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Courts & crime, 1930

11,639 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 250

Police Shunned Cessnock Sanitary Men Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 7

A position that must be as gall and wormwood to the police has developed in Cessnock. The sanitary carters have tabooed them…

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Beckett's Fined £20 Sequel to Police Raid

The Labor Daily · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 1

As a sequel to the police raid on "Beckett's Budget" and the Rare Book Co., earlier in the week, the first-named company was fined £20. and…

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Attempted Murder. Woman Convicted. Counsel Pleads Insanity. London, Jan. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 17

At the trial of Mrs. Eva Gertrude Langsford. formerly of Adelaide, who was found guilty at the Old Bailey of attempting to murder he, four children and attempting to commit…

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Attempted Murder. Accused Committed for Trial. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 12

At Christchurch Charles Robert Gray, the younger of the two brothers who have admitted charges of arson involving a very large amount of property, pleaded not guilty to…

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Attack on Police Mr. James Indignant Cessnock

The Sun · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 7

An attack on the police force on the northern coalfields was made by the Federal member for Hunter (Mr. Rowley James), when addressing a meeting…

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Grim Relic of Murder? Bones Found Workers Unearth Skeleton Iron Spade

The Labor Daily · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 1

WHAT may possibly be a grim relic of an almost forgotten murder was unearthed yesterday. A mystery skeleton, powdered with…

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Man and Girl Missing From Leadville Police Search

The Sun · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 3

A young man and a girl of 16 years who, it is alleged, were the parties in a dramatic elopement from Leadville last…

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Consumption of Butter The Director of Dairying Refutes a Gross Misrepresentation No Exorbitant Price Charged

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 9

The consumption of butter in New South Wales (33.0-lb, a head of the population a year) is the highest in the world…

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Is It Suicide? Girl Missing for Month Police Mystified

The Sun · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 8

"Good-bye, Mother, I am going to jump into the river." This note was found during the week close to a dress not far from the…

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Police at Rothbury. Fast Motor Trucks in Use. Branxton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 17

Additional police continue to assemble as Rothbury camp. Two fast motor trucks are now in service in the camp, and to-day they were used for…

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Pruning Knife at Work Will Y.M.C.A and Police be Eliminated

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 27

The Rugby Union Management Committee has made some interesting recommendations to the Council, which is to meet on…

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No General Strike Rank & File Move Protest on Scullin's Inactivity Police Infamy Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 5

THE Rank and File Conference, which sat at Newcastle to-day, turned down the general strike proposal, and work at the…

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Keep Out! R.s.l. to Workless Diggers Strange Action Police Guard at Bureau

The Labor Daily · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 5

A REMARKABLE attitude has been adopted by the Returned Soldiers' League toward certain unemployed returned men…

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Squad of Police Put Sick Woman Through Third Degree Miner's Wife Tortured by Questions Morning Raid on Home Husband Absent When Police Swoop Down at Branxton Other Houses Visited Kurri Kurri

The Labor Daily · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 5

WHILE the occupier of the house -- a miner -- was absent, and his wife confined to her bed, dangerously ill police conducted a lightning raid on the home of Eddie Wahlman, at Branxton, to-day. Despite the fact that the official visit -- presumably a…

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Bavin Is Trounced War by Police Great Mass Meeting at Lithgow 'Blood on Batons' Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 7

A GREAT meeting of the citizens of Lithgow to-night carried a resolution condemning the Bavin Government for its action against the…

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Crisis on Coal Fields Many Clashes Between the Miners and the Police Special Force May Bb Enrolled

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 4

The dispute in the northern coalfields has reached a critical stage, and there have been repeated clashes between the miners and the police. The temper of…

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Industrial Court. (Before Mr. E. J. Kavanagh, Deputy Commissioner.) Variation of Award. Railway Commissioners' Appeal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 12

This was an appeal by the Raliway Commissioners of New South Wales against the variation of the Industrial Registrar of the Government railways and tramways, etc.,…

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Clubs Seized by Police: Evidence Against Miners Rail Axe Thousand Men Must Go All Grades Suffer Water Board, Too

The Sun · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 7

At least 1000 men employed in the operating and maintenance sections of the railways will…

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Spell in Gaol Gave Business Man a Clearer Outlook Horror of It Has Taught Him to Go Straight, And He Will Start Afresh Poignant Story: Mosquitoes, Midnight Anguish, Resolve to Rise Again

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 4

ALTHOUGH gaol is demonstrably a punishment for an offence committed against society, it is extremely rare to find a newly-released prisoner who will frankly admit that his incarceration has done him good…

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Mass Picketing to he Resumed on Coalfields Further Clashes with Police Are Feared Miners Arrange Demonstrations For To-day and Monday Patrol in Trouble at Kurri

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 3

CESSNOCK, Friday.--Undeterred by the determined police action of Wednesday, and the advice of the Miners' Federation, miners on the Maitland field have decided to resume mass picketing…

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