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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1928

10,960 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 250

Eight-year Old Kidnapper Took Four Babes Wanted to Play with Them Caught by Police Los Angeles

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 1

LOS Angeles police have just dealt with eight-year-old Hazel Oden, who has been in custody on four charges of kidnapping…

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Gaol for Stealing Silk

The Sun · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 4

George Henry, aged 48, was sentenced at the Glebe Court to-day to three months' hard labor for stealing six rolls of silk, valued at £30, the…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 6

Queen's—square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate.—At 10 a.m.—For hearing: Lynch v Fennell. At 10.30 a.m.: Holmes, v Lang, Mazlin v Copyeman, Mallis v Mellonos, Clugston v Cooling…

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Murderer Sentenced

The Australian Jewish Chronicle · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 16

A Polish farm worker who, in 1920, killed and robbed two Leipzig Jews in the street, has just been sentenced to death by the…

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Industrial Magistrate's Court. Before Mr. G. C. Addison, Chief Industrial Magistrate.) Kitchenman's Claim

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 6

This was a claim by Stephen Lazldey against F. Still, licensee of the Hotel Steyne, Manly, for £20/13/8, representing time worked on Eight-hour Day, nad overtime worked on…

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Theft of £46

The Sun · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 17

A wallet containing £46 10s which Isabella McLaren, of Brook House, O'Connell-street, city, inadvertently left on the floor of a telephone bureau,…

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£100 Reward Murder of Mrs. Sampson Police Are Baffled

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. A reward of £100 has been offered by John Robinson, a prominent Orchardist, of Mitcham, for…

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“Ritual Murder” Echo

The Australian Jewish Chronicle · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 16

In 1926, following the discovery of a dead gypsy child near the Jewish cemetery at Dobrszyn, near Warsaw, a ritual murder cry…

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Kicked Insensible Darl'hurst Assault

Evening News · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 13

When Norman Cine Cuttayne, of B[?]th was in Taylor Square. Darlings, fals to-day, he saw a man being attacked hour others…

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Waiter Charged Injury to Workmate

Evening News · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 4

ON the application of Sergeant Napper, police prosecutor, James Logan 27, waiter, was remanded at the Central Court, to-day, until January 13, on £30…

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Anti-Semite Charged with Fraud

The Australian Jewish Chronicle · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 16

The entire Presidium of the Lemberg anti-Semitic organisation, Rozwoj, has been arrested on a charge of having formed a bogus…

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Pontius Pilate Charged with Graft

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 40

Charges of graft brought against Pontius Pilate when he was Roman Governor of Palestine have just been brought to light, according to Mrs. Ruth…

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Life-sentenced Man Murderer Recaptured Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 4

"WHAT'S the use of asking for it," said John Charles Stewart, a convicted murderer, when asked by the City Court Magistrate…

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Russian Officials. Sentenced to Death. London, Jan. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 9

An offical mossnge from Moscow says that Pollakov, commercial director of tho Grain Department of the State Bank, and lils assistant, Tclcsnln, has been sentenced to death for…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 6

Before the Deputy Registrar.—At 10.30 a.m.: Rowe ats. Checker Cab Company (Australia), Ltd. At 10.45 a.m.: Rowe ats. Anderson. At 11 a.m.: Rowe ats. Campbell. At 11.15 a.m.: Rowe v Checker Cab…

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"Meet the Major" Theft of a 1200 Ring

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 2

The disappearance of a diamond ring worth £200 from a Darlinghurst fiat has revealed to the police the intriguing adventures of a man, self-styled "The…

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Italian's Story. Of Assault and Robbery. Charge Fails

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 6

When Patrick Sharkey, aged 21 years, a labourer, appeared before Mr. Perry, S.M., at the Central Police Court yesterday, charged with having, on November 22, assaulted…

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"Caruso for Australia!" Confidence Trick Followed by Assault Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 5

hTe fact that Caruso is dead was indirectly responsible for Patrick Sharkey appearing at the Central Police Court yesterday on a charge of…

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Two Teeth Wrenched Out Man for Trial on Assault and Robbery Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 5

On a charge of having assaulted Robert John Gallagher and robbed him of a watch and chain, a £5 note, and a match-box, valued in all at £7, John…

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Police Work Southern Division Figures Goulburn

The Sun · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 15

Statistics made available by the Superintendent of Police at Goulburn show that in the southern police division last year a gross total of 6858…

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