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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

8,976 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 250

Gaol Plot Desperate Plans Thwarted Timely Action

The Sun · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 7

OFFICIALS believe that the damaging of thousands of pounds worth of machinery was included in…

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Extensive Thefts. Four Men Charged. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 4

The arrest of four boys to-day by Romastreet plainclothes officers following depredations over school holidays. South-side homes. business offices, garages, shops, and the…

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"The Kennel Murder Case" (Warner Bros.)

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 8

GIVE WILLIAM POWELL the chance to exploit the role of a detective, or of a…

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For Trial On Murder Charges AUCKLAND

The Sun · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 5

William Alfred Bayly, 28, farmer, was committed for trial to-day on a charge of having murdered Samuel Pender Lakey, and his wife…

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Police Stifle In Thick Uniforms

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 18

POLICE uniforms were strongly criticised yesterday by several city constables as being far too heavy for this climate, with…

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Desperate Outlaw Is Taken Broke Out of Gaol: Killed and Robbed

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 1

TUCSON (Arizona), Friday. JOHN DILLINGER, desperate Indiana gaol-breaker, killer, and outlaw, whose charmed life…

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JAY-WALKING Motorists Will Help Police

The Sun · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 8

"Judging from the tone of letters received from N.R.M.A. members, motorists in general will give every assistance to the police in their…

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Film Scene Taken in Court

Nepean Times · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 5

Considerable excitement was caused at the Darlinghurst, Sydney, Criminal Courts the other day, when, during the hearing of a case in which Dr. everard,…

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A Court That Cares for Children

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 7

SHE'S pretty, despite the rouge and the home handiwork on her eyebrows; she's a tinsel copy of a film…

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Razor Used on Woman Assailant Sought by Police

The Labor Daily · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 1

Detectives and uniformed police are searching for a man in connection with the alleged razor-slashing of Ethel Lee, 35, of Burlon Street,…

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Crisis at Parramatta Gaol Hardened Men "Try-out" New Governor Leaders of Unrest Removed Others on Bread and Water

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 1

A CRISIS at Parramatta Gaol, which threatened to have its climax in the rioting of desperate prisoners, has been overcome by salutary action by the newly-appointed…

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About a Gun Detention Claim Against Police Way He Handled Gun Settled It

Nepean Times · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 1

Silvio Dalmaso, of St. Marys, was successful at Penrith Police Court on Wednesday, in a claim for possession of a gun that had been…

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Despicable Deeds Of Douglas's "Double" Hurdle Hoop Calls in Police Impostor Pops It Over

Sydney Sportsman · Saturday 27 January 1934 · page 1

IF a dark-complexioned, sleek-haired middle-sized young man should happen to introduce himself to you as Hurdle…

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From a Rambler's Notebook Convict Gaol

The Sun · Sunday 28 January 1934 · page 2

WHILE staying at Bowral for our holidays we paid a visit to Berrima Gaol, situated about eight miles out of Bowral…

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SENTENCED to Death "I Was a Spy" Series...... No. 8

Truth · Sunday 28 January 1934 · page 11

FOR over two years Marthe McKenna was a hospital nurse for the Germans in occupied Belgium—and a spy…

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Human Bones and Blood Man Committed on Murder Charges

Truth · Sunday 28 January 1934 · page 1

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Saturday. AFTER one of the longest and most dramatic lower court hearings in the history of the…

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New Police Eight Had To Be Specially Built

The Sun · Sunday 28 January 1934 · page 17

Metropolitan Police Superintendent, W. H. Mackay, admitted yesterday that he did not know much about racing eights or all…

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Death Lurks in Sleep Tablets Coroner's Grave Warning Our Antiquated Drug Laws Powerless Police

The Sun · Sunday 28 January 1934 · page 10

During the week a Coroner's Court case showed that a woman died from an overdose of sleep-producing tablets. Sydney's drug-selling laws need revision. There is ample evidence in favor of far stricter control of…

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Nazis' Ill-treatment of Jews Now Systematic Hitler As Chief Inspirer Sons Flogged Before Father's Eyes Violent Court Scenes London

The Sun · Sunday 28 January 1934 · page 5

The Nazi persecution of the Jews, although its most sanguinary period has passed, has become a systematic and progressive part of the Hitler regime, says a special correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian."…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 January 1934 · page 5

Queen's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate.—At 10 a.m.: For hearing: Smyth-Kirk v Marshall. Dean v Birmingham and another, Pollard v Jennings (two cases), same v Jordan,…

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