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Courts & crime, 1929

11,099 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 250

Latham for High Court? May Appoint Himself Avoiding Rocks Ahead

The Labor Daily · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 4

MR. LATHAM, Federal Attorney-General, is mentioned as one of the several candidates for the vacancies on the High Court bench…

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Native Prisoners. Drafts for Outstations. White Police for Rabaul. (By Wireless.) RABAUL

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 14

The native police boys who were sentenced for being concerned in the recent trouble at Rabaul are to be drafted to out-station prisons…

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Reconciliation of Lovers at Gap's Edge Mystery Car Forestalls Police "End My Worries!"

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 3

Some story of " broken romance and last-minute reconciliation, must lie behind the rescue of a pretty and well-dressed young…

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The Gipsy's Warning Aired in Court Read Constable's Fortune and Sergeants "Bumps"

The Labor Daily · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 5

HUNDREDS of years ago the first gipsy tribe set out from their native soil and commenced to wander aimlessly across the face of the earth…

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Upheaval Unlikely Timber Trade Melbourne View Court on Jan. 23 MELBOURNE

The Labor Daily · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 1

ALTHOUGH the Interstate Union Congress decided that the timber men should work only 44 hours a week, it is not considered likely that there will…

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Premier Bavin and the High Court "Smart Work" Land Go-getters an Alderman's View

Evening News · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 11

GLFBE Council decided last night to take no action regarding Blacktown Shire Council's request for co-operation in urging the…

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New Light on Jacob Johnson Frame-up Crown Witness Charges Corruption Call for Inquiry Into Police Methods!

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 1

Fresh light is thrown on the way the Commonwealth Police Department worked in its case against Jacob Johnson—general secretary of the Seamen’ s Union, who is now in gaol because stood for trade union principles—by the disclosures of…

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Atropine Was Used to Dope Bong Bong Cup Favorite Police Take a Hand Reward Offered for Culprit Owner of Horse Is Mystified Moss Vale

Evening News · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 9

ATROPINE, in the opinion of the Sydney veterinary surgeon, Mr. R. Stewart, was the drug used for the doping of the Bong Bong cup favorite, Bronze Fuze, yesterday. IT is understood that the police have [?]…

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Theft

Nepean Times · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 5

On Thursday Mr Witchard's bakery shop and house were broken into, and money and sweets to the value of £2/10/ were taken. The house was…

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Assault Charge. Against Constable. Dismissed by Magistrate. West Wyalong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 18

Considerable interest was taken in a case at the local police court, before Mr. E. Harrison, P.M., in which Charles Chapman proceeded against Constable George Alfred…

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Charges of Theft

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 22

Richmond Cavill, formerly a well-known swimmer, and now proprietor of the Greenwich Baths, pleaded not guilty at the Central Police Court yesterday to charge's of having…

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Twelve Months' Gaol and £250 FINE Drugs Case at Central Court

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 3

Twelve months' gaol without the option was a supplementary sentence to one of £250, or 12 months' hard labor, imposed on May Smith (48), alleged…

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Good Treatment. in Gaol. Maintenance Confinees

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 16

Maintenance confinees, who have been committed to prison for negiecting to comply with orders made against them under the provisions of the Deserted Wives and Children…

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Landmark to Go? Old Windsor Gaol

Evening News · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 8

AN historic landmark at Windsor—the old gaol, built in the convict days— will be replaced by a modern lock-up. The new building will be erected in a…

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Hulks Rifled, Is Police Charge Ex-swimming Champion Cavill Before Court

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 4

Richmond Cavill, one-time world's swimming" champion, at the Central Police Court yesterday was charged with having, stolen certain articles…

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Woman Sentenced. Drug Distributor. Growing Menace in Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 22

May Smith, described by the police as [?] distributor of cocaine, was fined £250. with the alternative of a year s imprisonment and in addition, was sentenced to a year's…

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Boonjie Murder. Kelly's Confession. Thursday Island

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 17

In the Police Court to-day, James Maurice Kelly was remanded to Cairns on a charge of having wilfully murdered Charles Walter, at Boonjie, Malanda, about June 28…

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Hurled Timber at Mate Below Man Fined for Assault Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 5

John Meehan, laborer, was fined £7 by the City Court to-day for assaulting Reginald Whitley, who told the court that he and Meehan were…

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Robberies at Vaucluse Local Police Activity

The Sun · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 3

The Vaucluse police have been busy following up clues concerning several robberies reported in the suburb during the last few weeks, and arrests…

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Head Battered with Wood Alleged Confession of Boonjie Murder

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 5

THURSDAY ISLAND, Friday.-- "We had a heated argument. Walters called me a--.[?] picked tip a piece of wood and struck him…

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