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Courts & crime, 1931

8,409 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 250

TELEGRAMS. Police Interference. "Will Not Occur Again." Meleourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 11

Referring to the incident in New South Wales when a detective seized a telegram in the telegraph office on the Randwick racecourse while investigating evasions of the new…

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How a Criminal Made Laughing Stock of Police Obtained Passport Without Any Difficulty Police System Badly in Need of Overhaul Watched Detectives on the Wharf Unexpected Chance Favored Police at Last Moment

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 3

SOMETHING must be radically wrong with a police system that permitted a well-known crook like Naughton, wanted for absconding…

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Preference Challenged Waterside Workers' Case in High Court

Daily Pictorial · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday.--The action of the Federal Government last week in issuing a regulation under the Transport Workers' Act providing for…

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Crooned, Sucked on Gap's Edge Police End Lunatic's Orange "Whoopee"

Daily Pictorial · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 3

He sat on the edge of the Gap last night with his bare feet dangling over a 200 feet drop, crooning to himself and sucking oranges…

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Police Rake Sly-grog, S.p. Fines £15,000 Total

The Sun · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 3

It is estimated that raids on sly-grog shops and starting price betting establishments add about £15,000 a year in fines alone to State revenue…

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Did Girl Conspire to Murder Parents? Astonishing Story at Adelaide Diabolical Plot Alleged Dual Shooting Adelaide

The Labor Daily · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 1

In the minds of the world's most lurid writers of sensational fiction, there has been born no more astonishing and monstrous…

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Tragedy of Horror Pitiful Story of Human Frailty Ocean Catastrophe So Strangely Linked with Sydney's History Cannibal Yacht Skipper Who Died, Later, of Bubonic Plague Near City's Waterfront Murder No Murder in the Eyes of British Courts of Justice

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 12

ABOUT 30 years ago, horrid with bubonic plague, a Sussex Street…

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Attempt on Auburn Theatre Safe Man in Court High Explosives As Exhibits Case for Trial

The Labor Daily · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 5

GELIGNITE, detonators, revolvers and ammunition Jemmies and torches were. exhibits at Parramatta Police Court…

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High Court Restrains Fed. Govt. an Injection Preference on the Waterfront New Regulations Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 5

IN the High Coart Chambers this afternoon; Mr, Justice Starke, on the application of the employers of waterside labor, made an order…

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Startling Developments Promised In Elwood Murder Mystery Detectives Discard Old Theories and Find Simple Solutions in a Dream Mystery Woman's Vivid Reconstruction of Crime

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 8

FREUD holds that dreams are but a repetition, perhaps in an inverted form, of some experience in the waking state. The same philosopher's dream interpretations also refer almost without exception to a libido of some kind. In the practical experience of detectives or police who do not go to Freud, Jung, Stekel, or any other European psycho-analysts, the dreams and portents that are repeated to them in the course of their investigation may have no…

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Midnight Orgy of Fierce Riots in Bombay Streets Nearly 200 Injured in Several Clashes With Armed Police Patrol CALCUTTA

Daily Pictorial · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 4

The New Year was ushered in at Bombay with serious riots, during which nearly 200 persons were injured,…

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Two Constables Murdered at Bondi Junc. Shooting: Knifing Horror Suspect Critically Wounded By Police Bullet Sensational Pursuit of Armed Man

Evening News · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 1

A CONSTABLE was shot dead and another was shot and knifed to death at Bondi Junction shortly after 9 a.m. to-day. They were: CONSTABLE NORMAN THOMAS ALLEN, of Waverley…

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Maniac Kills Two Police at Bondi Junction Shot: Stabbed Went to Death When Duty Called Amazing Double Tragedy Murderer Screams and Struggles in Ambulance

The Sun · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 1

His eyes ablaze with fury, a maniac, resembling a gorilla in stature, committed two of the most crazed murders in police history at Bondi Junction soon after 9 a.m. to-day. Pursued by Constable Allen, of Waverley, after the madman had threatened a member of the staff of Mick Simmons's store at Bondi Junction, the fugitive turned swiftly and levelling a rifle he had carried under his arm, shot the…

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Bag Snatched Three Men Charged Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 4 January 1931 · page 7

Early this morning detectives raided houses at South Yarra and North Melbourne, and recovered £123 10s, which is alleged to be cart of the…

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Smiling Little Miss on Murder Charge Police Say She Deliberately Plotted to Kill Her Parents Amazing Dual Personality?

Truth · Sunday 4 January 1931 · page 10

A GIRL of fourteen, plump, rosy, radiant with health, her hair still in pigtails, her sunny smile known and welcome through all the district where she lived with her father and mother upon a peaceful homestead—this is one side…

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Camera's Story" of Bondi Junction Murder Horror

Daily Pictorial · Sunday 4 January 1931 · page 1

MANIAC'S GRIM rifle range where he practised often before his terrible murders yesterday morning at Bondi Junction. MORBID CROWD in…

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Kissed Pal Police Farewell Morgue Scene

The Sun · Sunday 4 January 1931 · page 2

A close friend of Constable Andrews, one of the victims of the frenzied gunman at Bondi Junction yesterday, visited the Morgue…

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Death Edict Kennedy's Delusions Feud Against Police Dying Depositions

The Sun · Sunday 4 January 1931 · page 1

"My reason for having shot the police was that, having passed sentence of death on them, I saw that sentence was executed according to…

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Police Hurt in Pursuit of Cyclist Guns Blazed in Chase Bluebird Accident

The Sun · Sunday 4 January 1931 · page 2

In what the police describe as the worst case of reckless driving on record, a constable was seriously hurt, and a sergeant slightly…

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Brilliant Crook at Last Run to Earth Planned to Rob Big City Bank, Say Police

Daily Pictorial · Sunday 4 January 1931 · page 2

Shadowed for a week, his every movement known in detail, a brilliantly clever crook was yesterday pounced on by the police. He is…

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