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Courts & crime, 1928

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Marine Court Finding and Damage Claims Greycliffe Disaster Litigation May be Lengthy Possible Procedure

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 2

Although the special Marine Court has found that the Tahiti was responsible for the Greycliffe disaster, the decision of that Court…

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Expedition Is Sent to Scene of N. Territory Murder Abos Kill Man in Camp Get Away with Stores and Guns Darwin

The Labor Daily · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 1

A REPORT of the murder of a while man by an aboriginal has been received by Darwin police from Point Blaze. Deceased, Renouf Keith, is supposed to have been shot by a native, as when his mate returned to their camp on the beach, Keith was dead [?]…

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Escapade of Girls and Youths Ends in Tragedy on Hawkesbury Drowning Follows Hectic Few Weeks Police Make Three Arrests

The Labor Daily · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 5

THE wild escapade of two youths and two young girls, who left Melbourne a few weeks ago in a stolen car, has ended in tragedy, one of their number being drowned, while the others have been arrested. The body of Leslic Chisholm, one of the party, was recovered yesterday…

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Greycliffe Inquiry. Marine Court Finding. Tahiti Blamed for the Collision Greycliffe Master Not Culpable. "Speed Limit Should be Investigated."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 11

The Court of Marine Inquiry was crowded on Saturday morning when Mr. Justice Campbell delivered judgment upon the collision between the ferry steamer Greycliffe and the Union Steamship Company's steamer Tahiti…

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The Police Must Be Protected Says Magistrate Gaol for Assailant

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 5

Mr. Perry, S.M., is determined to deal drastically with those who are guilty of unprovoked assaults on the police. "There's too much of this…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 8

Queen's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate. —At 10 a.m.—For hearing: Atkins v Beat Brothers. Ltd., same v Hindwood, same v John Grant and Sons, Ltd., same v Campbell, Roberts v Kirkland,…

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"Too Many Assaults'' Seamen Sentenced to Three Months' Gaol

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 21

"There are too many of these brutal assaults, and I am going to do my very best to put them down. Fines are no good."…

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Stealing From a Car Police Make Arrest

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 1

When Harold Leighton left his car unattended for about five minutes in Pitt Street. City, on January 3, he returned to find that two suit-cases…

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"Knocked Off " Tram Conductor Hurt Brutal Assault Wharflaborers Charged

The Sun · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 15

On the night of December 29, Claude Riley, a tram conductor, was brutally assaulted by two men, who knocked him off a tram…

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"Fight All Police" Assaulted Two Gaol for Laborer

The Sun · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 16

"I can fight all the police in Sydney; try and take me," Jeremiah Heffernan, aged 26, a laborer, told Constable Myers, in Crown-street on December…

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Gaol Without the Option Showman Sentenced Playing Game of Chance Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 6

Charles Stanton, showman, was sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment, by Mr. Prior, S.M., in Wollongong Police Court, to-day, for having played a…

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Substantial Bail Refused Man Charged With Murder of Orchardist's Wife

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.--The police will strenuously oppose any applications for bail made on behalf of Ernest Ambrose Kleinert, 20, orchard…

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Alleged Theft From Car

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 8

A week after an alleged theft from a motor car. Detective-sergeant Sadler and Detective Campbell yesterday arrested a man in Pittstreet and charged him with the offence. On…

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Theft Alleged. Tenterfield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 12

Charged with having stolen £60 from R. G. Oates' Estate, Ltd., of Bald Mountain, new Wallangarra, between October 31 and December 13 last, James Roy Morgan was remanded…

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Jews Quarrel. Assault at Cemetery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 12

A number of well-known members of Sydney's Jewish community appeared at the Parramatta Police Court yesterday when Alfred Minden charged Mrs. Relke Cohen with…

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Alleged Assault. Girl Dragged Into Bush

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 8

A girl, 12 years old, residing in the Fairfield district, reported to the local police on Sunday that she was attacked by a strange man in some scrub near Fairfield. The girl…

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Police Conference

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 5

The annual conference of the chief of the police forces of the differe[?] States will take place in March in Melbourne…

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Dragged Into Bush Girl Alleges Assault

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 8

That a man had dragged her into the bush at Fairfield on Saturday evening, and attempted to Assault her, is the allegation laid by a 12-years-old girl of…

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Wife and Child Save Man From Gaol

The Sun · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 11

The fact that he was a young married man, with a child, which was 12 months old, to-day saved John Dutholt, 24, a salesman, from being sent to gaol…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 8

Before the Deputy Registrar.—At 10.30 a.m.: Lewis ats. Lingham At 10.45 a.m.: Buckley v Orchard At 11 a.m.: Hoskins and Hoskins Ltd., v Leahy, At 11.15 a.m.: H.L. and S. Simpson and Co., Ltd.,…

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