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Courts & crime, 1933

9,416 stories in Sydney's papers · page 59 of 250

Colonel Charged London

Truth · Sunday 19 February 1933 · page 24

COLONEL MICHAEL HOGAN, of the Free State Army, and brother of the ex-Minister for Agriculture, also inspector Edward O'Connell, of…

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Police Chief

The Sun · Sunday 19 February 1933 · page 2

Mr. L. Logan, police chief and fingerprint expert, who has been studying fingerprints in Sydney, is returning to Papua on Wednesday, by…

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Skidding Into Court Slippery Surface Claim Succeeds

The Sun · Sunday 19 February 1933 · page 9

Because the Berlin Municipal Authorities laid down a street with a slippery surface, a motorist secured a judgment…

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Divorce Sets Her Free From Murderer Mister Clark's Wife Gets Decree Prisoner Now in Goulburn Gaol

Truth · Sunday 19 February 1933 · page 9

MEMORIES of one of the most ghoulish cases of wife-murder numbered among the criminal records of this Continent…

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Her Perpetual Silence . Court's Queer Rule for Woman

The Sun · Sunday 19 February 1933 · page 11

The divorce court possesses a jurisdiction which is little known to those who read its doings in the daily papers, and…

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Workless Declare Dole Needs Street March If Police Give Permission

The Sun · Sunday 19 February 1933 · page 3

Demands for double dole, withdrawal of the dole questionnaire, free boots, transport and medical supplies, no evictions or seizures of…

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"UNDESERVING" Milk Board Member In M't'um Court

Truth · Sunday 19 February 1933 · page 13

A MEMBER of the Milk Board and of the Legislative Council, Joseph Michael Martin, did not put in an appearance at the…

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LEAPT 35 Feet to Safety Sensational Escape From Club Police Raids

The Sun · Sunday 19 February 1933 · page 1

When police raided a Castlereagh-street club frequented by Greeks yesterday afternoon, four men climbed out of the…

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N.Y. Police Swarm to Guard Roosevelt Unprecedented Scenes At Ferry "1000 P.c." Safety Guarantee New York

The Sun · Sunday 19 February 1933 · page 5

Mr. Franklin Roosevelt's return to New York late yesterday afternoon was marked by unprecedented police…

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Woman's Terrible Death Husband For Trial on Murder Charge Remarkable Evidence Given at Inquest Into Shocking Loxton Tragedy "I Have a Lady Friend: She Is Married"

Truth · Sunday 19 February 1933 · page 15

INTO Loxton, peaceful centre of a big wheat-growing district, on the bantu of the picturesque Murray River, has intruded the grim hand of tragedy. A frightful stirring of human passion has subsided and the hideously battered body of a murdered wife has passed from sight, while the other figures in a terrifying drama of death continue…

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Callous Clarkes ambushed and Murdered Police Four Special Constables Shot Down by Young Fiends Desperado Brothers Spread Terror, but Had Many Friends

Truth · Sunday 19 February 1933 · page 16

INDUSTRIOUS PIONEERS OF THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH IN THE COMPARATIVELY EARLY DAYS HAD A GREAT DEAL TO PUT UP WITH. FOR, AS IN ALL SPARSELY SETTLED LANDS, WHERE CIVILISATION WAS TINGED WITH THE…

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Business Man Alleges Blackmail—Amazing Legal Drama "I Can Trust My Husband"—is Intense Outburst of Wife Woman Swoons In Court After Imputations Of Unbecoming Conduct Grocer Denies He Whispered "I Love Those Big Black Eyes "

Truth · Sunday 19 February 1933 · page 13

BLACKMAIL charges—swirling allegations surrounding a man and the wife of another—denials. CAUGHT in the vortex of this amazing story, a little white-moustached Annandale grocer vehemently protested from, die witness-box that he did not whisper the pulsing phrase, "I love…

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HABITUALS Criminals Kept In Gaol

The Sun · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 10

To be declared an "habitual" is the sentence feared most by the hardened criminal…

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Police Courts. Shoplifters Convicted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 6

At the Central Police Court on Saturday, John Jackson, 36, printer, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for having stolen 100 handkerchiefs from Buckingham's, Ltd…

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Inspector Dead Was Shanghai Police Officer

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 7

While undergoing an operation on Saturday Mr. William Jones, formerly Inspector of Police at Shanghai, died under the anaesthetic…

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Told Police Underworld "Fixer" Murdered Denver (Col.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 1

Joe Roma, a leading underworld "fixer," was found murdered last night within a few hours of visiting the police for the purpose of giving…

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Risked Death Men Jumped 35 Feet to Escape Police

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 7

Jumping 35 feet to the roof of another building when a Greek club in Castlereagh Street was raided by police on Saturday afternoon four…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 February 1933 · page 6

Queen's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate.—At 10 a.m.—For hearing: Hunt v Transport Commissioners for New South Wales (three cases), Gray v Cleland, Mills v Grant…

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Many Radio Sets Three Men Charged with Theft

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 February 1933 · page 8

At the Sydney Sessions yesterday Henry Abrahams, Reginald Mercer, and Jack Cohen were charged with stealing 169 radio sets, 50 chassis,…

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Sent To Gaol

The Sun · Tuesday 21 February 1933 · page 10

George Fletcher, 27, who was sentenced at Glebe Court to-day to six months' gaol on a consorting charge, was stated by Detective-Sergeant…

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