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Courts & crime, 1932

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Loyalist Unions Application to High Court Against Order to Join Other Unions Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 May 1932 · page 1

Application was to-day made to the High ?Court on behalf of three loyalist unions to test the validity of instructions issued, by the Transport Trust…

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Man Bound and Gagged Charged with Theft Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 May 1932 · page 8

Cecil M'Pherson, who was found bound and gagged in front of Dr. Old's residence at Ryde last night, is stated by the alice to have admitted…

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Glen Innes Murder Police Make Arrest Glen Innes

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 May 1932 · page 2

Maurice George O'Hara was arrested to-day and charged with the murder of Charles Victor Chaffey, who was shot dead at his home, two and a…

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Murder Charge Capt. Lancaster

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 May 1932 · page 3

Captain Lancaster, the English airman, who accompanied Mrs. Keith Miller on her flight to Australia in the Red Rose, was on Monday at…

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Murder Suspect Arrested at Kensington

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 May 1932 · page 16

In the midst of a dense fog in a desolate field near the Kensington golf linns, Detective Russell O'Neill on Thursday morning, at 3 o'clock,…

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Yagoona Murder Woodley's Appeal Fails. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 May 1932 · page 3

The Full Court of Criminal Appeal today refused Reginald Frederick Woodley, aged 19 years, leave to appeal against his conviction for the…

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New Zealand Riots Strikers and Police Clash

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 May 1932 · page 16

The tramway strike at Christchurch (N.Z.) took a serious turn yesterday when 300 strikers with iron bars and stones attacked the first Sumner…

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New Guard Police Raids Homes Searched Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 May 1932 · page 4

The police inquiries into New Guard, activities, which have been in progress for some weeks, developed sensationally early this morning,…

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Robbery at Blamey's Three Men Charged Remanded Until Monday Smart Work by Constable Fairfax

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 May 1932 · page 3

Shortly before 1 o'clock yesterday morning the island window of the premises of Mr. J. C. Blarney, of Baylis street, Wagga, was broken open and…

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Tram Strike at Christchurch. Police and Strikers Clash. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 May 1932 · page 1

Special police, with the assistance of the regular police at Christchurch, to day dealt with a body of about 300 tramway strikers, who act upon a tram…

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Loyalist Unions Order to Members Appeal to High Court Fails Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 May 1932 · page 8

Without hearing counsel for the respondents the High Court to-day refused three loyalist unions—the Railway Service Association, the…

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Assassin in France President Doumer Dies in Hospital Russian Fanatic Empties His Revolver Chief Of Police And A Novelist Also Wounded PARIS

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 May 1932 · page 3

The President of France, M. Doumer, was seriously wounded by a Russian, who fired six shots af him. He was rushed to Hospital, where he underwent a blood transfusion and operation, but the is little chance of his…

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Wagga Police Court

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 May 1932 · page 2

At the Wagga Police Court on Saturday morning Norman Langford, aged 21 years was fined 30/, in default three days' imprisonment, for…

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Assault on Alderman Garden Six Men Charged Case to Be Heard Today Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 May 1932 · page 1

The preliminary court proceedings arising out of the alleged assault by six men upon John Smith Garden and his two sona, early on Friday…

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Parading in Nude Doukhobor's Sentenced Vancouver

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 May 1932 · page 2

In addition to the 84 men of the Doukhobor colonies who were each sentenced to three years' imprisonment for having paraded in the nude…

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Teaching Child to Steal Magistrate Caustic Shoplifter Piked Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 May 1932 · page 1

"You are not fit to have the custody of children," said Mr. M'Dougall, S.M., at the Central Police Court yesterday, in imposing a fine of £2 on…

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New Guard Headquarters Raided by Police SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 9 May 1932 · page 1

A squad of detectives, under the metropolitan Superintendent (Mr. Mackay) detained the secretary of the New Guard (Mr. L. W. Sutherland) at…

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New Guard Headquarters Raided by Police Suburban Homes Visited Fascist Organisation Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 May 1932 · page 1

A squad of detectives under the Metropolitan Superintendent (Mr. Mackay) yesterday morning detained the secretary of the New…

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Riot at Football Match Christchurch Team Taken From Ground by Police Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 May 1932 · page 4

A riot occurred at the conclusion of the Rugby Union football match at Lancaster Park. Christchurch yesterday, and one of the teams had to be…

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South Gundagai Grazier Before Tumut Court Travelling Stock Without A Permit “Not An Ordinary Case”

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 9 May 1932 · page 2

Edward Jamieson, a grazier, of South Gundagai, was before Mr. Harison, P.M., at the Tumut police court, last week, charged that he,…

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