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Courts & crime, 1932

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Wrestling Stopped by Police Crowd Annoyed Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 11 July 1932 · page 1

A wrestling bout between Dean Detton (U.S.A.) and Harry Mamos (Greece) was stopped by the police in the fifth round at the Sydney…

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Tighe's Hill Eviction 29 Men Charged Newcastle

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 July 1932 · page 1

The Police Court was crowded to-day and many were unable to gain admittance when 29 men appeared on charges arising out of the sensational…

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Wagga Police Court Wagga, July 11, 1932 (Before Mr. D. I. Parker, P.M.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 July 1932 · page 3

Three defendants were each fined £2 with 8/ costs added, for breaches of the Stamps Duties Act. DRILL HALL ARGUMENT…

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Corsican Robin Hood Acquitted of Murder. Ajaccio

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 July 1932 · page 1

Jean Ettori, who is known as the "Corsican Robin Hood," has been acquitted at Ajaccio of a charge of murder alleged to have been committed…

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Police Dogs Training Begun Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 July 1932 · page 1

A start has been made with the training of dogs for police work is Sydney. The Chief Commissioner of Police (Mr. Childs) stated to-day that steps would…

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Gruesome Murder Woman's Body Dismembered Pieces Strewn on Streets Oran (Morocco)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 July 1932 · page 2

One of the most gruesome murders in history was revealed by the discovery of 3l pieces of a woman's body strewn on the streets from the…

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Mysterious Deaths Man and Woman Police Investigating Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 July 1932 · page 1

The police are inquiring into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Bessie Hood, aged 19 years, an art student, at her home at Auburn, and…

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Death of Mrs. Thorne Police Make No Progress Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 July 1932 · page 4

Detectives during the weekend continued their investigations into the death of Mrs. Dorothy Thorne, of [?], but have been unable to…

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Mrs. Saywell Making Slow Recovery After Brutal Assault Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 July 1932 · page 1

Mrs. Victoria Saywell, who was brutally battered at her home at Bellevue Hill when her husband was murdered, continues to show…

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Rector of Stiffkey Attacks Consistory Court London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 July 1932 · page 2

The Rev. H. F. Davidson, the rector of Stiffkey, Norfolk, who was found guilty last week by the Norwich Consistory Court of a number of charges…

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Postal Employee Charge of Stealing Fails

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 July 1932 · page 2

Before his Honor, Judge Coyle, at the Albury Quarter Sessions yesterday, William Charles Stevens, aged 39 years, postal employee, was charged…

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Theft Alleged

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 July 1932 · page 2

At the Wagga Police court yesterday, before Mr. I. Beavers, J.F., Charles Edward Noonan, alias Broughton, aged 40 years, was charged with…

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Garden Assault Imprisoned New Guardsmen Not to Be Released Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 July 1932 · page 1

The Minister for justice (Mr. Martin( said to-day that, after carefully considering the petition for the release of the eight New Guardsmen…

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Water Charged Tenterfield Applies for Relief Seven Other Places Relieved TENTERFIELD

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 15 July 1932 · page 1

At a meeting of ratepayers it was decided to ask the Government for relief from the burden of the new rates occasioned by the costly town…

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Man Fatally Shot in Market Garden Chinese Charged with Manslaughter Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 July 1932 · page 3

With his body riddled with shot from an old muzzle-loading gun, Alexander Shearer, aged 56 years, was found lying in a market garden in…

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Man Shot While Stealing Vegetables Chinese Gardener Charged Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 July 1932 · page 1

See Hop, aged 58 years, a Chinese gardener, was charged at the Central Court to-day with having slain Alexander George Shearer, at Ryde last…

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Drill Hall Quarrel Charge of Assault

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 16 July 1932 · page 7

Before Mr D. F. Parker, P.M., at Wagga Ponce Court on Monday, Leonard William Wilcox pleaded not guilty to a charge of having…

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Cruelty to a Horse Canowindra Wood-Carter Sent to Gaol. Magistrate Orders Animal to Be Destroyed

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 18 July 1932 · page 3

So malformed was a horse that figured in a case before Mr. Bromhead, S.M., at Canowindra Police Court on Tuesday that the…

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Police Court To-day (Before Mr. G. J. Johnstone, P.M.) Unlicensed Electrician

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 18 July 1932 · page 4

Alexander William McLeod, of Maples, for whom Mr. Kinsey appeared, and Les. Deal, for whom Mr. Sargent appeared, and Claud Long, for…

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Shop Broken Into Police Follow Blood Trail SIDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 18 July 1932 · page 1

The keen powers of observation on the part of Detective Silcock and Constable Ramsay, of Glebe, resulted in the arrest of a man on a charge of…

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