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Courts & crime, 1938

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

Safe Hinges Sawn. Police Allegation. Employee Committed for Trial

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 22

At the Redfern Police Court yesterday Wilfred Robert Norman, 37, labourer, was committed for trial on a charge of having broken and entered the counting-house of…

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Public Mischief Charge. Story of Armed Robbery. Unfounded, Police Allege

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

At the Kogaiih Police Coull yesterday, Rithard Henry Lonsdale of Epacris Avenue, Caringbah was committed for trial on a charge of causing a public nuisance. he having made…

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Newcastle Case Inquest Closed to Public Mystery Girl Denies Intimacy Stocking Murder Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 8

THE big crowd which assembled outside the courthouse early this morning in the expectancy of hearing further evidence at the inquest into the death of Dorothy May Everett, the stocking murder victim, was disappointed. The proceedings were…

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Share Hawking Must Be Wiped Out! Wider Police Powers Are Essential

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 5

NOT only in New South Wales are share- pushing and share- swapping "go- getters" leaving a trail of financial rain and swindle in their wake. South Australia reports a noticeable influx of share- dealers since…

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Britons Bashed Japanese Beat Up Police in Shanghai Challenge to Big Powers Shanghai

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 1

JAPAN'S demands for the control of the International Settlement at Shanghai have created a most serious…

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Another Judge Speeding Up Federal Court S.A. Lawyer for Arbitration Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 2

THE appointment of Mr. Harold Bayard Piper, an Adelaide barrister, to the Bench of the Commonwealth Arbitration…

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Attacks on British Police. Strong Protests at Shanghai. Big Munitions Order for China. Japan's Attitude to White Races. SHANGHAI, January 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 17

The Shanghai Municipal Council has strongly protested to the Japanese authorities against attacks by Japanese soldiers on members of the Municipal Police Force. Closely following on the protest, the Japanese last night…

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Nobel Prize Theft Hamburg

The Sun · Sunday 9 January 1938 · page 1

Herr Wannow, an ex-barrister, has been accused of embezzling part of the £7000 Nobel Peace Prize awarded in 1936 to Karl von Ossletsky, poet…

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Murder in Sydney

The Sun · Sunday 9 January 1938 · page 13

"Assignment in Utopia," by Eugene Lyons -- a study of Soviet Russia by one of the better American newspaper correspondents, who went to…

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Police Banned Costume

The Sun · Sunday 9 January 1938 · page 13

The police banned this costume until Madame Damora wore additional covering. Madame leads the Hungarian dance troupe in the Montague Show at the Mayfair Theatre…

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Sunday Sailing. Special Police Squad

Truth · Sunday 9 January 1938 · page 8

SUNDAY sailing bookmakers will have to step lively this afternoon. A special squad of police will board the ferries to maintain…

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Strange Bag In Police Cordon

The Sun · Sunday 9 January 1938 · page 2

AUCKLAND, Saturday. -- Central police station received an urgent telephone call from a resident of Albert-street shortly before midnight, saying…

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Did He "Hear" Murder Man's Story of Incident In Demseu Case

Truth · Sunday 9 January 1938 · page 12

IN one of the most painstakingly- prepared cases ever heard before a Coroner's Court in Victoria, the story surrounding the…

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Surprise Sequel to Police Dismissals Mackay "Blesses" Subscription Lists

Truth · Sunday 9 January 1938 · page 18

IT was in September, 1936, that young Robert Manners, a law-abiding citizen with not a mark against his character was awarded substantial damages against Detective-sergeant Silcock and Plain-clothes-constables Roach and Murray. THE public—as represented by a jury…

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Stocking Murder—terrible Injuries Mystery Girl Asked About Her Relations with a Houseman Newcastle Coroner Sifts Mass of Evidence

Truth · Sunday 9 January 1938 · page 17

INTENSE interest has been manifested in what is known as the Newcastle Stocking Murder Case. For three days during the coroner's inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dorothy…

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Speed Ban on Cycusts Police Advice On 30 Miles-An-Hour Road Limit NEWCASTLE

The Sun · Sunday 9 January 1938 · page 25

The new traffic speed regulations were responsible for cycling clubs cancelling to-day's road races…

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They Were in a Hurry to Marry Again Two Wives Apply to Divorce Court to Speed Up Decrees One Brought New Husband

Truth · Sunday 9 January 1938 · page 10

NO ONE would have imagined they were in a hurry to be married as soon as the law would permit it. They were sitting outside the Divorce Court, and usually one associates a Divorce Court with dissolving marriages rather than…

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Chiefstrial Magistrate's Court. I

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

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

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Remanded on Murder Charge

The Sun · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 1

Coatless and with his sleeves rolled up. Alfred Spicer, 65, gardener, appeared to-day before Mr. E. A. Mahony S.M., at Parramatta Court,…

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District Court

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

Before the Registrar.—At 10.15 a.m.: Duns Gazette Ply., Ltd., v Thompson. At 10.25 a.m.: Dunrich v Morris. At 10.50 a.m.: Bright v Adey and ors…

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