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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

8,976 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 250

Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1934 · page 5

In chambers.—Prothonotary's Office.—Before the Deputy Prothonotary.—At 11 a.m.; Minister v Minty; 12 noon, Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board v Curotta and anor.; 2.30…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1934 · page 5

Before his Honor Judge White and juries.—In No. 1 Court.—At 10 a.m.: Stephenson v Emery. Horne v M. McNamara, Ltd., Illingworth v the Commissioner for Railways for New South…

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Country Police. Reorganisation Planned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1934 · page 8

A reorganisation of country police stations in the north-eastern part of the State, with a view to effecting economics, has been planned by the Commissioner of Police (Mr. Childs)…

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Police Commissioner at Tennis

The Labor Daily · Monday 12 February 1934 · page 4

The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Childs, wielded a tennis racquet officially on Saturday when [?] served the first ball on the newly[?]…

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Federal Bankruptcy Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1934 · page 5

Before the Registrar in Bankruptcy.—At Commonwealth Bank Building. Pitt-street and Martinplace.—At 10 a.m.—Federal Bankruptcy Act.— Public examination; Re Raymond Lancelot…

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Police Inspector Retires. Orange

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1934 · page 10

After more than 40 years in the police service, Inspector E. W. Christian, who has teen stationed at Orange for two years has retired. At the police court, his service was…

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Japanese Judges. Four Sent to Gaol. Association with Communists. TOKYO, Feb. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1934 · page 9

The Tokyo District Court sentenced four Judges of the District Courts of Tokyo and other widely separated cities to imprisonment ranging from three to eight years, and one…

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Two Arrests Police Find Car Tyres Worth £200

The Sun · Monday 12 February 1934 · page 8

More than £200 worth of allegedly stolen motor tyres have been recovered by Detectives Eraser, Larkin, Lamb and Brown, of the C.I.B., and…

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Gum Law Court To Chew It Over

The Sun · Monday 12 February 1934 · page 9

The Pull Bench of the Industrial Commission will have to decide whether chewing gum is confectionery. The matter was referred to it…

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Axe in Court Relief Worker Loses Case

The Sun · Monday 12 February 1934 · page 11

With an upraised axe in his hand, a city barrister, with slow, determined steps, advanced towards Judge Perdriau and Messrs. Halliday and…

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Boy's Death Shot With Pea-Rifle Police Find Letter

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 12 February 1934 · page 2

With a bullet wound in his chest, Roy Edgar Eagles (17), of Macquarie-street, Parramatta, was found sitting up against a fence on a vacant allotment off…

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Charge Dismissed Alleged False Pretences Piano-tuner in Court

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 12 February 1934 · page 1

Having effected certain repairs to a player piano, Darrell O'Hara (26) received £4 from Mrs. Avis Bransford at Lidecombe on January 15…

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Law Notices. Monday, February 12. Hiqh Court of Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1934 · page 5

Original Jurisdiction.—Before his Honor Mr. Justice Evatt.—In No. 1 High Court.—At 10.30 a.m.; Bardolph v the State of New South Wales (part heard)…

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"Caned" No Court Martial Farm Boys Inquiry Resumed Leeton

The Sun · Monday 12 February 1934 · page 8

CONTINUING his evidence when the Yanco Welfare Farm inquiry was resumed to-day Kenneth Cummans, an officer of the…

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30 Armed Police In Chase Over Roof-tops 8 SHOTS Three Constables Injured Two Arrests Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 12 February 1934 · page 7

EIGHT shots were fired and two men arrested in a sensational three-hours roof-top chase in the city…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 February 1934 · page 6

Queen's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate.—At 10 a.m.—For hearing: Defena v Loschiavo, Scarpignato v Merlino, Lumby v Forsyth, Pizry, and Gates, Hanna v same, Maloney v…

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Sheep Stealing Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 February 1934 · page 9

On a charge of stealing 86 sheep, the property of J. D. Saul and Sons, on December 3, 1933, John Edwin Fitzgerald Burns, 22, a drover,…

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Assault on Father

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 13 February 1934 · page 6

Charged at Redfern Court yesterday with having unlawfully assaulted his father, Edward Hunt, at Pitt Street, Redfern, H[?]t Edward…

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Gaol for Stabbing

The Sun · Tuesday 13 February 1934 · page 11

In sentencing Dominico Costa (33), a fishmonger, at the Quarter Sessions this afternoon to 23 months' imprisonment for having stabbed a…

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Four Years "Vicious Criminal" Sentenced

The Sun · Tuesday 13 February 1934 · page 11

Charles Marshall, 44, a carpenter, who had been previously convicted in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, and who was described as "a…

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