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Courts & crime, 1934

8,976 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 250

Another Huge French Swindle New Scandal Involves £2,500,000 Sum Ministry May Be Wrecked Manager of Bank Is Charged

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 January 1934 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday. A NEW French financial scandal has been revealed by the arrest of Georges Alexandre, manager of the Civil Servants…

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Enough Poison to Kill Four Police Chief Tells Why Body Was Exhumed Deadly Fruit

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 24 January 1934 · page 7

THE reason given by the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Childs, last evening, for the exhumation of the body of George Datson, 51,…

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Supreme Court. in Divorce. (Before Mr. Justice Halse Rogers.) Shaft V Shaft

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 January 1934 · page 10

The hearing was continued but not concluded of the consolidated suit in which Oscar Theodore Shaft petitioned for divorce from Eva Robert A. Shaft and the wife by…

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Forty Thousand Unionists May March To Court Tramway Executive Has Acted All Members Are Told To Be Ready Unions Active

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 24 January 1934 · page 5

FOLLOWING the action of the Commissioners for" Railways and Road Transport in serving individually the employees with a…

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Desperate Fight to Keep Off Dole Harrowing Real-Life Stories Are Told In Court Lie Is Given To The "Prosperity" Blah Position of State Is Worse Told On Oath

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 24 January 1934 · page 1

DOCTORS, butchers, busmen, tailors, and persons in all walks of life (expressed the view on oath, yesterday, that general conditions are becoming…

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Ironworker Charged With Murder

The Sun · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 10

Following the death in St. George District Hospital this morning of Charles Lawrence, who was injured a fortnight ago at Caringbah…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 6

Queen's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate. At 10 a.m. For hearing: Maloney v <atador (five cases)…

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Alleged Theft

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 15

William Lawson Irving (28), at the Parramatta Police Court on Monday, was charged with having stolen a seagrass pushcart, the property of Lionel Swift…

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Alleged Church Theft

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 7

Charged at Newtown Court yesterday with having broken into St. Paul's Catholic Church, Dulwich Hill, on December 26, and stolen £20,…

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Alleged Assault by Police Declared Officer Twisted His Arm Domain Charge

The Labor Daily · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 6

ALLEGATIONS of police brutality were made yesterday in the Central Summons Court, by William Clarke Cottman, who was…

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Sheep-stealing. Forbes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 10

At a meeting of the Forbes branch of the Graziers' Association, many complaints of sheep stealing were made. Mr. G. D. Bassett, M.L.C., said that he had paddocked a flock of…

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Charge of Stealing. Casino

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 10

Peter Jamieson, 20, John Eell, l8, John Van Houton, 21, Reginald Cook, 20, and John Luke Flanagan, who were detained by the police on the Grafton-road on Monday, appeared in the…

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Theft of Bicycle. Forbes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 10

Norman A. T. Weston pleaded guilty at the Forbes Police Court to a charge of stealing a bicycle. It was stated that be borrowed the cycle from a friend and sold it for 30/…

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A Fraud Exposed. Stealing the Name "Catholic."

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 4

The audacity of those members of the English Church by law established who style themselves "Anglo-Catholics," or, even more daringly, just "Catholics," is…

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Defied Police Notice

The Labor Daily · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 6

When John Hamilton was spoken to by the police in Charles Street. Petersham on November 22, he is alleged to have admitted having…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 6

Before the Deputy Registrar.—At 10.15 a.m.: Harcourt Neil Ltd., v Barker: at 10.30 a.m., Drury v Rohanna: at 11 a.m., Gallett v Tropicane, Ltd…

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Ruawaro Murder. Pathologist's Evidence. AUCKLAND

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 10

The magisterial inquiry was continued today into the charge against William Alfred Bayly of having murdered Samuel Pender Lakey and his wife, Christobel Lakey, at…

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To Be Free on Saturday After Ten Years' Gaol

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 14

BATHURST, Wednesday. -- Roy Governor, who has served a 10 years' sentence for wounding Sergeant Young, of…

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Woman Gatekeeper Charged with Manslaughter. Level Crossing Accident. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 10

After lengthy evidence had been tendered at the inquiry into the death of Leslie Arthur Raymond, who received fatal injuries when the lorry he was driving collided with a railway…

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"An Officer and Gentleman" Gaol Governor Entertained MR. McGOLDRICK'S RETIREMENT

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 4

Glowing tributes were paid to the efficiency, devotion to duty, courtesty, and other excellent qualities of Mr. John…

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