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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1925

8,831 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 250

Fair Rents Court Landlords Hit to Leg

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 4 February 1925 · page 6

THE RENTALS of many houses came under review at the Fair Rents Court yesterday. IT WAS A BUSY DAY. and when…

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Fascism Received a New Blow. Mussolini's Followers Confess to Murder of Matteotti

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 4 February 1925 · page 17

Italian public opinion has been excited by the revelations contained in written confessions by Finzi, ex-Secretary of the Interior, and Filippelli, ex-editor of the…

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Night Clubs to Go Clever Police Raid Guests at Bow Street London. February 2

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 February 1925 · page 1

Following upon the recent denunciation by Church authorities of night clubs, police, in the early hours of the morning, carried out…

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Preposterous Claim Mitchell's Action Fails Invalid Chair in Court London, Tuesday Night

The Sun · Wednesday 4 February 1925 · page 9

John Mitchell, in his action for alleged negligence against W. B. Peat, a member of a famous firm of accountants, gave evidence from an…

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Cessnock Shire Mr. Scott's Case Dismissed in Court Appeal to Minister Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 4 February 1925 · page 6

A further act in the Cessnock Shire Council's dispute was staged to-day. The location was the Police…

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Action Against Seamen Big Industrial War Feared Court's Decision Is Deferred Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 February 1925 · page 9

Mr. Justice Powers informed Mr. Dixon, K.C., for the Commonwealth Shipowners' Association, one of the applicants for the de-registration…

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Quarter Sessions. No. 1 COURT. (Before Judge Edwards.) Crown Prosecutor, Mr. L. J. McKean. Remanded for Sentence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 February 1925 · page 11

Robert George Colliver (30), halrdresser. pleaded guilty to assaulting Aubrey McCann at Camperdown on December 13, and robbing him of £3/5/, and was remanded for sentence…

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District Court. (Before his Honor, Judge Scholes.) Workmen's Compensation Act. Stamp v British Australian Lead Manufacturers' Propty., Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 February 1925 · page 11

In an arbitration under the provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act, the widow of the into Reginald Stamp, Mrs. Ellen Louisa Stump, of Apsley, Rosedale-crescent, Croydon…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 February 1925 · page 6

Queen's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate, at 10 a.m.—For hearing: Milcoy v Frankerburgh, Minister v Sargeant (3 cases), McEvoy v same (3 cases), Minister v Fenwick, McEvoy v same…

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Hospital Attendant's Theft

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 February 1925 · page 6

Charles Clarence Green was sentenced to six months' imprisonment on a charge of having stolen clothing to the value of £8, the property of the Public Trustee, when he appeared at the Central Police…

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Two Housebreakers Convicted and Sentenced

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 February 1925 · page 3

At the Quarter Sessions yesterday, Sidney Charles Russell (26). laborer, and Walter Joseph Harrison (26), laborer, were convicted of breaking and…

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The Worst Gaol for Food Long Bay Prison Expert Evidence in Court

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 February 1925 · page 1

The worst gaol in the State for food is Long Bay. That is the option of Charles Turner, who apparently knows all about it…

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Police Changes

Evening News · Thursday 5 February 1925 · page 9

Inspector Leary, who has been for many years in the Criminal Investigation Branch. Police Headquarters. to-day took charge of No. 2 police…

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Police Hospital Carnival

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 February 1925 · page 12

Entries for the police hospital carnival, under the control of the N.S.W. Amateur Athletic Association, to be held at the Agricultural Ground, Moore Park, on February 28, will close with the hon. race…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 February 1925 · page 6

Before his Honor Judge Scholes, in No. 1 Court.—At 10 a.m.: Thorby and others v Riley (part heard); Riley v Campbell and others (part heard); McGirr and another v Horton, Chandler v McDowell, Mahon…

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First German Jew Convicted of Murder

The Australian Jewish Chronicle · Thursday 5 February 1925 · page 5

Samuel Loewinsohn, who was sentenced to death in Berlin last June for the murder of Mrs. Fanny Foerster, the wife of his…

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A Dead Man's Clothes Mean Theft at Little Bay

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 February 1925 · page 5

"This case oftheft seems to be a most despicable one; we will have to teach you a lesson," said Mr. McMahon, S.M., at the Central Police…

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Should Not Be in Gaol Mentally Deficient Prisoners Goulburn

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 February 1925 · page 9

"There are numbers of persons detained in our gaols who ought not to be there because they are mentally deficient," declared Judge…

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Melb. Police Chief Commission's Crticism MELBOURNE

Evening News · Thursday 5 February 1925 · page 10

Mr. Nicholson, Chief Commissioner of police to-day refused to comment upon the police commission's ending untill he had read the report He said he…

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Police Strikers No Reinstatement Commissioner Censured Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 February 1925 · page 2

In the report of the Royal Commissioners who inquired into the matters concerned with the [?] Nicholson. Chief Commissioner of…

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