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New England · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

1,219 stories in New England's papers · page 8 of 61

Found in Break Van Six Youths Before the Court

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 15 February 1937 · page 6

Found sheltering in a brake van at the Armidale railway goods yard on Saturday night, and taken into custody, six youths appeared…

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Insurance Company Employees To Work Under Arbitration Court Conditions Wellington (N.z.)

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 16 February 1937 · page 1

For the first time in New Zealand, employees of insurance companies are to work under Arbitration Court conditions…

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Police News

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 4

The Armidale police have in their possession One lady's gold wristlet watch with hold wrist band, and a pair of ear rings. The owner is invited to…

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Prisoners Escape Charge of Stealing SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 1

Two men who were being held on a charge of stealing, escaped from the custody of the police at Dunedoo, after the sergeant had been struck on the…

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Show Traffic Police Directions

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 4

The local police have issued the following instructions in connection with raffle during the show:—(1) Vehicular traffic travelling to the…

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Australian Navy Returns Ahead Of Time Rating in Gaol Collection For Wife Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 1

Notwithstanding denials of the Navy Board, the Australian naval squadron is returning to Sydney from Jervis Bay…

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Gipsy Camp Raided by Police Found Regular Car Park Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 4

At the Central Police Station early this morning following a raid by the police on a Gipsy encampment near Landsdowne bridge,…

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"Cultivation" Land Defined in Warden's Court Interesting Point for Miners

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 4

The question of what constituted cultivation land was debated in the Glen Innes Warden's Court when before the Mining Warden (Mr. F. T…

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Occupy Reserve Court Prceedings Instituted Houses on Gilgai T.S.R.

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 4

A case which arose out of a decision by the P.P. Board in regard to the T.S.R, at Gilgal, was called in the local Police Court…

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Magistrate "Approached." Mr. Carr-Boyd's Statement

Guyra Argus · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 3

At the conclusion of the hearing in a case in which four men were charged at Maitland Police Court with having behaved in an offensive…

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Sentenced to Death Two Convicted Murder of Scriven MELBOURNE

The Inverell Times · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 1

Rupert Davies, 28, storeman, and William John Cody, 24, laborer, were sentenced to death at the Criminal Court after they had been found…

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Armidale Police Court Gaming House Charges Withdrawn

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 4

Mr. J. A. S. Balmain, relieving Police Magistrate, presided at the sitting of the Armidale Police Court yesterday morning, when a varied…

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Resembled Pawn Shop Interior Of Armidale Police Court Charge of Breaking, Entering and Stealing Young Man Committed For Trial

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 3

The Armidale Police Court to-day resembled a pawnshop, when a wide variety of clothing, cases (opened and unopened), boxes jewellery, a typewriter and a host of sundries cluttered the deposition clerk's desk, and…

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Accused Before Court Later

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 1

At the North Sydney Police Court, Royle Charles Cooney (40), manager, was remanded till February 26, on a charge of having feloniously slain…

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Scriven Murder Accused Found Guilty Death Sentence Pronounced Both Men Protest Innocence Melbourne

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 1

Rupert Davies, 28, storeman, and William John Cody, 24, labourer, were sentenced to death at the Criminal…

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"Sit-down" Strikers Resist Army of Police "Knock-out" Gas to Be Used Waukegan (Illinois)

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 1

A force of 120 policemen and deputy sheriffs failed in a two hours' siege to dislodge over a hundred "sit-down" strikers at…

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Police Court

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 22 February 1937 · page 2

H. Blount was proceeded against by Mr. Inspector Bailey for having carried out electrical wiring work while not being an employee of an…

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Nine Months' Gaol Young Business Man Sentenced Counsel's Plea For Leniency

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 22 February 1937 · page 4

Pleading guilty to a charge of having at Armidale on October 10, as a servant of Thomas William Green and Co, Ltd., he had stolen…

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Prohibition Order Case Man Before Police Court

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 22 February 1937 · page 3

At the Armidale Police Court this morning before messrs H. L. Lonsidale and F.W. Milner J.sP., Herbert William Brown…

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Gravesend Court Case

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 22 February 1937 · page 6

At Moree Quarter Sessions Joseph Gorden Burgess was charged, with false pretences. He pleaded not guilty…

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