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New England · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

1,219 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 61

Stealing Charge

The Inverell Times · Monday 4 January 1937 · page 4

In the local Police Court this morning, Michael Samuel Ryan (41), or Randwick, was charged with stealing £4 from the person of Harvey Thomas…

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Murder Charge Italian in Trouble MELBOURNE

The Inverell Times · Monday 4 January 1937 · page 1

The police yesterday arrested Antonio Barabara, 35, an Italian laborer and charged him with the murder or Mrs. Edith Rachael Praetz, also known…

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Girl Murdered Six Shoes Fired Police Want Young Man MELBOURNE

The Inverell Times · Monday 4 January 1937 · page 1

Merle Ross, 18, a maid at the home of Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Salter, of Ballarat, was shot to death last night in a laneway within ten…

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Ballarat Murder Girl Riddled With Bullets at Close Range Man's Body Found in Lake Melbourne

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 4 January 1937 · page 1

Merle Moss, 18, a maid at the home of Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Satler, of Ballarat, was shot dead last night in a laneway…

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Alleged Murder Woman Charged AUCKLAND

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 4

A magistrate at Hamilton Police Court to-day remanded Petrina Petersen (30), a domestic, on a charge of having attempted to murder her two…

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Proud of Police Superintendent Retires

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 8

The Metropolitan Superintendent of Police (Mr. Pattinson) retired last week feeling proud of his long assocition with such a fine body of men…

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Police Dismissals Decision To Be Fought SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 4

Intent on examining every legal and constitutional point to fight the decision, the Police Association has secured the support of the interstate police…

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Police Appreciation Of Public Co-operation Search for Prison Escapee

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 4

In the course of the hearing in the local Police Court yesterday of the charge of escaping from lawful custody against a prisoner…

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In Hollow Log Prison Farm Escapee Recapture Near Llangothlin Appearance in Court

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 4

The prisoner who escaped from the Glen Innes Afforestation Prison Camp on Tuesday last, and for whom the local police conducted…

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Alleged Racecourse Stealing Stranger Accused of Picking Pocket Magistrate Dismisses Case

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 4

Before Mr. F. Scroope, P.M., in the local Police Court this morning Michael Sidney Ryan was charged with that he did on January 2 steal…

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Armidale Police Court Bakers Prosecuted

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 3

At the Armidale Police Court yesterday Frederick Manness was charged under the Industrial Arbitration Act, with having baked bread for sale…

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Beardy Street Assault Drover Before Court on Two Charges "Quarrel Over P.P. 'Board Job"

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 7

Said to foe the outcome of much had blood between the parties, charged of unlawful assault and insuiting, woods were preferred, by…

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Returned Soldier Preference Charges Against Armidlae Company Sequel Employment of Ledger-keeper Confliting Evidence," Says Police Magistrate

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 8

One of the the first cases Under the Returned Soldiers and [?] Employment Act, 1919, was heard at the Armidale Court this morning, when the New England Mutual Building and investment Society was called…

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Without Tickets Railway Travellers Charged Youth Who Alighted at Kelly's Plains

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 4

Before Mr. G. J. Johnstone, at the Armidale Police Court yesterday, Railway Inspector Gibson proceeded, against Cecil Henry…

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Murder Suspected Skeleton Found In Abandoned Shaft MELBOURNE

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 1

The fully-clothed skeleton of a man was found by two prospectors yesterday in a disused mining shaft near Wedderburn…

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Small Debts Court Dress Order Unsatisfactory

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 4

The Police Magistrate, Mr. G. J. Johnstone, in the Small Debts Court yesterday, heard a case aris-. ing out of the alleged…

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Skeleton Found in Shaft Circumstances Point to Murder Prospector's gruesome Discovery Melbourne

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 1

The fully clothed skeleton of a man was found by two prospectors yesterday in a disused mining shaft near Wedderburn…

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Brawl on Vessel British Officers and Coloured Crew Police Rushed to Walsh Bay Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 1

Police reinforcements had to be rushed to the liner Marella, berthed at No. 7 wharf, Walsh Bay, last night, when there was a…

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To-day's Court

The Uralla Times · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 1

Before Mr. G. J. Johnstone, P.M., at the local police courf to-day, Frederick L. Taylor proceeded against Victor Starr a chage of haying…

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Skeleton Found in Shaft Circumstances Point to Murder Prospector's Gruesome Discovery Melbourne

Guyra Argus · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 2

The fully clothed skeleton of a man was found by two prospectors yesterday in a disused mining shaft near Wedderburn…

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