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Courts & crime, 1930

11,639 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 250

Battle of Wits Police Are Completely Outwitted by Miners Masterpiece of Tactics Blacklegs Cleared Out of Ashtonfields Rothbury March Branxton

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 5

THE hunting of a score of blacklegs employed at Ashtonfields colliery from the premises this morning was the culmination of a masterly tactical move on the part of the members of the Miners' Federation on all the fields…

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Underworld Troy Has Its Tragic Helens, Too! Triangle of Love, Gaol and Poison Why Dolly Went Back To Her Man Death Fight for Crook's Sweetheart Dark Eyes And Light Fingers Figure in an Obscure Iliad

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 1

DARK eyes and light fingers--hearts of the underworld--to…

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Miners' Army in Bred--Quiet Night in North 9000 Men in Yesterday's Coal Demonstrations Conflict With, Police Avoided, but Non-Unionists Maltreated Try-out for Big Picketing Plan?

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 3

Fears of serious trouble on the coalfields were dispelled during yesterday's massed demonstrations by the miners avoiding conflict with the police…

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Police Brandish Revolvers in Frantic Charge Ugly Scene Narrowly Averted at Rothbury Miners Mobilise in the Dawn Ghostly Army of Ten Thousand Strong on the March Volunteers Stripped Naked State of Panic in Compound Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 1

BY drawing their revolvers as they drove through the miners' ranks, about 30 police nearly precipitated an ugly scene during the Kurri march this morning. Provoked by the wanton display of arms, numbers of men gathered sticks and stones as defensive weapons and threw them at the police as they sped past in two cars…

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Evidence of Starvation on Coalfields Not Material to Case --Mr. Justice Starke BROWNE, K.C., Argues Before High Court Outlines Case for Miners Story of Collusion Between Bavin and Owners Argumentative Judges Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 5

MOST of to-day's proceedings before the High Court, in which the validity of the Beeby interim mining award is being tested, consisted of an outline by Mr. Browne, K.C., of the history of the case, and argument with the justices of…

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Mysterious Disappearance of Maisie Wilson Their Witness "Spirited Away" Say Police of Girl Who Charged Men With Vile Assault on Xmas Day the Kellys As Camera Wreckers

Truth · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 28

WHILE three men are charged with indecently assaulting a young woman named Maisie Wilson in Palmer-street, Woolloomooloo, on Xmas Day, the girl herself cannot be found. "TRUTH" last week endeavored to probe the mystery behind the cause of her non-appearance at court in the case in which she is the chief Crown witness…

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Police Chief's Denial

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 2

The Acting-Commissioner of Police (Mr. Childs) told the "Pictorial" last night that the police at Rothbury had no…

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Stop Press Police Raid

Truth · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 1

In a police raid on four houses in Retreat-street. Surry Hills, late last night, nine Chinese and a European were arrested. Bursting in the doors…

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Birthday Calls 2/6 Fee to Be Charged in Future

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 13

EVERY year children anticipate their birthday calls from 2F.C. with great delight, und there are nl present: thousands of mimes in the birthday book. In…

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Father Appears Against Son for Stealing Watch and Cash Box Youth Convicted

Truth · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 14

"IT requires no small amount of courage and sacrifice on my part to take the stand I have taken," passionately declared the…

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Boy Hunters Police Collect a Small Armory

The Sun · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 2

Evidence of many merry boyhood days, which possessed a spice of danger is stored in the Canterbury Police Station…

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On Guard Union Civil War Police Called

The Sun · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 2

Some snappy moves in the fight for control of the N.S.W. Bread Carters' Union are expected…

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Punched Him on the Nose Col. Travers Causes, Blood to Flow [?]Ined for Assault

Truth · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 27

THERE was a fair sprinkling of Diggers in the crowd which filled Manly Courthouse last week to hear the charges of…

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Turkey Wants Women Police to Watch Young Girls

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 3

[?] Union of Turkish Wowen is a[?] for a women's police force whose chief duties will be to keep under observation young girls in cinemas, dance…

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Up in Arms Dubbo and Hard Court Titles

Truth · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 5

The country players are strutting their stuff on the White City courts, and at the same time are taking the opportunity of voicing their…

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Asks to Be Indicted for Murder Man's Remarkable Request Calmly Says He Wants to Be Re-charged With Killing of Peterson Amazing Sequel to Queer Trial "I Have Absolute Proof of the Real Murderer," is Dramatic Statement of Steele

Truth · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 14

INDICTED last year at Rabaul on a charge of murder, and set free under sensational circumstances when the Crown withdrew the prosecution against him, John Darcy Steele, plantation manager, of New Guinea, is attempting to create an amazing sequel to a murder trial that was marked by some of the most remarkable incidents ever witnessed in a British court of justice…

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Lived Life of Fraud for Years "Stung" by Old "Sea-dog" Taxi Man Falls Victim to Confidence Trick Magistrate Gates's Regret

Truth · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 14

IF ever there was a cool-headed old scallywag it is Andrew Neville Neumann, the 61-years-old Norwegian master mariner who has, during his I 5 years' residence in Australia, carried on an extensive practice of obtaining money by means…

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Ingenious Bells at Pak-a-pu House Police Make Ten Arrests at Waterloo

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 3

Stacks of pak-a-pu tickets played a prominent part in a police raid on four houses in. Retreat Street, Waterloo, last night, when nine Chinese and…

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The Legacy of Dr. Stresemann Peace Offensives of Offset Bismarck's War Police Germany of To-morrow Benefits

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 24

WHAT Bismarck did with his dangerous war offensives to build up an empire for the Black-White-Red flag of 1871, Stresemann with his "peace offensives" accomplished' for the Black-Red-Yellow flag of the Weimar democracy, writes the Berlin correspondent of the London "Daily Express." His policy embraced the Dawes Plan, Locarno the League of Nations, the Young Revision, and The Hague…

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Drug Traffic Still a Menace Alarming Admissions by Police Demand More Persistent Efforts to Stamp it Out

Truth · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 12

"TRUTH" interviewed Dr. J. S. Purdy. City Health Officer, on the subject from the medical point of view, and this shows exactly what he thinks of the…

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