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Courts & crime, 1924

9,738 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 250

Industrial Arbitration Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 6

Before the Deputy Industrial Registrar: 78 Elizabeth-street.—For settlement of minutes of Court's orders— At 10 a.m.: Re Ironworkers' Assistants, etc. (State), award. At 11 a.m.: Re Portmanteau Makers, etc…

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Escapes Gaol Bathurst Convict a Broken Trust BATHURST

Evening News · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 7

William Henry Holmes, 26, under sentence of 13 months for breaking and entering at Temworth, escaped from the Bathurst…

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Pymble's Fear Wants New Police Station

Evening News · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 8

On a recommendation by the President (Cr. Lockley), Kurin[?] Council last night decided to convene a public meeting to urge the building of a new…

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Murder and Suicide Queensland Tragedy Farm Hand Runt Amok

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 4

A message from the Cloncurry (Q.) district states that a sensational murder and suicide had occurred at Eddington station early on Saturday…

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Police in Glad Rags Leave Sad Trail

Evening News · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 7

The [?] with which[?] our p[?] can get out [?] and into evening [?]…

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Justice at Last Forty-four Awful Years Innocent of Murder

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 2

A remarkable instance of belated justice has just been revealed in Paris. After having suffered twenty-four year's imprisonment, and spent an…

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Burrinjuck Dam. Appeal to High Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 6

On behalf of the plaintiff in the suit arising out of the construction of Burrinjuck dam, of the Attorney-General, as informant on behalf of the Crown, against Thomas…

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Man Runs Amok Melbourne Sensation Fight with Police

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 4

In a sudden fit of insanity, said to be religious mania, a man named Arnold Morris, aged twenty-six years, of Kensington (Melbourne) fired a…

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Law Notices. Friday, January 4. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 6

Prothonotary's Office.—Before the Prothnotary—At 10.30 a.m.: Australasian Bag and Paper Co., Ltd., v Canberra Co-op. Society, Ltd. At 11 a.m.: Spain v Union Steamship Co., Ltd., to settle order…

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Society's Trip to Country Races Men in Court

Evening News · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 8

James Burne, [?] and Jack Hughes, 26, were charged at the Central Court to-day, Hughes with having obtained £16 from George Brown, at…

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Over a Woman Bottle v. Axe Story in Court

Evening News · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 8

A plead guilty under provo[?] declared En[?] Borrer (27), who was charged at Redfern Court with having behaved in a riotous…

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Police Court

Nepean Times · Saturday 5 January 1924 · page 2

At Penrith Polict Court on Monday, Florence Jane Sanisbury was charged that on 29th December she did behave in an indecent manner within…

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Stealing From Shops

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1924 · page 8

Denis Halladay (20) was sent to gaol for a month by the Newtown Court yesterday on a charge of stealing goods the property of William Docker and Co.,…

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Parramatta Police Court. Thursday, January 3

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 5 January 1924 · page 4

On the evening of December 14., Ernest Keel was observed by Traffic-sergeant Beer riding a bicycle along the Woodville-road, Guildford, without a light. It was…

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Alleged Theft of Motor Car

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1924 · page 9

The alleged unauthorised use of his employer's motor car led to the appearance before Mr. H. H. Chippendall, D.S.M., at the Ashfield Police Court yesterday, of Thomas…

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Another Redfern Case. Violent Mob Assault

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1924 · page 13

Another case of a policeman suffering injury at the hands of a mob occurred at Redfern last night, when Constable Jorgensen was attacked whilst attempting to arrest a man,…

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Taxi-driver Charged Woman's Bag Stolen

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1924 · page 9

Charged with having stolen a brief bag containing £85 in money, three cheques, two pairs of spectacles, and a number of receipts, the property of Agnes M'Mahon,…

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Back From Newcastle. Alleged Theft of Watches

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 5 January 1924 · page 1

[?] Flowers, who, is well-known in Parramatta, was charged on Thursday with [?] at New[?], on December 27 "number of [?] and other…

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Police-sergeant Retires

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1924 · page 5

Police-Sergeant Gill, of Corrimal, will retire from the force on…

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Safe Robbery. Theft of £100. George-street Premises

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1924 · page 13

By wrenching off the buck of a safe with jemmies early yesterday morning, thieves escaped from the premises of Eastway Bros., Ltd., in George-street, with over £100…

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