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Courts & crime, 1929

11,099 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 250

Fight Near Diamond Fever Big Police Task Tense Situation Capetown

Evening News · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 1

THE situation on the Namaqualand diamond fields is becoming very strained, and a conflict seems inevitable…

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Preacher "Moved On" Was Rude to Police Merely Admonished Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 6

"I am a preacher of the gospel of our Lord. Jesus Christ," said Thomas Brogan, 40. who was charged at the police Court to-day with offensive…

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PROHIBITION. Quality of Liquor. New Police Policy. New York, Jan. 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 15

New York's new and vigorous police commissioner, Mr. Crover Wanlen, in continunnce of his drastic measures to reorganise Hie Police Department and its methods, has…

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Razor Killing at Launceston Woman Dead Man with Cut Throat on Murder Charge Hobart

The Labor Daily · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 5

BLEEDING profusely from a gash in the throat, a man named Kilrain was found lying on the footpath by the Launceston…

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Italian Coat of Arms Case Two Youths Before the Court

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 2

INNISFAIL, Friday.--The case arising out of the disappearance of the Italian Coat of Arms from in front of the Consulate on December 23 was…

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Felt Hatter's Claim Award Breaches Dismissed by Federal Court Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 5

IN the Federal Arbitration Court today. Chief Judge Dethridge dismissed the applications by the Federated Felt Hatting Employees Union for…

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"Revolt" in Rabaul Native Uprising Strike for Higher Wages? Police Boys Join in Rabaul

The Labor Daily · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 1

RABAUL, the chief town in the island of New Britain, and the administrative centre for New Guinea, it passing through its moil exciting period…

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When Daddy Xmas Was Caught with His Robes Off Startling Sequel to a "Lodge Treat" Traditional Trimmings Will Now Figure in Divorce Court

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 3

BUT now move on a little and picture the red-robed bestower of gifts in…

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Walked Out Confinee Tires of Gaol

The Sun · Sunday 6 January 1929 · page 5

A man who was under detention at Long Bay Gaol for having disobeyed an order of the court for the maintenance of his wife escaped yesterday…

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ESCAPED! Trusted Confinee of Long Bay Gaol

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 January 1929 · page 2

William Ernest McDonald, a trusted confinee of Long Bay Gaol, escaped from custody late yesterday afternoon, and at an early hour this morning was still…

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Girl on Beach Alleged Assault Young Man Arrested

The Sun · Sunday 6 January 1929 · page 2

A motherless girl of 14 years, who, it Is alleged, was assaulted last night at Brighton-le-Sands Beach by a young man after he had enticed her there on…

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Hide & Seek Exciting Police Chase Two Arrests Young Man in Cowboy Kit

The Sun · Sunday 6 January 1929 · page 2

A wild chase, which led them to Liverpool, and then back through Bankstown to Campsie and Sydney and then…

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Diggers' Plan to Rush Diamond Fields Police on Guard Clash Expected Capetown

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 January 1929 · page 4

The situation in Namaqualand is becoming strained. A few thousand disaffected residents, who claim the right to participate in the wealth of…

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Maori Chief's Persuasive Way Wid Police Blue Paper—Tea His Nine Wives Auckland

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 January 1929 · page 4

An armed party of police left Rotorua on Thursday for the heart, of the wild Urewera country to serve a distress warrant on Rua, the…

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Herbalist Breaks Law Police Must Act! Admits He Has Treated Forbidden Diseases His Regular Arsenal

Truth · Sunday 6 January 1929 · page 21

ONCE again "Truth" directs the urgent attention of the authorities to a potential drug menace. Wealthy herbalist, W. Pascoe, of Newtown, Sydney, who has an enormous clientele, and who claims…

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Cry From Gaol to Girl in Woy Woy Still Loves Her Martin Jacobsen Bears No Resentment Against Former Sweetheart "If I Could Have One Word"

Truth · Sunday 6 January 1929 · page 16

MARTIN JACOBSEN, the man who was sentenced to death for committing a capital, offence against his sweetheart, is still in love with the girl whose evidence caused a judge to pronounce Jacobsen's doom…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 8

Queen's.square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate.—At 10 a.m.—For hearing: Waugh v Love (2 cases), Downer v Hayes, Hankin v Fox, Wright v same…

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Alleged Assault

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 13

A girl, 14 years of age, was found on Saturday night by Constable Stephenson, of Brighton-le-Sands, crying bitterly. She told the constable that she had been assaulted…

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Alleged Theft. Two Men in Shop

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 13

According to a story reported to the police, two men entered a small confectionery shop in Barlow-street, city, last night, and made off with a bag, supposed to contain money…

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Confinee Escapes. From Long Bay Gaol

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 12

William McDonald, a confinee at Long Bay Penitentiary, who escaped on Saturday afternoon, had not been recaptured up to a late hour yesterday, but the prison officials think…

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