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Courts & crime, 1938

8,297 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 250

U.S.A. Supreme Court. New Deal Supporter Nominated. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 9

President Roosevelt has nominated Mr. Stanley F. Reed, the Solicitor-General, to succeed Justice Sutherland as a member of the Federal Supreme Court…

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Industrial News HEARlHG to Be Resibied Dtspute in Metal Industry Deregistration Move By Employers Federal Court

The Labor Daily · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 7

METAL trade employees through-out the Commonwealth will follow with interest the proceedings before the Federal Arbitration Court…

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Alleged Assault on Woman

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 12

Mrs. Mary Josephine Toohey, 75, was taken yesterday from her home in Regent Street, Paddington, to St. Vincent's Hospital, where she had four stitches inserted in a wound in…

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Cattle-stealing Charge Youth Bound Over Liverpool

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 10

David C. Easterbrook, 22, a Liverpool youth, appeared at the Liverpool Police Court to-day charged with stealing 13 head of cattle from…

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Young Husband Wants to Go to Gaol

The Sun · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 3

A 24-year-old husband asked Mr. Reed, S.M., in the Central Police Court to-day to send him to gaol for six months so that he Would be separated from his wife. He was Donald Leslie Matthews…

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Friendly Police Guidance

The Sun · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 1

The police must treat the public with the utmost courtesy, particularly during the celebrations period; and…

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Stevens Reinstates Police

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 4

SYDNEY. — Stevens (Premier) announces that Detective-sergeant A. Dimmock and Detectives J. Law and W, S. Tyler, who were…

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MAN 65, for Trial Coroner Finds Murder In Windsor Inquest Child's Death; Alleged Statement to Police

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 7

ALFRED SPICER, 65, a gardener, was yesterday committed for trial by the Hawkesbury Coroner (Mr. H. S. Johnston) on a charge of having murdered Marcia Hayes, 6, at Windsor, on Christmas Eve…

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Drumhead Court Maritals

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 1

ALL marriages in Dusseldorf registry offices will in future be accompanied by music…

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Trades Hall Fight. Police Intervene

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 11

A free fight developed at the conclusion of a meeting of the Sydney branch of the Municipal Employees' Union last night. As members weie leaving the Trades Hall…

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ROWING. Police Crew for Championship

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 15

The crew which will represent the Police Club in the Champion Eights of N.S.W. on January 29 is:— W. G. Cross (bow[?], T. Brennan ([?]). J. Walsh ([?]. J. McFarlane (4). M. Wood ([?]), W. J. Jordan (6)[?]…

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Pensioners' Lodges. Praise for Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 7

The third annual conference of the Old Age and Invalid Pensioners' Funeral Lodge, held in the Darlington Town Hall, endorsed the action of the executive in increasing…

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Police Courts. Thefts by Woman

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 7

At the Central Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Sutherland, S.M., Lucy Esther Dyson, 32, domestic duties, was charged with having stolen on January 14 a wristlet watch,…

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Police Quell Trades Hall Brawl

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 2

Police were called to the Trades Hall last night to quell a brawl between opposing factions of the Municipal Employees' Union…

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Sequel to Chase by Police Patrol Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 6

Saturday night's chase by a police patrol car through Carlton streets had a sequel in the City Court today when Bernard Fleming, 20…

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Court to Sit Again at Campbelltown Liverpool

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 10

The Attorney-General, some months ago, approved of a Court of Quarter Sessions being re-established at Campbelltown to relieve the…

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Law Notices. Tuesday, January 18, 1938. Commonwealth Arbitration Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 7

Before his Honor Judge Beeby.—At Commonwealth Arbitration Court, Darlinghurst Court House.— At 10 a.m.—Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen's Association of Australasia, in re Ammonia…

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Police Censors for B. H. P. Camera Snatched Picture of Port Kembla Unemployed

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 4

WOLLONGONG, Jan. 14.—Photographs of the unemployed Port Kembia have been confiscated by the police. A photographer who took pictures of the unemployed looking for a job at the pick-up place of the Port Kembla Steel Works…

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Supreme Court. in Divorce. (Before Mr. Acting Justice Edwards.) BOOKALLIL v BOOKALLIL

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 7

Naseeb Bookallil v Henrietta Bookallil, formerly Smith. Marriage, June 26, 1929, at Newtown. Issue desertion. Decree nisi. Messrs. Edgley, Son, and Williams appeared…

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"Pyjama Girl" Verdict Tragedy Still a Mystery Coroner's Praise For Police More Inquiry Albury

The Sun · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 1

The coroner (Mr. C. W. Swiney) to-day returned a verdict that the "Pyjama Girl," an unidentified woman, about 25 years of age, died from" injuries to the skull and brain, apparently feloniously and…

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