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Courts & crime, 1932

10,039 stories in Sydney's papers · page 37 of 250

Taken From Surf on Assault Charge Crowd Menaces Man Girl Victim

The Sun · Monday 1 February 1932 · page 7

DRAGGED from the surf at Bondi on Saturday afternoon by a number of surfers a little while after he…

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Police Take Hand in Political Fight

The Labor Daily · Monday 1 February 1932 · page 5

THE bias of certain police officers in connection with the East Sydney by-election was unfavorably commented…

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Court's Short Sitting. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 February 1932 · page 10

The District Court sitting yesterday occupied only three minutes, and was the shortest ever known in Lithgow. As there was no appearance of the parties in a motor collision case,…

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Bandits Seen by Many Murder of Brisbane Woman BRISBANE

The Sun · Monday 1 February 1932 · page 9

Police have questioned a number of men and are believed to have detained one for further investigation following the killing on…

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Match Off May Be Application to Court

The Sun · Monday 1 February 1932 · page 9

The refusal of Bobby Delaney, lightweight champion of Australia, to carry out a contract signed on his behalf by Sammy Chapman to fight…

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Law Notices. Monday, February 1. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 February 1932 · page 6

In Chambers.—Before the Prothonotary in the Prothonotary's Public Chambers.—At 12 noon: Bulcock v Bulcock, M.W.P. Act (part heard) Prothonotary's Office.—Before the Acting Chief…

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Lurich Is Ring Garrotter Police Issued Warning Too Rough

The Labor Daily · Monday 1 February 1932 · page 3

GRAPPLER TOM LURICH (14.1) should consider himself fortunate that the, seats at Leichhardt are permanent. He…

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Big Betting Raid Parramatta Police at Katoomba Twenty-four Arrested

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 1 February 1932 · page 1

At Katoomba on Saturday afternoon, Sergeant Sweeting and a squad of police from Parramatta carried out one of the biggest and most successful betting raids…

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Full Court's Big List Term Opening: Naylor & Tuckerman Appeals

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 February 1932 · page 5

With the opening of first term tomorrow the Full Court is faced with a heavy list. Twenty criminal appeals are set down, in addition to 34…

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Armed with Sticks Italians in Paddock Cross-charges in Court

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 1 February 1932 · page 2

Five Italians, aimed with sticks, entered a paddock at Woodlands, near Liverpool, on December 28. Four of the said Italians, not armed…

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Woman Falls in Smoke of Bandit's Gun Bullet in Breast Masked Murder at Brisbane Week-end Crime

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 February 1932 · page 1

BRISBANE.--Woman shot dead on Saturday night by one of three masked robbers. SYDNEY.--Vicious sawn-off…

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Menace of the Fortune-teller U.s.a. Police Campaign Fakes Revealed at Theatre

The Labor Daily · Monday 1 February 1932 · page 7

Now and then the Sydney public reads in the daily newspapers of the arrest of some person-- nearly always a woman--on a…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 February 1932 · page 6

Queen's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate.—At 10 a.m. on Tuesday, February 2, 1932. For hearing: Federated, Rubber Workers Union v Dunlop-Perdriau Rubber Co, Ltd. (three cases),…

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Man Arrested Charged with Murder Late Last Night

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 February 1932 · page 7

BRISBANE, Monday.--After whirlwind activities in certain sections of the city to-day detectives in charge of investigations took two men into…

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Two Men Charged. Alleged Attempt to Murder. WOLLONGONG

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 February 1932 · page 10

At the Police Court to-day, Clarence Sargent and Sidney May were committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, on a charge of shooting at Anthony Lallch with…

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Industrial Magistrate's Court. (Before Mr. E. A. Prior, Chief Industrial Magistrate.) a Case Settled

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 February 1932 · page 6

Edward Fitzgerald proceeded against Mr. Knight (secretary), R. C. Gordon (president), acting with others as the Lakemba Soldiers and Sailors' Memorial Hall Committee,…

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Young Woman Charged

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 February 1932 · page 7

As a sequel to the finding of a sawn-off pea-rifle in a Darlinghurst dwelling at the week-end, a young woman appeared at Central Police…

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A Dramatic Move Woman Taken From Brisbane Express by Police Bandit Murder

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 February 1932 · page 7

There may be dramatic developments in Sydney following the cold-blooded murder at South Brisbane,…

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Alleged Theft of Bullocks. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 February 1932 · page 10

The arrest of two men in the early h[?] of Sunday morning had a sequel at Graf[?] Police Court to-day, when Charles James Welch 19, and Frederick George Essex, 2½…

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Great Crowd At Brisbane Court Cry From Dock Charge of Murder Brisbane

The Sun · Tuesday 2 February 1932 · page 6

AN immense crowd packed the police courtroom, and adjacent verandahs today to get a view of the two…

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