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Courts & crime, 1925

8,831 stories in Sydney's papers · page 83 of 250

Who Killed William Bent? Popular Youth's Murder Jealousy Hinted Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 1

AN arrest in connection with the murder of the youth, William Wallace Bent (18), who died from gunshot wounds received on…

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No Election Canterbury Council Full Court Decides

Evening News · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 10

On January 27 last Ald. H. R. Lovejoy resigned from the Canterbury Municipal Council, and his resignation was accepted. An…

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Law Notices. Tuesday, March 10. Supreme Court

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

Term List.—In the Banco Court.—At 10 a.m.: Motion, ex parte Couch, re the Dental Board of New South Wales and anor, (part heard). New trial motion Peterson v Municipal Council of Mosman, New trial…

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Canterbury Council Extraordinary Vacancy Full Court Application

The Sun · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 6

On January 27 last Alderman Harold Redman Lovejoy resigned from the municipality of Canterbury, and to-day James Augustus Wilson. a…

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Law Notices Tuesday, March 10. Supreme Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 7

TERM LIST. -- (In the Banco court.) At 10 a.m,; Motion, or parte Couch, re the Dental Board of N.S.W. and another (part heard) new trial motion, Peterson v. Municipal Council…

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Arrest in Surf Thrice Chased by Police Acquittal Ordered

The Sun · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 9

How a man, as he walked in his wet garments from the surf at Cronulla, was arrested at revolver-point by Sergeant Small was told at the…

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Industrial Court. (Before Judge Rolin.) Alleged Illlegal Strike

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

The Mount Komb[?]a Collieries, Ltd., proceeded against 106 miners and others, calling upon them to show cause why they should not be deemed guilty of a default of public…

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

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

Thomas Bath (44), felt batter, formerly treasurer for the New South Wales branch of the Felt Hatting Employees' Union of Australasia, who had been convicted as an…

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District Court. (Before Judge Mocatta.) WALL v HALLSTROM

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

The hearing of this matter was concluded, and judgment reserved…

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Fining of Mr. Walsh High Court Appeal Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 5

Mr. Justice Starke, in Chambers today, granted an order nisi, returnable before the High Court, to review a decision of petty sessions fining Mr…

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Ex-mayor in Court Charge of Larceny Fails CESSNOCK

The Sun · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 6

The case of John Brown, administrator of the Cessnock Shire, against the former president, James Robert Scott, for the larceny of council…

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Colliery Strikers. Judge Rolin's Sentence. Prohibition Sought. Case Before Full Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 9

Recent proceedings in the State Industrial Arbitration Court, in which his Honor Judge Holin ordered the imprisonment of 24 miners for fourteen days for an alleged…

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Indignation Spreads Gaoling of Kembla Miners Full Court to Hear Case Dead Man Called to Appear

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 5

INDIGNATION IS SPREADING like a bush fire among miners, at the action of Judge Rolin in sentencing some of their comrades at the Port Kembla Mine to gaol. for an alleged illegal strike. LODGES EVERYWHERE see no difference between this action…

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Law Report. Full Court. (Before the Chief Justice, and Mr. Justice Gordon and Mr. Justice James.) MUNRO v DUNN

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

Argument was concluded in this appeal, and the Court reserved judgment DENTAL BOARD CHALLLENGED. Ex parte Couch, re the Dental Board…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 March 1925 · page 12

Queen's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial M[?]trate, at 10 a.m.—For hearing; Rosenberg v Rashoreak (part heard); George v Love; Atkin v L. R. Hind and Co., Ltd., the New South Wales…

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Father in Gaol on Murder Charge Care of His Children

Evening News · Wednesday 11 March 1925 · page 8

The custody of the four children of Lyle Samuel Withers, of Kingstown, who is under committal on a charge of murder, was…

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Police Follow Clues Lilydale Murder a Missing Man Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 11 March 1925 · page 1

FOLLOWING on investigations in the city this morning. Detectives Davey and Nadin, who are in charge of the Lilydale…

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Lilydale Murder. Man Disappears. Police Theory of Crime. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 March 1925 · page 16

The investigations of the detectives regarding the death of William Wallace Bent, who was discovered fatally shot through the head in a street at Lilydale early on…

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Heavy Fines Convictions for Assault

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 11 March 1925 · page 6

John Cuneen and James Condy, at the Paddington Police Court yesterday, were each convicted of assaulting George O'Dwyer and William Cherry…

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