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Courts & crime, 1926

8,105 stories in Sydney's papers · page 48 of 250

Muswellbrook Court Too Speedy Motorists Muswellbrook

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 16 February 1926 · page 6

At the Police Court, before Mr. M Noll. P.M., several drivers of motorcars and cycles, found guilty of breaches of the regulation by…

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Murder a Rangoon Atrocity Two Victims Burmese Assassins Rob Dead Girl's Body

The Sun · Tuesday 16 February 1926 · page 10

Going to the assistance of a taxi-driver, a he had been attacked by four Burmese, near Rangoon, a European was fatally mounded. His companion, a Eurasian school teacher, was then dragged from the car by the ruffians, and murdered. The driver escaped…

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Two for Trial Betting Tickets What the Police Found

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 16 February 1926 · page 5

FURTHER evidence was taken at the Central Court yesterday in the case in which Valentine William Besom[?], 40. and Henry John Rober…

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Pranks Played by 'Buses Annoy Canterbury Complaint to Police

Evening News · Tuesday 16 February 1926 · page 10

SEVERAL complaints regarding motor 'bases plying within the municipality were voiced at Canterbury Council last night, and it…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 February 1926 · page 8

Crown Prosecutor, Mr. L. J. McKean. ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. Horace Ambrose Scholfield, 35, storeman, and William Thomas Donovan, 52, produce…

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Sequel to Police Raid Stiff Fines for Betting Bathurst

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 16 February 1926 · page 5

A sequel to a sensational raid on three alleged betting shops in Bathurst on Saturday afternoon by the police was heard at Bathurst Police Court…

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Test Case Dismissed by Full Court 44-Hours Appeal

The Sun · Tuesday 16 February 1926 · page 9

The appeal by John William Cowburn, fitter, of the Clyde Engineering Works, Ltd, in the 44-hour test case was unanimously dismissed by the…

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Husband Faces Murder Charge for Second Time Was Poison Given? Crowns Vivid Story Hobart

Evening News · Tuesday 16 February 1926 · page 7

TO STAND IN the dock for the second time on trial for the life was the experience of Alfred John Dobson, a yong Hobart…

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High Court Must Decide 44-Hours Validity Judges View Upheld

Evening News · Tuesday 16 February 1926 · page 1

THE FULL COURT to-day dismissed the appeal, with costs, brought by John William Cowburn from the decision of Mr…

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District Court. (Before Judge Cohen and Juries.) Motor Cars Collide. Rhodes v Cole

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 February 1926 · page 8

In this action William Henry Rhodes, of Lane Cove-road, Pymble, cream distributor, sued Froderick Percival Cole, of Kingsthorpe, Edward-street, Concord, commercial traveller,…

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Law Report. Full Court. (Before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Gordon, and Mr. Justice Ferguson.) Testing the 44-Hour Act

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 February 1926 · page 8

Cowburn v Clyde Engineering Co., Ltd. Mr. Justice Owen, by an order made in Chambers on Friday last, when an application was made for prohibition in respect of…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 February 1926 · page 10

Queen's square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate.—At 10 a.m.—For hearing: Minister v M. Browne, trading as The Commonwealth Manufacturing and Plating Co. (3 cases); Ogilvie v same…

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Industrial Magistrate's' Court. (Before Mr. G. C. Addison.) Theatrical Company Fined

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 February 1926 · page 10

The Chief Industrial Magistrate gave his reserved decision in the case in which the Australian Theatrical and Amusement Employees' Association proceeded against the…

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"Sun" Car Charge of Stealing

The Sun · Wednesday 17 February 1926 · page 2

Charged with stealing an Essex motor car, valued at £326, the property of "Sun" Newspapers, Ltd., on Sunday last, Keith Beaumont (28), a motor…

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Burglary Charges Two Men and a Woman

The Sun · Wednesday 17 February 1926 · page 10

At 1.20 a.m. to-day William Henry Morrison (29), laborer, Richard Johnson (29), laborer, and Elsie May Newman (33). a domestic, were arrested…

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Five Days State Servants' Week Wives, Gaol

The Sun · Wednesday 17 February 1926 · page 12

State public servants, by 36 votes to 17, at their conference to-day decided to ask the Government to cut out Saturday…

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Forgery Alleged Civil Servant Charged Adelaide

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 February 1926 · page 3

In the Criminal Court today Cecil Vivian Backhouse, 32, civil servant, employed in the Factories Department as Receiver of Revenue, pleaded not…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 February 1926 · page 10

Before his Honor Judge Cohen.—In No. 1 Court.—At 2 p.m.: Willie v the Municipal Council of Sydney; Wollenden v Wymer; Manning v Murray. Note: The list will be called over punctually at 2 p.m…

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[?] Get Typhoid in Goulburn Gaol Old Drains Opened

Evening News · Wednesday 17 February 1926 · page 9

GOULBURN, Wednesday, SINCE February [?] nine prisoners at Goulburn Gaol have contracted typhoid fever. All the…

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Death of Stewardess Inquiry Delayed Three Men Charged

The Sun · Wednesday 17 February 1926 · page 10

Owing to an alteration in the date fixed for the coroner's inquiry into the death of Caroline Ethel May Alexander, late stewardess on the s.s. Borda…

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