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Courts & crime, 1927

9,449 stories in Sydney's papers · page 60 of 250

Wartime Profits Act. Appeal to Full Court. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 March 1927 · page 12

To-day the Full Court of the High Court commenced the hearing of an appeal by Messrs. Sharp, Steven a and Hare Pty., Ltd., against an assessment by the Federal…

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Young Bride Assaulted Knocked Out on Wedding Night Husband Lodged in Police Cell

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 1 March 1927 · page 3

Within six hours of their marriage, they parted. The bride, with a sore nose and black eye,—maybe with a broken heart also—went home to her parents. Within the Limited space of a police cell, the bridegroom spent his wedding…

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Pays for Fraud Doheny's Oil Leases Cancelled by Court Washington

Evening News · Tuesday 1 March 1927 · page 1

THE Supreme Court to-day upheld the decision of the Circuit Court, reached last April, cancelling the leases of the Elk Hills naval…

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Ocr Brisbane Letter. Mostly Solid Building Trades Men Arbitration Awards Court Criticised

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 1 March 1927 · page 6

Up to date the unions in the building trade that are on strike for the 40-hour week are standing [?]lid. One of the encouraging features of the light has been…

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District Court. (Before Judge Curlewis.) Roach and others v the Commonwealth of Australia. £500 VERDICT

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 March 1927 · page 5

Reserved Judgment was given in this case, in which Elizabeth Mary Roach, of Mount Keira, near Wollongong, widow, and Hazel Jessie Roach and Reginald Roach, of the same…

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Law Report. Full Court. (Before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Ferguson, and Mr. Justice Campbell.) Wire Netting Award. Rylands Bros. (Australia), Ltd., v Morgan and others

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 March 1927 · page 5

In this appeal by the plaintiffs in an Equity suit decided by Mr. Justice Long Innes, the question of the competence of a chairman of a conciliation committee established under…

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"Quick, Mummy Is Shot" Children Inform Police Husband Charged with Murder Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 1

Rushing into the North Melbourne Police Station late tonight, two young children informed the police that their mother had…

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Steamers Bump Captain Charged Court Is Lenient

Evening News · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 6

THE Commonwealth court of [?]…

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Bald=headed Hen Police Court Flutter

The Sun · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 16

A bald-headed Black Orpington hen and seven Brown Leghorn cockerels and pullets raised a flutter of protests when experts were handling them…

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Theft From Bedroom

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 6

Miss Ada Mafic, of Austenham Rd., Leichhardt, went to stay with friends at Melody Street. Randwick, on Monday night. While she was absent from…

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Chinese Charged. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 16

At the police court to-day March Hung, a Chinese, charged with assaulting Chang Chung was remanded for a week owing, it was stated by the police, to the serious nature…

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Assault and Robbery Rough Time at Pyrmont

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 6

James Loughrey, of Benelong Street, Neutral Bay, has informed the police that while he was walking along Banks Street, Pyrmont, on Monday…

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Shop Smashed Up Porter Sent to Gaol

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 5

George Keenan (31), porter, was sentenced, at the Central Police Court yesterday to three months' imprisonment, on a charge of having, on…

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£1000 Lost Bank Clerk Charged Judge a Shareholder

The Sun · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 2

When Arnold Pemberton Walker, a clerk in the Australian Bank of Commerce, was charged at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day with a theft of…

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Laborer's £73 Beaten Into Insensibility Rail Worker Charged

The Sun · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 20

At the Central Court to-day Walter James Singer (32), laborer, was charged before Mr. Longfield, S.M., with having assaulted James Baker on…

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Fair Rents Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 11

Charles Vincent Ringrose was paying £5 a week for the rent of a tobacco kiosk at 245 Pitt-street, city, and na the Fair Rents Court yesterday applied for a determination of the…

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Goldfields Murder Question of Reward PERTH

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 11

When the claim of Evan Clarke for the reward of £1000 offered for information regarding the Kalgoorlie police murders was called to-day an…

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Welcomed by Police Pickpockets Arrested

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 5

When the steamer Niagara, from New Zealand, had berthed yesterday two men, under suspicion, were seen to walk off the vessel. They were…

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Hindmarsh Murder Reward May Be Offered Adelaide

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 1

Mr. Jelly, Chief Secretary, said to-day that the question of offering a reward for the apprehension of the person who murdered John U. Hindmarsh on…

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Murder Charge Against Husband Melbourne Shooting Melbourne

Evening News · Wednesday 2 March 1927 · page 6

A CHANGE of murder was [?] against Arthur J. Kot[?] a Greek fishmonger, at the City Court to-day, following the…

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