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Courts & crime, 1930

11,639 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 250

All Safety Men Out of Northern Mines Police Resort to Handy Batons Miners' Tactful Move Deputies and Enginemen in Line Owners Perturbed Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 15 January 1930 · page 1

A CONDITION of panic prevailed among the associated owners this morning when the whole of the safety men and deputies ceased work. Ventilation and pumping services also stopped…

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The Fruit Picking Industry Counter Claims in Federal Arbitration Court. General Secretary Grayndler's Big Fight to Maintain Rates and Existing Conditions

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 15 January 1930 · page 16

SOME time ago the A.W.U. was served with a log by the Secretary of the Dried Fruit Growers of Mildura and Renmark, asking for a reduction of wages…

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Miners Battalion to Move Again at Dawn! Unknown Destination Is Close Secret Police Watch Recruits Drilling, and Women Cheer "Army" On Kurri Power House Objective?

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 January 1930 · page 3

CESSNOCK, Tuesday. -- Drafted only yesterday from nearly 2000 recruits who met in Aberdare Park at Cessnock, formed rapidly into squads and platoons, and drilled under the eyes of watching…

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Poignant Scenes on Battle Ground at Kearsley Batons' Toll Police Stoned in Bush Clash Reprisals Threat Sixty Men's Names Are Taken From Page 1 CESSNOCK

Evening News · Wednesday 15 January 1930 · page 11

POIGNANT scenes were witnessed when the police made their charge at Kearsley. About 12 men fell in the first onslaught. The names of 60 men have been taken by the police in connection with…

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Coal Case in High Court Davies Not "Dishonest Witness" Barrister Rebuked by Judge Coal Inquiry Enters Second Week of Hearing Rothbury Argument Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 15 January 1930 · page 5

THE application by Northern colliery owners against Judge Beeby's interim award entered upon its second week of hearing at the Melbourne High Court to-day…

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Attempted Murder of Jesuit Missionary Criminals Sentenced

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 33

Ranchi (India).—The Diwan of Jahpur State has condemned two men who attempted the murder of Father Demonceau, Jesuit missionary of Ranchi…

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Theft of Money. Marine Board Official Charged. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 15

Nicholas James Pirrie, 21, of Davidson-street, North Richmond, acting secretary of the Marine Board of Victoria, was to-day committed for trial on a charge of having, on…

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Motorist Charged

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 10

Attilic Rader, at the Parramatta Police Court on Monday, was charged with having driven a motor car in a manner dangerous to the public in Sydney-road,…

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Magistrate's Advice Litigants Shake Hands

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 12

Magistrate Flynn acted again as peacemaker at the Parramatta Police Court on Monday, when William Henry Ayton and Henry Thomas Dent, neighbors at…

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Theft of Material Council Victimised

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 18

The town clerk, Dundas, reported to the council that during the Christmas holidays the storeroom at the Eastwood sub-station had been broken into, and copper wire and…

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Thief Missed Gaol Family Saved Him

Evening News · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 8

"IT is only because you have a wife and two children that I am not sending you to gaol." said Mr. Flynn, S.M., at Campsie Court to-day, to Joseph Walsh…

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Year's Gaol for Robbing Drunken Man

The Labor Daily · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 6

For robbing a drunken man in a laneway in Redfern on January 4, Edward Heath, 20, baker was sentenced to twelve months' hard labor at…

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Year's Gaol for Robbing Drunken Man

The Labor Daily · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 1

For robbing a drunken man in a laneway in Redfern on January 4. Edward Heath, 20, baker, was sentenced to twelve months' hard labour at…

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Tale of a Pram Christmas Eve Incident Stealing Charge Fails

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 10

A man carrying a doll's pram on Christmas Eve. Usually there is nothing to arouse suspicious in a sight so common. But…

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Homeless and Penniless So Wanted to go to Gaol

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 19

Declaring that he was homeless and penniless, James Burns (59) asked Constable Thompson to put him in gaol last week…

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Marine Board Ex-official for Trial Alleged Theft of Funds

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--James Pirrie (21), formerly acting-secretary of the Marine Board, was committed for trial to-day on a charge of…

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Police for Coalfields. Tamworth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 12

Six police from Tamworth left for duty on the northern coalfields. Several have also been sent from northern districts. To facilitate the transport of police at the mines…

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"Withdraw Police" Request From Kurri

Evening News · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 11

When the Premer was acquainted to-day with the request of a deputation of business and other people at Kurri—made to Superintendent Beatty at Rothbury…

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Mercy and Murder the Man Who Killed His Mother

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 41

A young man in Prance undertook to kill his mother to end, as he said, her suffering. It must be admitted that hope seemed very distant, because the…

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Men Before Court. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 January 1930 · page 12

Ten men appeared before the Cessnock Court this afternoon. They were William Ernest Edwards, 39, miner; Frederick John Gibbons, 31, miner; Edward Morgan Villis, 40,…

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