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Courts & crime, 1930

11,639 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 250

More Mass Police Ready If New Attack Comes Mines May Be Sealed Talk of Lewis Guns Rothbury

The Sun · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 2

Since Friday's dramatic marches and the successful mass picketing at Ashtonfields, all has been quiet…

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"Police Pimp, I'll Get You I'll Fix You" Salvationist Said He Heard Those Words and Was Scared But "Warrigal" Naughton Had an Alibi

Truth · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 15

IT was a crowded and amused gallery that listened to the charge of threatening words against Walter Joseph ("Warrigal") Naughton at Central one day last week. The case was dismissed by Mr. Cohen, S.M., after…

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Battle Between Police and Crooks Criminals Still at Large Why Has There Been No Raid in the Underworld? "Consorting" Clause So Far Is a Farce

Truth · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 15

THOUGH the police have now the power to deal with the riff-raff of Sydney's underworld, these jackals of the community continue the sordid tenor of their way undisturbed. IN Darlinghurst, and particularly around King's Cross, men whose names are well known to the police are still to be seen…

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Hotel Australia's Flagrant Breaches of Liquor bLaws Roaring Night Trade Blind Eye Turned to After Hour Drinks in Fashionable Lounge in the Wintergarden The One Place in Sydney Immune to Police Action

Truth · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 13

THERE is no hotel in Australia like the Hotel Australia for many reasons. It appears to be the one hotel in Sydney that has a special privilege to dispense liquor with impunity after licensing hours! While not questioning the right of any citizen to drink when he feels so inclined, "Truth" maintains that the laws of the country should not be administered with a blind eye for breaches by somebody who, for…

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Youth's Theft Magistrate "Can't Understand"

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 1

"These things are utterly valueless to you. I can't understand a boy of your ago taking such trivial things and getting into trouble."…

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Lucky Man What Magistrate Thought

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 2

Mr. A. E. May, the bulk of whose duties are in the City Coroner's Court, was presiding at the Ryde Police Court on Thursday last, when Alfred Huggins was…

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"Organised, Legalised Murder" Padre Preaches on War Drama

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 7

"War is nothing, but organised and legalised murder, and modern warfare is too scientific and mechanical to give the ordinary soldier even a…

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Threw a Glass Man Sent to Gaol "Might Have Killed Him"

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 1

Because he threw a glass at Robert Gardner in a shop at Parramatta, John Croke (52) is now in gaol. On Wednesday, at the Parramatta…

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Murder of Farmer. Young Policeman's Revenge. LONDON, Jan. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 12

The Cassel police in 1928 besieged the house of a farmer named Klaus, in a neighbouring village, and captured it after two days' fighting, in which Klaus, junior,…

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Escape From Gaol. Foiled by Magpie. Imitated Sound of Saw. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 12

An attempt to escape from the Bunbury gaol, made on Friday night, by William Desmond Lord, who was being held pending his trial on a charge concerning an alleged…

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Clash at Kurri Police Baton Charge Kurri

Evening News · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 9

An [?] clash occurred at Kurri last night, when police arrested a man and were stoned by the crowd. The officers reputed with a baton charge…

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Car Radio Big Possibilities Police Fears London

The Sun · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 1

The "Daily News' motor expert says it will be possible within a few months lo lighten the tedium of long-distance motoring by…

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Row at Church Police Called 70 People Ejected London, [?]

Evening News · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 1

AT the [?] Church at [?] this morning and [?]…

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Women Act All Shops Visited Police Boycott Cessnock

The Sun · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 11

About 100 miners' wives canvassed all shops in Cessnock's main business thoroughfare this morning and requested the proprietors to refrain from…

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Soldiers' Monument Police Want Removal EPPING R.S.S. OBJECTS

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 5

The Police Traffic Department has reported to Dundas Council that the Soldiers' Monument in High and Bridge streets at Epping is considered to be…

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"Lettucee" Beat the Police Why Chinatown Was Out of Raid

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 10

Forty Chinese, taking advantage of Saturday afternoon's rain, stayed in their gardens and put in some fine, work among the…

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Church Uproar Police Eject Eighty Vicar Left with Six London

The Sun · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 1

Remarkable scenes, culminating in the police ejecting the whole congregation except six, occurred at St. Michael's, in Rossendale, Lancashire,…

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Police Stoned. Crowd at Kurri Kurri. Sequel to Communist's Arrest. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 12

Stones were thrown at the police by members of a large crowd at Kurri Kurri to-night, after W. Laidlaw, who had been speaking on behalf of the Communists, had been…

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Vicious Charge by Police Lose Heads Kurri Residents Clubbed Innocent People Batons Used Kukri

The Labor Daily · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 1

DRAWING their batons, when a crowd followed an arrested man, to the police station, a large force of police ran riot in Kurri to-night. They…

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Forgery Charge. Restitution Accepted. New Zealander in Texas Court New York, Jan. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 11

Thirteen indictments against A. B. Crouch, who was extradited from New Zealand, charging him with forgery, were dismissed by District Judge Breaster at Belton (Texas)…

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