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Courts & crime, 1925

8,831 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 250

Police Baffled Brisbane Burglars Fancy for Tailors Shops Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 1

The burglars of Brisbane believe in being well "clobbered,'' but their society does not approve of goods being paid for…

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De Garis. Seen at Mortlake. Police Opinion. Tell-tale Articles Found

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 15

The police are convinced that a man who was interviewed on Wednesday by Plain Clothes Constables Cameron and Parker was…

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Letters of Marque. a Privateering Affair. Early, Sydney, Prize Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 11

"Eighteen Hundred and War Time" was full of incidents which [?]ounded to the credit of the British sea services, both naval and mercantile marine. During the period…

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Mystery Man Was It De Garis? Free with Money Police Interview Him

Evening News · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 1

The police are confident that mysterious stranger, who stayed at the Mortlake Hotel and left subsequently by the Maheno for…

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De Garis' Stunt Suicide Police Watching All Earthly Exits Do the Dead Return?

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 13

January 10 was to be a fateful day in the career of C. J. De Garis. It was the day appointed for the presentation of the report of the special committee that had taken over the affairs of Melbourne Subdivisions…

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Poser for the Police City Fruit Stands Removing Those That Don't Exist

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 9

The deputy-town clerk (Mr. Roy Hendy) has given the Police Department something to work out on the vexed question of city fruit stands,…

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In Court. Award to Favour Owners. Judge Threatens Union. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1925 · page 15

No steps were taken this morning to obtain crows for any of the idle steamers in Melbourne, and the comedy of the picking-up places was played again. Interest centred in…

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Stetsons for £1 Each City Hatters' Stock Tapped Harry Williams Charged with Receiving

Truth · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 12

"If there were no receivers there would be no thieves," says an old and venerable adage. And James Warrington Corbett, a fair-haired youth, who formerly was employed as a messenger at City Hatters, 239 Pitt-street, told…

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Goat Arrested Strange Job for Police Worried Greengrocers

The Sun · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 2

Policemen occasionally get strange jobs; but few can go better than Constables Halliday and Carroll, of Daceyville. Yesterday they arrested…

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Boom in Motor Cycles Number of Thefts Reported in Western Suburbs Three Young Men Charged

Truth · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 12

Whether it was the pictures or exuberance of spirits some you the youths recently sensational splash into the…

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Almost Positive Missing De Garis Police on Qui Vive

The Sun · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 2

Whether he is bound for New Zealand on board the Maheno will not be known until the vessel reaches Auckland on Tuesday, but one fact the…

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Suit Lengths for the Taking Tell-Tale Photo Betrays Old Offender Tom Watson Sent to Gaol

Truth · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 13

Strange indeed is the inexorable law of circumstances or—Fate. When Detective Mackie searched the room of a "suspect" in…

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Hoard of Sovereigns Young Couple's Room Police Make Arrest Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 4

The proceeds of various robberies in New South Wales, in which sovereigns were stolen from Chinese around Sydney and suburbs, are believed by…

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Rozelle Roysterers Rapped Mixed Beer and Wits Invoke Police Action Young Men Fined

Truth · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 8

Mr. Jennings, S.M., held an "at home" at the Balmain Police Court on Tuesday morning, among the guests being some of the A!l the invitations were accepted, and, in addition, the "talent"…

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Riddell Is Not a Particular Baptist Impostor Tries to Defraud Ministers — But Succeeds in Only Getting into Gaol A One Trick Crook

Truth · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 8

OMAR, the Persian poet, who died about 800 years ago, says that in his day there. were "Two and seventy…

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No Strike! Ideals and Evolution of A.W.U. From Camp to Court

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 7

Millions of pounds in increases have been won for bushworkers by the A.W.U. since it discarded the strike weapon in favor of Arbitration…

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Pony Punter at Paddington Police Fishes for S.P. Bookie and Joe Buchanan Takes the Bait

Truth · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 15

Now what did Shakespeare mean when he wrote, "There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them as we may"?…

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Shall Court Decide? Dispute Over Sale of Business £1000 Claim Against P. L. Ashley

Truth · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 12

MR. CLIFFORD HAY, Under-Secretary of the Premier's Department, was quoted in Court the other day as a judge in a dispute between Miss Beatrice Amy Waters, who purchased a business in Oxford-street last year, and P. L. Ashley and Co.,…

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Plug-ugly Earns Three Months' 'Hard' Boot and Bash Artists Battle with Police Gaffbey of the Gang Gaoled

Truth · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 8

(1) Riotous behavior. (2) Resisting the police in the execution of their duty. (3) Assaulting Constable Isaac…

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"Mystery no Longer" Police Say De Garis is on the Ocean Full Details of the Visit to Sydney Sensational Melbourne Developments

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 January 1925 · page 1

The Sydney police have satisfied themselves beyond all reasonable doubt, that C. J. De Garis, the hue and cry in consequence of whose…

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