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Courts & crime, 1933

9,416 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 250

Gaol and Fine for Shoplifter Assaulted Shophand and Inspector

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 9

Charged with having assaulted Margaret Jackson, shop Inspector, and Herbert Allen, shop assistant, and with having stolen 25…

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Shots Fired Charge Of Intent To Murder

The Sun · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 13

Alleged by the police to have shod at John Snow with intent to murder him in Darlinghurst on Sunday night, Patricia Day, 25, domestic, was…

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Police Courts. Husband Assaults Wife

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 6

At the Parramatta Police Court yesterday Oswald Hazilngton Graham, 21, a smallgoodsman, was charged with having assaulted his wife and having caused her malicious bodily…

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'Plane Crash in Flood Water -- --Craig for Trial for Murder

The Sun · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 18

Above: THE pilo[?] escaped serious injury when an Aero Club Moth crashed…

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Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 6

Before the Deputy Industrial Registrar.—At No. 2 High Court. Darlinghurst.—At 2 p.m.—National Union of Railwaymen of Australia: Application for registration as an organisation (part heard)…

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For Wife Husband's Plea In Court

The Sun · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 4

Pleading for the release of his wife from custody, a grey-headed man in the Central Police Court to-day, declared brokenly that he…

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Mystery Man of C.i.b. Disappears Foul Play Feared; Women's Story of Assault

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 1

FEARS are held that the mystery man of thy C.I.B., a special constable, whose name has never been made public has…

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Pistols Slip; Bullets Hurt Two Police CALCUTTA

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 6

TWO British police-sergeants, Baker and Adams, who are in adjacent beds at Calcutta Hospital, were involved in a…

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Police and the Crowd No Trouble Feared by Commissioner

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 9

"The merits or de -merits of leg- theory bowling are not for me to discuss offcially," said the Commissioner of Police (Mr. Childs) yesterday…

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Police Box for Rose Bay Council to Proceed with Lease

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 8

Protests against the leasing of "The Lodge," Rose Bay, for use as a police station, were received from residents by the Woollahra Council…

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Car Did Not Stop, Police Say Man Knocked Down Near Bridge

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 9

While crossing Pacific Highway, near the Bridge, late last night, George West (28), of Berry Street, North Sydney, was struck by a car…

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Commonwealth Arbitration Court. (Before the Deputy Registrar.) Application for Registration

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 6

Further hearing of the application for registration, made by the National Union of Railwaymen of Australia, was adjourned till 2 p.m. to-day, owing to the indisposition of Mr…

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Mounting Toll of Influenza Surgeon Is Dead: Footballers Ill Police Victims London

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 1

Sir Percy Sargent, one or Britain's foremost surgeons, died to-day from an attack of influenza. The epidemic is…

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Favors Rum Runner New Decision of U.S. Court WASHINGTON

The Sun · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 1

THE U.S. Supreme Court ruled to-day that British or Canadian suspected rumrunners cannot legally be…

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Two Bullets Hit Melb. Man at Kings Cross One Charge Pierces His Back, Other in Sleeve Woman Held Affray Was Sequel to Quarrel, Say Police

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 5

WHAT is believed by the police to have been a long-standing quarrel was brought to a-climax on Sunday night at a party in…

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Assault on Police. Two Brothers Charged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 8

At the Kogarah Police Court yesterday, Vincent Anthony Stevens, 24, a presser, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for having assaulted Constable King at…

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Petrol Theft Alleged

The Sun · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 13

BATHURST, Wednesday. -- Paul Briggs, share farmer, of Brewongle, and John Symonds, unemployed, were committed for trial from the local…

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MURDER on the LAMP-POST!

The World's News · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 8

YOU know, darling, it must have been the surprise of his life for that milkman! Just quietly walking along the…

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Police Courts. Alleged Personation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 8

John Henry Chipchase, 32, motor driver, was charged at the Central Police Court yesterday with having assumed the designation of a sergeant of police at Sydney on January…

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Park Murder. Coroner's Comments. "A Fiendish Crime."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 12

The Cit[?] Coroner (Mr. H. H. Farrington) committed Eric Roland Craig, 25, a salesman, for trial on a charge of murder at the conclusior, yesterday of the resumed inquest into…

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