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Courts & crime, 1932

10,039 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 250

Land and Valuation Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 8

At Chancery-square.—Before his Honor Mr. [?]ustice Pike.—At 10 a.m.: For hearing: Objections to valuations. valuation districts of Ashfield. Home[?]bush. and Kogarah. (Lists will be called over…

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Chiep Industrial Magistratets Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 8

Queen's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate.—At 10 a.m.—For hearing: Rushton v G. Dawkins and another, P[?] v Madigan, Lam[?] v Summers, McPadden v Pointer, Hawkins v…

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Murder Charge. Evidence for the Crown. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 13

In the police court to-day the hearing was begun of the case in which Frederick Emanuel Lewis, 24, shop proprietor, and John Wilson, 21, labourer, are charged with the murder of…

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Police Courts. Stole to Get Food

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 8

William Henry Clarke, 19, shop assistant, was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment at the Central Police Court yesterday on a charge of having stolen a bicycle standing in the…

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Court in London London

The Sun · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 10

The King and Queen arrived in London from Sandringham this afternoon and took up residence in Buckingham Palace…

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Story of Vice Denied to Police By Foreigners

The Sun · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 7

Recently an allegation was made by a girl that she had been approached by a man and woman of foreign birth to leave Australia with…

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Bodies in Trunk. Woman Guilty of Murder. New York, Feb. 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 14

Mrs. Winnie Judd, daughter of a minister, and wife of a physician, who was arrested last October after the bodies of two girls had been found in a trunk which had been shipped…

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Alleged Robbery. Woman's Story to Police. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 14

Mrs. Lillian Peters, of Cha[?]mers-road, Jesmond, reported to the Wallsend police to-day that she had been balled up and robbed by a youth late last evening…

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Offer to Constable. Allegation at Central Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 8

An allegation that one of the defendants had attempted to bribe him with a [?] n[?], was made at the Central Police Court yesterday, when Edward West, 25, labourer, ltd A[?]…

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Law Notices. Wednesday. Februart 10. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 8

Term List.—In the Banco Court.—At 10 a.m.— Divorce appeals: Tuckerman v Tuckerman (part heard). same v same (part heard). Stated case (Workers' Compersation Commission): Moore v…

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In Bankruptcy. (Before Mr. Justice Long Innes.) Claim to Money Held by Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 8

Under section 134 of the State Bankruptcy Act, application was made by the official receiver (Mr. C. F. W. Lloyd) in the estate of Frederick Edward Fontaine for a…

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Gallantry! a Whiff Of The Days Of Louis Xiv. in Modern Court

The Sun · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 12

THE court of the great Louis could have produced no daintier vision in pink; no more alluringly girlish titter as discreet…

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Surprises in Court Where the Law is Concerned You Never Can Tell!

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 7

A few weeks ago, in a Swiss court of law, a very surprised young married woman was sentenced to a year's imprisonment for stealing her own money!…

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Land and Valuation Court. (Before Mr. Justice P[?]ke.) Appeal and Reference

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 8

C. Binnie appealed against the determination and order of the local land board, land district of Singleton, in the matter of the claim by Patrick Joseph Alphonsus Dries for…

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Law Report. Full Court. (Before the Chief Justice, Sir Philip Street, Mr. Justice James, and Mr. Justice Halse Regers.) a Divorce Appeal. Tuckerman v Tuckermen

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1932 · page 8

This appeal is part heard…

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Gaol for Assault

The Sun · Thursday 11 February 1932 · page 34

YOUNG, Thursday. -- At the Young Quarter Sessions, before Judge Coyle, Jacques Farchey, 19, pleaded guilty to assaulting Ronald…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 February 1932 · page 7

Queen's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate.—At 10 a.m.—For hearing: Potter v Metropolitan Omnibus and Transport Co., Ltd., Darnley v McDonald, Mulligan v Edwards, Petty v…

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Gas Stealing Meter Disconnected

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 11 February 1932 · page 1

Inspectors employed by the Gas Company called at the home of Robert Newman in Vore-street, Auburn, and found that…

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Hairdresser Charged S.P. Betting

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 11 February 1932 · page 9

Ryde Courthouse was the centre of attraction to a large number of unemployed young men last Thursday. The season was that the police had instituted…

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Bankrupt Charged. Large Sums Mentioned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 February 1932 · page 5

Robert Lee, of Bilgola House, Bilgola Beach, Newport, appeared before Mr. Laidlaw, C.S.M., at the Central Sumons Court on two charges under the Bankruptcy Act alleging fraud…

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