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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1931

8,409 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 250

Bullet Through Chest Husband For Trial Charged With Attempting to Murder Boarder

Truth · Sunday 8 February 1931 · page 13

TWO men, one of them with a bullet wound in his chest; a woman; police; the hospital where dying depositions were taken in the spluttering light of a hurricane lamp—and then the committal of one man of a charge of shooting with intent…

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"Murder Party" is Sydney's Latest

The Sun · Sunday 8 February 1931 · page 1

OF a hostess wants to send her guests away from a party vowing that they had never had such a time, let her suggest the famous "murder game." It is Sydney's latest…

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Tennis Court Beauty Lore

The Sun · Sunday 8 February 1931 · page 3

HOW to protect the complexion from the ill-effects of such a strenuous game as tennis (especially in a hot climate), is a problem that constantly faces the woman player. Joan Lygett, the well-known tennis star, asserts that if a girl applies…

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Further Probe by Dept. Sequel to Court Acquittal

Truth · Sunday 8 February 1931 · page 14

THAT deliberate lies had been told against her by a police constable from the witness-box was the startling allegation made…

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Crazed Man Smashes Two Windows Woman Swoons Police Make Arrest

The Sun · Sunday 8 February 1931 · page 5

A drunken man is alleged to have created such a din in Codrington-street, Darlington, yesterday afternoon, that a very sick…

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Tore Shirt Off Metho. Man's Protest at Arrest Singlet in Court

Truth · Sunday 8 February 1931 · page 13

MOST men are content to just get their shirts off when they are annoyed. But John Williams is different…

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Who Assists Sydney's Opium Ring? Drug is Banned, but Plenty of Dens Keep Police Raiders Busy Elaborate Dixon St. Dive

Truth · Sunday 8 February 1931 · page 20

LARGEST raid for some time on Chinese gambling and opium dens was that which last week landed over SO Chinese at the Central Court on charges ranging from gaming, to the possession and smoking of opium…

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Frantic Fight in Boiling Surf Forty Boys in Dire Peril Saved by .Heroic Surf Boat Crews at Bronte's Carnival Police 'Phone Pilot Ship, Captain Cook

Truth · Sunday 8 February 1931 · page 6

WITH the shadow of tragedy hovering over forty young surf swimmers, the make-believe and soldier-like precision of Bronte's surf carnival was soon swept away yesterday. A FEARFUL sea, boiling surf and cross currents calculated to…

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Died Before the Police Came She Took Her Secret to the Grave Young Domestic at Kensington Taken to Coast Hospital a Man, a Maid, and a Mystery

Truth · Sunday 8 February 1931 · page 18

ONCE again an unwanted babe has sent an expectant but reluctant mother to an early grave. AT the Coroner's Court on Friday the City Coroner (Mr. May) inquired into the tragic death of a young domestic who was…

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Long Bay Women Strike over Kate Leigh! Angry Scene When She Accused a Prisoner of Informing Harridan of Underworld Pelts Musicians at Prisoners' Concerts; Comedies That Make Gaol Life Easy More Ex-Prisoners Add Stories of Old Woman's Domination of Female Prison and Her Contacts With Outside

Truth · Sunday 8 February 1931 · page 13

IT didn't take old Kate Leigh long to find out that "Truth" had protested last Sunday that she was enjoying liberties to which she was not strictly entitled as a prisoner undergoing a sentence in Long Bay Gaol for…

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Judge Thompson Amazed at Court Demonstration "Did Not Take Child to His Hut!" Lithgow Miner Denies Serious Allegation by Fifteen-Year-Old Girl Crowd Applauds Verdict of Jury She Said She Tried to Cry Out

Truth · Sunday 8 February 1931 · page 14

FREDERICK TAPP, a neat-looking miner, of Lithgow, thin in the thatch, and by no means dressed in the height of fashion, sat in the dock at the Bathurst Quarter Sessions, before Judge Thomson and a jury, charged with having committed a serious offence on a girl aged 15 years and 6 months. TAPP, who is about 45 years of age, pleaded not guilty, and throughout the hearing nervously wrung his hands at…

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Not Charged with Stealing a Maitland Case

The Labor Daily · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 5

Our Maitland correspondent advises that an error was made in the transmission of a message sent to the "Labor Daily" on Tuesday last…

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Cattle Stealing

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 6

Francis Knott, at the Parramatta Quarter Sessions an Wednesday, was charged with having stolen six cows, the property of Samuel B. Jones, at Penrith,…

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Twins Born in Gaol Sequel to Murder Verdict Public Outcry London

Evening News · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 1

Mrs. [?] Wise who was [?] to death for the murder of her [?] child at the Old Balley, a [?] ago but subsequently…

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Aged Victim of Assault Identified

Evening News · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 7

Some doubt has arisen as to the identity of the old man, generally known as "William Rowan," who died in a lodging house in [?] on…

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Three Youths Fined For Assault

Evening News · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 5

James Carey, 21, Jack Johnson. 21, and Henry Ernest Johnson, 21, laborers, were each fined £10, in default two months' gaol, by Mr. M'Dougall. S.M…

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Remand on Murder Charge

The Sun · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 7

Charged at the Newtown Police Court to-day with the murder of Guiseppe la Spina, on January 26, Vincenzo Malaporte, aged 33, was…

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Charged with Treason. London, Feb. 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 9

Surprised while engaged in military drill at a farmstead near Cappawhlte, Tipperary, 20 Irishmen fied. They were pursued by detectives, who at daybreak secured four and…

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Kept Promise Smashed Shop Window Gaol Now

The Sun · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 8

For breaking a window at Sargent's shop, 71 Castlereagh-street, on February 4, John Miller (59), laborer, was to-day sentenced at the…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 7

Before his Honor Judge Edwards and Juries, in No. 1 Court.—At 10 a.m.: Maher v Clift. Tinter V Vallack. Note: The list will be called over punctually at 10 a.m…

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