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Courts & crime, 1933

9,416 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 250

Too 'Loud' for Bellevue Police Polite on Color Question

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1933 · page 9

THE aesthetic taste of Woollahra aldermen has been offended by the color of the police sub-station at Bellevue Hill. The…

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District Court. (Before Judge Edwards.) Sale of Business

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 February 1933 · page 10

Grace Nevil Green, of Oxford-street, Sydney, sought to recover from Miriam Hockey, of Oxford-street, Sydney, £350 as liquidated damages for an alleged breath…

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Stirred Fires of 1917 Rail Rivals in Court

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1933 · page 11

SLUMBERING fires remaining from the great railway strike of 1917 were stirred by charges of rival railway unions in the…

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"Leave Court" Judge's Order To Prosecutor NEWCASTLE

The Sun · Wednesday 8 February 1933 · page 14

A brush between Judge Sheridan and the Crown Prosecutor (Mr. B. V. Stacey) at the Quarter Sessions today culminated in the Judge telling…

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Police Agent. Evidence in Betting Case. Measures to Prevent Recognition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 February 1933 · page 14

A curious incident occurred while Joseph Collins, described as a police agent, was giving evidence in a betting case at the Central Police Court yesterday…

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Marched Him to Police at Gun-point Husband Arrests Offender

The Sun · Wednesday 8 February 1933 · page 14

MARCHING William Randle, 31, a laborer, up the main street of Camden at the point of a gun,…

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Power Taken From the Equity Court? Issue Raised in Seamen's Case

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1933 · page 10

WHETHER the Industrial Arbitration Act has taken from the Equity Court the power to intervene in disputes between a…

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Supreme Court. Full Court. (Before the Chief Justice, Sir Philip Street, Mr. Justice James, and Mr. Justice Halse Rogers.) Verdict Reduced. Dean v Smith's Newspapers, Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 February 1933 · page 10

The appeal by the defendants, Smith's Newspapers, Ltd., against a verdict for £1000 awarded to the plaintiff, Maud Elizabeth Dean, in an action for libel tried before Mr…

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Police Evidence Is Defence Licensee Is Cleared of Alleged Breaches of Liquor Act Lodgers' Rights

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 8 February 1933 · page 6

A CHARGE preferred against Herbert Lancelot Robinson, licensee of the Trades Hall Hotel, City, of having kept his bar open…

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Opinions on Nature of the Deity K.c. Cites Them in Court Appeal

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1933 · page 10

"HE abolished hell with costs, and took from the clergy their last hope of everlasting damnation," quoted Mr…

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Law Report. High Court of Australia. (In Chambers, before Mr. Justice McTiernan.) Divorce Appeal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 February 1933 · page 10

In the divorce appeal Hugh Lawton Bartlett v Ada Pearl Bartlett, Hugh Lawton Bartlett (appellant) asked for an order to reduce the security, for extension of time to lodge the…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 February 1933 · page 6

Queen s-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate.—At 10 a.m.—For hearing: Greenlees v Labour Papers. Limited: Spenc v Ebzery…

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Laborer Sentenced

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 February 1933 · page 11

"We believe this man to be the master-mind responsible for a number of other robberies," said Det.- Sergeant Sly, of Parramatta, at…

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Gaol for Thief

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 9 February 1933 · page 6

Thomas Edward Foster (22), at the Parramatta Police Court yesterday, pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen a pair of trousers, a woollen sweater,…

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Gaoled for Stealing Yale Locks

The Labor Daily · Thursday 9 February 1933 · page 4

"There's quite an epidemic of this wort of thing at the present time, and the defendant makes a practice of it," remarked Sgt, Toole, at…

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Extravagance Magistrate's Reproof to Photographer

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 February 1933 · page 10

Mr. McMahon, S.M., reproved a man in the Moratorium Court yesterday for what the magistrate termed "extravagance in good times."…

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Further Remand in Assault Case

The Labor Daily · Thursday 9 February 1933 · page 4

A further remand until February 16 was granted the police at Central Court yesterday, when Edward O'Brien, 40 mechanic appeared…

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WITHDRAWN Charge Of Attempted Murder

The Sun · Thursday 9 February 1933 · page 17

When the case of Patricia Day, 25, charged with attempted murder, was called at the Central Police Court to-day, the police prosecutor (Sergeant…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 February 1933 · page 6

Before his Honor Judge Edwards, in No. 1 Court, at 10 a.m.: Beale and Co., Ltd., v Rorke, to be mentioned; Perpetual Trustee Company (Ltd.) v Roebuck and another, to be mentioned; Raff v…

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Relief Tax Stamps Clerk Admits Theft From Council

The Sun · Thursday 9 February 1933 · page 19

By using relief tax stamps, supposed to have been cancelled, and keeping the money, John O'Brien (39), stole £102 between August and…

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