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Courts & crime, 1935

9,096 stories in Sydney's papers · page 69 of 250

Police Call Big Response Likely To-day

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 February 1935 · page 8

Yesterday a big squad of police was hard at work preparing the Showground for to-day's Police Olympiad. If preparedness counts for anything…

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Exciting Chase. Police and Suspected Car Thieves

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 February 1935 · page 16

Police and thieves participated in an exciting chase through streets at Surry Hills last night. Detective-sergeant Lawless and Detectives…

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Mother's Vain Plea Her Boy Had Assaulted Police

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 February 1935 · page 9

TREMULOUS, and dabbing her eyes with a handkerchief, a little grey-haired woman approached a burly detective…

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Racing Cars In City Chase Men Elude Police

The Labor Daily · Saturday 23 February 1935 · page 8

FOLLOWING a chase at 40 miles an hour by police after a stolen car at Surry Hills last night, the fugitives' car crashed into a wall and a number of men escaped. DET.-SERGT. LAWLESS, Delcc-…

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Law Notices. Monday, February 25. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 February 1935 · page 12

Term List.—In the Banco Court, at 10 a.m.: Motions generally. Equity appeals: Morley v Williams and others; re John Pringle and Co., Ltd., and Companies Act…

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Firm Knew of Man's Lapse Judge Asks Police to Inquire

The Labor Daily · Saturday 23 February 1935 · page 8

A arm is to be respected and admired that will take a man on and give him employment knowing what he has done," said Judge Thomson,…

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Law Report. Federal Bankruptcy Court (Before the Registrar.) Public Examinations

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 February 1935 · page 12

Re Bernard Denziel Davis. Bankrupt examined by the Official Receiver (Mr. P. W. Wette) under section 68. said he was a clerk and lived in Corona-avenue, Waverley. He sequestrated…

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In Bush Body of Man Not Foul Play Police Clues Newcastle

The Sun · Saturday 23 February 1935 · page 5

FROM a superficial examination of the skeleton, and evidence which they have obtained, police are inclined to…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 February 1935 · page 12

Reserved judgment was delivered in the reference by the Minister for Lands of the Warialda Land Board's decision in respect of 28 confilcting simultaneous applications for…

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Supreme Court. Full Court. (Before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Jordan, Mr. Justice Stephen, and Mr. Justice Street.) Taxation Appeal. Scott v Commissioner for Taxation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 February 1935 · page 12

The Court reserved judgment on this appeal, which raised the question whether £7000 awarded to Augustus Wright Scott as compensation for unexpired term of office as…

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Secret History of the Day. Paid Not to Play Mr. Lyons' New Accomplishment. Magistrate Becomes A c c e s s o r y-- The Barrister's Carbuncle

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 23 February 1935 · page 19

WHEN a Sydney business Lothario found his wife at several Bohemian gatherings to which he brought his handsome typist, he…

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Coroner Says Police Right To Shoot Constable's Action Was Justifiable Man Wounded At Sutherland And Died Girl's Story

The Labor Daily · Saturday 23 February 1935 · page 5

THE constable in the legal execution of his duty was justified in his action, said the City Coroner, Mr. Oram, yesterday at the…

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All Caused by a Couple Of- Bottles Rumor of Man's Death Stopped Trains 'Body' in Court

The Labor Daily · Saturday 23 February 1935 · page 7

TRAFFIC was disorganised, trains passed under the Wentworth Road bridge between Burwood and Strathfield at a a[?]…

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GOSSIPS Appendicitis Attacks the Force-- Wicket-keeping Record-- Milestones In Archbishop Kelly's Career--Galvanising Dead Pubs. P.C. No. 1 of Victoria's Police

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 23 February 1935 · page 13

CHIEF Commissioner of Victorian police, Brig.-Gen. SIR THOMAS BLAMEY, who became O.C. of Melbourne…

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More Pages From My Notebook of Crime. Gasp of Surprise in Court Girl Slayer Acquitted by the Jury Burglar Frame-up Believed Then Confessed

The Labor Daily · Saturday 23 February 1935 · page 10

CAREFUL search reveals no precedent in British jurisprudence for the actions of the jury--eight men and four…

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Stop Press Assault Alleged

Truth · Sunday 24 February 1935 · page 16

A man staggered into the Redfern Police Station last night, complained that he had been assaulted, and fell unconscious. He was…

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"Diamond" for Girl Penniless Youth's Theft

Truth · Sunday 24 February 1935 · page 19

BECAUSE he was penniless and wished to give a ring to the girl he was going to marry, Harry Burwood Shipley, a Carley Vale…

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After Party Fatal Motor Car Drive Youth Charged

Truth · Sunday 24 February 1935 · page 19

"DEATH was, the Crown suggests, the sequel to a somewhat discreditable party," said Crown Prosecutor Berne at the…

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Mercy Cry From Gaol My Child! Mother Serving Life Sentence

Truth · Sunday 24 February 1935 · page 23

BY a strange coincidence, simultaneous with the development in the Morey case, comes a letter to "Truth" from…

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Racehorse in Court Story

Truth · Sunday 24 February 1935 · page 21

AN alleged attack by two jockeys and a clerk upon a woman and the seizing of the New Zealand race horse Supreme…

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