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Courts & crime, 1932

10,039 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 250

Police Time Wasted New Guard Cases Dismissed May Be Writs

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 5

Time and labor expended by the police in catching members of the New Guard putting up anti-Communist election posters seems…

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Death Pact. Brothers Die Together. Police Hunt in United States. Montreal, Jan. 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 7

The police concluded to-day their three days' hunt for the man who, at Springfield, Missouri, killed two sheriffs and four detectives, and wounded two others, using a…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 6

Court House, Newcastle.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate.—At 9.30 a.m.—For hearing Musgrave v Ways, Limited Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union, Newcastle and Northern…

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Industrial Magistrate's Court. (Before the Industrial Magistrate.) Printing Industry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 6

The secretary of the Amalgamated Printing Industres Employees' Union of New South Wales proceeded against H. Denley and others trading as the Denley Print, Granville, for…

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"You Deserve Gaol." Chief Magistrate Warns Defendant. Girl Assaulted

The St George Call · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 2

At the Kogarah Court on Thursday, before Mr. Laidlaw, Chief Stipendiary Magistrate, Frederick Victor Stoker, was charged with assaulting a young…

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Theft From Shop

The Propeller · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 4

Clyde [?] was charged with stealing electrical goods, valued at 57½ from Woolworth's Stores, Hurstville. The defendant, pleaded guilty and was…

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Charge of Murder

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 6

James White, 28, showman, appeared before Mr. Shepherd, S.M., at the Central Police Court yesterday, on a charge of having maliciously and feloniously murdered…

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Theft of Leather. Policeman Found Guilty. WINDSOR

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 9

Not for many years had such interest been taken in a police court case at Windsor as that in which Walter Stanley Hitchcock, 31, police constable was charged before Mr. Wood, S.M…

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Kogarah Police Court. Tuesday, January 5. Before Mr. McDougall, S.M. Negligent Driving

The Propeller · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 4

Harold Williams was proceeded against for negligently driving a motor car along Railway Parade, Carlton, on December 6. He was also…

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Passed Intersection at 50. "Over the Odds," Said Magistrate

The St George Call · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 1

When Patrick Chambers was charged at the Kogarah Court on Tuesday with driving in a dangerous manner, Mr. MacDougal, S.M., remarked that it was…

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Police Arrest Armed Suspect

The Labor Daily · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 7

A fully-loaded revolver, with the barrel stuck into a belt inside his shirt, is alleged to have been found on a man whom police arrested on…

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Federal Bankruptcy Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 6

Before the Chief Clerk.—11 a m.: Re Rath, taxation of costs, 11.30 a.m.: Re Hubert L. Barry, taxation of costs. 3 p.m.: Re J. P. McNamara, settlement of minutes…

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In Gaol Criminal Invents Non-Pickable Lock San Francisco

The Sun · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 4

Harold Maries, a Los Angeles highwayman, is spending a year in San Quentin prison perfecting a non-pickable lock. The dial cylinder type…

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Motor Cycle Thieves. Exciting Chase by Police

The Propeller · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 4

On Wednesday police had an exciting chase after two motor-cycle thieves, but, they escaped, although the police fired shots at them. The discovery of…

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Police Union Men Want Their Own Secretary

The Sun · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 8

Seventy members of the New South Wales Police Association, at a meeting at the Regent-street police station this afternoon, censured their…

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Ashes in Fire Murder Charge Follows W.A. Camp Mystery

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 5

PERTH, Thursday.--This afternoon John Thomas Smith, 27, alias Snowy Rowles, who is serving three years' imprisonment in Fremantle Gaol, was…

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Coroner's Court. a Question of Status

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 8

Duscyssubg tge statys if tge varuiys Ciyrts at the Ryde Court yesterday, Mr. A. R. Wheeler, barrister, said that the Coren[?] Court was inferior…

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CRIME. Decrease in 1931. Minister Confers with Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 9

yesterday the Chief Secretary (Mr. Gosling) conferred with the heads of the Police Department concerning crime in the metropolis, and alleged discontent in the police…

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Murder Charge. Mt. Magnet Mystery. Finding of Charred Remains. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 10

After the disappearance of three men in the Murchison district in 1930 some charred remains were found at a camp about 50 miles south-east of Mount Magnet. To-day, John…

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