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Courts & crime, 1932

10,039 stories in Sydney's papers · page 55 of 250

J.C.W. Man Charged in Adelaide Embezzlement of Money Poison Found Adelaide

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 5

Found at Mitcham to-day. with a bottle of poison in his possession, John Deans Maxwell. 32, manager and treasurer…

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Police Reports on New Guard Possible Action by Government

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 7

Police reports concerning the activities of the New Guard have been forwarded by the Chief Secretary, Mr. Gosling, to the Crown Law…

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Whose Foot? Pig-farmer's Find in City Police Puzzled

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 6

Police are at a loss to discover how a human foot came to be found in a boiled condition among offal in a lane between…

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Senator's Wife Convicted Broke Down After Leaving Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 7

Calmly accepting the jury's verdict of guilty on all counts, Mrs. Alice Mary Dunn, wife of Senator Dunn, walked briskly from the dock at…

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Fight with Police Man Suspected of Molesting Girl Fierce Attack

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 7

After a desperate struggle in a Newtown lane yesterday, two policemen arrested and locked up a man suspected of…

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Woman's Alarm Dramatic Scene in Newcastle Court NEWCASTLE

The Sun · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 8

Recoiling and screaming when a torn black mask was shown to her at Newcastle Police Court to-day, Mrs. Lillian Peters was for some minutes…

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Makes It Hard for Police Strict Rules Over Arrests London

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 8

Detection of murders, of which over 30 have remained unsolved In the past three years, Is expected to be further handicapped by a regulation…

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Got 'Sixer' for 'Mucking Up' Boy Appeals to Court Injury Claim

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 6

A caning, inflicted by the headmaster of the Newtown Technical College, Norman Wesley Drummond, on a scholar…

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District Court. (Before Judge Edwards and a jury of four.) Claim Against Schoolmaster. Upham v Drummond

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 6

This matter is reported in another column…

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Law Report. Full Court. (Before the Chief Justice, Sir Philip Street, Mr. Justice James, and Mr. Justice Davidson.) Agricultural Lessees' Relief Act

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 6

Ex parte Murphy, re Roche and others. This was a motion on behalf of James Patrick Murphy, grazier, of Ithaca Flats, Elizabeth Bay, for a writ of prohibition to restrain…

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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 · Tuesday 16 February 1932 · page 6

Further consideration was given to the appeals by William See Lun and Thomas Michael Welsh against comictions at the Armidale Quarter Sessions of having set fire to premies…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 February 1932 · page 9

Queen's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate.—At 10 a.m.—For hearing: Tinning v Bragg, Vandervord v North Shore Gas Co., Ltd., McLelland v same. Weston v same. Ba[?]ley v…

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Assault Story Police Arrest the Alleged Victim

The Sun · Wednesday 17 February 1932 · page 9

An amazing story, that he had been knocked down, stabbed and punched, and the cellar of a place at which he was caretaker had been…

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Bathurst Police Court. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 February 1932 · page 12

At Bathurst Police Court Charles Brook, a baker, was fined £2 for a breach of the bakers and pastrycooks' award. Garnet McKenzie, 57, hairdresser, was sentenced to…

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Industrial Magistrate's Court. (Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate, Mr. E. A. Prior.) Butcher's Retail Award

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 February 1932 · page 8

Frank Pollard, secretary of the New South Wales branch of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union proceeded against A. G. Thomas and W. D. Pritchard, trading…

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Echo of Yatala Gaol Break Suspect Held by Brisbane Police

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 February 1932 · page 5

BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Police tonight arrested a man believed to be Ernest Richards, who on New Year's Day mystified the prison authorities…

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Cattle Stealing Charge. Armidale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 February 1932 · page 12

At the Armidale Police Court, Tho[?] James Hickey, John Robert Prater, and B[?] Clifton Cosgrove were committed for trial at the Armidale Circuit Court in April on…

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OVER £8000. Alleged Embezzlement. Clerk Charged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 February 1932 · page 7

At the Central Police Court yesterday, Christian Theodore Brandt, 39, clerk, was charged with having embelzzled £8179/3/2, belonging to the Australian Tramway…

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Three Men Charged. Alleged Thefts from Train

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 February 1932 · page 9

Evidence was given at Kogarah Police Court yesterday of the arrest near Sutherland of men who were alleged to have stolen goods from railway trucks…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 February 1932 · page 9

Before his Honor Judge Edwards and juries.—In No. 1 Court—At 10 a.m.: Williams v Metropolitan Transport Trust (part heard): Donald v Jones[?] Williams v Tancred and others…

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