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Courts & crime, 1930

11,639 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 250

Hotels May Lose Licenses Public -- and, Police -- Must be Served!

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 3

No definite evidence had yet been received by the Government that police quartered at hotels in Kurri were being refused service, the…

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BREADCARTERS. Wild Meeting at Trades Hall. Police Threatened with Eviction

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 13

There were wild scenes at a special meeting of the Breadcarters' Union in the Trades Hall last night Because of the disorder, the meeting was closed within half an hour…

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Rothbury Mine Court Mention Judge and Counsel Melbourne

Evening News · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 10

THE hearing of the coal case was resumed before the High Court to-day. When Mr. Browne commenced to refer…

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Beeby Award. Validity Test. Before Fullthigh Court. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 14

When the hearing was resumed before the High Court to-day, of the appeal against the award delivered by Jucrge Beeby, of the [?] monwealth Arbitration Court, for the…

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Make Use of Side Streets Police Chief on Peak-hour Congestion

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 2

If motorists would use alternative routes, away from the main traffic arteries of the city, congestion at peak hours would be…

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Reading the Report Costs £60? Coal Case in High Court

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday -- A Sydney estimate gives the cost of the coal case before the High Court as £1 a minute…

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Menace of Drug Trade Police Powerless to Stop It £5000 in Fines

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 2

Within the past two years nearly 100 persons have been convicted of trafficking in drugs, and…

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Two Girls Tell Sensational Story of Abduction and Assault Dramatic Arrest Young Man on Serious Charge "Kept Till 3 A.M."

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 2

Taken to Tom Ugly's Point for a "joy-ride," kept there until the early hours of the morning by two strange…

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War Songs Soldiers in Lead Police Hooted Assembly in Early Dawn Cessnock

The Sun · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 1

Throughout last night Cessnock seethed with excitement and expectancy. Never before in the…

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Another March on Rothbury? Early To-day Miners Inflamed Police Rush Branxton

The Labor Daily · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 1

THE whole town is aflame with rumors to-night of another march to Rothbury in the morning. It is stated that all lodges, within…

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Rushed to Rothbury Sixty-two Police Special Train Left This Morning Close Secrecy

The Labor Daily · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 5

SIXTY-TWO police left for Rothbury at 12.15 o'clock this morning. Close secrecy was maintained…

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Police Man Coal Train Lines Guarded Pickets Peacefully Look on Trucks Noted Branxton

The Labor Daily · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 1

Two train loads of the coal produced by blacklegs at Rothbury mine, were despatched from Branxton to-day. They Were railed to…

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Journalist Convicted. Alleged Contempt of Court. a Point of Honour. Capetown, Jan. 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 13

The Chief Magistrate at Johannesburg committed a reporter of the Rand "Daily Mail" named Louw to prison for eight days for refusing to divulge the source of certain…

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Rothbury Feared Another Attack 8000 Men Kurri: Cessnock Army Digger Leaders Feint Covered Another Move Police Ready Branxton

Evening News · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 1

A SENSATIONAL march by 8000 men from Kurri led by 350 returned soldiers, and which caused grave fears of an attack on Rothbury, it now transpires was carried out to hold the police at…

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What Part did Bavin Play in Prolonging the Coed Dispute ? Strange Story Told in High Court Exchange of Letters Evidence Sifted Slowly Queer Atmosphere In Case "Golden Bullets " MELBOURNE

The Labor Daily · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 5

A STRANGE, almost tense, atmosphere characterised the resumption of the coal case in the High Court to-day. Argument was mostly of a technical, nature, but there seemed--vaguely, perhaps--to be an air of expectancy…

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Ominous Massing of Miners in North What Is Behind Secret Rally in Early Morn? Leader Hastens to Scene to Prevent Another March on Rothbury Police Reinforcements Rushed From City Another March on Rothbury, or what?

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 3

A situation full of sensational possibilities suddenly developed on the coalfields last night when it became known that all the miners, numbering thousands, had been instructed to assemble in the early hours of this…

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Coalfields at High Tension with Grave Rumors No Gatling Gun But Piece of Rusty Pipe What Police Found in Miner's Yard Detectives' Vain Trespass Inspector Mackay Takes His Coat Off Fear for Coal Train Branxton

The Labor Daily · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 1

AFTER the despatch of the second trainload of "black" coal from Rothbury to-day two motor carloads of detectives, led by their chief, Inspector Mackay, made a sudden swoop on the house of Mr. Leonard Wibberley in search of a Gatling gun…

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Two on Metal-stealing Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 4

Seeing a dealer's cart near White Bay power-house for several nights, residents informed Railway Detectives Sherringham and Watson, who…

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Vicious Assault Man's Leg Broken

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 6

Set upon by two men on Concord West railway station last night, William Pope, 36, of Colane Street, Concord West, had his right leg fractured…

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Brutal Assault. Man Savagely Kicked

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 16

William Pope, 36, of Colane-street, Concord West, was brutally assaulted by two men near the Concord West railway station last night. While travelling on the train to Concord…

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