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Courts & crime, 1932

10,039 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 250

Quarter Sessions. (Before Judge Armstrong.) Mr. McKean, K.C., Senior Crown Prosecutor. Twelve Months' Gaol

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

William Thomas, 34, a cook, pleaded guilty to breaking, entering and stealing in a factory. He was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, to date from January 6…

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INDIA. Old Austrian Coins Seized by Police. Calcutta, Feb. 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 February 1932 · page 14

The Karachi police yesterday seized 13,000 out of a consignment of 200,000 old Austrian silver coins, valued at approximately £75,000, which were smuggled into the port…

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Shilling Taxi Driver Wins Out on His Appeal Is There a Vendetta Between Him and Traffic Police?

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 13 February 1932 · page 6

THE successful appeal of James Jordan Clarke, taxi-driver, in the Quarter Sessions this week against a conviction in the Water Police Court on December 28, seems to have torn a large hole in the regulations. Clarke had been charged with a breach of the Regulations regarding public vehicles, made under the provisions of the Transport Act,…

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Law Report. Court of Criminal Appeal. (Before the Chief Justice, Sir Phillp Street, Mr. Justice James, and Mr. Justice Davidson.) REX v See Lun and Welsh

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

These were appeals by William See Lun and Thomas Michael Welsh against convictions at the Armidale Quarter Sessions of having set fire to premises at Guyra with intent to…

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The Lyons Government Cannot Be Trusted! Lang Asks For Guarantees In Interest Negotiations Fears Trickery to Prejudice Position of N S.W High Court Case Is Pending Telegram From P. Minister State's Reply to Obtain Evidence

The Labor Daily · Saturday 13 February 1932 · page 5

Remembering that Messrs. Bruce and Lyons changed their minds overnight during the New South Wales debt discussion in Melbourne the State Government requires adequate guarantees before agreeing to…

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Gaol Garb Women's Stark Terror Awful Hours

The Sun · Sunday 14 February 1932 · page 7

AS the "Black Maria" sped with her to Long Bay, and six months' gaol, Kate Leigh, alleged "Queen of the…

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KIDNAPPED! Two Charged With Holding Rich Grazier

Truth · Sunday 14 February 1932 · page 12

IN support of an application for the imposition of substantial bail at the Central Police Court last week, Sergeant Napper, Police Prosecutor, made…

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Cut to Bone Man Said Broken Glass Did Damage Assault Charge

Truth · Sunday 14 February 1932 · page 11

THAT the defendant had first broken a glass on the counter and then flung the jagged butt at his head, cutting his…

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"Mani Have Been Living With" Constable's Evidence in Assault Case Woman Committed

Truth · Sunday 14 February 1932 · page 18

"NOT GUILTY on self-defence!" exclaimed Annie Maher, 64, when charged at the Central Police Court last…

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Girl's Mystery Death Police Will Continue Inquiries

The Sun · Sunday 14 February 1932 · page 4

Although the Government Analyst failed to find any traces of poison in the stomach of Elsie Grantham (19), of Armidale, who died suddenly…

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"HAND-BITER" McCarthy "Fastened" to One that Fed Him Sent to Gaol

Truth · Sunday 14 February 1932 · page 13

CONSTABLE Albert Leslie v Holland, of Redfern, will think hard before he again decides to befriend a hobo. His…

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The Silent Witness a baffling murder mystery with an unexpected denouement

The Sun · Sunday 14 February 1932 · page 2

FOR the past hour the tall, shabbily-dressed young man had been leaning over the…

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British Police Arm Against Bandits Gang Menace Reprisal Daring Crimes in England LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 14 February 1932 · page 3

Drastic measures to cope with criminals of "the dangerous modern type" referred to by Mr. Dupareq, K.C., in his report on…

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Grazier's Startling Story to Police Kidnapped and Held For Ransom, He Alleges Amazing Divorce Case Echo

Truth · Sunday 14 February 1932 · page 13

ONE of the wealthiest graziers in the State, Edward Montgomery Perrott, has told the police a most amazing story of having been kidnapped and held for ransom by two men, first in King's Cross and then at Bondi…

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Wife for Trial Poultry Farmer's Story in Witness Box at Kogarah Court Sutherland Shooting

Truth · Sunday 14 February 1932 · page 21

A SHIRT and an undershirt, blood-stained and shot-tattered, figured as grim exhibits in a case at the Kogarah Police Court daring the week when Mrs. Florence Elizabeth Shepherd was committed for trial on a charge of…

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How "Truth" Scoops the Universe Newspaper Stories Will Live in History Basement Murder, Beaches, Racing and the Lottery Where We LEAdToTHERS FOLLOW

Truth · Sunday 14 February 1932 · page 16

DURING the past few months "Truth" has given its readers some of the most sensational stories known in journalism in Australia, and some of these stories mast rank among the great newspaper…

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Quarrelling Couple Fail to Convince Judge Amazing Allegations Were Made in Divorce Court High Life on the Mountains

Truth · Sunday 14 February 1932 · page 20

THE mountaineers came to town from Katoomba—the hefty motor-car proprietor, the slim, good-looking dancing wife who bears his name, and the handful of sinew and confidence who drives a taxi for a living among the mists and trips the light fantastic for a pastime among the lights…

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His "Floie" Flew Away Jazz Jarred Jones of Junee Wife Went Back to Ma, and Clarence Calls on Court

Truth · Sunday 14 February 1932 · page 18

WATCH Terpsichore grin in the wings! Hear the blare of the trombone and the whine of the saxophone—yet don't fail to note the strain of sorrow that eddies away from the jazz and floats up to the heavens…

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Little Italy Seethes With Racing Hatred Guns and Razors Flashed in Camorra Feuds Irrigation Area Becomes Scene of Deadly Vendettas Police Story of Italian Defiance

Truth · Sunday 14 February 1932 · page 18

"LITTLE ITALY," as that section of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area almost solely occupied by Italians is known, is again becoming the storm centre of serious crime, as an outcome of the vendettas born of the secret societies which abound among the foreigners…

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Dick's Dad Dive in Matrimony's Sea Eve Strives to Keep His Marriage Afloat Champion's Wife Just Drifted Away From Him Court Orders Her Back

Truth · Sunday 14 February 1932 · page 12

OLYMPIC champion, one of Australia's most famous divers, a man known far and wide for the grace and precision with which he parted the water, Richmond Cavill Eve, known better as Dick, entered strange seas last week when, in the…

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