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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1930

3,023 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 8 of 152

Charges Against Police Attacked Without Provocation?

Tweed Daily · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--There has been much complaint against the action of the police in attacking suddenly and, it is said, without…

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"Brutal Conduct of Police" Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 7

At the conclusion of a special meeting of the Miners' Federation in Sydney to-day a statement was issued attacking "the conduct and brutality…

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Food Orders Refused Police Fend for Themselves

Tweed Daily · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--Cessnock police to-day refused Government food orders to about 50 men who took part in recent mass picketing. The names…

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High Court Case Addresses by Counsel

Tweed Daily · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Addressing the High Court to-day in the application of the mine owners to restrain Judge Beeby from acting on his…

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Clash with Guns Police and Bandits CHICAGO

Northern Star · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 7

Two bandits and one detective were killed when a police squad was summoned by a secret electric signal to a fashionable flat occupied by a rich…

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Chicago Bandits Killed Shot It Out With Police

Tweed Daily · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 3

CHICAGO, Tuesday.--Two bandits and one detective were killed when a police squad was summoned by a secret electric signal to a…

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"Secret Society" Youth's Statement Police Mystified Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 6

The police are mystified by a statement that was made by a youth some time before ho was found dead with a bullet wound through his heart at…

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Beeby Award High Court Appeal MELBOURNE

Northern Star · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 6

Addressing the High Court to-day in the application of the mine owners to restrain Judge B[?]eby from acting on his interim award in the coal industry,…

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Terrible Wounds Woman Found in Street Wouldn't Tell Police

Tweed Daily · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--In a street at Darlinghurst last night, a constable found a woman, who gave her name as Mrs. Doris Kent (31), bleeding from…

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Police Disperse Mobs Eighty Miners Injured Pickets Flee Before Batons Mass Picketing Law Enforced

Tweed Daily · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--A mob of 2,500 men who marched from Cessnock to Abermain No. 2 colliery was broken up by a baton charge by 100 police, acting under the Government's scheme of action to enforce the Mass Picketing…

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Police and Miners Clash on Coalfields; 18 Men Iniured Lloyd George "Loss of Confidence" Party Funds Strong Criticism LONDON

Northern Star · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 7

Viscount Grey was re-elected president at the annual meeting of the Libcral Council. He declared that the founders of it felt that…

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Motor Cycle Fatality. Police Court Charges

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 2

At the Casino police court on Tuesday before Mr. E. A. Chapman P.M. there was a further sequel to the motor cycle smash on the Kyogle Road…

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Assault and Language

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 2

At the police court on Tuesday before Messrs. Connor and Vincent, J'sP. Leo Ebzery was charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct, using…

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Rough on the Police

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 2

The domestic staffs of several Kurri and Cessnock hotels have determined to starve the policemen boarders out. Until Wednesday the domestics…

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Crime Increase. Police Figures

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 4

Sydney, Friday.--The police figures show a slight increase in crime for 1929 compared with the proceeding year…

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Wireless Equipment? Police Car and Collieries

Tweed Daily · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.--It is probable that a car equipped with wireless will be added to the police patrol cars at present in use on the coalfields. This…

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Police Defended "No Other Course Possible"

Tweed Daily · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.--The Chief Secretary ((Mr. Chaffey) denied to-day that the police, without warning, had swooped down and violently…

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Police Action Minister's Defence SYDNEY

Northern Star · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 7

The Chief Secretary (Mr. Chaffey) denied to-day that the police, without warning, had swooped down and violently attacked masses of men who…

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Police Proposal Wireless Equipment SYDNEY

Northern Star · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 7

It is probable that a ear equipped with wireless will be added to the police patrol cars at present in use on the coalfields. This will enable…

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"Withdraw Police" Deputation's Request SYDNEY

Northern Star · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 7

A deputation of clergymen, business people and mining officials waited on Superintendent Beattie at Rothbury last night and asked…

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