The Sydney Morning Herald, Thu 27 Feb 1908 1

LAW NOTICES.
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Thursday, February 27.

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SYDNEY QUARTER SESSIONS.

    Frederick Anderson, inflicting grievous bodily harm; Sydney Staples, indecent assault; James Burke, conspiracy.

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The Daily Telegraph, Fri 28 Feb 1908 2

QUARTER SESSIONS.
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(Before Judge Docker and juries.)

    Mr Herbert Harris prosecuted for the Crown.

PLEADED GUILTY.

    James Burke pleaded guilty to conspiring with another to cheat and defraund [sic] the Chief Commissioner for Railways, and was remanded for sentence.

    Sidney [aka Sydney] Staples pleaded guilty to a charge of indecent assault, [on Francis Joseph Wood, 4¾ years] and was remanded for sentence.

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The Sydney Morning Herald, Fri 28 Feb 1908 3

METROPOLITAN QUARTER SESSIONS.
(Before Judge Docker and jury.)

    Mr Herbert Harris, Crown Prosecutor.
…

PLEADED GUILTY.

…
    Sidney Staples, a youth, pleaded guilty to a charge of indecent assault.

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The Daily Telegraph, Sat 29 Feb 1908 4

QUARTER SESSIONS.
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(Before Judge Docker and juries.)

    Mr H Harris prosecuted for the Crown.

SENTENCES.

    Sidney Staples, a young man, who pleaded guilty to a charge of indecent assault, was sentenced to imprisonment for 12 months, the sentence being suspended under the provisions of the first offenders’ section of the Crimes Act.

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The Sydney Morning Herald, Sat 29 Feb 1908 5

METROPOLITAN QUARTER SESSIONS.
(Before Judge Docker and juries.)

    Mr Herbert Harris prosecuted for the Crown.

SENTENCES.

    Sidney Staples, a youth, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of indecent assault, was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment, but the sentence was suspended under the provisions of the first offenders’ portion of the Crimes Act, on recognisances being entered into in £50, to be of good behaviour for 12 months.

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Sidney Staples, Gaol photo sheet 6

SRNSW: NRS2138, [3/6072], Darlinghurst Gaol photographic description book, 1907-1909, No. 10580, p. 306, R5112.


Gaol Photo Sheet - Transcribed Details

No. 10580

Date when Portrait was taken: 27-2-1908

Name: Sidney Staples

Native place: Port Macquarie

Year of birth: 30 August 1891

Arrived       Ship: BS
in Colony }   Year:

Trade or occupation
previous to conviction  } Milk-boy

Religion: Presbyterian

Education, degree of: R & W

Height: 5' 1⅛"

Weight     On committal: 106
in lbs     } On discharge:

Colour of hair: Brown

Colour of eyes: Hazel

Marks or special features: Misses one tooth lower jaw. Two fait hearts and several faint tattoo marks outside left forearm. Ring on left middle finger flag on front edge of right forearm. Tattoo spot junction of right thumb. Two large indented scars on left shin. Round scar outside left calf long scar inside right kneecap

(No. of previous Portrait ... ) 

CONVICTIONS
Where and When Offence. Sentence

Sydney Q.S

27

2

1908

Indecent assault on a male person

12 months H.L.
Sentence suspended under Crimes 
Act on entering into a recognizance
self in £50 with one surety in £50 to
be of good behaviour for 12 months.

Recognizance entered into in
Court & discharged 28:2:1908

 

1     The Sydney Morning Herald, Thu 27 Feb 1908, p. 4. Emphasis added.

2     The Daily Telegraph, Fri 28 Feb 1908, p. 4. Emphasis added.

3     The Sydney Morning Herald, Fri 28 Feb 1908, p. 7.

4     The Daily Telegraph, Sat 29 Feb 1908, p. 18.

5     The Sydney Morning Herald, Sat 29 Feb 1908, p. 10.

6     SRNSW: NRS2138, [3/6072], Darlinghurst Gaol photographic description book, 1907-1909, No. 10580, p. 306, R5112.

 

Indecent Assault