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Courts & crime, 1935

1,747 stories in Riverina's papers · page 12 of 88

Gundagai Warden’s Court Extension of Time

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 7 February 1935 · page 7

An application by James Brown for an extension of time on his authority to enter, issued in January last year, was heard. In evidence the…

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Tumbarumba Police Coort Shooting Charge Station Master Committed for Trial

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 7 February 1935 · page 1

At the Tumbarumba Police Court on Thursday last, before Mr. C. W. Swiney, P.M., Frederick William Jones, railway…

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Cost of Beer Evidence in Bankruptcy Court Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 February 1935 · page 1

Figures relating to the cost of beer and the profit made by hotelkeepers were given by Gordon Hedley Lloyd, a clerk employed by Tooth and Co.,…

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Factory Robbed Four Men Arrested Shots Fired by Police Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 February 1935 · page 1

At the Central Court to-day four men—Arthur Edward Aldemon, aged 24 years, clerk; William Boy Hilton. aged 19 years, paper seller; Clarence…

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Five Years' Gaol Clarkson Sentenced

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 8 February 1935 · page 2

"YOU are one of those men who are a horrible menace to society, and it would have been better for the community if you had…

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Six Months Gaol for Stealing Bags

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 8 February 1935 · page 2

STANLEY DEW (29) George Francis T. Cann (19) and Joseph Henry Lawson (27) were charged at Leeton Court House…

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Five Years' Gaol "Menace to Society" Clarkson Sentenced

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 8 February 1935 · page 6

"You are one of those men who are a horrible menace to society, and it would have been better for the community if you had…

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Police Court

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 8 February 1935 · page 7

Before Messrs. E. Evans and W. H. Hicks, Js.P. Trespassing on Railway. William Richard Weston, 21, was…

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Police Court TUESDAY, 5th FEBRUARY

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 8 February 1935 · page 5

Alfred Thomas Langlake, Neil Pollard, and Albert G. Chiel were each fined £1, in default two days' hard labor, on charges of trespassing…

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Perth Murder Police Search for Informant Perth

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 February 1935 · page 1

The police are anxious to get in touch with a man who, about 10.55 p.m. on Tuesday, telephoned the information which led to the discovery of…

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Cootamundra Gaol Escapee Five Years' Imprisonment "Menace to Society," Says Judge

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 8 February 1935 · page 1
Also in Adelong and Tumut Express

John Kingsley Clarkson, who escaped from the Cootamundra gaol recently, and who was recaptured near Whitton punt, was described as…

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Death After Brawl Murder Charge Reduced at Inquest Conflicting Evidence Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 February 1935 · page 8

"Menzies and Kelly began to fight. I tried to stop them, but they pushed me away. Menzies punched Kelly on the jaw and knocked him down. I…

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Divorced Man's Claim Unusual Court Case Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 February 1935 · page 1

There was unusual case before Mr. Justice M'Farlane to-day when Benjamin Charles Steen, engine driver, of Ararat, and Frederick Zimmerlie,…

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French Riots Many Injured When Mobs and Police Clash Paris

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 February 1935 · page 2

Coinciding with the anniversary of last year's riots, arising from the Stavisky financial scandals, political tension is increasing in France. Hostility…

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Echo of Tumblong Motor Tragedy Supreme Court Case to Be Heard in Melbourne

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 8 February 1935 · page 4

On Monday morning several Gundagai residents received subpoenas to attend the Supreme Court, Melbourne next Wednesday, for the…

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Gaol Inmates' Rule on Welfare Island

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 3

Conditions that stagger our prosaic minds were recorded some time ago as prevailing in the prison at Welfare Island, New York. The…

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Nazis In Vienna Sentenced to Death Vienna

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 1

The first woman sentenced to death under the special procedure introduced in 1934, after the Socialist revolt is Hilde Goessl Nazi, aged…

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Awful Perth Crime Murder And Robbery

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 4

The body of Edgar Arthur Whitfield, 60, married, a night caretaker, was found in a back room of Caris Bros., jewellers, Perth, The neck…

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Tipping Information Police Inquiries Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 15

Detectives are investigating the complaint of a prominent Sydney horse-trainer that his name had been linked with a scheme to issue…

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