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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

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News of the World (Continued) Sentenced to Death by a Camera 50,000 Die Through Woman's Cunning

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 27

THE British Agent, sitting by the door of the little Belgian farmhouse, leaped from his chair as the drone of an aeroplane was borne on…

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Yarra Mystery Limbs of Woman Found Police Faced with Problem

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 1

The police have received the pathologists report on the examination of the arms and legs of a woman which were found in a sugar bag in the…

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Case Dismissed Man Who Gave Himself Up Police Could Not Trace Alleged Offence

The Pastoral Times · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 1

WHEN James Henry Corbett (23), who gave himself up to the police at Deniliquin on March 12 and said that he had stolen 12 handbags from…

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Interstate Transport High Court Action

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 1

AN important case, involving the question of interstate trade was opened before Mr. Justice Evatt in the High Court in Sydney yesterday when…

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Russia's Secret Police. Former Head Arrested. MOSCOW

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 3

The Commissioner for Communications, Yagoda, who was arrested yesterday, is regarded as the most hated man in Russia. His dismissal caused…

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U.s. Politics Police Stop Brawl in House

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 1

Members of the Rhode Island House engaged in flat fights as a result of a heated debate on a measure to place the administration of the…

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Transport to Riverina. Testing the Victorian Law. High Court Hearing Starts. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 2

An important case, involving the question of interstate freetrade, was opened before Mr. Justice Evatt, in the High Court today, when Riverina…

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Police Court

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 1

At the police court on Tuesday morning last, before Mr. I. Beavers, P.M., G. Hyde, R. D. Albert, and M. O' Donoghue were fined for riding…

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Christmas in Gaol on 23 Occasions

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 31

When John Jones appeared before acting Judge Hill at Sydney Quarter Sessions, and pleaded guilty to breaking into a hotel at Pymble lie…

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Dismissed Police Officers Reinstated

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 32

Sergeant Chuck and Constable Bailey, who were dismissed from the police force, following Judge Markell's report as the Starting Price Royal…

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Scriven Murder Why Petition for Mercy Was Dismissed

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 5

The Court of Criminal Appeal, Melbourne, through the Chief Justice (Sir Frederick Mann) on Wednesday gave its reasons for having dismissed the…

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Fired Shots at Police Men's Sentences to Stand

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 18

The Court of Criminal Appeal at Melbourne dismissed an appeal by William Joseph Davies, 19, of Hotham-street, Collingwood, laborer, against…

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Victorian Transport Act Refereed to Full Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 8

On completing the hearing of evidence in the Hight Court in the case in which the Riverina Transport Pty. Ltd. is seeking a declaration that the…

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Riverina Transport. Constitutional Aspect. Referred to Full Court

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 2

Mr. Justice Evatt, sitting in the High Court in original jurisdiction, announced on Tuesday that he would probably direct that the case in…

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Indecent Assault Cases From Tocumwal

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 13 April 1937 · page 1

TO-DAY at the Quarter Sessions, before Judge Coyle and a jury, Edgar Albert Wilcox was charged with indecently assaulting., John Harley, at…

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Young Man's Lapse Pleads Guilty to Stealing

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 13 April 1937 · page 1

A YOUNG man named Stanley George Edwards pleaded guilty at the Quarter Sessions to-day to a charge of stealing £1, the property of Norah…

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River or Lagoon Not "Sufficient Fence" Magistrate's Decision

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 13 April 1937 · page 3

A case of considerable interest was recently dealt with by Mr. V. H. Wells, police magistrate, at the Walgett Court House when the stock inspector…

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The Maddocks Case. Former Transport Chief Sentenced. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 13 April 1937 · page 2

Sydney Aubrey Maddocks (56), Transport Commissioner (temporarily suspended), was to-day found guilty of the Quarter Sessions on a charge of…

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The District Court. List of Cases for Hearing

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 13 April 1937 · page 2

The following is the list of cases for hearing at the Hay District Court on Friday, 16th inst. The name in parenthesis is that of the solicitor…

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Prisoner Escapes From Beechworth Reformatory Wide Search Made by Police

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 13 April 1937 · page 3

Leonard Drown, 38 years, an indeterminate prisoner with a number of previous convictions escaped from the reformatory prison at Beechworta…

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