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Courts & crime, 1932

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Police and Unemployed Clash at Pine Creek Old Hospital Occupied Darwin

Daily Advertiser · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 2

A serious clash, in which several revolver shots were fired, has occurred between unemployed and the police at Pine Creek…

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Police Court Friday, January 8, 1932 (Before Mr. J. Balmain, P.m.) Alleged Stealing

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 1

Frank Marshall, on remand, was charged with stealing three £1 notes, one l0s note, and 10s in silver, the property of Florence M.Fulham…

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William Street Gun Duel Inquest Opened White Charged With Murder SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 2

An inquest was opened to-day concerning the death of Frederick Wallace Roberts, victim of the recent William street gun duel, James White,…

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Leeton Police Court Travelling Without Ticket DRUNK and Indecent Language

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 2

At the Leeton Court yesterday before Messrs A. V, Quiggin and W.C. Barker, George Taylor (22) was fined 10/- for drunkenness, and for…

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Wagga Police Court Wagga, January 11, 1932 (Before Mr. J. A. S. Balma[?], P.m.) Provocation Alleged

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 4

When charged with having assaulted Charles Turner, Edward Henry Morey pleaded guilty and alleged provocation…

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Murder Charge W.A. SHOOTING Application For Dismissal Fails PERTH

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 1

The trial of Richard Graham Chappell was begun to-day on a charge of having murdered Linton Leigh Lethlean. Mr. Cullen, for Chappell, asked…

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Bathurst Court House Council Disconnects Water BATHURST

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 1

Following on the decision of the State Government not to pay rates on Government buildings, the Bathurst Municipal Council has disconnected…

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Youth Fatally Shot While Pursuing Thieves Deliberate Murder Railway Porter Held Up SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 2

Pursuing two men who had made threatening demands for money, Cecil Baker, aged 19 years, was shot dead late last night at Yagoona, a small…

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Bathurst Court House Council Disconnects Water Non-rateable Property Bathurst

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 2

Following on the decision of the State Government not to pay rates on Government buildings, the Bathurst Municipal Council has disconnected the…

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Hillston Police Court

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 14 January 1932 · page 1

At Hillston Police Court on Monday, before Mr. R. L. Sheldon, J.P., Albert George Ray pleaded not guilty, to a charge of refusing to pay a…

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Warders Attacked Attempt to Stop Fight Bathurst Gaol Incident Bathurst

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 January 1932 · page 1

When a warder at the Bathurst goal attempted to stop a fight between two youthful prisoners yesterday the combatants attacked him, knocked him…

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Garage Like Arsenal Stocked with Ammunition Police Discovery Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 January 1932 · page 2

Detectives arrested a man last Monday on a charge of breaking and entering. Later, they searched an old garage at the rear of the man's house at…

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Tellers Charged Theft of £2770 MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 January 1932 · page 2

A charge involving the theft of £2770 belonging to the Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd., was preferred against two tellers employed by…

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Tellers Charged Melbourne

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 15 January 1932 · page 1

A charge involving the theft of £2770 belonging to the Commercial Bank of Australia, Ltd., was preferred against two tellers employed by the…

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Youth Charged Case Dismissed Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 January 1932 · page 1

When William Sharpe, aged 19 years, appeared at the Paddington Police Court to-day on a charge of having had an unlicensed revolver on…

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Polish Opposition Leaders Sentenced Plotting Against Pilsudski Warsaw

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 January 1932 · page 1

Heavy sentences were passed on the leaders of the Opposition arrested during the general election of 1930 for having plotted against the…

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Shot Dead Mysterious Murder Chinese Beauty Suspected Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 January 1932 · page 1

Detectives to-day discovered a body in Chinatown in circumstances that led them to believe that a young doctor, Ronald, has been the…

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A Wandering Woman Police and Citizens' Fruitless Search

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 15 January 1932 · page 5

Following a report from Mr. Bob. Holder, of Short street, Cootamundra, the local police, assisted later in the day by thirty…

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Canadian Trapper Defies Mounted Police Barricaded in Cabin Edmonton

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 January 1932 · page 1

Attempting to arrest Albert Johnson, a demented trapper, who barricaded himself in an Arctic cabin after he had shot and seriously…

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Brutal Assault Three Months Sentence

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 January 1932 · page 8

At Wagga Police Court on Monday, before Mr. J. A. S. Balmain, P.M., Ernest Henry Morey was charges with having unlawfully assaulted…

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