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Courts & crime, 1931

8,409 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 250

Attacked Wife with Razor Startling Police Allegations

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 7

GOULBURN, Wednesday.--When Francis Patrick Rudd (50), was charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm upon his wife, Jessie…

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Agents for Gang? Police Search for Girl Housebreakers

The Labor Daily · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 5

Believed to be advance agents for a gang of expert housebreakers, two girls, who broke into the home of Mr. Geo. watts. Waterloo, early yesterday…

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Three Biggest Inquests of 1930; Coroner Sums Up Tragic Fire; Murder; Treasure Trove

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 2

The Old Year has gone, and with it 785 lives, ended by man's agency. Some of the victims were…

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Test Case Moratorium Mortgaged Premises Appeal to Court

The Labor Daily · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 5

THE first application to the Courts under the new Moratorium Act has arisen out of an endeavor to restrain a mortgagee and a magistrate…

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Police Promotions Good Work Brings Reward in City and Country

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 7

The following promotions in the police force have been notified:--Sergeants 2nd Class to be Sergeants 1st Class.--E. H. Sampson, Griffith[?]…

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Decisions of Rail Men Police Methods Wage Cut Objected to

The Labor Daily · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 6

MR. E. A. CHAPMAN, State secretary of the Australian Railways Union (N.S.W. Branch) reports that the following resolutions have been…

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Basic Wage. Reduction Opposed. Mr. Grayndler Addresses Court. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 7

Mr. E. Grayndler, general secretary of the A.W.U. argued before the Full Arbitration Court to-day that a reduction in wages guaranteed no increase in employment…

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Christmas Rations. Minister's Wife Calls for Police. Food Alleged to Be Wasted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 7

The Assistant Minister for Labour (Mr. Ely) asserted yesterday that a number of men had called' at his home and so frightened his wife that she was competed to send for the police…

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Burden of Sin Too Much Man's Fervent Prayers Attract Police New York

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 4

William Capehart made such a fervent appeal for the forgiveness, of his sins at a Salvation Army meeting at Oklahoma City, that he…

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48-Hour Week. State Employees in W.A. Arbitration Court's Finding. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 8

The State Arbitration Court to-day delivered the minutes of the order in the final section of the case in which the Government applied for an amendment of the award covering…

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Girl Finds Bodies of Parents Story in Court S. Austn. Shooting Youth for Trial Adelaide. (Wednesday.)

The Labor Daily · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 1

VERY clearly, in spite of her intermittent sobs, Frances Eileen Dally gave evidence before the coroner to-day…

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Figures of Rota Marriage Court Refute Calumny. OF 58 Causes Heard Only 20 Unions Declared Null. Paris, October 28

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 39

Complete refutation of the off-repeated assertion that large sums of money find their way into the Vatican coffers from the purses of the rich in return…

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Strange Story of Bank Robbery Attempt Related in Court at Melbourne Elaborate Plans Prepared Five on Trial Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 5

Unfolding like a sensational novel, the story of an alleged attempt to rob a bank was related at the City Court to-day…

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Wild New Year Gang Menaces Darlinghurst Homes Orgy of Bonfires in Streets Fences and Kerosene to Feed Flames Police and Firemen Called Out

Evening News · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 1

NEW YEAR celebrations in Darlinghurst took a serious turn early this morning, when a band of more than 200 young men and women started great bonfires in the middle of the streets…

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Murdered His Family for Sake of Insurance, Is Police Theory Diabolical Plot Revealed Suicided When Discovery Imminent Cast Responsibility on Dead Boy Perth

Evening News · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 3

RANKING with the foulest crimes in history is the police theory of the shocking tragedy which cost four lives on a farm in the Bruce Rock district. All the indications point to one of the most…

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Wages Reduction Will Not Help People Throw More Workers Out of Their Employment National' Income Drop Fed. Court Inquiry Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 1

ADDRESSES WERE CONTINUED TO-DAY before the Full Arbitration Court, inquiring into the basic wage. Mr. E. Grayndler, general secretary of the Australian Workers' Union, said he was handicapped because the graziers relied on evidence given…

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Law Notices. Friday. January 2. Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 January 1931 · page 4

Qucen's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate.—At 10 a.m.—For hearing: Sinclair v Wakefield, Ambrose v Knowles…

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Assault After Hotel Scene

Evening News · Friday 2 January 1931 · page 5

ON charges of having [?]ted Constable Bird and John Keith Walker, licensee of the Lord Roberts Hotel, Francis Mason, 27, was…

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Labourer Guilty of Theft. Young

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 January 1931 · page 10

The mystery surrounding a series of petty thefts was cleared up when the police paid a visit to a farm near Young, and arrested Albert Miller, 26, labourer. It is alleged that…

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GIRL, 14, Charged with Murder of Parents Amazing Sequel to S.A. CRIME Said She Was Sick of Home, Police Allege "Butchery Planned Weeks Before" Adelaide

Evening News · Friday 2 January 1931 · page 5

A STARTLING sequel to the Kumorna murders last Tuesday, when a farmer and his wife were shot dead was the arrest to-day of their 14-years-old daughter. Frances Eileen Verdon Dall…

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