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Courts & crime, 1930

11,639 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 250

For Trial on Stealing Charge

The Labor Daily · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 5

Charged with breaking entering and stealing from motor works at Parramatta Road. Leichhardt, goods to the value of £40, George Clark, alias…

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Preferred Gaol to Losing License

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 4

"I WOULD, sooner do time than have my license taken away!" cried John Fitzgerald, a youth, yesterday at Manly Court…

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Dirty Woman Three Months' Gaol

The Sun · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 12

Bertha McArevery was a very aggrieved woman at the Central Court to-day. In reply to a charge of vagrancy,…

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Woman's Bad Record Four Months' Gaol

The Sun · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 11

In No. 2 Court, Mr. Williams. S.M. sentenced Vera Curr (23) to four months' hard labor on a charge of soliciting for immoral purposes…

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Four Men Charged Hearing Proceeded with

The Sun · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 11

Mr. Cohen, S.M., at the Paddington Court to-day, did not adopt the seme procedure as Mr. Gates, C.S.M., at the Central Court, when a consorting case…

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Police Use Gas

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 5

CAPE TOWN, Dec. 1.—It is officially announced that tear gas is to form shortly one of the normal weapons of the South African polce force…

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Walked Into Sea Man Charged Wollongong

The Sun · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 6

A man, Cully clad, walked down the South Wollongong beach and into the sea last evening. A breaker knocked him down, and he seemed nulled…

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Industrial Court

The Biz · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 7

At Liverpool Court last Thursday morning, Idwal Roberts claimed balance of wages from L. J. Ashcroft, of Liverpool. The amount claimed…

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Police Harass Unemployed Union

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 2

The secretary of the O.B.U. of Unemployed. Sydney, stated at the Labor Council that, when he endeavored to address a meeting of about 1000 men at the…

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A Special Police Force

The Land · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 4

Well clone, Mr. Bavin and Mr. Weaver. Well done, the police, who have carried out an unpleasant duty without unnecessary harshness! A good beginning has at last been made in the direction of upholding…

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High Court Vacancy

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) announced to-day that Cabinet would not fill the High Court vacancy caused…

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Kogarah Police Court. Tuesday, January 14th. Before Mr. McMahon, S.M. Loitered on Bridge

The Propeller · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 2

A young man named George Frost was proceeded against for loitering on the overhead railway bridge at Mortdale to the inconvenience of…

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Alleged Murder. Green and Devine Again Remanded

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 8

Francis Donald Green, 27, and James Edward Devine, 27, charged with having murdered Bernard H. Dalton, have been again remanded…

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Police Action Upheld. Ministerial Statement

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 13

The Chief Secretary (Mr. Chaffey) yesterday defended the action of the police in dispersing the massed miners on the northern field on Wednesday…

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Nothing Military Police Camp Equipment

The Sun · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 11

According to a check ordered by Mr Scullin, it is said, there is no military material among the police camp equipment at Rothbury…

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Police Boycotted Miners Wives Persuade Shopkeepers

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 1

CESSNOCK, Jan. 13.—Miners’ wives scoured the shops to-day demanding that shopkeepers refuse to supply the police. A great crowd watched and…

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Beckett's Move by Police £20 Fine

Evening News · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 7

IN the Central Summons Court, to-day, a fine of £20. with 8 costs, was imposed on Beckett's Newspapers, Ltd., on an information…

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Police Spies at Newcastle Newcastle, Thursday

The Labor Daily · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 1

NEWCASTLE and the coalfields are infested with police "pimps" of both sexes. Some of them assume a down…

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Police Barred From Hospital Newcastle

Evening News · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 7

BECAUSE the police have been declared "black" on the coalfield, a sergeant from Sydney, who became suddenly ill yesterday,…

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Country News Built Gaol Mayor's Sudden Death Family of Aldermen Goulburn

The Sun · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 6

A well-known figure in the civie life of this city has been removed by the sudden death of Aid. Leonard Holloway, aged 61. He collapsed…

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