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Courts & crime, 1924

9,738 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 250

KING Of the Rum-runners American Smuggler-Chief Caught in Mid-Ocean Police Find £13,000 in His Pockets

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 January 1924 · page 5

American newspapers recently published picturesque accounts of the seizure outside the three-miles limit, by the coast-guard cutter Seneca, of the…

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Special Constable Arrested Echo of the Melbourne Police Strike-Pretty English Girl in the Case Prisoner Faints on Central Station

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 January 1924 · page 7

A member of the special constabulary sworn in during the Melbourne police strike won arrested on the Melbourne express yester-morning. He was accompanied by a winsome English girl of…

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Jilted Lover Sues Farmer's Fickle Daughter Asks for '£200 to Balance His Outlay for Presents. Court Awards £50

Truth · Sunday 6 January 1924 · page 15

It doesn't happen very often that young men who have been jilted ask for compensation in cash to alleviate their pains and…

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Mixed-up Marriages Domestic Discord Resulting from Union of Similar Types—Law of Nature's Mischief as Mirrored in Divorce Court. Do Opposites Marry Happily?

Truth · Sunday 6 January 1924 · page 6

The following special article is written by a journalist of many years' standing in and around the Divorce Courts, and it an attempt to once again solve the eternal problem of domestic strife and discord…

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Eastway's Robbery Employee Charged

The Sun · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 9

"Twelve months ago he had eight charges against him in Melbourne in connection with safes. He was sent to a reformatory for 11 months…

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£1850 Lottery Ticket Lost, Then Found Police Court Proceedings

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 7

A lost art union ticket, bearing the winning number in the Katoomba Thousand lottery (No. 3 drawing), led to tho appearance on Saturday at the Central…

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Escapee From Gaol. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 10

Wm. Henry Holmes, 26 years of age, who escaped from the Bathurst Gaol grounds on Thursday afternoon, was before the Lithgow Bench this morning, having been arrested in…

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"SWANNIE" Charge of Theft at Eastways

Evening News · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 3

Breaking out of Eastway Mr.thers' shop in George-street, after stealing goods, a cash box, four postal notes, and [?] in…

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Fatal Quarrel Man Charged at Redfern

Evening News · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 6

Claude Gillett, 32, was charged at Redfern Court to-day with having feloniously slain Hubert Horan. Constable cummings, in applying for…

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Resisted Police Big Crowd Collects

Evening News · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 6

"When I arrested him, he became violent, and tried to throw me. A crowd of 800 collected, and urged him not to go, I appealed to several men…

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Notes and News Strengthening the Police

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 4

Mr. Oakes is taking the right course in bringing tho police force up to its proper strength. The assaults upon solitary policemen, doing their duty to…

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Child Lost "Kidnapped," Says Mother Police Discount Story

The Sun · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 9

Although a strange story of the kidnapping of a little boy in Campbell-street was told to the Regent-street police on Saturday night by…

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Legal[?] Profession Fine War Memorial in Supreme Court

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 4

A magnificent and substantial memorial to their comrades who served in the Great War has been. erected by the legal profession of New South…

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Men of the Law. Honour Tablet. Erected in Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 8

"Erected by the Legal Profession of New South Wales to their comrades who served in the Great War." The above is the inscription on the base…

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Couldn't 'Phone on Superstition Skipper's Confession Police Teach Him Melbourne

Evening News · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 5

The captain of the Dutch steamer Wolsum had never used a telephone in his life, and when trouble threatened on his steamer last "It's just a matter of what one is accustomed to," said Mr. Thorpe, ethnologist at the Australian Museum to-day…

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Gave Himself Up Youth Charged With Theft BRISBANE

The Sun · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 8

Colin Ross, aged 18, called at the Police Station on January 3 and told the police that he wanted to give himself up for having stolen between £70…

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Law Notices. Tuesday, January 8. Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 11

Queen's-square.—Before the Chief industrial Magistrate. —At 10 a.m.: For hearing: Galvin v Reis, Bell v Illawarra Motor "[?]s Co., Ltd., Pollard v Wood (three cases), same v Black, same v Wade, some v Napier,…

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Assault on Constable

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 11

Found guilty of assaulting Constable Edward Sydney Chambers while in the execution of his duty, Michael McNally, 88, was, at the Central Police Court yesterday, semtenced to two months' imprisonment…

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Gaol Fire Pentridge Again MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 10

Coburg Brigade extinguished a fire at Pentridge Gaol before much damage was done. The outbreak occurred in the matting…

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The Worst Man Sent to Gaol

Evening News · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 8

"It is a shocking record," said Mr. Giles shaw. at the Central Court to-day, as he perused a document which had been banded to him by Sergeant…

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