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Courts & crime, 1927

9,449 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 250

Up the Spine How Sound Travels a Court-yard Test

The Sun · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 16

Some of the mysteries of the human car and its defects, were revealed at the Water Police Court this morning when John Archibald Mackillop, of…

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A.r.u. Men Suffer Disadvantages Non-unionists Benefit Court Contentions Variation Is Sought

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 3

THAT New South Wales rail men were suffering many disadvantages compared with their fellows in other States, was the contention made…

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Law Report. Federal Arbitration Court. (Before Deputy President Sir John Quick.) Australian Railways Union v Victorian Railway Commissioners and Others

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 8

Application was made by the Australian Railways Union in respect of variation of the consent award, and other matters. Messrs. R. B. Keane and E. A. Chapman…

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Domain Baths Theft Laborer Sentenced

Evening News · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 7

ALFRED RUPERT WILLETT, 29, laborer, pleaded guilty at the Cental Court to-day to a charge of having stolen £37 belonging to John…

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Damaged Meat Cargo. Decision of Police Court

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 3

It is not often that police courts are concerned with matters of any Importance to marina underwriters, but recently the West Hum Police Court had…

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Solicitor Sentenced Goulburn

The Sun · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 2

Edward John Roach, formerly a solicitor at Braidwood, pleaded guilty to a charge of fraudulently appropriating trust funds totalling £717 5s 10d, the property of Walter…

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Push Blamed Assault and Robbery

The Sun · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 14

The police are looking for several men believed to have been concerned in assaults and robberies on Saturday night…

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Quarter Sessions. No. 1 COURT. (Before Judge Cohen.) Crown Prosecutor, Mr. Neil MeTague. ASSAULT

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 10

Lancelot McGregor Saidler, 19, labourer, and Cyril Leslie Williams, l8, clerk, were charged with assaulting Allan Dixon at Bondi on December 26, and robbing him of a…

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Hotel Murder Was Premeditated S.A. Police Have Clue Detained Man Released Adelaide

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 1

IN connection with the murder at the Grosvenor of John Richard Hindmarsh detectives are following important clues which…

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Tinsmith Charged. Shooting Affray in Pawnshop

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 11

Gledall Edwin Wallings, aged 36 years, described as a tinsmith, appeared at the Central Police Court yesterday to answer a charge of having assaulted Michael…

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Police Seek Brother

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 3

George Street North (Sydney) police would like P. J. Fahey to communicate with them. His brother, Michael Fahey, was seriously injured in Wallsend…

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Solicitor Charged "It Means Ruination !" TOOWOOMBA

The Sun · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 7

Henry' Ernest Bridgman, a well-known Toowoomba solicitor, was arrested this morning on a charge of stealing £61, and later appeared in…

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Adelaide Tragedy Mystery Murder ADELAIDE

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 9

Detectives are still investigating the tragedy which occurred at the Grosvenor Hotel during the week-end, which resulted in the death of John…

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Hotel Murder. Still a Mystery. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 16

Mystery slill surrounds the death of John Robert Hindmarsh, 35, manager of Budgen's Jewellery establishment, whose body was fouud in a room at the Grosvenor Hotel on…

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Not Guilty Merrett Murder Trial London

The Sun · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 8

The jury in the trial of John Merrett, 19, charged with the murder of his mother found him not guilty of murder, but said he was guilty of…

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"Gifts" to the Police Adelaide

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 4

A witness at the Bribery Commission to-day said he was employed by Dick Williamson, a well-known Adelaide bookmaker. His principal…

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Mother Shot Son Faces Charge Murder Not Proven London

Evening News · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 1

AN Edinburgh jury to-day found the charge against John Donald Merrett, of having murdered his mother, not proven…

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Two Years with a Flogging Assault on Detective Judge Shows No Mercy. Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 1

Two years' imprisonment with a flogging of fifteen strokes was the sentence imposed to-day on Montford Jones, 21, who was convicted…

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Was There Murder? Hobart Mystery Man's Body in Water Hobart

The Sun · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 2

Lionel Ernest Schultz, 25, laborer, who has been in the habit of taking walks along the foreshore of the river Derwent, did not return home on…

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Banking Merger. Application to Court. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 16

The Bank of Victoria, Limited, applied to the Chief Justice (Sir William Irvine), in the Practice Court to-day, for an order that the arrangement referred to in the order dated…

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