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Courts & crime, 1935

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Graft Story Police Investigating in Western Towns

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 7

Detective-Sergeants Watkins, Gallagher, and Arnold, of the C.I.B., are still visiting western towns investigating graft allegations…

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Hindu's Scruples. Incident in Court. Murwillumbah

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 12

There was an emphatic protest from a Hindu witness in the Murwillumbah Coroner's Court when, in the course of being sworn as a witness, he was about to be handed the…

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Hit and Run Accident Police Seek Driver of Car

The Labor Daily · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 5

Newtown police are looking for the driver of a car which, after striking a spring-cart in Rickety Street, St. Peters, last night, was…

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Law Notices. Monday, January 14. Commonwealth Arbitration Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 12

At 10.30 a.m.—Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia v Commissioner for Railways, New South Wales, and others; and also the Australian Railways Union v the Victorian Railways…

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Mooney's Fight for Freedom Gleam of Hope at Last Court Move

The Labor Daily · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 8

FOR 18 years Tom Mooney has been fighting for his freedom. His determination appears to have been…

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Supreme Court. in Chambers. (Before Mr. Justice Long Innes.) Writ of Habeas Corpus

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 12

An application ex parte was made on behalf of Frederick Raymond Atkins, of Liverpool-street, Strathfield, for a rule nisi for a writ of habeas corpus, directed to Helen Noreen…

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Society Lady's Claim For Car Insurance Gets Knock-Back Who Killed Little Ethel Belshaw? Murder At Inverloch Is A Baffling Mystery

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 10

EVERY murder theory has its own set of difficulties until the real story is out. The discovery last Wednesday morning of the body of Ethel Belshaw, a child of 13½, with arms bound and…

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More Pages From My Notebook Of Crime Hampton Bank Hold-up And Murder Contained Amazing Features Who Fired Fatal Bullet? Teller's End

The Labor Daily · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 8

IN the long history of robbery-under-arms it is problematical whether any such crime contains the unique features of the…

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Hotel Theft Girl In Drinking Party Fined 'Under Influence'

Truth · Sunday 13 January 1935 · page 20

FOLLOWING the conviction of three men and one woman on a charge of illegally using a motor car recently, all parties…

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London Touch In Police Crew

The Sun · Sunday 13 January 1935 · page 51

When the N.S.W. Police Club's crew takes the water for the State eight-oared championship on the Nepean on February…

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No Water-losses City Firm Charged With Misrepresentation Knight Is Mentioned

Truth · Sunday 13 January 1935 · page 12

AN allegation of misrepresentation by the firm of Arthur Rickard and Company, Limited, was mentioned in the…

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Efficiency Campaign In Queensland Police BRISBANE

The Sun · Sunday 13 January 1935 · page 5

Police retirements on a, wholesale scale are likely throughout Queensland, as a result, of an efficiency campaign by the…

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Marked for Murder Socialist Who Refuses an Escort Saarbrucken

The Sun · Sunday 13 January 1935 · page 1

ALTHOUGH his followers claim to know the name of the man chosen to murder him, Max Braun,…

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Eating His Head Off Supreme Court Rearin' to Race

Truth · Sunday 13 January 1935 · page 3

SUPREME COURT is still eating his head off at Albert Cain's stables, Kensington, and, according to that trainer, the New…

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Sequel To Grave Charge Against Shire Clerk Bitter Wages Fight Woman's Hysterical Outburst In Court; Parties To Confer

Truth · Sunday 13 January 1935 · page 14

DECLARING that she had been sacked from her position as cleaner because of the criminal charge she levelled recently against Robert Bingham, president of the Sutherland Shire, Mrs. Zoe Reid last week again attracted the spotlight of publicity her way when she claimed…

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Guns in Hand, Troops Stand-to in Saar Ready for Action If Police Are Overwhelmed More Beatings: Boycott of Jews Begins Ugly Temper Shown by Street Crowds

The Sun · Sunday 13 January 1935 · page 1

TO-DAY IN THE SAAR, FOREIGN TROOPS IN BATTLE ORDER ARE STANDING-TO WITH FIXED BAYONETS AT ALL STRATEGIC POINTS, READY TO GO INTO ACTION SHOULD THE POLICE BE OVERWHELMED BY RIOT…

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Suicide Is Linked With Inverloch Horror Traveller Who Faced Grave Charge Molested Young Girls, Allege Police Dead Man Once Lived Near Scene Of Crime and Was Under Observation Hunt Goes on for Sadist Melbourne

Truth · Sunday 13 January 1935 · page 20

A FIRST-CLASS sensation marked the week's investigation into the diabolical murder of little Ethel Belshaw, the Tarwin school-girl, who was found strangled to death in the scrub near the holiday resort of Inverloch…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 5

Queen's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate.—At 10 a.m.—For hearing: Roberts v Northern Mille Co., Ltd. (2 cases), Matthews v Mason, Mason v Matthews, Martin v…

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Taxi Fare Default Magistrate's Comment

The Sun · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 8

Regret that the law did not permit him to impose a term of imprisonment in respect of deliberate evasion of payment of taxi fares was…

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Albury Murder. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 15

It is understood that the police investigating the Albury murder have obtained valuable information, the following up of which may be hampered by a leakage of certain detalla…

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