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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1925

8,831 stories in Sydney's papers · page 78 of 250

"General X" Name Mentioned in Court a Woman's Claim London, March 4

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 1

The court was crowded by fashionably-dressed women, including some of high society, at the resumed Hearing of Mrs. Dorothy…

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Seamen's Union. Injunction Sought. Shipping Board's Application. Issues Before Court. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 9

A notice of motion taken out by the Australian Shipping Board, asking for an injunction to restrain the Federated Seamen's Union of Australasia and certain of its members…

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Seamen and Owners High Court Case Union Unrepresented to Be Heard To-day Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 1

MR. JUSTICE STARKE in the High Court to-day, was overruled by his brother judges (Sir Adrian Knox and Mr. Justice…

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Quarter Sessions. No. 1 Court. (Before Judge Scholes.) Crown Prosecutor, Mr. L. J. McKean. LARCENY

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

John Allen pleaded guilty to a charge of Stealing a pair of field glasses, the property of Alfred Saunders, at Sydney, on August 2, and was remanded for sentence…

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NO. 2 Full Court. (Before Mr. Justice Gordon, Mr. Justice Ferguson, and Mr. Justice James). Disputed Responsibility

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

William Adams and Coy., Ltd., v Symonds. This was an appeal by the defendant in an action tried before Mr. Justice Campbell and a jury at Darlinghurst in September last…

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Law Report. Full Court. (Before Mr. Justice Gordon, Mr. Justice Campbell, and Mr. Justice Long-Innes). Dental Board Challenged. Ex parte Couch, re the Dental Board

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

An application was made on behalf of Henry Lane Couch, a dentist, of Sydney, for a decree nisi, calling upon the members of the Dental Board of New South Wales, and James…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 14

Queen's-square, before the Chief Industrial Magistrate. —At 10 a.m.: For hearing—Metropolitan Board of Water Supply and Sewerage Employees' Association v Acton, same v Harris, same v Dent, same v Taylor,…

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Theft of Gloves

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 9

Francis Norman Beck (48), pianist, was sentenced, at the Central police Court yesterday, to six months' imprisonment for having stolen a doven…

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Fourteen Days' Gaol

The Labor Daily · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 1

The Mount Kembla Collieries Company is having its cruel and wicked way with the minors who have valiantly striven for better conditions at the colliery. Forty-two of the recalcitrant miners pleaded guilty before Judge Rolin to a charge of aiding an illegal strike. Judge Rolin, having hectored…

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Out on Bond Assault Charge Follows

The Sun · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 5

"On the question of ball, the defendant was convicted yesterday, and is now on a bond of £60 to appear at the Sessions appeals on April 1; he…

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Springwood Police Station

Nepean Times · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 4

The Hon. J. C. L. Fitzpatrick has received the following communication from the Inspector-General of Police in reply to representations made by…

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Police Enter Club

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 11

Police visited the Musicians' Club, Castlereaph Street, last night. No arrests were made, but a number of names were taken…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 14

Before his Honor Judge Mocatta.—In No. 1 Court.— At 10 a.m.—In the matter of the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1910, and in the matters of the arbitrations between Ruby Lillian Wall and E. J…

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Industrial, Arbitration Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 14

Industrial Courthouse Queen's-square.—Before His Honor Judge Rolin.—For Hearing.—No. 2 Court.h At 12 noon: Re Mount Kembla Collieries, Limited, versus Stafford and five others, summons to show…

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"A Murder for a Million" (Roy Vickera)

The World's News · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 14

As readers of those outstandingly powerful romances, "The Mystery of the Scented Death" and "Ishmael's Wife," will hardly need to be told, there are few living writers…

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Woman Causes Court Scene

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 14

A woman, who admitted under cross examination that she had many convictions against her for minor offences, caused a commotion at the Central Police Court on Thursday afternoon when her husband was…

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Land and Valuation Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 14

Before Mr. Justice Pike.—Chancery-square.—At 10 a.m. —For hearing; Brown and Brown, Ltd., v The Municipal Council of Sydney…

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Murder in Russia. Religious Fanaticism. London, March 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 17

The trial has opened at Moscow of certain members of an extraordinary religious sect, recently founded in the province of Volhynia. Owing to persecution of the Church the…

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Secret Sects Soviet Alarmed Murder Societies London, March 5

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 1

The "Morning Post's" Moscow correspondent reports that the trial has opened in connection with an extraordinary religious sect…

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Trouble at the Gate About a Mulgoa Cow. Cause of an Assault Case

Nepean Times · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 1

Some trouble among Mulgoa folk concerning a cow led to a case which was heard at Penrith Police Court on Monday morning, when…

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