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Courts & crime, 1929

11,099 stories in Sydney's papers · page 63 of 250

Cowra Police Court. Cowra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 18

James Edward Cannon wns convicted at the police court on a charge of having 30 opossum skins and a number of cyanide baits unlawfully in his possession. He was fined £55…

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A Gaol Delivery

The World's News · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 18

Lord Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice, told a good story at a Bohemian concert in aid of the Royal Courts of Justice Staff Sick and Provident Fund…

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Gaol for Joy-Riders

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 56

SENTENCE of imprisonment for 12 months surprised two joy-riders in Melbourne recently. So familiar has the motor become that these borrowers have…

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Charge of Capital Assault Fails

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 8

Robert Vivian Sawyer, 27, a railway ticket collector, was charged at the Kogarah Court yesterday with having committed a capital offence on…

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Police Transfers

Evening News · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 9

Inspector Answer [?] has been stationed at [?] has been transferred to Burwood in place of inspector Tracey who has…

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Subsidised School. Man Charged with Fraud

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 11

Thomas Joseph Graham, 26, was remanded by Mr. Gates, S.M., at the Central Police Court yesterday, to appear on February 14. on a, charge of having falsely represented to…

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Mountain Smash Sequel Station Manager Charged

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 3

Charles Edward Coombes, station manager, of Mudgee, was charged at the Parramatta Quarter Sessions yesterday with having feloniously slain…

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Charge of Theft. Against Clerk. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 18

Charged with stealing £9/16/7, the property of the Commissioner of Railways, Walter Henry Osborne, 46, a clerk, was to-day remanded on ball…

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Old Man's Money Visit to Bank Stealing Charge

The Sun · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 19

The manner in which an old man, mentally hazy, parted with his money, was the subject of inquiry by Mr. Gates, C.S.M., at the Central Police…

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Preferred Gaol Obstinate De Valera London

Evening News · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 1

ACTING on the suggestion of Mr. Cosgrave, Premier of the Free State, that Mr. De Valera should be released from gaol purely as an act of grace the…

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Two Charged Alleged Conspiracy Girl and Man

The Sun · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 13

Evidence was continued to-day at the Central Police Court in the case in which Roy Anderson, a dress…

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Volunteer Wharf Laborers. President Charged with Embezzlement

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 7

At a meeting of the Permanent and Casual Wharf Laborers' Union (an unofficial organisation), held in Melbourne last week, the decision of the Executive…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 11

Before his Honor Judge Armstrong, in No. 1 Court.— At 10 a.m.: Robinson v Ritchie and anor. (for judgment): Logan v Doberer (part heard with a jury): Kirk v Kirk and ors, (with a jury); Meade v Mosman…

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Solicitor's Clerk to Gaol As Debtor Misappropriation Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 3

A solicitor's clerk gained some firsthand knowledge of the processes of the law yesterday. He was arrested by detectives on a…

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Gaol Site to Be Used for School Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 5

A NEW engineering school for the Workingmen's College is to be erected un portion of the old Melbourne Gaol site…

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Prefers Gaol De Valera Adamant Chance of Release London

The Sun · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 3

The President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State (Mr. Cosgrave) communicated to-day with the Prime Minister of Northern Island…

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Police Inquiry Taxi-driver Sought

The Sun · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 3

Detective-Sergeant McCarthy and Detective Almond are making inquiries into a matter which came under their notice on February 5, when…

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Gaol for Two Years Former Secretary of R.S.L. Branch

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 7

William Farrell (32), laborer, formerly secretary of a branch of the Returned Soldiers' League, was convicted at Darlinghurst Sessions yesterday of…

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"Wife Whipped" Court allegation with Man in Street Hubby Before Court

Evening News · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 14

THE story of a horsewhipping said to have been administered to a wife and her boarder, by an angry husband at Homebush was told at…

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Church Charged with Fomenting Trouble Mexican Estates to be Confiscated Mexico City

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 4

In a signed statement printed in the newspapers to-day President Portes Gil accuses Catholic Church elements of fomenting trouble in Mexico…

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