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Courts & crime, 1920

6,028 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 250

Irish Problem Barracks Blown Up Police Sergeant Gassed LONDON, Sunday Night

The Sun · Monday 5 January 1920 · page 1

Raiders blow up the police barracks at Carrigtohill, Cork. The resident sergeant and his family were gassed…

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Police and Union. a Delicate Position. (From Our Special Representative.) Darwin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1920 · page 6

The latest body of Public servants in the Territory to seek to join the almost all-embracing and all-powerful A.W.U., which already includes the railwaymen, the clerical division,…

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Detective's Dash Two Carters Charged Gaol for Theft from Wharf

Evening News · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 5

Two carters, Thomas James Andrews, 12, and William O'Connor, 24, were charged at the Central Police Court with stealing matches, pickles, and Woreceate…

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Boys From Melbourne Charged with Stealing

Evening News · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 1

George Robertson, 17, and Horace Jackson, 16, appeared before Mr. Adrian at the Central Police Court this morning on a charge of breaking and entering the…

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Man and Wife Charged with Stealing

Evening News · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 4

Angus Henry M'Kenzie, 29, and Violet M'Kenale, his wife, were at Newtown Police Court this morning both committed for trial on a charge of breaking and…

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Suicide in Gaol

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 8

A prisoner named Dora Maisie Gibson committed suicide in her cell at the Women's Reformatory, Long Bay, early last night. About 5 o'clock the deceased was found…

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Police Pay

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 4

To a correspondent, Crook well.--Members of the police force are not covered by the Government's decision to pay the 17s a week increase in the living wage to State employees…

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Child Ill-treated Mother Sent to Gaol Broken Hill

Evening News · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 4

In the police court Margaret Gardener, a single woman, was sentenced to six months' gaol for assaulting her two-year-old don…

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Dangerous Patients Police Supervision in Hospital

The Sun · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 4

One of the difficulties of administration of the wards during the past few years, the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital authorities point out, has been the…

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ATHLETICS Improved Form Features of Police Sports

Evening News · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 3

The Police Amateur Athletic Club held eight handicaps on Saturday, and considerable improvement in all branches of athletics, since the club was reformed on…

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Law Notices. Tuesday, January 6. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 5

Chamber List.—Before Mr. Justice Pring in Chambers.—At 1[?] a.m.: Maxwell v Gagliardi, to enter action in list of commercial causes. INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION COURT…

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Bank Officers' Claims. Taken to Arbitration Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 5

The delegates of the various bank officers' associations, who have been sitting in Melbourne under the chairmanship of Mr. Sydney Smith, president of the Australian Bank…

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While Duck Shooting Suspected Murder in W.A. Farmer Arrested Perth

The Sun · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 2

Robert Bismarck Pahl, a farmer, of Harvey River, in the Lake Clifton district, was arrested on Saturday morning on a charge of having wilfully…

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Sinn Fein Raids. Police Barracks Stormed. London, Jan. 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 7

Sensational details are published of a Sinn Fein outrage at Carrigtohill, County Cork, where raiders blow up the police barracks, gassed the occupants, and stole £65…

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Irish Raids Attacks on Police The Fight at Carrigtohill LONDON, January 4

The Sun · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 1

The correspondent of "The Times" at Cork States that 300 raiders were concerned in the attack on the Carrigtohill police station. They first…

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Hope for Dairymen. Offer of 15- Per Week Increase. Employers Application to Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 4

There is hope that the threatened strike of dairy employees next Friday night, of Which 14 days' notice has been given to the Department of Labor and Industry, may be settled…

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The Dark Avenue a Story of Murder and Mystery, by Fergus Hume. the Seventeenth Instalment (Continued form the Last issue)

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 8

"There is no proof of —" "I don't care. jones is guilty." Nothing could move doris form hold…

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Bone Dry No "Near-beer" for U.S. Court's Fateful Decision VANCOUVER, January 5

The Sun · Tuesday 6 January 1920 · page 1

The brewers received a terrific shock when the United States Supreme Court upheld the most vital section of the Volsted Enforcement Law, and…

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Parramatta Police Court Wednesday, December 24, 1919

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 7 January 1920 · page 1

(Before Mr. C. H. Gale, S.M.) William Scott was fined 5s (the amount on his bail bond) for drunkenness. James Ritchie was similarly dealt with,…

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Slashed with Razor Fireman Sent to Gaol

Evening News · Wednesday 7 January 1920 · page 5

Before Mr. Adrian at the Central Police Court this morning. John Joseph Nicholson, 31, a fireman, was charged with having maliciously wounded Thomas Gerald…

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