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Courts & crime, 1940

4,893 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 245

Another Paralysing Coal-Strike Looms on the Industrial Front Did Arbitration Court Err?

Truth · Sunday 18 February 1940 · page 20

THERE appears to be some justification for the stand the Miners' Unions are taking, and for their contention that the Full Arbitration Court made serious errors in its judgment of October 4 last…

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"Because I Loved You"—court Outburst Dramatic Scene As Husband Indicts His Wife Woman Says He Was Drunkard

Truth · Sunday 18 February 1940 · page 21

"WHY did I give you everything in the world I possessed, leaving myself without even a matchbox? Why did I sign my heritage over to you? Because I loved you. I am saying…

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Two Youths Charged with £600 Theft

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 7

Detectives Tolley and Brown, of the C.I.B., arrested a youth, aged 20, and a boy, aged 14, with more than £500 in cash and postal notes in their possession…

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Cash Belonging to Hospital Man Charged With Stealing

The Sun · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 3

The Police Prosecutor, Constable Goode, said, at Central Police Court to-day, that, except for £20 or £30, the money which was sent, by a boy…

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Detective Injured in Assault

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 12

Detective Sabine, of Clarence Street police station, received a heavy blow on the head when arresting a man at the corner of Railway Parade and Burwood Road, Burwood,…

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Defy Police Ban

Daily News · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 3

Despite a police ban East Sydney ' No-Conscription Committee last night decided to continue its Friday night meetings at the corner of…

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Police Protect Meeting

Daily News · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- Following a disturbance at a Communist meeting at Yarra Bank last Sunday, more than 100 police, mostly in plain…

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Alleged Poison Plot. Gaol Escape Planned. Cyanide Discovered. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 13

The police believe that they have foiled an amazing attempt that was to have been made by a long-term prisoner to escape from the Boggo Road Gaol…

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Police and Soldiers in Brawl

Daily News · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 2

Four policemen were slightly injured and two members of the 2nd A.I.F. and a militiaman were arrested following a brawl between police and…

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Police Find Man Wounded in Head

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 5

ORANGE, Sunday.--John Smith, 52, of Bathurst Road, Orange, was admitted to the Orange Base Hospital today with a deep wound in the side of his head…

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Woolcott Forbes New Move Watched by Police

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 5

Although proceedings to have the wife of John Woolcott Forbes examined in an English Bankruptcy Court are entirely…

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'No Threat to Girl' Police Deny Assertion

The Sun · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 5

Robert George Primmer, 18, was arrested as he left a Parramatta picture theatre in company with a…

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Intruder Caught. Hotelkeeper's Resource. Smart Police Work

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 11

The resource of a hotelkeeper this morning enabled police to catch an intruder in a city hotel. Mr. Kdward Hannan, proprietor of the…

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Photographer at Court Camera Incident Sequel

The Sun · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 3

Allegations that a "Daily Telegraph" photographer had been assaulted and his camera stolen at Darlinghurst Courts were made at the…

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Court Aid In N.S.W.

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 1

In New South Wales, the age of parental consent to marriage is 21 years for both sexes. But, since 1934, the Guardianship…

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Shot In Court At Climax Edward Ellis, Anita Louise.--Lyceum

The Sun · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 14

"The Defence Rests" is a sensational interlude in the life of an unromantic country prosecutor, whose…

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Photographer Alleges Assault

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 7

John William Johnson, 26, was charged at Central Police Court yesterday with having, on February 8, assaulted Ernest Nutt and robbed him of a £50 camera…

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Hospital's £617 Theft Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 5

A boy employed at the West Maitland Hospital, who was sent to a bank with £61729, did not reach the bank. Constable Goode said this at Central…

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Sentry And Victim To Be Charged

Daily News · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 2

DARWIN, Monday.--Civil charges will probably be laid against the sentry and the Mobile Force sergeant concerned in Saturday night's…

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Attack Alleged Press Photographer's Evidence. "Attache" Charged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 13

A disturbance in the grounds of the Darlinghurst Court of Quarter Sessions on February 8 was described at the Central Police Court yesterday when…

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