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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

8,297 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 250

Over 30; Police Book 300

The Sun · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 1

TWO hundred drivers were reported by the police for exceeding the speed limit during the first nine days'…

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Hurdle Champion Joins Police Force

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 17

S. G. Stenner, chosen to represent Australia in the 120 yards hurdles race at the Empire Games next month, joined the New South Wales police yesterday…

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Police Taken Off Border Patrol

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 1

THE 100 New South Wales police, who have been stationed on the Victorian border since August 31, to guard against…

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Law Notices. Wednesday, January 5. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 6

In Chambers.—Before Mr. Justice Maxwell.—In No. 7 Causes Court.—At 10 a.m.: Attorney-General v Bowaters and Lloyds Sales, Ltd., to dispense with pleadings, etc.; Permanent Trustee Co…

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Britain As Enemy Charged with Aiding China Japanese Admiral's Blunt Words Hankow Raid London

The Sun · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 5

THE Japanese Minister for the Interior, Admiral Suetsugu, told foreign correspondents that the anti- British feeling in Japan is due to Great Britain's attempting to block Japanese economic expansion in…

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Liquor Trading. Tasmanian Police Support Late Closing. HOBART

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 15

"In my opinion 10 p.m. closing of hotels is much better for the public than 6 p.m. closing," said Detective-inspector R. W. Fleming:, of the C.I.D., when a reference was…

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Police Search for Bandits Manager of Theatre Held Up Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 10

Detectives made little progress today in the scorch for the armed bandits who held up the manager and usher of Hoyts' Regent Theatre,…

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Girl Said She Was Drowned Story a Hoax, State Police Ballina

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 10

Signing an assumed name, a girl reported to the Ballina police last night, that she had been drowned after entering the surf at Robin's…

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Police Rowers' Problem Star Trio To Miss State Eights Title Holders, Too

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 3

POLICE Rowing Club, which has been outstanding in this season's senior eight-oar races, is in a difficult position as the result of the…

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Maid's Death. Man's Presence in Court. Request by Corouer. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 17

When the inquest on Dorothy May Everest, kitchenmaid, who was found strangled in the grounds of the Broughton School on November 28,…

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Inquest on Demsey. Truck Crime. Four Accused Un Court. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 17

Ihe movements of John Thomas Demsey, the transport driver who disappeared white driving a loaded truck from Bendigo to Melbourne on…

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Police Court

Nepean Times · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 5

The following matters were dealt with by Mr S. J. Bliss, P.M., at Penrith Police; Court to-day:— Picking: Christmas Bush…

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Police Court Cases 1542 Fewer in 1937

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 7

During 1937 31,667 cases were heard at the Central Police Courts. This was 1542 fewer than in 1936. Of these cases 489 were committed for…

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Hungarian Anti-semitic Leader Sentenced

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 1

Budapest.—The leader of the extreme anti-Semitic Party in Huugary, Emmerich Kemeri-Nagy, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for publishing a…

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Man Fined Charge of Assault

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 5

That she had been assaulted at her home by a man wearing a woman's hat was alleged by Mrs. Eliza Nelson at the Parramatta…

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Man Sits on Cenotaph. Magistrate's Comment

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 10

Francis George Abrahams was severely reprimanded by Mr. Arnold, S M" at the Central Summons Court yesterday for having sat on the Cenotaph in contravention of a…

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Police Chief

The Cronulla-Sutherland Advocate · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 6

Inspector A. H. Harrowsmith, of Kogarah, is to succeed Inspector Jones. The new officer-in-charge of the St. George police, is well known…

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Girl Wounded Canley Vale Jeweller Charged

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 12

Subsequent to the shooting of Miss Alma Harding (16), of Canley Vale, on Monday, King Raffaele Romeo (41), a jeweller, of Cauley Vale a native of…

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Gaol for Car Users Early Morning Episode

The Sun · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 12

One man was sentenced to three months' hard labor and his companion to one month's hard labor at the Central Police Court to-day for…

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Woman Assaulted. Three Months' Gaol for Man

The Propeller · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 1

Before Mr. Arnold, S.M., at the Kogarah Police Court last Friday a man was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour for…

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