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Courts & crime, 1934

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

Law Notices. Monday, January 8. Federal Bankruptcy Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 5

Before his Honor Mr. Justice Lukin.—At the Federal Bankruptcy Court seventh floor, Commonwealth Bank Building. Martin place and Pittstreet.—At 10.30 a.m.—Hearing of creditor's…

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Sale of Pardons. Police Charges in Belgium. LONDON, Jan. 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 9

Arising from allegations of bribery affecting the Belgian police and other officials, it is announced in Brussels that a former army chaplain, two officials of the Ministry of…

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Probe Into Alleged Cruelty to Boys Inquiry Will Be Conducted Appointment Of A Magistrate By Board Welfare Farm

The Labor Daily · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 5

MR. J. E. McCulloch, S.M., has been appointed by the Public Service Board to conduct a public inquiry at Leeton, on January 22,…

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Murder of Brother Is Finding Brothers Are Sent For Trial At Mungindi MOREE

The Labor Daily · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 5

AT Mungindi Police Court, before Mr. F. Ward, Acting P.M., Sidney Frederick Mitchell, 21, and Stephen Patrick Mitchell, 24, of…

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Doctor and Nurse Mystery Girl's Story To The Police Flat Tragedy

The Labor Daily · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 5

APPROXIMATELY half a grain of morphine probably meant the difference between life and death for Nurse Mary…

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Doctor's Death Pact With Nurse ? Theory of Police in Morphine Tragedy

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 1

LIFE together was impossible; they had decided to die together-- Such, according to police…

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TENNIS Central Cumberland Hard Court Group Tennis Association Programme for 1934

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 4

The amalgamation of all association within the boundaries of the area at present controlled by five associations viz., Parramatta-Granville H.C.T.A…

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Police Raid Dance Hall Constable Alleges He Bought Beer "There's Nobody to Split On"

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 1

It sounded like an echo from the past when Francis Charles Dodman was charged at Parramatta Police Court on Friday last with having sold liquor on June 22, 1933, without being the holder of a license. On the date in question a dance was held at "The Rivoli," Parramatta,…

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Forced From Homes By Flood Waters Thrills at Moruya River Is Now Falling Police Help

The Sun · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 7

OMINOUSLY silent yesterday, after the deluge that swept the South Coast on Saturday afternoon, putting…

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Big Opium Smuggle Is Foiled £10,000 Worth Seized By Police for Australia Perth

The Labor Daily · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 5

It was disclosed yesterday, on the arrival of the steamer Minderoo, that Chinese smugglers planned to send to…

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Players Run Wild Crowd Assails Referee Disgraceful Scenes at Big Soccer Match Police Called in London

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 3

Aston Villa's debacle against the Spurs yesterday produced one of the most disgraceful scenes in the history of British…

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Six Months' Gaol for Stealing Racquet

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 9 January 1934 · page 1

Described by Sergt, Stinson the police prosecutor, as man with a record, Lesile Hewitt, 25, laborer was sentenced to six months' goal at…

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Wagga Crime. Man Charged with Murder

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 January 1934 · page 10

Detectives last night charged a man with the murder of Percy Smith, whose battered body was found in a sack in the Murrumbidgee River on Christmas Day…

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Man Is Charged with River Murder

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 9 January 1934 · page 1

EDWARD HENRY MOREY, 36, a laborer, was charged at Wagga Police Station last night with the murder of Percy…

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Industrial Court. (Before the Industrial Magistrate.) Milk Carters' Award

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 January 1934 · page 7

Informations against M. McNamara, Ltd., dairymen, alleging breaches of the milk carters' (Cumberland) award were called for hearing. This award was made by the Conciliation…

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Bound Over on Stealing Charge

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 9 January 1934 · page 6

Convicted of having stolon a quantity of articles, valued at £910, the property of Freda Parkinson, three men, James Leonard Guest, 31, a…

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Attempted Theft of Watch. Moree

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 January 1934 · page 10

William Whittaker was sentenced, at Moree Police Court this morning, to three months imprisonment on a ch[?]rge of attempting to steal a gold watch, valued at £7, from Joseph…

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Dismissed Charge of Stealing House Penrith

The Sun · Tuesday 9 January 1934 · page 16

George Margieson, at Penrith Court to-day, was discharged on a charge of stealing a two-roomed house valued at £40, the property of John…

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RETIRING Gaol Governor's 35 Years' Service

The Sun · Tuesday 9 January 1934 · page 11

One of the most popular officials in the Prisons Department, Mr. John McGoldrick, Governor of Parra-…

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£1 for Charity Novel Suggestion by Magistrate

The Sun · Tuesday 9 January 1934 · page 13

An unusual variation of justice occurred at Glebe Court to-day when Mr. May, S.M., decided not to record a conviction against a man charged…

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