who appeared for the complainant, said that Fisher was…

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Assault and Robbery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 11

William Connell, 29, residing at 119 Pyrmont-street, Pyrmont, was found lying on the footpath in Harbour-street, Darling Harbour, at about 7 o'clock last night, Buffering from…

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Indian Extremists. 170 Prisoners Sentenced to Death

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 3

The final judgement in the charges following on the murder of a number of police by extremists at Chaurnchaurn, near Goralhpur, has now been…

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Kogarah Police Court. Before Mr. Jennings, S.m. "High Jinks at Cronulla."

The St George Call · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 5

Horace Fisher was proceeded against by William Hunter for creating a disturbance and assault at Cronulla during the Christmas holidays…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 6

The Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday granted the following applications for the transfer of publicans' licenses:—Wilson's Paragon Hotel, Albert-street, Sydney, from Walter Halifax Watson to Albert Edward…

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Did He Fire? Husband Charged a Redfern Affair

Evening News · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 8

Randolph Hardwick ciles, 42 was was remanded last Friday for medical observation, reappeared at Redfern Court to-day, on a charge of having…

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Kogarah Police Court. Wednesday, January 10. (Before Mr. Hawkins, S.m.) Charge of Embezzlement

The Propeller · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 4

Frank Johnson was charged with that he did, while in the employ of William John Allen, dairyman, embezzle certain money, the property of his employer…

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Grisly Relics Hangmen's Signatures Murder's Collar

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 15

The contents of the late Mr. G. R. Sims's private "chamber of horrors" are to be sold in London. Mr. Sims spent more than thirty years collecting…

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Police Find Handy Collection

Evening News · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 8

A Jemmy, [?]angbag, two [?] a revolver, 30 revolver [?] piece of pipe, three drills, [?] gloves, chisel, spanner and oil stone…

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Industrial Arbitration Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 6

Before the Industrial Registrar, 78 Elizabeth-street.— For settlement of minutes of Court's order: At 10 a.m., re Copper Wire (Mental Manufactures, Ltd.), award; 10.15 a.m., re Engineers, etc. (State), award;…

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Police for Mourilyan Brisbane

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 5

A later message from Townsville states that Sub-Inspector M'Namara has left Innisfall with sixteen police officers by special train, in order to…

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Admissible Evidence in Court

The Land · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 7

In answer to "Brief," Mr. J. W. Maund ("The Land's" solicitor) replies: (1) Yes, but they can be read in their proper place. The correspondence can only be put in in…

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Bare Feet Woman in Court

Evening News · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 8

In her bare poet and badly-tattered clothing. Morgatet Edwards,[?] appeared before Mr. Gale at the Redfern Court to-day…

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Arbitration Court Sketches No. 1. Theory

Communist · Friday 12 January 1923 · page 1

The function of an industrial court shall be to listen to the evidence from both sides, Employer and Union, and to issue judgment in accordance with…

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