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Courts & crime, 1929

11,099 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 250

Police Arrested As Members of Crime Syndicate Chicago

The Sun · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 1

A score of Federal prohibition operatives to-day arrested a dozen policemen and other Officials in the suburb of Chicago Heights, in furtherance of…

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No Police Action Girl Who Stabbed Man Perth

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 5

In the case which escorted on Saturday Wang a waitress employed in the Alluvion Club stabbed a Jugoslav named Thomas Cristow. the…

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Police Will Stop Record Breakers English Racing Motorists' Queer Position

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- The proposed record-breaking dash between Sydney and Melbourne by the English racing motorists, Capt…

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Death After Loss of Leg Car-cycle Smash Murder Charge Against Driver Tamworth

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 5

Edgar Clive Carr, who had his leg amputated at Tamworth District Hospital yesterday morning, following a collision between the cycle he was…

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POISONED ? Another Newcastle Girl Deep Mystery Fruitless Police Search Newcastle

The Sun · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 11

Alma Kennedy, aged 24 died in mysterious circumstances this morning. A post mortem examination…

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A Wail From Two Cities? Police Stop Car's Dash Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 4

Believing than the proposed motor car dash in from Melbourne to Sydney in ten hours would be dangerous, the Victorian police authorities have…

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Night Club Control to Be Stricter Police Chief's Drastic Changes London

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 1

UNDESIRABLE night clubs are no longer to be tolerated in London. In future police officers of…

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Escapee Is Still at Liberty Police Maintain Vigorous Search for M'Donald

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 2

A vigorous search is being maintained for William M'Donald, the confinee who escaped from Long Bay Gaol on Saturday afternoon…

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Byng's Bomb C.I.D. Work Round Clock Tightening Police Net London

The Sun · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 1

Lord Byng, the new Police Commissioner, has tightened up Scotland Yard's, activities., Beginning to-day, a force of…

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Paid His Debts and Suicided Victorian Farmer's Death the Police Theory Maitland

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 6

Evidence given by the police at the inquest to-day, into the death of Archibald Currlo WcCullum the Victorian farmer who was found with his…

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Safety on Roads Union Attitude Towards Lord Cecil's Bill Court Powers

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 3

Will any effective measures be taken in the near future to banish the unlit and reckless motorist from our highways?…

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Midnight Coining Raid Melbourne Find Canberra Florin Man Before Court Melbourne, [?]

Evening News · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 11

SEVERAL counterfeit coins, and a number of plaster moulds, on which were impressions of the "Canberra"…

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Midnight Coup Coining Plant Found Armed Police Raid Russian Arrested in Bed Melbourne

The Sun · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 13

A complete coining plant, and enough metal to manufacture thousands of florins, were seized in a raid by seven armed detectives on a house in Allen-place, Port Melbourne, shortly before midnight yesterday. A Russian, who was in bed, was arrested…

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Want Police When S. A. Council Meets General's Health Doctors Deny Rumors London

The Sun · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 1

The Salvation Army authorities have asked for a special police guard at their Sunbury Court promises during the…

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Motorist Robbed. Aemed Men. Stoiy Told in Court. Auckland (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 9

The charge against David Mackenzie Stewart and Roy Patrick Kitchlng in connection with the hold-up of a motor car at Westfield on November 27 was heard to-day…

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Severe Shock for Waste-paper Press Those Competitions British High Court Says Illegal

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 6

IN view of the "adventitious aids" to circulation, which are features of, the catch-penny Press of Sydney, recent developments in British…

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Man Sentenced for Assault. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1929 · page 16

The sequel, to the brawl in a Chinese garden on January 2 was heard in the police court, when Eric Bayliss, 38, labourer, who had a long list of previous convictions, was sent to gaol…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1929 · page 11

Queen's-square,—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate, —At 10 a.m.—For hearing: Hoffman v Wadds; Wright v Orwell Carages, Limited. To be mentioned: Australian Journalists' Association v John Fairfax and…

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