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Courts & crime, 1933

9,416 stories in Sydney's papers · page 51 of 250

INCENDIARISM In New Guardsman's House. Police Statement About Communists

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 13

The Parramatta District Coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clark) yesterday returned a verdict of incendiarism after inquiring into a fire which damaged an unoccupied house in…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 10

Ciceley Cumming Raff, of Spit-road, Mosman, sued Samuel Lee Rogers, also of Spitroad, Mosman, for £200 damages for alleged breach of agreement regarding the purchase…

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Crowd at Test Rush Gate Officials Swept Aside Police Called Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 3

The crowd at the Cricket Ground was orderly enough as crowds go, but the luncheon adjournment saw the Queensland…

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Land and Valuation Court. (Before Mr. Justice Pike.) Nyngan Land Appeals

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 10

This was an application by the Minister for Lands, asking his Honor to state a case for the Supreme Court on certain questions concerning the ascertainment of the value…

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Let Banning of Book Go to Court Minister Willing to Have Test Case

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 7

CANBERRA, Friday.--"Will you agree that there should be no appeal by either side against a decision of the Court of Petty…

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Man Did Not Stab His Wife Bloodstained Scissors Exhibited in the Court Queer Story

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 5

A PAIR of blood-stained scissors --narrow bladed, sharp pointed--such as dressmakers use, was the principal exhibit at the…

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His Interrupted Story of Test Justice Boyce Allows Petitioner to Leave the Court Back to 'Mike' Had to Broadcast the Description of the Match

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 5

REALISING that the ears of all Sydney would be listening-in to the Test match broadcast, Mr. Justice Boyce yesterday Permitted…

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Law Report. Court of Criminal Appeal. (Before the Chief Justice, Sir Phillp Street, Mr. Justice Halse Rogers, and Mr. Justice Stephen.) REX v GRIERSON

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 February 1933 · page 10

Mr. P. N. Roach, solicitor, asked that the appeal of Paul Grierson should stand over for three weeks. Grierson was convicted at the Sydney Quarter Sessions in December of…

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Mail Theft Theory

The Sun · Sunday 12 February 1933 · page 2

CAIRNS, Saturday.--The fact that three bags of registered mall were not touched inclines the police to believe that the rifling of two bags of…

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Four Months' Gaol Salvation Army Member's Lapse

Truth · Sunday 12 February 1933 · page 18

FOUR months' gaol was the sentence imposed upon Salvation member Keith Alfred Biden by Mr. H. H. Farrington, S.M., at…

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Eileen's Court Carnival Naughty Kicker Of Policeman

Truth · Sunday 12 February 1933 · page 10

IT was pretty Eileen Fox's "big day" at the Central Police Court last Thursday, when she was convicted of no fewer than eight at nine charges…

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Trials of a Telephone Combination Match-making Bureau, Police, Ambulance, Postal and Railway Receiving Depot

The Sun · Sunday 12 February 1933 · page 29

There are a lot of people who think a telephone is a convenience. It is. To other people…

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Cash Prize Stories Purple Certificate to Nathalie Taylor (18), Police Station, Gilgandra. Holiday Adventures In The Bush

The Sun · Sunday 12 February 1933 · page 3

AFTER 12 months' hard study for the Q.C. Examination Jim Glover and I decided that during the holidays we would do something quite…

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Milk Scandals Are Too Noxious for Judges! Refuse Commission; District Court Judge Now Sought Appalling Allegations Rife

Truth · Sunday 12 February 1933 · page 14

SUPREME COURT judges have declined to become involved in the great milk graft scandal. THE Government, finding itself unable so far to secure a Supreme Court judge for the proposed inquiry into the Milk Board…

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Tense Hours While Craig Awaits Trial Turns to Religion How Man Charged With Two Murders Spends Time In Remand Yard Young Wife Permitted to See Him for Twenty Minutes Each Day

Truth · Sunday 12 February 1933 · page 15

ERIC ROLAND CRAIG, the good-looking young ex-artillery soldier, who has been accused of two of the horrifying park murders, has re-embraced his religion…

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To Meet the Marquis, the Earl, the Baron Families Connected with Henry, the Beheader of Wives Famous Thaw Multi-Millionaire Murder Recalled Society Here All Aflutter

Truth · Sunday 12 February 1933 · page 16

DUE in Sydney this week is George Fronds Alexander Seymour, the Most Honorable the Marquis of Hertford, Earl of Herlford, Earl of Yarmouth, Viscount Beauchamp, Baron Ragley, Baron Conway of Ragley, Justice of the Peace for the county of…

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Married On Brink Of Death — Two Murderers Die Together Either Grand or Jones Might Have Saved the Other's Neck Australian Crime Stories No. 8 Auburn Hotel Murder Went To Doom In Silence After Shooting Down Auburn Constable In Cold Blood

Truth · Sunday 12 February 1933 · page 22

EARLY ON THE MORNING OF JANUARY 19, 1903. A TOO-COURAGEOUS CONSTABLE ATTACHED TO THE AUBURN POLICE STATION, NAMED SAMUEL LONG, WAS FATALLY SHOT JUST AS HE ENTERED THE OPEN DOOR OF THE ROYAL HOTEL AT AUBURN. A BURGLARY was being attempted by some desperate criminals, and instead of three or four constables being sent to arrest…

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Woman Killed. Husband Charged with Murder. ADELAIDE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 February 1933 · page 10

With three terrible wounds in her head, the dead body of Mrs. Hertha Elizabeth Weber, 32, of Loxton, was found this afternoon in the back yard of the house of her mother, Mrs…

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Clerk Charged

The Sun · Monday 13 February 1933 · page 8

Sydney Smith, 42, clerk, was remanded to February 16 on £100 bail, at the Central Court to-day, on a charge of conspiring, between May 1,…

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Jardine "Tried" and "Sentenced" Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Monday 13 February 1933 · page 3

JARDINE occasionally unbends and becomes human Naturally he was delighted with the perform…

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