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Courts & crime, 1938

8,297 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 250

Breach of Milk Act. Company Fined. Case May Be Stated for Full Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 6

The Dairy Farmers' Co-operative Milk Co., Ltd., was fined £S by Mr. Arnold. S.M., at the Central Summons Court yesterday for a breach of the Milk Act…

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Roberts in the Box. Death of Maid. Public Excluded from Court. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 12

Features of the inquest on Dorothy May Everett, who was found strangled in the Broughton School grounds on November 28, which was resumed…

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G. Cramm. Masterly Display. Bromwich Beaten in Two Sets. Slippery Court. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 15

Playing glorious tennis under adverse conditions, Gottfried Cramm (Germany) beat John Bromwich (Australia) convincingly in straight…

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Miss X Hesitates, Speaks Intimate Question Is Called "Unfair" Smuggled From Court To Avoid Crowd

The Sun · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 2

REFUSAL by the mystery girl witness at the Newcastle school inquest to answer a very intimate question, held up proceedings temporarily. Her counsel declared the question to be grossly…

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Court Emulates Solomon. Action by Cousin of Exiled Emperor. Queen of Sheba Copyright. Paris. Jan. 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 12

A preliminary ruling, almost worthy of Solomon, has been delivered by a Paris Court, in the case in which Prince Yacoub Adol Mar, a cousin of Haili Sellassie, exiled Emperor of…

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Cramm Brilliant Defeats Bromwich In Two Straight Sets: Damp Court "No Excuses, He's Too Good," Says Sydney Boy MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 24

G. VON CRAMM (Germany) today defeated J. Bromwich (Australia) for the second time on his Australian tour. Their match was part of the international triangular…

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Woman Charged with Assault

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 23

Al the Central Police Court yesterday, Ivy Sommerville, 48, domestic duties, was remanded to the Ryde Court on February 2, on a charge of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 10

132 George Street North scorner Argyle Street, Sydney.—Before the Chief Industrial Mgaistrate. —At 10 a.m., Monday January 10, 1938.—For hearing: Dean v J. Hardwick Limited (in…

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Cattle Stealing

The Labor Daily · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 1

Arrested last night near Liverpool, a map was charged later, at Parramatta Police Station with cattle-stealing…

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Gaol Term for Shoplifting

The Sun · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 2

A sentence of six months' hard labor for shoplifting was imposed on Thomas McGorey, 38, hairdresser, at Central Police Court to-day…

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Murder Inquest Surprise

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 5

THERE was a surprise at the inquest on John Thomas Demsey, the truck driver today when evidence was given of an…

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Cattle Stealing Alleged. Arrest at Parramatta

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 14

The Parramatta and other police have been making inquiries for some months into reports of cattle stealing in the Parramatta, Liverpool, Camden, and Picton areas…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 10

Before the Registrar.—At 10.15 a.m.: Duns Gazette Pty., Ltd., v Thompson At 10.25 a.m.: Dunrich v Morris At 10. 50 a.m.: Bricht v Adey and ors…

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Sidelights on a Murder Paris

The Sun · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 5

Colette pricot, a lover of Million, who is alleged to be implicated with Wiedmann in murder cases, told the examining magistrate to-day that…

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Heiress Faces £500,000 Love Theft Claim Hollywood

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 3

JUDITH ALLEN, film actress, has filed an amended complaint in her suit claiming £500,000 from Mrs. Dodge-Goode, heiress to the Dodge motor millions. She alleges that Mrs…

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Poet-beggar Sent to Gaol. Lizards Used to Attract Customers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 10

John Gleeson, 48, cook who was sentenced at the Central Police Court yesterday to two days' imprisonment for having gathered alms in George Street, city recited a poem, "Heaet…

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Throat Cut; Court Sequel

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 3

Walking into Redfern Police Station, Ernest Saxton, 27, admitted cutting a man's throat early on New Year's Day, it was stated at Redfern Court…

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Police Story Of Clues In Strangling

The Sun · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 1

WHEN the Broughton school mystery inquest is resumed by the District Coroner (Mr. G. G. Chiplin)…

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Tuesday, January 11. 1938. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 10

In Chambers.—Before the Deputy Prothonotary.— In the Prothonotary's Public Chambers.—At 9.30 a.m.: Wilcox Moillin, Ltd., v Llewellyn, Llewellyn claimant, inetrpleader summons…

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Death of Barman. "Dared Man to Shoot Him." Murder Charge. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 18

A statement that Arthur Kingsley Taplin had admitted that he was wounded in a city hotel after he had dared another man to shoot him was…

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