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Courts & crime, 1932

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Bank Employees Robbed Three Men Charged Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 January 1932 · page 2

At the City Court to-day Hugh Martin, Robert Brewster, and William Pinewstor, all young men, were charged with robbery under arms,…

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Clever C.i.b. Work in Bungendore Murder

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 1 January 1932 · page 6

Aided only by a few slender clues, the police have identified the victim of the Bungendore murder as Sydney James Morrison, who formerly lived…

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Microphones in Court Record of Proceedings London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 January 1932 · page 3

Microphones were installed as an experiment in the Manchester Sessions Court to-day, and the proceedings were recorded by an electro-magnet on…

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Bungendore Murder Furthers Clues Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 2 January 1932 · page 2

The detectives who are making inquiries into the death of Sydney James Morrison, whose charred remains were found at Bungendore, have succeeded…

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Assault with Tin-opener Argument Over Girl Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 2 January 1932 · page 6

Following an argument outside a dance hall at Belmore last night, Francis Mitchell, aged 20 years, of Belmore, was stabbed in the left…

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Alleged Assault Woman Complains to Firemen Husband Takes Her Home Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 2 January 1932 · page 2

Firemen at the Redforn station received a shock early this morning when a woman clad only in nightdress, walked into the station and…

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Microphones In Court Record of Proceedings

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 2 January 1932 · page 3

Microphones were installed as an experiment in the Manchester Sessions Court and the proceedings were recorded by an electro magnet…

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Local Porter Charged Interest in Local Case

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 4 January 1932 · page 2

Phillip Henry Freestone was before Mr. Harison, P.M., at this morning’s police court charged with embezzling the sum of £8/17/11…

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Police View Premature Explosion

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 January 1932 · page 1

The official police report reads: "About 8.40 p.m. Friday an explosion occurred in Livingstone's paddock, Belmore, Peakhurst, leaving a…

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Dangerous Criminal Twice Eludes Police Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 January 1932 · page 1

Ernest Albert Richards, a dangerous criminal, who escaped from one of the strongest cells in the Yatala labor prison on Thursday night, was seen by…

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Woman's Fatal Fall Police Puzzled Was It Deliberate? Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 January 1932 · page 1

Though the police are still mystified as to how Mrs. Lillian Higgs, aged 26 years, who was killed by her fall from the big dipper at Luna Park,…

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Hip Pocket Style. Double-barrelled Gun Found by Police Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 January 1932 · page 1

After they had seized a reviver found on a man at King's Cross yesterday, detectives went to his flat, where they found a double-barrelled…

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Early Morning Chase Shots Fired by Police Three Men Caught Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 January 1932 · page 1

Two shots fired by police at a fleeing man, this morning, caused him to fall flat on the ground, fearful of more bullets. When he was…

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Almost a Riot at Woodstock On Christmas Eve. Police Officer’s Baton Used and Revolver Drawn

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 4 January 1932 · page 4

Christmas is a time of peace and goodwill to all—but little of either ruled in Woodstock’s main street on Christmas Eve…

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Lockhart Police Court

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 2

Fifty-four summons cases and fifty-three charge cases were dealt with at the Lockhart Police Court during 1931…

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Leeton Police Court Man Committed to Mental Hospital

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 2

Antonio Slaverio, at the Leeton Court yesterday, was committed to a mental asylum on a charge of being a man of unsound mind. Sergeant…

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Laborer Remanded Alleged Assault and Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 1

At the Central Court to-day Cecil O'Hara, aged 51 years, a laborer, ws charged with having assaulted Gregory Szanka on Christmas Eve by…

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Police Reinforcements for Cannery Season

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 4

Each year the local police force is strengthened by an additional officer for the cannery season. Constable Lee is the extra, who has been sent…

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Wagga Police Court Wagga, January 4, 1932 (Before Mr. J.A.S. Balmain, P.m.) Riotous Behavior at Election Meeting

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 4

Finality was reached in the case, several times adjourned, in which George Finn, who was a Lang Plan candidate in the recent municipal…

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Hindenburg Interrupted Police Make Arrests Berlin

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 1

The police have discovered a spot on the outskirts of the city where Communi[?]ts tapped in underground telephone cable and interrupted President…

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