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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1936

733 stories in Murray's papers · page 4 of 37

The Stealing Habit "Not Safe to Leave Anything Anywhere"

The Independent · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 2

Conargo councillors yesterday discussed a proposal to shift a shed from Conargo road P.W.P., but were in some doubt about its…

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Gaol for Stealing Cheque

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 5

George Edward Hayes was sentenced to six months imprisonment at the Wagga Police Court on Tuesday on a charge of stealing a…

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Farm Fire Police Court Sequel at Griffith

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 47

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Police Transfers

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 5

Sergeant Faine do Salis, Helens-borough, has been transferred to Lake Cargelligo; Sergeant Smith, Lake Cargelligo, goes to Eden…

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Robbed of £7 Assault at Narrandera

The Independent · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 1

About 6 a.m on Tuesday a tradesmen reported to the Narrandera police that a man was lying near the [?] between the Murrumbidgee…

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Armed Theft in Sydney Garage Attendant Robbed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 5

Ernest Lewis Laws, an attendant at the Mecca garage, at the corner of Old South Head road and Edgecliff-road, Sydney, reported to the police…

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The Vicarage Murder. Melbourne

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 2

A new turn has been given to the investigation into the murder of the Rev. Harold Laecby Cecil at St. Saviour's Vicarage, on December 12th…

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House Burnt at Griffith Three Men Charged

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 11

On January 13 two men heard an explosion in the house of Henry Lucca, a citrus grower, of Griffith. The house caught fire, and efforts to quell the…

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Mrs. Edols Released After Four Years in Gaol

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 12

After having been in gaol for almost four years, Aimee Belle Edols was released from Long Bay Penitentiary on Tuesday. She has been serving…

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Ms. Edois Released After Three Years in Gaol

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 4

In the Bankruptcy Court Sydney, Judge Lukin directed that Mrs. Aimee Edois should be released form the Long Bay gaol on the expiration…

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Former Detective Charged Aided Prisoner to Escape 'Silent Telephone' Installed Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 1

When a case in which John Ellis Findley a detective was charged with having with others conspired to pervert a course of…

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Change of P.M's Court Day

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 2

From the beginning of this year the presiding P.M. at Albury will visit Henty on the Friday following the 4th Monday in each month, excepting in…

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Put Out His Tongue at Surprising Inventors the Judge Sentenced to Death Reprieve That Arrived Too Late

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 36

British justice is famous the world over to-day. But once . . . NOWADAYS most prisons are more like rest-homes than places of…

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The Industrial Court Rescinds Preference Clause in Award. SYDNEY, Friday, 3 p.m

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 31 January 1936 · page 2

In the Industrial Court, to-day, Mr Justice Webb found that the members of the Seamen's Union had forfeited all right to the preference…

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Divorce Court Busy

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 1 February 1936 · page 4

The Divorce Court of New South Wales is assured of a busy year. This State appears to be putting up a very discreditable record in the way of…

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Theft at Racecourse

The Independent · Tuesday 4 February 1936 · page 4

After the last race at Epsom [?]n Wednesday, when the course had almost been cleared, a young man thrust his arm through a totalisator…

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Pyjama Girl Murder Inevstigations Ended Police at Dead End

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 4 February 1936 · page 1

Although the body of the young girl found at a roadside culvert near Albury in September, 1934, is still preserved at…

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Unlawful Assault at Hay

The Independent · Tuesday 4 February 1936 · page 2

In the Hay Court of Petty Sessions before the P.M. last week. Maurice Gregory Wade was charged with on or about January 20 unlawfully assaulting…

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Alleged Assault Hearing Adjourned Till March

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 February 1936 · page 1

At the Police Court to-day, Elizabeth A. Cooper was charged with assaulting Florence Sampson, at Moonacullah on January 15. Mr. Sullivan appeared…

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Woman, Freed, After Four Years in Gaol

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 February 1936 · page 3

The discharge from gaol upon the completion of her sentence on Tuesday last of Mrs. Aimee Belle Edols was ordered by the Federal Judge in…

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