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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

6,973 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 250

Woolcott Forbes in Court Bombay

The Sun · Tuesday 17 January 1939 · page 3

John Woolcott Forbes, formerly of Sydney, was remanded in custody to-day in the Chief Magistrate's…

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Barrister's Wife Seeks Order. Divorce Court Application

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 January 1939 · page 13

Allegations that her husband, John Wentworth Shand, barrister-at-law, had told her in 1937 that unless he left home he would be unable to carry on his work, were made…

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4000-Miles Trip to Court. Auckland

The Sun · Tuesday 17 January 1939 · page 7

When Herbert James Ladbrook called at the detective office here and gave himself up, he had travelled 4000 miles from Central…

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Last Note Tells Lost Love Musician Found Gassed in Flat Police Keep News Of Death Secret MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 January 1939 · page 6

Apparently disappointed in love, Jon Cowley, American musician, was found gassed in his fashionable St. Kilda flat on Friday night. Cowley was to have opened his…

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Man Charged with Wounding

The Sun · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 7

John Leach, 34, was charged at Paddington Court to-day with maliciously wounding John Patrick Long. Leach was remanded on £50 bail until…

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Alleged Theft of Car. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 11

At Lismore Police Court yesterday, John Roy Payne, 25, was committed for trial at Lismore Quarter Sessions on a charge of having stolen a motor car in Brisbane on…

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Theft of Car Fittings. Orange

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 11

Edwin Hayes and Henry Best, two young men, were each sentenced to a month's imprisonment on a charge of having stolen car fittings valued at £5, the property of Bennie…

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Charged with Starting Fire Grafton

The Sun · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 2

Glyn. Williams, stock inspector, of Railway Gully, pleaded not guilty at the Grafton Court to-day. with having on December 7. near Coaldale,…

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Country News. Theft of Fruit. Casino

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 11

John Cyril Moroney, 20, was charged in the police court with having stolen passion-fruit and water melons valued at £3/10/, the property of Robert Ramsey, at Naughton's…

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Police Inquiry Concludes

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 7

WOLLONGONG, Tuesday.--Superintendent Thompson, of Sydney, today concluded the inquiry into the alleged "bashing" of three waterside workers by a…

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Court Sidelights

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 10

COUNSEL for plaintiff (in small debts case): My client wants an adjournment--he's on holiday. Counsel for defendant: And mine wants…

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Police Question Mobbs Hopeful

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 8

Opinion that some good would come from Dundas and Rydalmere Council's recent deputation to the Chief Secretary was expressed by…

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Wrestle for Revolver. Murder Charge Dismissed. NARRANDERA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 20

After an inquiry into the death of Danlel James Moon on January 1, the Coroner, Mr. J. S. Dickson, returned a finding that Moon had died accidentally while wrestling with…

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Nazi Court Turns Bishop Down

Daily News · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 2

BERLIN, Tuesday. -- Rejecting a claim of a Catholic Bishop for remission of taxation, a German Court to-day ruled that it was not in the interests of the…

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Posed As Police Thieves' Ruse "Arrested" A Man

The Sun · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 3

Impersonating detectives, two men to-day "arrested" a shopkeeper, of Darlinghurst-road, Darlinghurst,…

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Not Eager to Be Heroes Police Argue Over Grounded Boat

Daily News · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Neither Aspendale nor Mord[?]alloc police showed eagerness to investigate a report that a large ketch had run aground to-night…

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Financier in Court Gets Bail In India BOMBAY, Monday. Our Own Cable Service

Daily News · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 3

The Attorney-General of New South Wales approved the proceedings to bring Woolcott-Forbes back to Australia…

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Supreme Court. in Divorce. (Before Mr. Acting Justice Hardwick.) Zink V Zink, Pyne Co-respondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 9

Frank William Zink, petitioner, v Ina Mildred Zink, formerly Le Jeune, respondent; Henry Walter Pyne co-respondent Marriage. March 10. 1926. Issue, adultery…

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Jailed for Police Assault

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 5

"I am satisfied that you did assault this constable, and brutally, too," Mr. Hardwick, S.M., told William Albert Wallace, 25, clerk, of Auburn, yesterday…

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Police Court

Nepean Times · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 6

The following cases were dealt, with ly Mr C. Pickup. P.M., at Penrith Police Ccurt. on Thursday. Failed to Keep to Left…

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