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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1925

8,831 stories in Sydney's papers · page 48 of 250

Sirdar's Murder Compensation Payments Arsenal at Cairo London, Wednesday Night

The Sun · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 1

In the House of Commons, Mr. Roland McNeill, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, explained that £40,000 compensation had been paid…

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A Reprimand Wallsend's Master Court's Verdict

The Labor Daily · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 8

"Seeing that the master had been called to the bridge 12 minutes before the grounding, the Court is satisfied to take the view…

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They Liked It Women in Court

The Sun · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 10

When the attention of Acting Judge Rowland was called to the presence of women in the court during the hearing of some unsavory evidence at the…

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Law Notices. Thursday, February 12. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 6

In Chambers.—Before Mr. Acting-Justice Ralston, in No. 1 Jury Court.—At 10 a.m.: Washorne v Scholz, for extension of time to plead. Before the Prothousotary, in the Prothonotary's Public Chambers.—…

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Air Disaster. the Croydon Smash Court's Finding. LONDON, Feb. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 9

The report ot the Court of Investigation of the Air Ministry into the Croydon aeroplane disaster says that no Air Ministry or Imperial Airways, Ltd., official was in anyway…

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Wife Shot a Bush Tragedy Husband Under Arrest Night Chase by Police

The Labor Daily · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 1

THE handful of people dwelling in the little village of Kingstown, near Uralla, were horrified on Tuesday evening to hear the…

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Why the Pope Has a Court. Ecclesiastical Splendor. Cardinal Answers Critics of the Church

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 9

Protestant criticism of Catholic ceremonial and ecclesiastical splendor was answered by the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster in a sermon a few weeks…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 6

Leslie Hall, for whom Mr. R. D. Meagher appeared, was charged with receiving six blankets, a quantity of silver goods, and other articles, well knowing that they had been…

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Court of Marine Inquiry. (Before his Honor Judge Scholes and Captains Vine-Hall and W. Newton, assessors.) Grounding of the Wallsend

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 6

An inquiry was held on a reference from the Superintendent of Navigation with regard to the grounding of the screw steamer Wallsend on December 15 last on a reef near…

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APPEALS. Assault on Police

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 4

Edmund and Albert Riley, who had been sentenced to three months' hard labor for assaulting the police at Clyde, appealed against that sentence…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 6

Queen's-[?]quare.—Before the Chief Magistrate. —At 10 a.m.—For hearing: Federated Clothing and Allied Trades Union v M. J. Brady (2 cases), same v Cecil Edwin Decent and David Storey Hutchison,…

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Quick Police Action Three Men Charged

The Sun · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 13

Wireless, as used by the police, played a loading part in the arrest of Leslie Valentino Campbell, Patrick Jackson, and Leslie Thomson, who…

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Baby Murder Alleged Single Woman Charged Gruesome Find in Train

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 1

Emily Hensworth, a young single woman, resident at Muswellbrook, was arrested there on Wednesday, shortly after the arrival of the…

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Assault on Child

The Sun · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 13

Sentence of three years' penal servitude was passed at the Darlighurst Sessions to-day on Arthur Oliver Lloyd, aged 29, tile pressor, who had…

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Gaol for Receiver

Evening News · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 7

Thomas Walsh, 22, was sentenced by Judge Edwards to 18 months' imprisonment on a charge of receiving…

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Solicitor Sent to Gaol

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 4

Three Years Hard Labor for Theft. A solicitor, named Lawrence James Prondergast, who pleaded guilty to the theft of £400 belonging to his clients…

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Girl From Warialda Callous Shearer Sentenced

The Sun · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 10

Convicted on a charge of having committed an assault on a girl of 15 years and 11 months at "Warlalda, Joseph Stephen Hogg, aged 32, shearer,…

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Police Entertainment

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 2

A committee has been formed from the police officers stationed at Granville, to make arrangements for a picture-show entertainment, to be held in the local theatre…

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"A Menace" Woman Sentenced "Not Morally Bad"

Evening News · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 1

"An obsolute [?] to the community." was [?] Mr. Coyle, Crown Prosecutor at the Quarter Sessions to-day desembed Vero in Bruce…

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Worth £4935 Stolen Motor Cars Electrician Charged

Evening News · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 7

Drury Small. 23. described as an electrician, was committed for trial by Mr. Giles Shaw, C S M from the Central Court this afternoon on…

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