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Courts & crime, 1934

8,976 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 250

Betrayal Fears Caused Murder? Beauty Found Dead Belonged To Spy Organisation DANZIG

Truth · Sunday 14 January 1934 · page 23

THE finding of the mutilated body of beautiful Lydia Upsenska, 26, on the railway between Warsaw and Danzig,…

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Another Victim to Deadly Bacilli Was Tetanus on Catgut? Police Investigate Woman Dies After Operation

Truth · Sunday 14 January 1934 · page 12

THE death of Mrs. Adelaide Moses of Brighton-le-Sands is occupying the attention of the police…

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Murder Charge Eight Aborigines in Court Darwin

The Sun · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 8

Charges of murdering Adolf Koch and Stephen Arinski, prospectors, were laid against eight aborigines in the Darwin Police Court, before Mr…

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Gaol for Betting

The Sun · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 8

Auckland, Monday.--George Geelong Paul, 60, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for having car[?]ed on a bookmaking business. The…

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GAOLED Assault on Constable

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 2

Pleading guilty at Liverpool Court on Friday to a charge of assaulting Constable Sydney Howlett, Edgar Devenish was sentenced to seven days'…

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Safe-stealing Charge Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 8

Thomas Vincent Toogood, John Powell, and Roy Gove, were charged at the City Court to-day with having broken into the offices of…

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Art Expert Charged Frauds Discovered

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 5

Professor Alois Hauser, a noted German expert on paintings, who was formerly picture-restorer of the Prussian State Galleriea, was accused last year of…

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Victim of Assault Allegations of Leniency

The Sun · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 11

Victim of a native assault, Mrs. N. Olsen, wife of a plantation manager, was a passenger on the Mataram, which arrived here to-day. She…

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Police Courts. Alleged Attack on Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 7

At the Central Police Court on Saturday, Hugh Williams, 20, labourer, was charged with having assaulted Sergeant Auld and Constable Herringe in the execution of their duty…

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Theft of Cigarettes. From Kiosk on Wharf

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 10

Remarkable ingenuity was shown by thieves who stole £80 worth of tobacco from a New South Wales Bookstall Co., Ltd., kiosk on the Manly wharf on Friday night…

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Police Patience Rewarded

The Sun · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 8

Brisbane, Monday.--After hours of waiting in an unlimited house at New Farm, the patience of two detectives was rewarded to-day when…

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Car and Sulky Crash Women Injured; Man Is Charged

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 7

ORANGE, Sunday.--In a collision on the Cargo Road late last night, a sulky overturned, throwing the four occupants to the roadway, and a…

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Nepean Tragedy Police Dragging For Body

The Sun · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 7

Picton police continued dragging to-day for the body of Frederick Keith McRorie, 22. of Boundary-road Guildford who was drowned…

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Police Sergeant's Home Twice Ransacked by Thieves

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 5

About a fortnight ago the residence of Sergeant Threlkeld in Boundary-street, Parramatta, was entered, and jewellery valued at £50 stolen. On Friday, the home was again…

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Wheat Fire Police Suspect Incendiarism INVERELL

The Sun · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 8

Police are investigating what they consider a case of incendiarism at Nullamanna, a village 17 miles from Inverell, where a 15-tons stack of…

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Police Called Interjector at Lidcombe Council. Meeting Adjourned

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 1

A ratepayer who persisted in interjecting at Lidcombe Council on Wednesday night was asked to leave by the Mayor (Alderman Phillips). He…

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At Ryde Court Used a Used Stamp

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 1

Philip C. Conroy was fined £2, with 8/- costs, in default five days, for using an obliterated postage stamp at Ryde on October 16…

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Law Notices. Monday, January 15. Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 7

Prothonotary's Office.—Before the Prothonotory.— At 12 noon: Doran v Merlino. In Divorce.—Before the Registrar in Divorce, in the Prothonotary's Court.—At 10.30 a.m.[?]…

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Dumb For a Particular Job Man's Fraud Exposed by Police

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 5

A charge of endeavouring to obtain alms by pretending to be dumb was heard at Reading, England, recently, against Bouverie, Cyril Repton, 23, a…

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Not Ready Tumut Inquest Is Adjourned Police Request Tumut

The Sun · Monday 15 January 1934 · page 11

WHEN the inquest was opened to-day on Mrs. Florence Martin and her 18-months-old twin son,…

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