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Courts & crime, 1935

2,098 stories in Murray's papers · page 8 of 105

A Domestic’s Lapse Five Charges of Theft Is Given a Change

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 4

At the Newtown police court to-day Sonia Ada Wyatt domestic faced five charges of theft from employers and fellow employes. The police…

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Contempt Alleged Bankruptcy Court Incident .Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 1

In the Bankruptcy Court to-day, the Official Receiver made. application for the committal for contempt of court of Owen O’Brien, of West…

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Shots Allegedly Fired Man Struck in Foot and Knee Police Allegations Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 4

At the Central police, court to-day Harry Barker, alas Harry James 23 laborer, was charge with having on January. 3 maliciously wounded…

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Wanted to Be Actresses Girls’ Allegedly Part With Cash Man Before Court Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 1

Thomas Townsend Hunt, 48 elocutionist appeared at the Central police court to-day on a charge of having obtained small sums of money…

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Cootamundra Gaol Escapee Before Court

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 4

John Kingsley Clarkson, aged 24 years, who escaped from Cootamundra Gaol, appeared before Mr. J. A. S. Balmain, P.M., in the police court at…

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Cootamundra Gaol Escapee Man Before Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 6

John Kingsley Clarkson, aged 24 years, who escaped from Cootamundra Gaol, appeared before Mr. J. A. S. Balmain, P.M., in the Police Court at…

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Albury Police Court Cyclists Fined

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 9

For riding bicycles without lights on January 10, Jack Lambert, Frank Hickey, Allen Seaton, Stanley Humphreys, George Washington, Cuthbert…

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Gaol Escapee Recaptured Near Leeton

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 26

After a desperate attempt to evade his police pursuers, John Kingsley Clarkson, 24, who escaped from the Cootamundra gaol, was arrested at…

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Murder of Girl Police at Dead-end? Want to See Man MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 4

The latest development in the investigation of the munder of [?] Belsha[?] of [?] on New Year’s Day is that the…

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Girl Scales 20-Foot Gaol Wall Amazing Bid for Freedom

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 33

Although only on remand on a charge of vagrancy, a 17-year-old girl on Sunday made a desperate bid for freedom by sealing the 20-foot wall of…

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Escape From Gaol Alleged Outside Aid Man Committed for Trial

The Pastoral Times · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 4

John Kingsley Clarkson, 24, who is alleged to have escaped from Cootamundra Gaol, appeared before Mr J. A. S. Balmain, P.M., in the…

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Murder in Prague. Former Prominent Nazi. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 3

The "Daily Telegraph's" Prague correspondent says that a young Berlin woman, with two German Nazis, murdered Rudolph Warmys, a former…

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Ill-treated a Horse Allegations Against Man Is Sentenced to Aol Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 1

“I don’t want to hear what you have to say on this matter. Such cruelty to animals is not to be tolerated and the best thing is not to be tolerated, and the best thing I could do to you is to…

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The Storyteller the Island Murder Instalment No. 19 CHAPTER XXIV—(Continued.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 17

SHE noticed that he did not offer to kiss her and she turned wearily away. Dick went straight to the captain's cabin in accordance with the…

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Chemist Sent to Gaol 'Allegedly Said he Was a Baronet a Pretence Charge Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 1

At the Kandos police court to-day, John Lawrence Faxter described as an analytical chemist who was all[?] to have represented himself as…

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Court at Golf Links. Application to Judge. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 3

A Court was constituted in the secretary's room of the Killara Golf Club, to-day, in order to enable Mr. Justice Maxwell to hear a urgent case…

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Stolen Motor Car Chase by Albury Police Fruitless Shots Fired by Constable

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 3

When a motor car suspected of having been stolen in Melbourne passed through Albury towards the main road to Sydney early on…

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Were Cooking a Damper Young Men Surprised Investigations of Albury Police into Missing Car

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 5

Last evening about five miles from Gerogery Albury police who were investigating the where abouts of a motor car, reported…

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Woman’s Love Affairs. Court Action Follows Sum of Money Involved Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 5

Mr. Justice Martin in the Practice Court to-day granted Miss Gwendolyn Edith Thomas Comom Parade Mentone an inter[?] Injunction to restrain…

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In Secretary’s Room Court is Held Judge Was at Golf links SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 1

A court was constituted in the secretary’s room of Killara Golf Club to-day in order the conble Mr. Justice Maxwell to next an…

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