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Courts & crime, 1927

9,449 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 250

Wicked Melbourne Police Raid Two Night Parties Old Boys From Flinders Lane Gaze on French Girls In Nude

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 1

WICKEDNESS is universal but there are establishments in St. Kilda (Vic.) where it has to be clad in…

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Rodrick Wins Stealing Shield Motor Boating

The Sun · Sunday 9 January 1927 · page 17

The races at Rose Bay yesterday under the auspices of the Motor Yacht Club of N.S.W., were disappointing. In the first event, for the Stelilng…

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Our Police are Underpaid

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 January 1927 · page 4

The absence of any reference to the conditions under which the Police Force of New South Wales do their work in the various announcements of the Governments New Year intentions is to be deplored. Attention to this matter is called for…

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Play and Fatality Bullet Ends a Boy's Life a Murder Charge Follows

Truth · Sunday 9 January 1927 · page 14

Though he wept when the police came to his cell and told him that the boy was dead, Pierre Aitrien Moussel, an elderly French cook, betrayed no trace of emotion when he was charged this week at the Central Police Court with having last Monday…

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Exclusive Interview with Brauner "Mother Must Not Worry" How He and Harris Spent Christmas in Gaol

Truth · Sunday 9 January 1927 · page 13

"Don't worry. I'm not worrying. But if I know that you are, it will make me worry. Tell mother she MUST not." These parting words of William Brauner to his relatives, when, the whole shocking, sordid proceeding at an end, they left him to his ten years of durance vile, throw light from a different angle upon a character that, for months, has been displayed to public reproach…

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A Dead Baby Young Woman in Critical Condition, Police Investigating Cause of Child's Death

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 January 1927 · page 1

Police are investigating the cause of the dentil of a prematurely-born baby, the body of which was discovered in a cupboard at a hospice for the dying at…

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A Fighter a Man and a Matter of Money to Bankruptcy Court

Truth · Sunday 9 January 1927 · page 14

THE preliminaries to Bankruptcy Court proceedings often make strange reading, and those which attended a case in the Banco…

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A Lady of Adventure From Russia's Wilds to Southern Climes She Appears in Court

Truth · Sunday 9 January 1927 · page 16

SOMETIMES the uses of adversity are not nice to know, despite the philosopher. TO be torn from the life of ease and forced to work hard for a living has been the lot of thousands of the once rich of…

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When Brauner and Harris Fought One Another in Domain Like Cave Men Fighting for the Possession of a Girl in the Night Reaping As They Have Sowed Police Hear Almost Incredible Story, but Charge is Withdrawn

Truth · Sunday 9 January 1927 · page 13

William Brauner and Neville Harris, the two Bondi malefaclors who recently were sent to gaol for ten years because of their crimes upon a girl, are now reaping as they sowed. On Friday morning, at the Central Police Court, the last charge against them—that of assaulting a girl with criminal intent—was withdrawn…

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Infamous "King" of "The House of David" Gathered in by American Police Benjamin Purnell, "Seventh Angel of Revelations," Blasphemer, Despoiler , of Young Members of His Flock, and Fugitive from Justice for Thirty Months, Taken After World-Wide Search

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 January 1927 · page 3

Australians, and particularly residents of New South Wales and Victoria, will hail with gratification the announcement to-day by the "Sunday Times" that the notorious and infamous Benjamin Purnell, "King" of the "House of David," "Seventh Angel of Revelations," head of a religious sect, with branches in different countries of the world, and whose New South Wales headquarters are. at North Ryde, has been arrested at…

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Fugitive "King" of "House of David" Taken in Police Raid U1u See Page 3 Britain Musters Fleet and Evacuates Her People in Chinese Danger Zone America Supplements Navy in East, Japan Sits on Fence, and the Two Wait to See Shanghai

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 January 1927 · page 1

Great Britain has increased her naval strength in Chinese waters, and America has taken further action with her navy, but Europeans in the danger zone live in fear of the warring factions, whose…

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"Brutal Assault"

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 January 1927 · page 9

"This is a particularly brutal occurrence," said Sergeant Dennis (police prosecutor), at the Central Police Court on Saturday, concerning a charge…

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Attempted Burglary. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 January 1927 · page 12

A daring attempt at burglary was made at Hewitt's cash store in Edward-street whilst the owner (Mr. J. G. Howitt) was lying in bed dangerously ill. A doctor visited the patient about…

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Unley Murder Crowd at Inquest Court Too Small Adelaide

The Sun · Monday 10 January 1927 · page 9

Intense public interest was shown in the inquest, held to-day, on James Flanagan, 64, who was murdered in the employees' lunch-room at the…

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Fly Time Typhoid More Prevalent Gaol Outbreak

The Sun · Monday 10 January 1927 · page 11

This is fly time, and there are many eases of typhoid and scarlet fever throughout the State. It was stated by the…

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Parramatta Police Division

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 January 1927 · page 13

The Parramatta police division, which extends from Flemington to Hartley Vale, and from St. Albans to Tallong, has been raised in status, and an additional police inspector has…

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Social Pests Prey Upon Women Gaol for Manager

Evening News · Monday 10 January 1927 · page 5

"IT was a most mean and centemptible theft, and it is man of this type who are perfect pests about the city and suburbs new…

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Gaol Ostriches Old Convict Trick Dodging Hard Labor

The Sun · Monday 10 January 1927 · page 10

A prisoner at Long Bay wanted something easier than the hard labor imposed oil him. So he trice an old idea of convicts. He swallowed a nail…

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Brutal Assault. Motorist Attacked Search for Assailants. FORBES

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 January 1927 · page 11

Two young men approached Harold Powter, a motor driver, at Parkes yesterday afternoon, stating that their car had broken down about five miles out, and they wanted some…

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His Refuge Man Who Slipped Into Gaol Search Ends

The Sun · Monday 10 January 1927 · page 11

A map sought carefully by the police for nearly two years on a "false cheque" charge has at last been found --…

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