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Courts & crime, 1940

4,893 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 245

Police Found Whole Thing Was Fishy

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 21 January 1940 · page 2

CANBERRA, Saturday. -- During the week it was reported that body had been found near a well-known guesthouse…

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Tragedy Ends Awful Life of Terror Father Dies From Bullet Wound: Son Is Charged

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1940 · page 21

ACCORDING to evidence given before the Newcastle District Coroner, Mr. Chiplin, last week, Peter Augustus Clayton, 42, who died in Newcastle Hospital on January 9 after being wounded with a pearifle bullet…

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Batons Out Police And Soldiers In Riot Eight Arrests

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1940 · page 25

A wild melee in which two police were the victims of an unruly crowd occurred outside an hotel in…

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'Tiny Tots' Spread Terrorism Police Out to Smash Gang

The Sun · Sunday 21 January 1940 · page 2

Marrickville is being terrorised by a gang of hoodlums known as the "Tiny Tots." THE "Tots" are really not…

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Showed 'Em How Swings, Swipes In Court Interlude

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1940 · page 26

WITH neither the strength of a Joe Louis, now the rotundity of a Two-Ton Tony Galento, William James Pollock, an invalid pensioner, crouched in the witness…

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Police A-simmer Friction With Bureaucracy and Many Discontents an Important Conference

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1940 · page 20

TENSION between the rank and file of the police force and the police High Command is not likely to be relaxed by coming events. Indeed, it would appear that the forthcoming general State…

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A Friend for a Guinea Some City Clubs Seen As A Danger To Girls Police Lack Powers Meetings in Private

The Sun · Sunday 21 January 1940 · page 3

Alarmed at the unwholesome activities of certain so-called "Introduction Clubs" in Sydney, the police have…

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"Other Woman" Scores Under Army Pay Allotment Law 11 s to Legal Wife, £2 to Rival Court's Hands Are Tied Lady Astor in Protest London

The Sun · Sunday 21 January 1940 · page 4

Opponents of the new law whereby "unmarried wives" of men serving in the forces get allowances, claim that…

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"Almost Riot," Nine Charged

The Sun · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 7

"It was almost a riot outside an hotel in which a lone policeman was menaced by a crowd of between 200 and 300 people," said the prosecutor…

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Injury Plan Is Charged

The Sun · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 8

On four charges of having placed explosives with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm, John James Davies, 51, laborer, appeared at Hornsby…

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Treated By Police As Aliens

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 2

Police have ordered many Australian - born King's Cross residents to sign registration forms…

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8 Arrested After Fight with Police

Daily News · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 5

Eight civilians and a 2nd A.I.F. soldier became involved in a brawl with three police officers through a misunderstanding outside a Lidcombe…

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Alleged Bomb Throwing. Police Make Arrest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 9

An explosion occurred in Brown's Road, Wahroonga, on Saturday night, a few seconds after a car containing three men had passed…

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300 in Street Fight. Police Intervene. Eight Men Arrested

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 January 1940 · page 3

When a soldier and a civilian began to fight outside a hotel in Joseph Street, Lidcombe, on Saturday afternoon, a crowd of more than 300 men and…

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Three Men on Assault Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 5

Three men were charged at Central Police Court yesterday with having assaulted and robbed John Elliot of 6d on January 20…

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Disturbance at Lidcombe. Soldier and Nine Civilians Charged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 16

When nine civilians and a soldier were charged at the Parramatta Police Court yesterday with offences arising from a disturbance at Lidcombe on Saturday, Sergeant…

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Police Guard For Miners

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 2

A mixed body of union and non-union miners will enter the idle Nattai-Bulli mine, Burragorang, this morning, under…

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Taking Liquor Into Jalls. Legality of Regulation Doubted. Magistrate's View

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 12

An opinion that regulation 107 (A) of the Theatres and Public Halls Act, which prohibits the taking of intoxicating liquor into a public hall, was ultra vires the Act was given…

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Silence in the Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 10

INSPECTOR TOOLE (at 2.1 p.m. at Central Court): These interstate witnesses are not very punctual…

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Questioned by Political Police Brisbane, Jan. 16

Tribune · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 1

Another shot has been fired in the Commonwealth government’s war for “democracy.” Recently the International [?]…

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