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Courts & crime, 1940

4,893 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 245

Fair Rents Court

The Biz · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 4

In the Fair Rents Court. Liverpool, on Thursday last, Edgar Patrick McCooey applied for determination of a fair rental value of premises at Moorebank. His…

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Silence in the Court

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 16

MOTORIST (at Traffic Court): I did not notice the speed, I was trying to fix the door…

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Attorney General In Court

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 9

The Attorney-General (Sir Henry Manning) and the State Crown Solicitor (Mr. J. E. Clark) appeared…

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Police to Act on Bribe Report

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- Police will investigate allegations that three members of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Dairymen's Association entered into an…

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Plan To Police Awards CANBERRA, Wed

Daily News · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 6

EARLY action will be taken by the Federal Government to enforce observance of…

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Murder in Modern Dress. The Fallacy of "Mercy-Killing."

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 19

"I feel that this new form of dispensing mercy is doomed to failure," writes Ward Clarke in this article from "America." "For…

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Police B.a. Mixes Crime and Prose

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 2

First police B.A. in New South Wales, Constable Edwin Samuel Lowery, mixes the study of English literature with crime detection. Constable Lowery is stationed…

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Overseas Items Lodz Police Chief's Gratitude to Roumanian Jews

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 3

Bucharest.—The former police Chief of Lodz who had found refuge in a Jewish home here, has issued a statement expressing his deep gratitude for the…

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Market Stall Argument Talk In Court Of "Gratuities"

The Sun · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 3

When Giovanni de R[?]cco (35), market gardener, pleaded guilty in Central Court to-day to using insulting words to an officer at the…

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Law Notices. Thursday, January 11, 1940. Supreme Court. in Chambers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 4

Before the Prothonotary.—In the prothonotary's Public Chambers.—At 10 a.m.; John Lawler and Sons pty., Ltd., v Griffin and anor., E. S. and A. Bank, Ltd., garnishee…

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Stir Caused by Manning Can't Speak From Body of Court

Daily News · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 6

THE Attorney-General, Sir Henry Manning, was refused permission by Mr. Atkinson, S.M., in Central Police Court yesterday, to make a statement from the body of the court…

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U.S. Supreme Court. Members Attend Requiem Mass. Washington. December 23

The Catholic Press · Thursday 11 January 1940 · page 16

Member of the United States Supreme Court and other high Government officials attended Solemn Requiem Mass in Washington Cathedral for Associate Justice…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 6

132 George street North (corner Argyle Street), Sydney,—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate. —At 10 a.m., Friday, 12th January, 1940.—For hearing: Morley v Cathcart, Smith v Watson,…

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Theft at Golf Club

The Observer · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 2

During the past week three prominent members of the Cronulla Golf Club were relieved of their golf sets, when three bags of clubs…

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Page Replies to Lawson Derides "Police Court Methods"

Daily News · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 5

"The public has realised that this police court method of personal counter attack by the Government is not any real answer to charges made…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 6

Before the Registrar.—At 10.15 a.m.: Young v Nott. At 10.35 a.m.: Quinlivan v Homes Guarantee Investment Co., Ltd. At 10.50 a.m. Platt v Display Paints Pty., Ltd…

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Police Association. Confidence in Executive

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 12

The general secretary of the Police Association, Mr. C. J. Cosgrove, stated yesterday that the confidence of members in the executive of the organisation had been emphasised…

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Holland Dutch Police Confiscate Antisemitic Weekly

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 8

AMSTERDAM, Dec. 6th. (Jewish Telegraphic Agency).—The police authorities at The Hague have confiscated the last number of the anti-Semitic…

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Found A Bed In Police Station

Daily News · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 3

LAUNCESTON, Thursday.--Unable to find accommodation in Burnie after having arrived from Smithton at 2 a.m., a man offered himself…

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"Lured Away. Shot" Charge In Murder Inquest MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 5

In the Coroner's Court today it was alleged that a youth murdered the husband of the woman he…

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