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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

8,720 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 250

Youths Met by Police Left Homes to Seek Their Fortunes

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 5

Felice offcers met the Zealandia from Tasmania yesterday and took into custody two youths who had left their homes in Hobart to seek their…

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A Line-up in Court Two Committed for Trial

The Sun · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 14

A line-up for the identification of a man was held during the hearing of a case today at Glebe Court…

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New Turn in Mystery Old Swag Outside Police Station MELBOURNE

The Sun · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 13

A new turn in the invesigation of the Wedderburn mine shaft murder mystery to-day was the finding outside the Wedderburn police station…

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Grim S.P. 'Racket' Breeding Gangs of Parasite Gunmen Police Concern Over Crime

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 1

S.P. betting in its present form -- uncontrolled and underground -- has developed in Sydney a vicious "racket,"…

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Law Report. Commonwealth Arbitration Court. (Before Mr. Justice Drake-Brockman.) Railway Electrical Trades

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 6

An application was made on behalf of the Electrical Trades Union for variation and/or interpretation of the New South Wales Railways (other than traffic) award. It was asked…

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Twelve Soviet Miners Murdered By Trotskyists Awful Crimes Revealed in Soviet Court Common Cause With German Fascists

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 2

We are able to make available the evidence in the trial of the Nazi agent, Herr Stueckling, and the Trotskyite terrorists, recently held in the Soviet Union. Two miners died, poisoned by the gases, and ten more were killed in the explosion caused by…

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Greenaway Vanishes in Thin Air N.S.W. Police Baffled Task of Solving Pit Mystery Inquiries Transferred To Sydney New Clue of Swag

The Sun · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 13

THE mystery of Mr. P. A. Greenaway's where abouts has deepened. Police believe he can help them to identify the man whose skeleton was found in a pit at…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 9

132 George-street North (corner Argyle-street.).— Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate.—At 10 a.m.: Stokes v Dale, Ryan v W. T. Coggins. Limited: Inspector Dunleavy v Brenchley, same…

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Alleged Assault

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 14

Lionel White, 36, of Gosforth-street, Cronulla, was found suffering from head injuries, including probably a fracture of the skull, at his home last night. The St. George…

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Theft From Presbytery

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 8

Gaining access to St. Joseph's Presbytery. Edgecliff, over the week-end, a thief entered the room in which Father Mark Connaughton was…

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Police Were Locked in Detective's Story In Court

The Sun · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 18

Two men running out of a warehouse looked the door on policemen who had hidden themselves inside, according to evidence given to-day…

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Charged With Abandoning Baby

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--A woman was arrested at Belmont today and charged with having abandoned the baby found in a lane at Hamilton on…

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Murder Case Meeting Doctor's Police Account N.s.w. Quest Is Intensified

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 2

A VICTORIAN farmer, who is being sought to identify the victim of the Wedderburn mine shaft tragedy, met by…

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Bismarck Goes Back to Gaol Darwin

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 4

In the Police Court before Mr. Pigott, S.M. on aborigine named Bismarck, who has spent 10 years of the past 26 years in gaol, was…

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Double Murder Theory Melbourne

The Sun · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 1

IS a woman's body also buried somewhere in the bush at Wedderburn, near the shaft from which the skeleton of a murdered man was…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 9

Before the Deputy Registrar.—At 10.15 a.m.: O'Brien v Forsyth. At 11.40 a.m.: Smith v Gallard…

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Court Sidelights

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 8

PROSECUTOR: Was the duck dressed? Witness: Yes. Solicitor: When a duck is dressed, it…

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Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 9

Prothonotary's Office.—Before the Clerk of the Supreme Court.—At 11 a.m.: Cairns v Cairns. At 2.15 p.m.: Chapman v Chapman. Before the Chief Clerk in Divorce.—At 10 a.m.: Pinlay v…

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Red Editor May Go to Gaol London

The Sun · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 15

It is reported from Moscow that the fate of M. Bukharin, who has been dismissed from the editorship of "Izvestla," one of the leading…

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Commonwealth Arbitration Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 9

Before his Honor Judge Beeby, at No. 1 High Court. Darlinghurst.—At 10.30 a.m.: The Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association and ors. and the Federated Clerks' Union of Australia and also…

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