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Courts & crime, 1930

11,639 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 250

Twenty Prisoners Wage Fierce Battle in Police Station Cell: Wild Melee One Man May Die Riot in Cell

The Sun · Sunday 26 January 1930 · page 2

More than 20 men took part in a terrific battle in a cell at the Redfern Police Station, last night. When things cooled down, a man, believed to be .! Herbert Fielding, aged 30, of Alexandria, was lying…

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Threats to Kill Crown Witness Who Shot "Barney" Dalton? Dramatic Story of Fatal Gun Play Outside City Hotel Green for Trial on Murder Count

Truth · Sunday 26 January 1930 · page 13

LITTLE did Bernard ("Barney") Hugh Dalton dream when he emerged from an hotel at the corner of Crown and William streets, Darlinghurst, on the afternoon of November 9, that death lurked near. Dalton stepped across the footpath, side by side with Walter Tomlinson, who had left the hotel with him. The shadow of death was upon them, and ere they had walked more than a few paces a bullet…

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Wrong Course at Beginning Coal Dispute Should Have Been Settled by Arbitration Court Judge a Year Ago

Truth · Sunday 26 January 1930 · page 12

WORK first, discuss the matter afterwards, and then readjust if any readjustment is necessary—that has been the big point made out by "Truth" right through the coal dispute, and it is a point supported by Sir Joseph Carruthers, M.L.C., once Premier of New South Wales, a man whose knowledge…

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Young Girl Brutally Assaulted At Scarborough Terrible Ordeal on Lonely South Coast Road Badly Bruised, and Clothes Torn by Man, Who Decamped Police Make Arrest Yesterday

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 26 January 1930 · page 2

WOLLONGONG, Saturday. -- Attacked by a man, who sprang out of shadows and tried to force her to the side of the road, a 17-year-old girl at Scarborough last night put up a desperate fight…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 4

Queen's-square, before the Chief Industrial Magistriate.—At 10 a.m., for hearing: Electrical Trades Union v Railway Commissioners for N.S.W., Jones v Mahon, Cleary v Bardsley, Armstrong v Shaw…

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Excuse for Theft

The Sun · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 9

George Duncop (45), farm laborer, walked into Gorman's shop in Paddington on Saturday and started to walk off with four books and a…

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Film for Gaol Inmates

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 2

"The Four Feathers," Paramount's film of British courage in the Soudan, will be screened at Parramatta Gaol to-day…

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Hungry Man's Theft Paddington Books

Evening News · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 2

"I WAS out of work and hungry." was George Dunlop's answer at the Central Court to-day to a charge of having stolen four books and a knife, of the…

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Alleged Theft. Arrest in Book Shop

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 13

A Binn entered a book shop at Rose Bay on Saturday, inspected several books, and then walked out. Noticing a suspicious bulge in the man's coat, the son of the proprietor…

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Native Plants. Theft From Crown Lands

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 13

The New South Wales Rangers' League has been conducting extensive inquiries in regard to the sources of the huge quantities of wild flowers and native plants which are being…

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Mayor Is Arrested Intimidation Charged at Greta

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 2

BRANXTON, Sunday.-- The Mayor of Greta (Ald. R. Crocker), who is also president of the local miners' lodge, and Aid. J. Berry…

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Bank Manager. Charged With Embezzlement. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 10

Norman Hood Allen, 35, manager of the Mayfield branch of the Government Savings Bank, was charged at the Newcastle Police Court yesterday with having, between June 1…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 4

Before the Registrar.—At 10.15 a.m., Barker v Thomson and another, The Permanent Trustee Co, of N.S.W., Ltd., garnishee; at 10.30 a.m., W. T. Carmichael, Ltd., v Dadley…

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Fight in Cell. One Prisoner Injured. Another Charged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 9

Little improvement was evident late yesterday in the condition of the man who was admitted to Royal South Sydney Hospital on Saturday night suffering from critical…

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To Many Years Hatry Group Sentenced London, Sunday. (British Official Wireless.)

The Labor Daily · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 5

The trial of the Hatry group [?] came to a dramatic termination yesterday. All the defendants withdrew their pleas of not guilty and…

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In the News To-day "The Murder Judge"

Evening News · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 6

SHORT very neat eyes like steel, and a voice like metal, Mr. Justice Avory, who sent Clarence Hatry up for 14 years' penal servitude, is known as…

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Murder Mystery. Second Appeal Allowed. London, Jan. 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 10

The discovery of a thumb-print on a bloodstained piece of cardboard led to an event unprecedented in English criminal law. George Fratson was sentenced to death last…

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Jewellery Found. Owners Sought by Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 10

A man who was arrested by Detective-sergeant Hill and Detectives Emerson and Williams on Thursday was wearing a diamond ring, valued at £200, and a valuable writstlet…

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Police Outwitted Labor Corps Hold a Parade

The Labor Daily · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 6

Following the example set by the miners in the north, the Labor Defence Corps decided that it would [?] the police who were posted…

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Police Escort. Coal Hauled From Rothbury. Branxton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 9

Another trainload of coal left Rothbury early on Saturday morning for Newcastle. The train was under police escort, and made the trip without incident…

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