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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1925

8,831 stories in Sydney's papers · page 76 of 250

Quarter Sessions. No. 1 COURT. (Before Judge Scholes.)

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

Crown Prosecutor, Mr. L. J. McKean. ASSAULT. Robert Edward Dunn (21), grocer's assistant, who was convicted the previous day of…

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"£100 for a Murder" Remarkable Story of Chinese Secret Society Smuggling Countrymen Into Australia

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 5

A Chinese society is operating in Sydney for the purpose of smuggling Chinese into Australia. A reward of £100 is offered to each man killing a Chinese "who divulges information to the Customs…

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Coalies Fail Employers Right to Pick Full Court Decides

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 8

The appeals were heard together on December 15 and 16 last. The Judgment delivered by Judge Rolin was concurred in by Judge…

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Petition Dismissed Spaniard as Co-respondent Denial in Divorce Court

The Sun · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 10

The contested suit of Charles Cooper against Alice Cooper (formerly Foy), on the ground of her misconduct with a Spaniard, Eliseo de la Gala, was…

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Shipping War. Casual Union Judge's Comment No Court Appearance MELBOURNE

Evening News · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 8

When the Australian Shipping Board's application for an injunction against the Seaman's Union came on before the High Court…

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Society Sensation General "X's" Identity Women Crowd Court London, Wednesday Night

The Sun · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 1

The hearing was continued to-day before Mr. Justice McCardie, in the King's Bench Division of the Supreme Court of the case in which Mrs…

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Industrial Court. (Before Judges Rolin, Curiewis, and Beeby.) Coal Trade. Reasons for a Decision

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

Reasons were given for a decision arrived at in December last in appeals by the Sydney Steam Colliers' Owners and Coal Stevedores' Association, McDonald, Hamilton, and Co., and…

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NO. 2 Full Court. (Before Mr. Justice Gord[?]n, Mr. Justice Ferguson, and Mr. Justice James.) HAWKINS v Norton, Smith, and Co

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

Argument was concluded in this appeal, and the Court reserved judgment. DISPUTED RESPONSIBILITY. William Adams and Coy., Ltd. v Symonds…

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Law Report. Full Court. (Before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Campbell, and Mr. Justice Long Innes.) Amendment Durino Trial. Ryan v Cohen

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

This was an appeal by the plaintiff in an action tried before Mr. Justice James in December last, in which Annie Mary Ryan sued Rachel Cohen on a claim for £100 on…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 6

Queen's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate, at 10 a.m.—For hearing: Australian Tramway Employees' Association v Railway Commissioners for N.S.W.; L. A. Carroll v W. Westbrook. At 11…

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Hyde Park Fight Brothers Sentenced Police Assaulted

The Labor Daily · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 5

"There go two of those scabby returned soldiers." Such was a remark passed in Hyde Park on February 25 last, which caused a whole heap of…

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Stealing Charge

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 7

Before Mr. G. H. Weller, J.P., at the Liverpool Police Court on February 26, Frank Lucas (50) was charged with stealing a quantity of clothing valued at £3,…

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Assault on Constables

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 10

The story of a struggle which occurred in Surry Hills on February 25, when two brothers resisted arrest and a surging crowd was kept back at the point of revolvers…

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Groom's Crime Three Years' Gaol

Evening News · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 1

"JAMES PEARCE, 28, groom, who pleaded guilty Qt Darlinghurst Sessions to a charge of indecent assault, was sentenced by Acting-Judge…

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Tilly Devine Screams in Court a Job for the Police

The Labor Daily · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 3

A remarkable scene followed on a sentence of six months imprisonment passed on James Devine. 33. by Mr. Laidlaw, S.M., at the Central Police…

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Kogarah Police Court. Wednesday, 4th March.(Before Mr. Longfield, S.M.)

The St George Call · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 2

John Robert Anderson was charged with, whilst under the influence of intoxicating liquor, driving a motor vehicle on Prince’s Highway, Rockdale, on…

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Sake Clerk's Confession. False Story of Assault

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 4

The bank clerk at Swan Hill (Via.), Trevor Thomson, who reported to the police last week that he had been assaulted by two men, who bound him…

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Police Queen Competition

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 4

Referring to a euchre party and dance promoted by the local police, on behalf of their queen competition, in lost issue, we inadvertently stated that the net…

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The Police "Station."

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 2

Photographs are published to-day of that unattractive possession of Lidcombe—the police station and lock-up. Despite the repeated protests by public men and…

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