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Courts & crime, 1929

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Police Worried House Entered and Woman Robbed Melbourne

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 29 July 1929 · page 1

The police chiefs are worried, owing to their inability to apprehend the Melbourne "lone-hand bandit," who is nightly making successful raids on…

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Police Worried House Entered and Woman Robbed Melbourne, Sunday Night

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 July 1929 · page 2

The police chiefs are worried owing to their inability to apprehend the Melbourne "lone hand bandit," who is nightly making successful raids on…

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Timber Dispute Demonstration Against Workers Averted by Police Ruse Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 July 1929 · page 2

What was designed to be a monster demonstration against volunteer timber workers came to an inglorious conclusion on Saturday morning because…

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Vagrant Sentenced

The Daily Express · Tuesday 30 July 1929 · page 2

At Wagga police court yesterday, John Morgan Ward who said he was a gardener and that he came from Wales, was sentenced to four months…

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Disputed Ownership Charge of Stealing Motor Cycle Dismissed

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 July 1929 · page 6

The disputed ownership of a motor cycle was responsible for the appearance in the Wagga Police Court yesterday of Leonard William Christian,…

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Leeton District Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 30 July 1929 · page 3

From the list, of actions for trial at the district court, this week, commencing at 2 p.m. today, before Judge Coyle, we omitted the slander…

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Police Superintendent Appeals Against Transfer Sydney

The Daily Express · Tuesday 30 July 1929 · page 2

Superintendent Spier, of the Metropolitan Police Force, who had been appointed to replace Superintendent Leary in charge of Bathurst District…

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Communists in Servia Fight with Police Belgrade, July 28

The Daily Express · Tuesday 30 July 1929 · page 1

As a precaution against a Comniunist rising planned throughout Europe for August 1, the police surrounded a secret meeting of the red…

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Babcock and Wilcox High Court Appeal Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 July 1929 · page 2

Babcock and Wilcox Ltd., who were fined £1000 and ordered to pay £10,600 to the Sydney City Council for having given a secret…

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Cyaniders Red-handed Police Chase for Elusive Big Red Car Elaborate Camp in the Hills of Humula Huntsmen Return to Find Toe Police in Possession

The Daily Express · Tuesday 30 July 1929 · page 1

After weeks of strenuous searching which invoved camping out in the bush on fourteen cold winter nights, Plain Clothes Constable J. V…

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Municipal Valuation Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 July 1929 · page 4

The Municipal valuations Appeal Court was held at the Wagga Court House before Mr. D. F. Parker, P.M., yesterday. Messrs. R. Emblen, town…

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Verdict of Murder London Exhumations London, July 29

The Daily Express · Wednesday 31 July 1929 · page 1

A verdict of murder against some person or persons unknown was the verdict of the Coroner's Jury at the conclusion of the inquest in…

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Communists Paris Guarded 22,000 Police and Troops Paris, July 29

The Daily Express · Wednesday 31 July 1929 · page 1

The authorities are leaving nothing to chance, so far as Thursday’s Comm[?] demonstrations are concerned, mustering 22,000 police…

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Federal Court and Rural Workers A.W.U. to Approach Acting Premier Sydney

The Daily Express · Wednesday 31 July 1929 · page 1

A meeting of the A.W.U. to-day decided to send a deputation to interview the Acting Premier, Mr. Buttenshaw, with a request that the…

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Rural Workers Access to Arbitration Court Appeal to Government Not to Break Solemn Pledge SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 July 1929 · page 4

A meeting of the A.W.U. to-day decided to send a deputation to interview the Acting Premier, Mr. Bulten-shaw, and request the…

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Theft of Jewellery

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 1 August 1929 · page 4

At the Hillston Police Court on Wednesday, 25th July, before Messrs A. L. Wellisch and C. H. Ranken, Js.P., Henry Joseph Walden, John…

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Injured in Gaol

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 August 1929 · page 4

While assisting is a tinsmiths shop in the Goulburn gaol, where he is undergoing a life sentence for the murder of his wife, Alister Jenner Clark…

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Thief Sentenced 32 Charges Withdrawn Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 August 1929 · page 4

At the North Sydney Police Court to-day, Harold Shower, aged 21 years was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for stealing. One other stealing…

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Doctor Charged Attempted Fraud Alleged Remarkable Evidence

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 August 1929 · page 6

Remarkable evidence of alleged false statements in connection with a man's death and of frauds on insurance companies, involving the creation of…

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Wife Ran Husband Charged with Shooting Sydney

The Daily Express · Thursday 1 August 1929 · page 3

Robert Leslie Bewick, 49, was charged at Paddington Poilec Court to-day with having maliciously shot at his wife, Muriel Bewick, with…

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