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Courts & crime, 1933

9,416 stories in Sydney's papers · page 40 of 250

Law Report. Commonwealth Arbitration Court. (Before Judge Beeby.) Textile Workers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 6

His Honor heard further evidence on the application by the Australian Textile Workers' Union for an award. Mr. P. J Sheehan represented the…

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Bosses Taking Advantage of the Workless Pretend to Help Them, Says Industrial Magistrate Wages Claim Butcher's Laborer Is Awarded £9746 Arrears

The Labor Daily · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 7

THIS court cannot lose sight of the fact that sometimes an employer, pleading that he employed an unfortunate worker in order to…

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Solicitor Accuses Sergeant Remarks Regarded As Insult: Apology Demanded Stir in Court

The Labor Daily · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 9

MR. R. M. DUNCAN, a solicitor, figured in a lively scene at Central Court yesterday with the Chief Police Prosecutor, Sergeant…

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Big Murder Plot in Japan Is Discovered Plan to Slay 17 Leading Politicians and Industrialists Youths Held All Members of Blood Brotherhood Are Involved Tokio

The Labor Daily · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 1

DETAILS of a sensational plot to assassinate 17 highest members of the Japanese Government and leading industrialists, including…

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Public Aghast at Murder Trial Woman Says Craig Was with Girl in Motor Car Paroxysm Of Weeping Seizes Mother In Box Dead Girl Who Loved Her Home

Arrow · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 2

WITHIN a week, during the month of December, Sydney public were horrified when the nude and dreadfully battered bodies of two women were found in public parks many miles apart. That of Iris Marriott, better known as May Miller, was discovered hidden under a…

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Two Sisters Fight Losing Legal Battle Sobbing in Court, They Present Pathetic Spectacle Toil of Years Judge Grants Leave to Execute Mortgage Rights

The Labor Daily · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 8

TWO women -- one sobbing brokenly -- caught, through no fault of their own, in the tide of misfortune, and, after years of…

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Dummy Rigged for Officials, Says Counsel Loyalist N.u.r. Grilled in the Arbitration Court "Lot to Gain" Organisation's Rules Already Broken, Is Allegation

The Labor Daily · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 10

"A MERE dummy, rigged for the benefit of a few officials who had displayed themselves in court," was the description given to the…

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Bold Prison Van Escapee Tricks Police Gave Right Name When Caught Without a Rail Ticket Both at Large Authorities Baffled As to Where Tools Came From Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 9

DESPITE an exhaustive search, the police have not yet succeeded in locating Hilton Barclay and William Howard…

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Stevens Is Grovelling to the Loan Council Leg Theory Is Barred by "Firm" Valuable Stock at Cockatoo Further Cuts in Expe'diture Now Certain Massy Greene Raises Bogey of the Next Budget Public Works Federal Gov. Charged with Capitalising States' Burden Melbourne, Thursday. MELBOURNE, Thursday. May Be Gift From Govt. to the New Private Company Sacking Fear

The Labor Daily · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 7

WITH the difficult question of raising the necessary loan money to finance public works in the States for the remainder THOUGH actors and actresses under contract to J. C. Williamson Ltd. are not permitted to play cricket or TWO new features in connection with the lease of Cockatoo Island dockyard to the Cockatoo Docks and…

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At the Police Court (By Rev. Wm. Coleman.)

The Methodist · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 4

There is a dual sense in which those who break the law are caught. So intelligent and efficient is our police force that few can hope indefinitely to escape "the long arm of the law," hence justice…

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No Claimants Theft Proceeds Auctioned

The Sun · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 7

No worried owners stood in the background while unclaimed goods were auctioned in the yard of the Central Police Court to-day. If…

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"Casual" Stockowners. Magistrate's Comments. LITHGOW

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 14

After dealing with cases at the police court yesterday relating to horses alleged to have been stolen, Mr. W. F. Britz, P.M., who was formerly a resident of Nyngan, remarked upon…

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Exciting Chase Alleged Theft From Tailor

The Sun · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 3

Following an alleged theft of a suit length from a tailor's shop in Redfern this morning, three men were captured after an exciting chase…

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Gaol for Horse Thief Crookwell

The Labor Daily · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 10

Leslie James, alias Basil Bosworth, 38, was sentenced to three months' hard labor for stealing a horse…

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Protest Against "Booking" Doing Their Duty, Says Magistrate

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 7

"Immediately I had left a witness to the vestibule of the court this morning detectives 'booked' him for consorting. It seems to me that they…

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Police Courts. Gaming Act

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 10

George Johns, 24, clerk, was charged before Mr. Stevenson, S.M., in the Central Police Court, with using, on January 19, a place situate and known as Corbetts, third…

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Court House Statistics

Nepean Times · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 3

During the year 1932 births registered at Penrith Court House totalled 137, deaths 97, and marriages 67 (one performed by the registrar). At the Petty…

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Court Days in Penrith

Nepean Times · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 1

AFTER 1st March courts of petty sessions will be held in Penrith on the first Thursdays after the second and fourth Mondays in each month…

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New Police "Pill-box" Colour Scheme

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 16

Repainting Artarmon police station with yellow and black banda yesterday. The new colour scheme will attract attention to the "pill-box," and so assist the police…

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Tas. Visitor Police Have Urgent News

The Sun · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 3

The Commissioner of Police (Mr. Childs) has asked "The Sun" to appeal to readers to help trace Ray Harton. a Tasmanian visitor, who is…

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