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Courts & crime, 1936

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Wagga Police Court Saturday, June 27, 1936 (Before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.M.)

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 June 1936 · page 7

George Ferguson, aged 32 years, was charged with having stolen an overcoat, the property of Messrs. Deep and Co…

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Life Imprisonment for Brisbane Train Murder Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 June 1936 · page 1

Found guilty of having murdered Harold Edward Speering in the Bundaberg mall train on April 2, Herbert Kopit (also known as Colbert) was…

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Charge Against Police Description Circulated in Victoria Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 June 1936 · page 1

The Chief Secretary Mr. Bailey said yesterday that he would ask the Chief Commissioner of Police (Sir Thomas Blarney) for a report about…

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Grim Police Find in N.Z. Auckland, (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 June 1936 · page 1

Sensational developments are expected from extensive digging operations undertaken by police yesterday and to-day at Hastings. It is…

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Stay-in Strike Over Police Make Many Arrests London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 June 1936 · page 5

Drastic action was taken to deal with a stay-in strike which occurred at Alexandria. The strikers were ejected. Nearly 1000 workmen began…

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Wagga Police Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 June 1936 · page 4

George Furguson, aged 32 years, was brought before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.M., at the Wagga Police Court yesterday charged with having stolen an…

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Mean Theft

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 30 June 1936 · page 4

Theft at any time is a low act not to bo encouraged, but when ruthless persons stoop to thieving from a hospital, it becomes an…

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Brisbane-train Murder

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 30 June 1936 · page 3

Found guilty of having murdered Harold Edward Speering in the Bundaberg mail train on April 2, Herbert Kopit (also known as Colbert) was…

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Former Secretary Charged Melbourne

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 30 June 1936 · page 1

At the Melbourne City Court to-day Leonard Bell, former secretary of the M.S.W. branch of the Australian Tramway and Motor Omnibus…

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Wardrobe Murder Man Hunt Ends With finding of Body in Harbor Good Police Work Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 June 1936 · page 1

The finding of a body abating in the Harbor to-day, ended the police, search for the man who was wanted for the murder of Mabel Patricia Goodman,…

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Murder Charge Moree District Death SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 30 June 1936 · page 1

The trial commenced to-day, at the Central Criminal Court, of Eric William Newlands, 26, grazier, for the alleged murder of William Alfred…

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Nude Female Form Displayed in Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 30 June 1936 · page 3

"Take her out of the box," said counsel. Not very gently, a constable stood her on her feet and paraded her before the judge. He smiled and…

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More Murders Police Department Report General Decrease in Crime

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 30 June 1936 · page 1

There was a general decrease in crime in New South Wales during 1935, according to a report of the Police Department tabled in the…

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Lockhart Tragedy Young Married Man Fatally Shot Police Investigating

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 30 June 1936 · page 1

When most people were at tea in Lockhart on Friday evening, a tragedy was being enacted without parrallel in the history of the town. The chief actors in a poignant scene which had a fatal termination…

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Hospital Tennis Court Expenses to Date, £54/9/ Donations, £40/19/

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 30 June 1936 · page 2

The working bees at the week-end did splendid work on the tennis court for the District Hospital staff, after the wet weather had held things up…

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Wardrobe Murder Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 July 1936 · page 2
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In an endeavor to obtain prints, detectives have removed the skin from the fingers of the man whose body was found in the harbor yesterday and who…

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Injury by Terror Court's Finding in Appeal Case Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 July 1936 · page 1

Whether the girl suffered injury by reason of the terror she experienced as a result of the occurrence of which she was a witness, was a question at…

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Ex-shire President's Conviction Quashed in Higher Court His Travelling Expenses Sydney, Tuesday

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 July 1936 · page 3

The conviction of Alfred Charles Leslie Taylor, former president of the Erina Shire, at the Gosford Court on a charge of having acted in a civic office…

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Emperor Abused in Rome Press Journalists May Be Charged at Geneva London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 July 1936 · page 1

The Rome correspondent of the "News-Chronicle" ,states that Haill Sellassie's speech at Geneva has embittered Italian opinion. The…

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