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New England · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1931

1,490 stories in New England's papers · page 7 of 75

Murdered Man Known to Police SYDNEY

Tingha Advocate and North-Western Journal · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 3

After searching police records detectives engaged on the Newtown murder case, discovered that the victim, La Spina, is well known to the police…

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S.A. Police Pay. Reduction Causes Resentment. Adelaide

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 1

Referring to the decision of the Government to reduce wages of the police hy 10 per cent, Mr. Fen wick (Secretary of the Police Association) said…

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Stolen Car. Recovered at Grafton. Man Before Court

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 4

As has been demonstrated so often in the past, the arm of the law is indeed long! Last Friday night, a Ford car,…

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£600 for January. Value of Rations at Armidale. Police Faced With Big Task

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 4

That the cost of feeding the unemployed is soaring to tremendous proportions is evident by the fact that Armidale police have this…

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Fenton and Lyons Treasure Self Respect Abjects Apolgy. U.S.A. to Italy. Major-General Butler to be Court-Martialled. Washington

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 1

The United States Government apologised to-day to premier Mussolini for the recent speech by Major-General Smedley Butler, of…

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Escape From Gaol Forced Bars of Cell COONAMBLE

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 1

Eugene de Flour, who was arrested on a charge of stealing a motor car, forced the bare of the cell of the local lockup last…

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Four Killed Bandits In Argentine Notorious Anarchist Sentenced Beunos Aires

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 1

A notorious, anarchist and bandit, Severity Degiovanni, has been sentenced to death before a firing squad to-morrow morning,…

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Italian Murder Mystery a Countryman Arrested SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 1

Close police inquiries into the mystery surrounding the murder of the Italian fruiterer Guiseppela Spina, at Newtown recently, ended late last…

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Alleged Car Stealing. Young Man Before the Court. £200 Bail

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 4

That he broke into Mr. H. Court's motor showroom in Marshstreet on January 24, and stole a motor car, the property of Mr…

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Alleged £10,000 Theft

The Uralla Times · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 3

Sydney, Thursday. — When John Brown Tennent. 38. manager of a city financial firm, was charged at the Central Court to-day with having…

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Marriage in Verse. Magistrate's Rhymes

The Uralla Times · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 3

A Justice of the Peace in Aurora, Illinois, U.S.A., broke into verse when he married a young couple recently, says a New York paper…

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Tobacco Stealing £2600 Worth Found MELBOURNE

The Inverell Times · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 1

Raiding an unoccupied house at Park Street, Albert Park, detectives discovered sacks containing the entire proceeds of a £2600 tobacco rob…

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Yesterday's News Blazing Car Murder

The Inverell Times · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 8

Charged in London with the murder of an unknown man, whose charred remains were found after his car had been destroyed by fire, Arthur Rouse…

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Murder Charge. Follows Pensioner's Death. Melbourne

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 1

Following an argument in his room at a lodging house at Fitzroy, William Rowan (60), a pensioner, was found lying unconscious on the floor. He…

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Murder ? A Story of a New Cuinea Mystery

The Uralla Times · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 4

It was very pleasant on Professor Langdon's verandah. The night was warm with the soft, sensuous warm of the tropics The moon…

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Missing Sulky "Thought It Had Been, Abandoned" Traveller on Theft Charge

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 4

The remanded case in which James McGarry was charged with stealing on January 28, a sulky valued at £3, the property of James Joseph…

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Small Debts Court Yesterday's Cases

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 4

In the Small Debts Court yesterday morning Henry John Young proceeded against Victor Bowen for the sum of £1/18/, balance of account. There…

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In Camera Police Inquiry Alleged Breaches of Regulations SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 1

The departmental inquiry into the conduct of Constables Edmunds and Jones opened to-day before Superintendant Linegar. Proceedings are…

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Missing Tarpaulin. Young Man Charged With Theft Adjournment Granted

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 8

Losing a tarpaulin from his motor lorry in December, S. E. Ward, ordiardist, of Kentucky, put the matter in the hands of the police…

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Police Court Tuesday, February 3

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 4

(Before Mr. J. E. McCulloch, P.M.) Murdock M. Hopkins was charged with not paying for meals etc. Mr. D. A. McIntyre appeared for the…

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