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Courts & crime, 1933

9,416 stories in Sydney's papers · page 54 of 250

Maltese in Court Police Raid on Gardens

The Sun · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 9

Following a raid on a market garden at Pendle Hill by Detective- Sergeant Bowie, Constable Lee and Detective McCarthy, last night, three…

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Rival Launches. Nearly a Collision. Police Court Prosecution

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 10

The Navigation Department proceeded against Charles Henry Rosman, of Mosman, at the Central Police Court, for that, being in charce of the motor boat Royal, the…

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Arrest Follows Theft Baradine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 14

A motor car owned by Mr. B. B. Harris, forestry officer, was ransacked. A complete camping outfit and a set of tools were taken. Constable Livermore arrested a man who has…

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Gaol Breaker Complete Short Story

The World's News · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 27

AS a small boy Jimmy Benn lived almost under the gloomy, grey shadow of Lentonville Prison. For two…

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Escaped Bullets and Goes to Gaol

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 5

A chase after a suspect at South Kensington on the night of January 18, during which seven shots were fired, was described by Constables…

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Invalid Robbed Drinking Companion Who Joined in Assault

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 11

An invalid pensioner, Colin Muir, 24, of Lauderdale Ave., Manly, early last night, was set upon by three men and robbed in Goulburn Street,…

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Police Courts. Stole Bicycle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 10

During the hearing of a case at the Central Police Court yesterday it was stated that 1500 bicycles weer stolen within the metropolitan area last year, and that already this…

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Shots Outside Gaol Scheme to Release Mrs. Skeffington LONDON

The Sun · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 16

Armed guards, posted at Armagh Gaol, where Mrs. Sheehy Skeffington is imprisoned, saw masked men approaching at 1.30 to-day…

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Police View "Reputed Criminal" Defined-

The Sun · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 17

George Morris. 33, laborer, at the Central Court to-day, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment by Mr. Chapman, S.M., for having, between…

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Bogus Reports Public Money And Police Time Wasted

The Sun · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 16

A considerable amount of police time and public money is wasted by bogus reports of assaults and robberies, and the Commissioner of…

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Police Sports Should Draw Largecrowds Free Tickets for Needy Children

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 11

THERE should be a Test match crowd at the Police Olympiad on March 4, at the Royal Agricultural Ground--20,000 free…

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Fell on Tiger Police Hunter Saved by Well-aimed Shot Calcutta

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 9

The life of Sergeant Adams, of the Calcutta police, was saved by a wellaimed shot during a tiger hunt in the Jalpaiguri district of Bengal…

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Wild Farm Is Scene of Search Drama Police Seek Body of Baby Melbourne

The Sun · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 12

UNDER the direction of Superintendent Considine, an intensive search is being maintained to-day, by…

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Supreme Court. Full Court. (Before the Chief Justice, Sir Philip Street, Mr. Justice Davidson, and Mr. Justice Halse Rogers.) Appeal Allowed. Morrison v Commissioner for Railways

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 9

The hearing was concluded of the appeal by the Commissioner for Railways, defendant in an action in which the plaintiff, Gladys Joseph Morrison, who sued on behalf of…

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District Court. (Before Judge Edwards and a jury of four.) Struck by Motor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 10

Mary Flower,of St. Catherine-street Mortdale, sought to recover from Jack Munro, of The Crescent.Vauciuse, £150 damages for injuries received as the result of being struck…

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Two Charged Alleged Assault and Robbery

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 16 February 1933 · page 7

Stuart Lyndhurst Tyson (25) and Albert Edward Cox (22), at the Parramatta Police Court yesterday, were charged with having robbed John James Le Sueur of a…

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In Bedroom Remarkable Court Story Three Charged

The Sun · Thursday 16 February 1933 · page 16

ALLEGATIONS that Louis Sydney Brown was enticed by a woman neighbor into her bedroom and there…

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Soviet Schools. Assault on Religion

The Catholic Press · Thursday 16 February 1933 · page 26

The latest issue of "New Laud," the Soviet Russian periodical of the "godless" movement published in Harkow, details plans for increased activity by the…

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Gaoled for Stealing Horsehair Inverell

The Labor Daily · Thursday 16 February 1933 · page 6

For stealing a bag of horsehair, valued at £176, from William Haupt, saddler, Weldon Schickerling, alias James Gibbs, 33. was…

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Remand to Melbourne on Theft Charge

The Labor Daily · Thursday 16 February 1933 · page 5

Colin Campbell Miller, 40, fitter, and May Miller. 30, were remanded bourne on February 18, by Mr…

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