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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

6,973 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 250

Talked to Witness Outside Court Action Imprudent, Says S.M. To Constable

The Sun · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 3

A constable's action in leaving a court during the hearing of a case and speaking to another constable who was waiting outside to give evidence, was criticised in the Central Police Court to-day…

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Tennis Fairfield and District Hard Court Association. Last Week's Results. Summer Competition

The Biz · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 4

B2 GRADE—First Division. Bonville v Wannon.—Won by Bonville on a forfelt. Ivydene v Fernleigh.—Won by Ivydene…

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Tennis Fairfield and District Hard Court Association. Draw for Saturday, Jan 21

The Biz · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 8

Reserve Grade—Cranbrook 1 [?] Los[?] a bye; Wyanga v Cranbrook 2. Play-offs, Association Courts. — Court No. 1. Loscoe v Myrene: No. 2…

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M.L.A. Sees Police Woolcott Forbes Case Sensation Stir in U.A.P. CIRCLES

Daily News · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 1

MR. RONALD B. WALKER, U.A.P. member of the State Parliament for Hawkesbury was last Friday interviewed at considerable length by detectives investigating the affairs of the Producers and General…

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Arrests in English Bomb Outrages. Swift Action by Police. "Organised Campaign by Irish Extremists." Large Stock of Explosives Found. LONDON, January 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 11

Seven Irishmen have been arrested in Manchester and five or seven in London as the result of police inquiries into the series of bombings that occurred throughout England early on Monday morning…

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Policeman's Theft. Stole From Comrade. Magistrate's Rebuke. Kempsey

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 16

Hylton Sydney Smith, who had been a member of the police force for more than two years, pleaded guilty in the Kempsey Police Court yesterday to a charge of having stolen…

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Wollongong Arrests Police Charge Dismissed Magistrate Says Behavior Not Offensive Wollongong

Daily News · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 2

Charge of offensive behavior against George Clark Smith, waterside worker, was dismissed in Wollongong Police Court to-day. Gordon King, ironworker, appeared on a similar…

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Inventor on Theft Charge

The Sun · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 11

When Charles William Bryham, 36, manufacturing engineer, was charged at Central Police Court with having stolen £100 from Jeannie Strachan…

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Nazis Gaol 24 Catholics

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 3

VIENNA, Dec. 22.—Twenty-four Roman Catholics of Linz diocese are held by Nazi authorities on political charges, it was understood today. Nineteen of…

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Horse Stealing Charge Fails Melbourne

The Sun · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 7

Oh the ground that it was purely a civil matter. Mr. Mohr, P.M., in the Essendon Court to-day, dismissed a charge against James Donovan…

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Police Cricketers

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 20

A police cricket team will leave Sydney on January 28 to play matches in Bathurst, Orange, and Molong. Sergeant Astiil is manager, and the…

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Police Cricket Team

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 15

The police team to play matches at Bathurst and Orange is as follows:—Sergeant Astill, Constables Aichin, Bottle. Boyd, Baker, Baldwin, Cahill, Chalmers, Ewin, Felsh, Hendren,…

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Police Rowers Ready

Daily News · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 12

POLICE rowers had no respite during the heat wave. With only three weeks to…

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Court Sidelights

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 13

SOLICITOR (Central): What are you? Witness: A laborer. Solicitor: Where do you work? Witness: I don't work…

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Alleged Attack on Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 7

At the Central Police Court yesterday, Mary Elizabeth Crawford, 58, domestic duties, was charged with having assaulted Detective Gordon Jack, occasioning actual bodily…

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Police XI For Country

Daily News · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 11

A strong police cricket team is to leave Sydney on January 28, to play representative elevens in the western police district…

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Air Raid Plans. Protecting Gaol Inmates. Menace to Bunnerong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 11

Provision will be made in the State Government's National Emergency Service scheme for protecting gaol and asylum inmates in the case of air raids…

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Small Debts Court Bailiff Dismissed

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 5

In the small stipendiary magistrates' room at the Water Police Court last night, Frank Dent was told by Mr. Reed, C.S.M., that he had been removed from the position of bailiff of the Small Debts Court (Sydney)…

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Forbes Case Police to Seek Extradition Order

Daily News · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 2

JOHN WOOLCOTT FORBES will be charged exparte with conspiracy to defraud at Central Police Court…

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“Kingy” in Court Wollonong, Jan. 13

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 4

In the Wollongong Court of Petty S[?] on Monday Gordon King and George Smith were remanded until Thursday morning…

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