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Courts & crime, 1933

9,416 stories in Sydney's papers · page 37 of 250

Rudd's Part Police Chief's Thanks

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 3

Appreciation of the part played by Mr. Stuart Rudd in the arrest of a man who was subsequently committed for trial…

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Dragged by Motor Cycle Old Man Hurt; Young Rider Charged

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 7

Dragged for 10 yards by a motorcycle that struck him at Central Square yesterday, John Sbrocchi (62), of Redfern Street, Redfern, was…

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Police Care Too Much for Farmer

The Sun · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 15

A farmer from a central-western town, on his first visit to Sydney for a number of years, will return to his farm to-morrow with a confused…

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Police Beat R.a.c.a

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 2

The State's fast bowler, Gordon Stewart, held no terrors for the police cricketers at Hampden Oval yesterday, when the R.A.C.A. played against the Police. There…

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The Doukhobors. Deportation of Leader On Release from Gaol. VANCOUVER, Jan. 31

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 9

A message from Prince Albert (Saskatchewan) says that Peter P. Verigin, aged 50, the leader of 15,000 Canadian Doukhobors (Nudists) is speeding across Canada to-day…

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Scene in Court. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 10

At Bathurst Quarter Sessions Norman Stanley Baker, one of four Lithgow accused who were charged with breaking, entering and stealing declared he had seen some of the…

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Sentences Totalled 31 Years Forger Pleads Guilty to Charge of Stealing Aged Only 49

The Labor Daily · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 8

WITH a criminal record of 31 years' imprisonment against his name, Max Lanthelme, 49, engraver, appeared at the Quarter…

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Maintenance of Wife Peer Must Pay Up or Go to Gaol London

The Labor Daily · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 1

THE West London magistrate ordered Lord Langford, who formerly resided in Australia, to pay £96 [?]…

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Jump From "Black Maria" Prisoners Escape in Sight of Gaol Tore the Roof

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--While 20 prisoners sang and shouted, and scraped their handcuffs on the iron bars of…

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National Park Murder Inquest. Dramatic Evidence. Tom Ugly's Point Incidents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 9

Two dramatic incidents occurred in the City Coroner's Court yesterday, when the inquest into the death of Elizabeth Isabel O'Connor, 16, of Holden-street, Redfern, who was…

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Did Not Murder His Child Insanity Defence in Canberra Trial

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wednesday.--Bertram Edward Porter, 25, an unemployed sheet-metal worker, gave no sign of having heard the Jury's verdict…

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Court Writer Missed This Quick Swiss

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 8

"TO zuppair I have shust sit down, when ze police in zey come! Noddings will zey hear, and--poof--zey take me away."…

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To-day's Courts Commonwealth Arbitration Court

The Labor Daily · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 8

Before Judge Beeby, at No. 1 High Court, Darlinghurst, at 10.45 a.m.: Australian Textile Workers' Union and Foy and Gibson Pty. Ltd., application…

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Textile Union's Claim Arbitration Court Hearing

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 11

After Judge Beeby's inspection of working conditions in several woollen mills, hearing was continued In the Federal Arbitration Court yesterday…

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Lottery Prize Gives Police a Clue. LITHGOW

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 10

The holding of a half-share in a ticket which recently won the £5000 prize in the State lottery is likely to contain a degree of misfortune for the man who holds it…

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3 Years' Gaol for Ex-lawyer Failed to Observe the Conditions of His Release Defaulted

The Labor Daily · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 6

A SENTENCE of three years' imprisonment was passed on Lionel William McDonald, 40, former solicitor, at the Quarter…

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Domain Speaker in Court Appeal Against Conviction

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 11

"This case involves some very important principles," declared Mr. Piddington, K.C., before Acting Judge Nield, In the Appeal Court yesterday,…

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Oil Can at Inquest Witnesses Face to Face with Craig Park Murder

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 7

Placed on the edge of the witness-box, a one-gallon oil can, in which a man was given petrol at Tom Ugly's…

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Plenty of 13s At Haymarket First-Class Mystery Melodrama Murder and Madness

The Labor Daily · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 10

HAYMARKET: "The Thirteenth Guest," with Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, "McKenna of the Mounted," with Buck Jones…

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Heard Him Breathe How Police Found Suspect Two Arrests

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 7

By the arrest of two men yesterday police hope to clear up 100 robberies in suburban bouses…

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