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Courts & crime, 1935

1,747 stories in Riverina's papers · page 7 of 88

Arrests at Gunpoint Alleged Housebreakers Disturbed Police Recover Quantity of Wine Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 1

Three men were arrested at gunpoint early this morning on charges of breaking and entering a house at Arncliffe…

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Gaol Escapee Sentenced Cootamundra

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 2

At local police court John Kingsley Clarkson, who is alleged to have escaped from the local gaol, pleaded guilty to illegally using a car and…

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A Month in Gaol! Stealing From Car

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 1

George Harrison was fined 10/ for drunkenness at the Lockhart Magistrates' Court but was remanded, on the application of the police, on two…

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Police Court Wagga, Monday, January 21 (Before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.m.) Common Assault

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 2

John R. Flakelar was charged with having assaulted a man named Baker, with offensive behavior, and with having assaulted a police officer…

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Albury Murder Leakage of Information Handicapping the Police

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 4

During the four mouths in which exhaustive inquiries have been made by the police throughout Australia in connection with the Albury culvert…

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Daring Break from Cootamundra Gaol Escape in Stolen Car Escapee Captured near Whitton

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 1

A prisoner recently arrested at Stockinbingal, and awaiting trial at the Young Sessions on February 12 on charges of false pretences and…

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Court House Statistics for Year 1934

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 1

We are indebted to the Clerk of Petty Sessions (Mr. K. Stewart) for supplying us with the following information with regard to the…

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Girl Scales 20 Feet Fall From Gaol Wall Amazing Bid for Freedom DUBBO

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 2

Although only on remand on a charge of vagrancy, a 17-year-old girl yesterday made a desperate bid for freedom by scaling the 20ft. wall of…

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Daring Escape From Cootamundra Gaol Iron Bar Sawn by Prisoner's Accomplice Escape in Stolen Car

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 5

A prisoner recently arrested at Stockinbingal, and awaiting trial at the Young Sessions on February 12 on charges of false pretences and…

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Kidnapper Gangsters Desperate Bid for Victory Turned Machine Guns on Police New York

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 1

Two gangsters, believed to be Albin Karpis and Harry Campbell, the last survivors of the gang which kidnapped the banker Bremer, shot their way…

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Found Shot Young Man Charged with Theft Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 2

Following his arrest to-day on a charge of having stolen a bicycle, Reginald Smith, aged 22 year's, of Thornbury, was found blurt through the heart…

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Boy Criminals Under Police Observation Stealing and Housebreaking Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 1

Detectives stated to-day that two boys, both, aged 13 years, with criminal instincts, have been under observation for some time. Both boys, said the…

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Cootamundra Gaol Escapee Man Before Court Assisted From Outside

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 2

John Kingsley Clarkson, aged 24 years, who escaped from Cootamundra gaol, appeared before Mr. J. A. S. Balmain, P.M., in the police court at…

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Girl Scales 20Ft. Gaol Wall

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 3

Although only on remand on a charge of vagrancy, a 17-year-old girl made a desperate bid for freedom by seating the 20ft. wall of Dubbo gaol…

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Murder Charge Remanded Man Allowed Bail Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 1

In Chambers to-day, Mr. Justice Maxwell granted bail to Cyril Pearson; who is under remand on a charge of having murdered William John…

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Jupp Before Court London

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 1

V. W. Jupp, Northant's cricketer, who, on Saturday, was charged with manslaughter of Denis Moyesy, 19, one of the two youths on a motor…

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Fired at Car Police Chase at 80 Miles Per Hour ALBURY

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 1

After the driver of a stolen car had tried to run down Constable Humphries as he stood in Young street, Albury, at 3 a.m. yesterday…

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Lost Coastal Steamer Vessel Well Equipped Marine Court Inquiry Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 2

The Court of Marine Inquiry which inquired into the loss of the steamer Coramba on November 30, 1934, found that the vessel was lost because of the…

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Stolen Motor Car Shots Fired by Constable Chase by Albury Police Fruitless Albury

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 2

When a motor car suspected of having been stolen in Melbourne passed through Albury towards the main road to Sydney early this morning,…

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Saar Sensation Herr Meyer Shot Leader of Separatist Party Police Commissioner Charged With Murder SAARBRUCKEN

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 1

Her Paul Meyer, ex-Prefect of the Rhineland, was shot dead to-day when police were attempting to arrest him on an old German warrant charging him with embezzlement. Herr Meyer resisted and was killed outright…

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