SYDNEY SENSATIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 69, 29 March 1913, Page 5

SYDNEY SENSATIONS.

IN THE CRIMINAL COURTS.

JUDGE’S SIGNIFICANT WORDS. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.' (United Press Association.) Sydney, March 28. Frank Lloyd was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment in connection with the Williams Amusement Company share® case. Judge Backhouse declined to treat him as a first offender, but he did not think Lloyd would serve the whole sentence. He added: “I know that in cases of this class the actual punishment very often falls on innocent persons. It is that fact which makes me almost hate coming into this Court.” “SNOWY” FULTON’S DEATH. MAN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. Sydney, March 28. Buttell lu\s been committed for trial on the charge of murdering “Snowy” Fulton in December last.

Charles Nicoll, who was arrested on March 24 on the charge of being concerned in Fulton’s death, has been discharged from custody. A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. ' WOMAN CHARGED WITH MURDER. Sydney, March 28. Mrs Gordon has been committed for trial on a charge of murdering her brother-in-law, Frank Gordon. The evidence showed that the couple had lived together as man and wife, and were constantly drinking and quarrelling. .At the time of the tragedy both were partially drunk. [Gordon, who was lodging with his sister-in-law, quarrelled with her and went to move his belongings. After an altercation, when Gordon was bending down, the woman snatched a razor and inflicted a fatal wound on his throat.]