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Courts & crime, 1930

11,639 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 250

High Court Judgment Melbourne

The Sun · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 11

Judgment of the appeal against the interim award made by Judge Beeby in the coal mining industry will probably be given by the Full High Court…

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Offer to Police. Legacy Club Members Ready

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

When welcoming the Acting-Commissioner for Police (Mr. Childs) at the Legacy Club luncheon in Sydney yesterday, the president (Mr. Edwin C. Penfold) said: "I would like…

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Manacled, But Vicious Fierce Struggle With Police

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 2

Viciously fighting every inch of the way, a man handcuffed in Woolloomooloo yesterday nearly put a…

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Kurri Protest Police Chiefs Attacked Kurri

Evening News · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 7

Business people of Kurri last night agreed to resolutions of protect against the methods of the police flying squad, and also asked that Inspector Mackay…

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Battered in Cells Police Venom Against Communist

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

KURRI, Jan. 13.—A crowd of more than 3000 attended a Communist Party meeting to-night addressed by T. McCowley and W. Laidlaw…

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Dalton Murder Inquest on Monday Devine and Green Again Remanded

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 11

Francis Donald Green (27), laborer, and James Edward Devine (37), laborer, charged at the Central Police Court yesterday with having…

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War Heroes Indignant at Wanton Savagery of Police

The Labor Daily · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 1

HUNDREDS of returned soldiers resent the unprovoked attack by the police on the miners on the Northern coalfields, and the wanton maiming of helpless and unarmed men, gathered for the purpose of a peaceful demonstration…

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In the News To-day the Special Police

Evening News · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 6

THE projected reinforcement of the police by volunteers, recalls that similar action was taken during the [?] strike of 1317…

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Police Methods. Civic Labour Bodies Protest. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 14

Municipal bodies operating on the South Maitland coalfields decided this evening to protest against methods adopted by the police during recent days…

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Police Capture Corpse That Never Lived LONDON

The Sun · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 1

Loudon crooks are not so fortunately situated as those in Finland, whore, owing to the [?]ton of the gaols, the Government…

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Tacks on Road. to Damage Police Cars. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 14

A large quantity of tacks was scattered on the road outside the Kurri Kurri police station to-night, with the object of putting police motor cars and cycles out of action…

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Police Pounced on Suspect Park Tout, Who Flew Into Tree!

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 9

Plainclothesmen Fleming and Newtown stood ready at opposite sides of a clump of bushes in Fairy Bower yesterday afternoon ready to pounce…

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Appeal to Mr. Scullin. "Disarm the Police." Labour Member's Message

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 14

Mr. J. C. Eldridge, M.P., in a telegram to the Prime Minister (Mr Scullin) has appealed to him to take immediate steps to disarm the police on the northern coalfields…

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Motorist in Court. On Three Grave Charges. FORBES

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 10

Leonard Kail Bryant, 23 years, was to-day charged with having driven a car without a license, with having driven in a manner dangerous to the public, and with having…

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Fight with Police for an Hour Burly Prisoner's Battle Four Charges

The Labor Daily · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 1

It took three constables an hour to effect the arrest of a man taken into custody in a Woolloomooloo boarding-house…

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Police Forces. Concentrating at Rothbury. (From Our Special Representative.) Branxton

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

Police patrols were active in the vicinity of Rothbury mine to-day. Local miners, however, were very quiet, although they took a good deal of interest in police activity…

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Beeby Award. Judgment Reserved. by the High Court. Melbourne

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

Judgment has been reserved by the High Court on the appeal against the interim award of Judge Beeby in the coal-mining industry…

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"All Quiet" Coal Front Police on Watch Meeting To-day Cessnock

Evening News · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 7

THE coalfields are quiet to-day, and last night passed without incident, police motor cyclists…

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Batons Again Police Attack Four Men Said They Were Cursing Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 1

A small group of men were attacked by four policemen at Aberdare this afternoon. One of the men was struck with a baton…

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Will Bavin Heed 2000 PEOPLE ? Kurri's Protest Police Brutality . Clergy Speak Kurri Kurri

The Labor Daily · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 5

OVER two thousand people assembled in the Royal Theatre to-night, to protest against the brutality of the police charges in…

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