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Courts & crime, 1938

8,297 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 250

Police Get Measles

The Sun · Sunday 2 January 1938 · page 2

AUCKLAND, Saturday. -- German measles are prevalent in Auckland and many members of the police force are affected…

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Coroner Praises Police

Truth · Sunday 2 January 1938 · page 11

THE whole year round the City Coroner. Mr. Oram, is concerned with the mystery of death: death by murder,…

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Wedding Ends Gaol Romance Vienna (By Air Mail)

Truth · Sunday 2 January 1938 · page 11

RELEASED from prison, after serving a sentence of 18 years, a Hungarian, Tibor Sztanikovzky, has married on 18-year-old girl in…

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'Cleared-up Crime Tally Will Beat Scotland Yard's' Police Claim Year's Work To Be Satisfactory; 30 Murder Cases Investigated

The Sun · Sunday 2 January 1938 · page 3

Sydney's 1937 report of cleared-up crime will not be as imposing as last year's, but the police claim that it will be satisfactory. "It still will be better than Scotland Yard's, America's and…

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Girl's Body in Sack Old Man Before The Court

Truth · Sunday 2 January 1938 · page 11

A SHORT, thick-set, grey-haired man, Alfred Spicer, aged 65 years, was charged at the Parramatta Police Court on…

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Christmas Celebrants Caught in Cars and Caned in Court

Truth · Sunday 2 January 1938 · page 10

A SAD, sad story of the celebrations that accompanied the Christmas holiday period was told at North Sydney Court last week, when several celebrants faced the magistrate for driving cars while under…

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Police Protection! Randwick's Angry Demonstration Against Billy Boy "Rub 'Em Out," Yelled Frenzied Crowd

Truth · Sunday 2 January 1938 · page 1

NEVER in the history of Australian racing has there been such a…

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Premier Stevens Now Handles the Police Fergusson Is Not to Be Promoted "Truth" Gives Inside Story Of Action

Truth · Sunday 2 January 1938 · page 15

INSPECTOR G. G. FERGUSSON is NOT going to be appointed a police superintendent. "TRUTH" has this information on the…

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Little Widow Faces 12 Charges of Murder Said To Have Poisoned Ten Victims Within Two Years, Using Bequests From Them To Lavish Wealth On Lover LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 2 January 1938 · page 11

A QUIET little white-haired Belgian widow, Marie Alexandrine Petitjean, will soon face the most amazing murder indictment of modern times. A soft-voiced, tender-looking…

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Police Officers Seriously Ill

The Sun · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 12

Three well-known police officers are off duty, owing to illness. Inspector W. Toole, formerly chief police prosecutor, who is one of the…

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Police May Rejoin Force

The Sun · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 2

It is expected that to-morrow DetSgt. L. A. Dimmock and Detectives Law and Tyler, recently dismissed from the force, will be reinstated to…

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Two Murder Inquests Girl And Truck Driver

The Sun · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 3

To-morrow at Newcastle the District Coroner (Mr. Chiplin) will investigate the murder of Dorothy Mav Everett, whose body was found…

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Wholesale Murder Plot In Spain Alleged LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 3

CHARGES thai the Spanish rebels are plotting a large-scale execution of Basque patriots are made by Senor Jose Ignacio de Lizaso. The plan, he alleges, is to…

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Promotion Not Approved Premier And Police Inspector

The Sun · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 2

A minute from the Premier (Mr. Stevens), stating that be does not approve of promoting Inspector George Fergusson to the rank of…

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Police Dogs. Distribution All Over the State. Latest Scheme

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 7

The Police Department is now evolving a scheme for the employment of specially trained dogs throughout New South Wales to track missing persons…

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Wider Powers for Police Bomb Outrage in China Shanghai

The Labor Daily · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 5

THE Municipal Council's proclamation giving the police emergency power which followed the bomb outrage yesterday, has resulted in…

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Laurel Marries Again. Police Aid Couple to Avoid Former Wife. HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 8

Stanley Laurel, the cinema comedian who teams with Oliver Hardy, flew to Yuma (Arizona) and married Illiana, the Russian singer, whose real name was Vera Shuvalova…

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Federal Govt. v. STEVENS Court Appeal Likely On Financial Agreement State Loans Canberra

The Labor Daily · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 6

THE dispute between the Commonwealth and N.S.W. Governments, culminating in an appeal by the Commonwealth to the High Court, is…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 4

132 George Street North (corner Argyle Street).— Before the Chief industrial Magistrate.—At 10 a.m.—For hearing; Connor v Chiddy, Gibson v Days Motor Tourist Service Ltd., Love v Frea…

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Lismore Police Court. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 5

James Unwin, 27, appeared before Mr. E. H. Kelly, J.P., at the Lismore Police Court, on a charge of obtaining a motor car from Morgan's Taxi Service (Lismore), by mis…

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