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Courts & crime, 1931

8,409 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 250

Stealing Charge

The Biz · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 4

Walter Pascoc and Dudley Shaffer were charged at Liverpool Court this Thursday with stealing a sulky valued at £30 from Paul Sylvester O'Brien,…

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Alleged Theft

The Propeller · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 6

Malvin Champness, 18, motor driver, was charged with stealing clothing and a camera from a motor car. The defendant was fined £5, in default one…

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Wine Licensee Charged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 6

Charged with having received two boxes of cigarettes, knowing them to have been stolen, George Sandwell, 42, wine licensee, of Elizabeth-street, appeared at the Central…

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Alleged Stealing of Meat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 6

Leslie Alexander Jackson, 31, a butcher, was committed for trial from the Kogarah Police Court yesterday on a charge of having had in his possession a quantity of meat…

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Assault Charge HUSBAND & WIFE

The Biz · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 1

At Parramatta Police Court on Friday last Albert David Paterson, who lives at Woodville-road, Guildford, was charged with assaulting…

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BURGLARY. Old Woman Roused from Sleep. HOBART

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 12

Early yesterday morning a man roused Mrs. Annie Boston, 80, from her sleep by holding a torch over her face ond then calmly proceeded to deprive her of belongings valued…

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Kogarah Police Court. Tuesday, January G, 1931.(Before Mr. Perry, S.M.)

The St George Call · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 2

Charged with having at Sutherland, on December 2, broken and entered the shop) of J. T. Nelson and Son, Ltd., and stolen money and tobacco, valued at…

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Police Pester Communists

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 6

ADELAIDE. January 3.—While members of the Adelaide Tramways Concentration Group of the Party were distributing copies of the “Tram…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 6

Before the Deputy Registrar.—At 10.15 a.m., Stennard ats Milliard; at 10.35 a.m., Bannerman v Economos…

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Alleged Theft of Meat. What Happened at Miranda

The Propeller · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 3

Leslie Alexander Jackson, 31, a butcher, was committed for trial from the Kogarah Police Court yesterday on a charge of having had in his possession…

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Adelaide Gaol a Capitalist “BLACK Hole” Shameful Conditions

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 6

ADELAIDE January 3—At present the Hill “Labor” Government has two working-class prisoners in the Adelaide gad—Comrades Gordon Brown…

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Kogarah Police Court. Tuesday, January 6, 1931. Before Mr. Perry, S.M. Robbed Orchards

The Propeller · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 6

Frederick John Milton, 19, labourer. was charged with stealing a quantity of pears, valued at 5-, growing in the garden of Archibald Nixon, at…

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Federal Bankruptcy Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 6

Before the Chief Clerk in Bankruptcy, at Supreme Court Building, Elizabeth-street.—Taxation of costs: Re S. W. Webb, 10 a.m. Settlement of minutes: Re Harvey Phillip Paull, 10.30 a.m…

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Workers Gaoled Police Terror Renewed

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 6

That the word of a Labor government can never be trusted by the RANKers is once again demonstrated SHOPe renewal of the police terror in…

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Women Police. Their Work Abroad

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 4

Foreign countries are gradually recognising the value to the community of women police, and lost year was a record one in the matter of appointments. England has probably the…

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Callous Motorist. Sought by Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 5

Police are searching for a motorist who knocked a man down in City-road, Darlington, on Wednesday night and then drove away without stopping. Francis Leslie Kieley, of…

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Lang's Henchmen Use Police Against Unemployed

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 3

Mr. W. Nickson, an unemployed Labor supporter, complained last week that although the Assistant Minister for Industry (Mr. Ely) had promised…

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Fiendish Murder. Girl Burnt to Death. LONDON, Jan. 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 12

Evelyn Foster, a pretty brunette, aged 28, daughter of a garage proprietor, was found dying beside her blazing motor car on a lonely moor near Otterburn, a few miles from the…

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Coining Plant Melb. Police Raid Melbourne

The Sun · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 7

Police raided a house in King William-street, Fitzroy, to-day, and in the upstairs bedroom of a lodger, it is alleged, seized a…

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Chicago Murder Arrest Sequel To Shooting Of Pressman CHICAGO

Evening News · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 1

THE capture of the alleged murderer of Mr. Albert Lengle, the crime reporter on the Chicago "Tribune," has been announced by Mr. Pat Roche, the…

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