Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Courts & crime, all years

Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1933

9,416 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 250

Most Fiendish Murder, Says City Coroner Ronald Craig. for Trial on Charge of Slaying May Miller Wept in Court

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 5

FINDING that May Miller, or Iris Marriott, was murdered by Eric Ronald Craig, 25, at Waverley on December 10, the…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Police " Welcome" For Fair Young Charmer

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 1

POLICEMAN'S lot is not a happy, one, so yesterday when Det[?] R. Kennedy and Detectives Nye, Malone and Zahn were told off to…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Willing to Go to Asylum But S.m. Sent Her to Gaol

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 8

CHARGED yesterday at Central Court with having issued valueless cheques, Lottie Buchanan, 60, told Mr. Cohen,…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Police Secrets Career Of Famous Woman Criminal

The Sun · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 10

Police are usually secretive about the doings at headquarters, especially so in that world-renowned home of crime detection, Scotland Yard…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

Commonwealth Arbitration Court. (Before the Deputy Registrar.)

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

Hearing was continued of an application for registration made by the National Union of Railwaymen of Australia. In answer to Mr. Cummins (who appeared…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Police Looked Like Plumbers Entered Chinese House by Ladder

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 9

Using a ladder, and looking like plumbers, police last night gained an entrance into a house occupied by Chinese in Harbor Street,…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →

Found on Bed, Shot Dead Police Interview Two Men

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--With a bullet wound in his chest, Ronald Orams, 30, unemployed mining draughtsman, was found, fully…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Communists Riot in Cologne Police Kill Three in Charge London

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 1

Three Communists were killed when police scattered a procession marching through the suburb of Ehrenfeld, says the Cologne…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Say She Shot Lover in Back Police Charge Against Woman; King's Cross Wounding Bail of £500

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 25 January 1933 · page 6

FOLLOWING Sunday. night shooting in Royston Place, King's Cross, Patricia Day, 25, peared before Mr. Gibson, S.M., at…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Alleged Theft

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 1

Cecil Ray Kemister (19) and Evan Henry Jones (18), at the Parramatta police Court on Monday, were charged with having stolen a quantity of peaches…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Laborer Sent to Gaol

The Labor Daily · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 1

Sentence of six months' Imprisonment was passed on James Woods, 40, a laborer, at Central Police Court yesterday, for stealing articles…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Lottery Winner Fined for Theft

The Labor Daily · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 1

AFTER cashing a £10 lottery prize yesterday Mrs. Ge[?]rude Ross, 43, commenced on…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Fined 1- or Minute's Gaol!

The Labor Daily · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 7

A FINE of 1, in default one minute's imprisonment, was imposed upon Salvatori Tripodi, 43, a bootmaker, at…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Police Courts. Pensioner Chabged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 6

Charged at the Newtown Police Court yesterday with having made false representation in regard to his invalid pension, William Augustus Irwin Ison, of 113 Railway-parade,…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Postal Employee Sent to Gaol for Fraud Perth

The Labor Daily · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 7

Osmond Detwller Sanderson Key ser, 33 postal employee, was sentenced to six months' hard labor to day when he pleaded guilty to steal…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Police Inquiry. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 10

For the past two days, Inspector Brydon, of Newcastle, has been conducting an inquiry at West Maitland Court-house into matters connected with the local police force. Many…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

Police Hurt in Road Smash

The Sun · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 17

BEGA, Thursday.--A police motor cycle containing Sergeant Glass and Constable Pockett collided with a telephone-post near Bega while…

Continued on Trove, page 17 →

Police Sergeants. Change to Distinctive Uniform

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 10

The Commissioner of Police (Mr. Childs) said yesterday that the uniforms of firstclass sergeants would be altered before the next issue…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

Puffs, Pars & Personals Amazing Police Action

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 11

From an amazing advertisement published in last week's Victorian State "Government Gazette" it would appear that the Police Department in that State…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

Man's Body in Mine. Mysterious Murder Recalled. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 January 1933 · page 9

Police at Cairns have received information that the body of a man has been found in an old mining shaft at Boonjie, where a mysterious murder occurred five years ago. The…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →