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Courts & crime, 1929

11,099 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 250

Country News and Personal Notes Constable Saw Bags Put on Express Two Men Charged With Cremorne Robbery

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 17

ALBURY, Wednesday.--At the polled court to-day Frank Hardy and Stanley Watson were charged with breaking into and entering the shop of Lilian…

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Earlwood Explosion Man in Court on Thursday £300 Bail

The Sun · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 4

Frank Massey, the proprietor of the bootshop in Homer-street. Earlwood, which was destroyed by an explosion early yesterday morning, and who was…

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Police Defied. Rejected Lover's Crime. Suicide Follows. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 11

A sensational affair occurred at Wanganui to-night. Miss Dora Withey, the proprietress if a lolly shop, was in the act of opening the premises when she was assaulted violently…

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The Aftermath. New Year at the Police Courts. a Sorry Parade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 12

There were sorry sights at the Central Police Court yesterday. The charge lists were not unduly long, but they were eloquent. They spoke of…

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Woman Showed the Way Led Police to Their Man After Days of Waiting

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 2

Days of watching and waiting had their reward this week for Detectives Allmond and M'Carthy, of the C.I.B., when they arrested…

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Was It Murder? Death of 15-Year-old Girl Poison Chocolate Strychnine in Stomach Alleged Newcastle

The Sun · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 15

The theory of suicide or misadventure at first entertained by the Newcastle police in connection with the mysterious death of Hilda Johnson, aged 15, of Maryville, who collapsed and died after eating a chocolate…

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Court Case Often a Crime School Publicity Responsible for Crime Wave

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 41

The American Prison Association, in its fifty-eighth annual Congress at Kansas City, evidenced opposition to too much publicity in connection with crime…

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Amok with Gun N.Z. Lover's Suicide Held Police at Bay Wellington, N.Z.

Evening News · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 10

A SENSATION was caused at Wanganu[?] last night when George Allen, after attacking a women with a bottle, held the police at bay for…

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Naked Girl Chased on Beach Two Men Will Appear Before Court To-day

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 3

The sequel to Tuesday night's sensational episode at Bronte, when a naked girl was seen running along the beach, and two men were attacked by…

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"Too Many Missionaries --Not Enough Police" That is Why Aborigines Are Out of Control, Says Pastoralist

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 5

ALICE SPRINGS, Wednesday.--"Too many missionaries and too few police are the principal reasons for the Central Australian aborigines being out of…

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"I'll Smash Your Head In" Man with an Axe Strange Story in Court

The Labor Daily · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 1

HE walked into my house carrying an axe and said he would smash my head in."Ethel Anno Burns, married woman,…

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Police Defied by Man Armed with Double-barrelled Gun Assaults Woman Who Rejected Him, and Then Barricades Shop

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 5

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.--Barricaded in a small shop in St. Hill Street, Wanganui, and armed with a fully loaded double…

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Girl's Body Found by Heroic Rescuers Echo Point Tragedy Crowds of Spectators Thrilled by Searchers' Efforts "Purely Accidental" -- POLICE KATOOMBA,Wednesday

The Labor Daily · Thursday 3 January 1929 · page 1

THE buttered remains of Nola Rowley, 18, were. recovered 150 feet below the blink of the beetling cliff at Echo Point, Katoomba, from which she fell in the early hours of New Year's Day, by a heroic rescue party this morning…

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Two Months' Gaol for Kicking Police Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 5

Victor Phillips Taylor, laborer, was sentenced to two months' Imprisonment by the Fitzroy Court to-day for resisting Constable Donohue…

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Murder? Ship's Crew Charged White Officers Lost Were Reported Drowned Calcutta

The Sun · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 1

A sensational sequel to the loss of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company's steamer Ngatsein, in the Gulf of Martaban, on December 20, while on the…

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Housebreaking. Six Youths Charged

The St George Call · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 2

At the Kogarah Police Court yesterday it was disclosed that when six young men, Talph, Tout, Arthur Hopson Arthur Conyers, Jack Kelly, Joshph…

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Robbery Alleged. Three Men Charged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 8

At the Central Police Court yesterday, Raymond James Riley, aged 22, Roland Daley, aged 25, and William McRitchie, aged 30, all labourers, were committed for trial by Mr…

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Mean Theft Alleged Sequel to Accident

Evening News · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 8

ARTHUR JOHN HUDSON, 21, motor mechanic, Robert M'Naught, 21, fitter and Bruce Kerbyshire, 18, apprentice were charged at North Sydney…

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Assault Charge. Constable Hit with Bottle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 8

At the Central Police Court William McNamara, aged 19, was charged with having inflicted actual bodily harm on Constable Galvin, and with having assaulted Constable…

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Theft of Fowls. Railway Porter Bound Over

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1929 · page 8

At the Campsie Police Court yesterday, Thomas Alexander McQuirk, 35, a railway porter, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment with hard labour, which was suspended…

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