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Courts & crime, 1927

9,449 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 250

Dressed After Death Melbourne Murder Girl Identified Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 1

The body of the young woman found dead in the bracken alongside the road near Frankston yesterday has been identified as that of Miss Eileen…

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Murder Charge Man Badly Battered Boot Factory Tragedy Adelaide

The Sun · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 3

A finding of murder against a certain person unknown was given this morning by Mr. C. L. Mathews, Assistant Coroner, at the adjourned…

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Law Notices. Monday, January 17. District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 12

Before the Deputy Registrar.—At 10.30 a.m. Niminski ats Tarrants, Limited…

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Mornington Mystery Eileen Clarke's Lovers Police Are Hopeful Melbourne

The Sun · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 3

Although the detectives are hopeful, they have not yet succeeded in ascertaining where Eileen Clarke, the waitress, whoso dead body was found…

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Never Idle Early Police Tyranny Bed of Roses To-day Says Constable McNAMARA

The Sun · Saturday 15 January 1927 · page 3

According to Constable Peter McNamara, who has just retired from the police force after 30 years' service, the life of a…

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One Hundred Fashionable Kit Cats Toe the Carpet in Police Court London

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 January 1927 · page 5

As the result of a raid made recently by the police on the famous Kit Cat night club, one hundred members of this highly exclusive club, which numbers…

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Police Arrest Alleged Bettors at Sports Ground

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 January 1927 · page 1

Serjeants Duffell and Roche, and Constables Gregor and Fairfax, of Darlinghurst Station, arrested seven men at the Sydney Sports Ground last night,…

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Went Up in Austria, Came Down in Italy, and Got Into Gaol Geneva

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 January 1927 · page 2

An Austrian alpinist was arrested after falling on the wrong side of the . Austra-Italian frontier. He ascended the San Candido…

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THIRSTY So They Quafed the Evidence a Police Carousal

Truth · Sunday 16 January 1927 · page 13

WHEN four prominent young members of the licensing branch of the Melbourne police force poured doy a their throats the…

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Trifled with Love So Policeman and Woman Were Shot Dead Police Are at a Dead End

Truth · Sunday 16 January 1927 · page 14

THERE is a growing notion in Brisbane that owing to the dead man's reputation and the slur that the manner of his death cast on the whole of the force, the Queensland police are not over anxious to discover the murderer of…

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Assault on Chinese

Evening News · Monday 17 January 1927 · page 6

An Ding. Ch[?] of Bourke-road. A[?] was [?] by two [?] road, Mascot, last night. The [?]…

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Mails Rifled Post Office Burglary Parcels Gone

The Sun · Monday 17 January 1927 · page 7

The Enfield Post Office was entered kist night by thieves who ransacked mall matter, and stole packets and parcels…

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Assault and Tragedy Adelaide

The Labor Daily · Monday 17 January 1927 · page 8

A man visited a city watchhouse on Saturday evening and stated that he had seen a man assaulted by another in Victoria Square, a few yards from…

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Horse-stealing Charge Fails. Guyra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1927 · page 14

Tt the Guyra Police Court yesterday, before Mr. A. A. Brown, J.P., Thomas Henry Paine Dunstan appeared on remand from Uralla on a charge of horse-stealing at Guyra…

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"Sure As Sun Rises!" Magistrate's Warning

The Sun · Monday 17 January 1927 · page 10

"As sure as the sun rises, if you come here again on such charges as these, you will go to gaol." This was the warning given by Mr…

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Labor Choir Active Visit to Parramatta Gaol

The Labor Daily · Monday 17 January 1927 · page 4

The Labor Choir visited Parramatta Gaol on Saturday, January 8, and entertained the inmates. A very enjoyable time was spent; the inmates…

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Melbourne Murder Searching for the Man MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 January 1927 · page 9

No developments have occurred to enable the police to locate the persons responsible for the death of Eileen Clarke, whose body was found on…

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Frankston Murder Search for New Man Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Monday 17 January 1927 · page 1

The police who are investigating the death of Eileen Clarke, whose body was found at Frankston on Thursday, believe that the Geelong man who…

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Waitress's Death. Police Investigations. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1927 · page 14

Senior Detective McKerral and Detective O'Keefe, who are investigating the death of Eileen Clarke, a waitress, whose body was found laying beside the road between…

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Alleged Incendiarism Printer in Court

The Sun · Monday 17 January 1927 · page 2

Edwin Montague Lascelles Clegg Laffin, 21, a printer, appeared at the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of having maliciously set fire…

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