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Courts & crime, 1937

8,720 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 250

Mr. Norman Peach Denies Allegations by Police. Driving Charge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 14

Before Mr. Reed, S.M., at the Kogarah Police Court yesterday, Alfred Norman Peach, 47, estate agent, was charged with having driven a car while under the influence of…

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Law Notices. Monday, February 8. Commonwealth Arbitration Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 10

Before his Honor Judge Beeby.—At Commonwealth Arbitration Court, Darlinghurst.—At 10 a.m.: The Australian Boot Trade Employees' Federation v Atlas Boot Co., Ltd., and others, for…

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ENGINEERS. Court Refuses Hearing. "N0 Coercion." Shops Reinain Open

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 17

In the Arbitration Court yesterday Judge Beeby said that, for the time bein?, he would not consider the Amalgamated Engineering Union and…

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Policeman Injured. Escorting Woman to Police Station. Knocked Down by Motor Car

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 17

When Sergeant Magill, of the Redfern police, was taking a woman to the Redfern police station early this morning he was knocked down by a motor car at the…

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Supreme Court. in Divorce. (Before Mr. Acting Justice Owen.) DAVIES v DAVIES

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 10

John Llanover Davies, of Manly, petitioned for an order for restitution of conjugal rights by Jessie Lilian Davies (formerly Virgo), to whom he was married on March 27, 1908,…

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Collision Inquiry Captain's Denial to Court "Did Not Leave the Bridge" Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 2

A DENIAL that he had left the bridge of the Caradale from the time his vessel left until it came into collision…

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Law Report. Federal Arbitration Court (Before Judge Beeby.) Metal Trades Award. Harbour Shops Strike

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 10

His Honor, after a long discussion, said that, for the time being, he would stand over, generally, the applications by the Amalgamated Engineering Union and the…

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Reform of Supreme Court in U.S.A Roosevelt's Message to Congress Washington

The Sun · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 1

SWEEPING reorganisation of the Federal judiciary will soon be proposed by President Roosevelt, it is Understood here. He will send a message to Congress asking for power…

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Strikers "Out of Court" Judge Refuses to Hear Claims of Engineers' Unions "May Choose Remedy--strike or Arbitration"

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 7

"WHILE unions are on strike, they cannot have access to this Court," said Judge Beeby in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court yesterday. He stood over applications by the Amalgamated…

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Board Reserves Decision In Police Appeals Cases of Chuck and Bailey Handled 12,000 Cases Says Sergeant Report on S.P.

The Labor Daily · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 8

DECISION was reserved yesterday by the Police Appeals Board --Judge White, Superintendent Chinner and Inspector Gavin --in the appeals of Sergeant C. J. Chuck and Constable E. Bailey against their dismissal from the Police Force following the report…

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Arbitration Court Provokes Further Unrest Conciliation Power Was Not Used Engineers Excluded From Hearing Of Claims Mass Meeting of Men

The Labor Daily · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 1

INSTEAD of using the conciliation functions of the court in relation to the engineers' dispute in Sydney waterfront workshops, Judge Beeby, in the Federal Arbitration Court yesterday added further provocation to the unrest already existing throughout the metal industry by discriminating between the unions and refusing…

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Sentenced

The Sun · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 1

Karl Radek, Russian journalist and revolutionary, who escaped the death sentence in the recent Moscow trial, but will have to…

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Businessman Bound Over for Assault on Lift-driver "Nose Squashed a Little," Said Police Witness

Truth · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 17

"THE nose appeared as if it had been squashed a little!" remarked a police witness in respect of Charles Fordham, a lift-driver and caretaker employed by W. A. Rigney, King-street, who at the…

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Police Raid on Club

Truth · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 12

FOLLOWING upon allegations by a starting price raiding squad that they discovered an elaborately prepared gambling…

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"Darby" Munro Denies His Wife's Charges Of Assault "I Did Not"

Truth · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 17

"DARBY" MUNRO, Australia's best-known jockey, at Central Court last week, gave a complete denial to his wife's allegations that he had assaulted and…

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Girls Assaulted Children's Stories to Police

Truth · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 15

A STARTLING story was told to Newtown police last night by an eight-years-old girl, who was examined by the Government Medical Officer and later taken to Royal…

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Strong Comment by Court Inquiry Into Mine Disaster London

The Sun · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 4

The Socialist Party proposes seeking a debate in the House of Commons on the report of the court of inquiry on the Gresford colliery…

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N.Y. Police Wages War On Car Minders New York, January 9

The Sun · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 4

Fifteen years ago a handful of nimble-witted youths residing in the West Forties conceived the bright idea that by volunteering to "mind" the motor cars that parked nightly in the theatrical district a goodly harvest of tips might be reaped…

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Artarmon Wife & Other Woman Glasses Broken in Scuffle at Car Fifty-fifty, Said Magistrate Eternal Triangle Crops Up at North Sydney

Truth · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 10

THE presence of the eternal triangle was obvious in a case heard before Mr. Parker, S.M., at North Sydney on Friday, when Minnie Jordan sued Dorothy Constance…

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They Needed a Propeller Police Display Far From Arresting Mosman Takes the Title

Truth · Sunday 7 February 1937 · page 7

THE police were well and truly beaten on the Nepean River yesterday in the Championship Eights of New South Wales, a title won last year when George Mackenzie was the coach…

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