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Courts & crime, 1939

6,973 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 250

Police Boys' Club Night "Mix It" At Leichhardt Stadium

The Sun · Sunday 5 March 1939 · page 3

The Midgets. Dan Casey, 15-year-old champion of Balmain (white) during his victorious bout with A. Taylor, Leichhardt's hope. Supts. Thompson (left) and Scott, two of the…

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Crime Wave Feared Police Start Campaign to Check Menace

The Sun · Sunday 5 March 1939 · page 2

The Criminal Investigation Branch has begun a drive against criminals with the object of forestalling a crime wave in Sydney. The police believe that more criminals are operating in…

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Sunday Sport Riddle Crowds Pay To Watch Cyclists; Police Sanction

The Sun · Sunday 5 March 1939 · page 9

Organised Sunday sport run for private profit is flourishing in Sydney. The legality of such Sunday sport, however, is open to question. The issue appears to depend, according to reported…

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Was It Murder... ...Or Suicide? "The Strange Sylvester Affair," by Lee Thayer. Hurst and Blackett

The Sun · Sunday 5 March 1939 · page 17

Skirting the picturesque club-house Peter Clancy groped his way beside the river which was lighted by jagged flashes of lightning. There was a woman on the pier. Another flash, the pier was empty…

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Riddle of Bones In Piha Fire Awaits Answer Police Wonder If McKay Alive But Has Lost Memory AUCKLAND

The Sun · Sunday 5 March 1939 · page 3

Bones recovered from the Piha fire are definitely those of a human being, but whether they are part of the remains of Gordon Robert McKay, Sydney skin dealer, believed to have been burned to death, has not yet been established by the pathologists. Police and the medical men so far called in on the investigation are showing the utmost…

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Leagues' Club Theft Charge

The Sun · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 3

Hearing of the charge against William Tyson, 32, laborer, of having assaulted William Lennan, assistant secretary of the N.S.W. Leagues' Club,…

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Lengthy Murder Trial

Daily News · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 2

BRISBANE, Sunday. -- After nine and a half hours' summing-up, Mr. Justice Henchman yesterday adjourned until Monday the trial of Edwin Claude Helton,…

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Police Carnival Postponed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 12

The Police Carnival, which was to have been held at the Sports Ground on Saturday night, was postponed until to-night because of rain…

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Mother and Daughter Fined On Shop Theft Charge

The Sun · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 3

A mother and her 19-year-old daughter were fined at the Central Police Court to-day on a shop theft charge…

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Called Police Witness "Liar"

The Sun · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 8

When John Hourigan (46), gardener, from the dock at the Quarter Sessions to-day called a police witness "a liar" Judge Clancy instructed…

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Police Carnival Again Postponed

The Sun · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 1

Owing to the rain, the police carnival, arranged for the Sports Ground to-night, has been postponed until next Saturday night…

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Police Carnival To-night

Daily News · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 7

Police night carnival will be staged at the Sports Ground to-night. Rain caused a postponement on Saturday night…

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Murder Charge. Jury Locked Up. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 12

The jury in the trial of E. C. Helton, who has been charged with the murder of Mrs. Margaret Jane Roche at Augathella, spent the week-end locked up, for the second time since…

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Handball Court Opened. Orange

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 7

A championship handball court, built in De La Salle College grounds at Orange, at a cost of £410, was officially opened and blessed by Bishop Norton, of Bathurst, in the presence…

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Vanished Keys of Supreme Court

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 2

A set of keys which were either lost or stolen from the Supreme Court buildings, King Street, during the weekend, has not yet been traced…

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Claims Police Chief Lost Fast Taxi Bet

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 1

Mr. R. C. Brown, secretary of the Yellow Cab Drivers' Association, considers that he has won a tin of 50 cigarettes from the Commissioner of Police (Mr. MacKay). At the Yellow Cabdrivers'…

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Sentences End Swiftly As Court Rises

The Sun · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 3

Newtown Court rose and resumed twice within three minutes to-day when Mr. Farrington, S.M., tempered justice with mercy and a little sound…

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"Most Unusual," Says S.M. Of Police Request

The Sun · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 7

"Unfair, prejudicial, and unheard of" was the description applied in the Traffic Court to-day to a police request that the magistrate hear evidence in a case in which the inquest still is pending…

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Hurt Boy in Rain Police Coat Over Him

The Sun · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 2

Unwilling to move a 12-year-old schoolboy, who lay unconscious on the tramlines in Cleveland-street…

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Duesbury in Court Defends Petition In Bankruptcy

The Sun · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 8

Richard Arthur Duesbury, formerly director and secretary of Du Menier Laboratories, Ltd., appeared in person before Mr. Justice Long Innes (Judge…

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