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Courts & crime, 1935

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Murder Charge Man and Woman Face Trial Shooting at Wyangala Dam Accused Acquitted SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 September 1935 · page 1

Mavis Elene Neilson and Claude Charnock stood their trial at the Central Criminal Court to-day on a charge of having murdered William John…

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Adelong Case in Equity Court Tub Sale of 665 Sheep. Injunction Against Auctioneer

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 3 September 1935 · page 3

Allegations concerning the sale of 665 sheep to two Adelong graziers at an auction sale at Wagga Wagga and the subsequent payment, of two…

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Theft From Museum Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 September 1935 · page 2

At the Central Court to-day, Thomas William Hayes, aged 18 years, laborer, was remanded on a charge of having been in the Australian Museum…

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Musician on Murder Charge Auckland

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 September 1935 · page 5

Erie Mareo, aged 41 years, well known musician, appeared at the City Court to-day on a charge of having murdered his wife, Thelma Mareo, on…

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Ballarat Bank Plot Alleged Conspirators Before Court Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 September 1935 · page 2

The trial opened at the Ballarat Quarter Sessions to-day of Henry Spokes, aged 53 years, at Middle Park, investor, and John Mulligan…

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Family Interference Wife's Application in Divorce Court Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 September 1935 · page 1

In reserving judgment in the Divorce Court, to-day Judge Boyce found that Mrs. Constance Kathleen Stevens was sincere in her desire for the return of…

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Albury Police-court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 September 1935 · page 4

Gwen Exton, aged 23 years, was charged at the Albury Police Court yesterday with having stolen jewellery valued at £12 and with having goods…

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Tumut Police Court

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 5 September 1935 · page 4

Henry Dunn was charged with carying passengers on a goods motor vehicle, without a permit. Contable M. J. Sullivan, deposed:…

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Frenchman Charged with Espionage

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 September 1935 · page 1

Count de Roqueseuille, French manager of an East African company, was arrested at Jijiga on a charge of espionage upon the Abyssinians. The…

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Woman's Death Burnt Body Found Murder or Suicide! Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 September 1935 · page 4

The shoulders and head burnt almost beyond recognition, the body of a woman was found in the bay of a creek at North Essendon to-night. The…

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Strange Allegation Arises in Assault Case Very Much Like Conspiracy Says Magitrate Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 September 1935 · page 4

Mr. Flynn, S.M., at the North Sydney Court to-day, criticised the alleged action of the secretary of the North Sydney Master Bakers' Association in…

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Tumut People in Court To Finalise Disagreement

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 5 September 1935 · page 5

In this Tumut Small Debts Court, before Mr, J. A. S. Balmain, Police Magistrate, at Tumut yesterday, August Frederick Lubke and Stanley…

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After the Gold Mining Warden’s Court

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 5 September 1935 · page 5

Applications for authority, to enter extended authorities, extension of term, suspension of operations, etc., still continue to pour into the…

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Murder Charge Man and Woman Face Trial Shooting at Wynagala Dam Accused Acquitted

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 5 September 1935 · page 2

Mavis Elene Ne[?] and Claude Charnock stood their trial at the Central Court (Sydney) on Monday, on a charge…

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Ballarat Bank Plot Accused Give Evidence Allegations Against Police Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 September 1935 · page 4

The trial of Henry Spokes aged 53 years, investor, of Middle Park, and John Mulligen, aged 41 years, clerk, of Prahran, on a charge of having…

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The Police Patrol Adelong Man Fined For Not Heeding Officer’s Signal

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 5 September 1935 · page 2

The first case of its kind to be heard at the local Police Court, for failing to stop when a police constable signals a motor driver…

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Brungle Boys Have a Night Out But P.M. Gives Them Three Days In Charge of Offensive Behaviour at Tumut Court

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 5 September 1935 · page 7

Four of the lads from the Brungle Mission, Jack Bugg, William Hamilton, Samuel Moore, and Alexander Phillips, jnr., faced P.M., J. A. S…

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Assault and Robbery Woman and Two Men Charged Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 September 1935 · page 1

The hearing of the charge against Thomas Croft, aged 30 years, mechanic, Kenneth Charles O'Connor, aged 31 years, plasterer, and Muriel O'Connor,…

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Woman on Murder Charge Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 6 September 1935 · page 1

At the Control Criminal Court to-day Olive May Gilson (29) was charged with having murdered her husband Edward Gilson Insurance…

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Mother Charged with Administering Poison to Son Crown Allegations Remarkable Statement Read SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 September 1935 · page 1

At the Central Criminal Court to-day Agnes Isobel Ellen Martin, aged 34 years, appeared before Chief Justice Jordan and a jury on a charge of…

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