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Courts & crime, 1937

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Forged Betting Tickets Bookmakers' Tactics Police Watch Events Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 March 1937 · page 8

To guard against loss through paying out on forged betting tickets a number of bookmakers at Randwick today had their tickets marked with a…

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Triple Murder Mother, Daughter and Lodger Found Slain in American House New York

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 March 1937 · page 4

Mrs. Mary Gedeon, aged 54 years, daughter Veroncia, aged 20 years, and a lodger, Frank Byrnes, aged 35 years, were mysteriously murdered in a fourth…

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Police Baton Charge Outside Irish Cemetery Easter Rebellion Meeting Banned London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 March 1937 · page 1

With batons drawn, the police today charged a thousand people gathered outside the Milltown Cemetery, Belfast. when they had risen from…

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Gruesome Find Woman's Limbs in Sugar Bag Recovered From Yarra Police Suspect Ghastly Crime Hunt For Missing, Girls MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 March 1937 · page 1

Two boys playing on the hanks of the Yarra, near Morell Bridge to-day, recovered a sugar bag containing human legs and arms. The…

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Police Court Tuesday Before Mr. F. Grugeon, P.M. Alleged Robbery and Receiving

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 3

Frederick Robert John, Southee, 20, was charged with stealing £18 in money, the property of Alice Morris, of Warren's Subdivision…

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Yarra Mystery Problem for Melbourne Police Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 2

The death of a woman whose amputated arms and legs ware found in a sugar bag in the Yarra yesterday is believed by the police to have taken…

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Local and General the Police Ball—big Preparations

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 2

Big preparations are being made for the Cootamundra police ball, which is to be held in the Arcadia theatre on Wednesday night, May 5…

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Police Boys' Club

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 2

This latest addition to Cootamundra's commendable activities is shaping well, With over thirty members already. They meet every Wednesday…

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The Police Ball

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 2

The first Cootamundra Police Ball will be held in the Arcadia Theatre on the 5th May, 1937, and the whole of the funds are to be donated to the…

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"Moonlight Murder" and "Thank You Jeeves" Next Tuesday and

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 2

To those folks who enjoy open music, love scenes and murders all in one, "Moonlight Murder", will be thoroughly enjoyed. With such a…

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Wasting Time of Police Conspiracy Charge Against Two Men Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 3

Arising out of a report that Lockhiel Cameron, aged 21 years, of Clifton Hill, had been held up and shot in the shoulder while Walking through…

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Yarra Mystery Pathologist's Report to Police "Human Glove" Fingerprints MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 1

The police have received the pathologist's report on the examination of the arms and legs of a woman which were found in a sugar bag in the Yarra…

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Broadcast of Races Club's Appeal to High Court SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 1
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The rights of broadcasting companies to broadcast race descriptions will be further argued before the High Court in Sydney next week, when the…

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Stinson Air Inquest Court Conducted in Hospital Injured Survivor's Story Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 1

Although more than six weeks have elapsed since the fatal crash of the Stinson air liner on the Lamington Plateau, John Seymour Proud, one of…

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Coolamon Police Court

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 2

A number of serious matters have occupied the attention of Sergenant Dunn and Constable Fisher, of Coolamon…

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Housebreaker Sentenced Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 1

At the Quarter Sessions Eric Newton Fairs, 30, contractor, pleaded guilty to a charge of housebreaking, and was sentenced to 18 month's imprisonment…

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Police Ball

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 2

Sales of tickets for the annul police charity ball, in the Kyeamba Smith Hall on May 5, ase proceeding satisfactorily and the committee…

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Police Officers Reinstated Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 4
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It was learned to-night that Sergeant Chuck and Constable Bailey, who were dismissed from the police force following Judge Markell's report…

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