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Courts & crime, 1935

9,096 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 250

Coramba Inquiry. Court's Finding

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 4

The Melbourne Court of Marino: Inquiry conducted an inquiry into the foundering of the steamer Coramba in November…

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Yarra Bay Tragedy. Murder Charge. Judge Grants Bail

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 8

An application for ball was made to Mr. Justice Maxwell in Chambers yesterday on behalf of Cyril Pearson, 28, who is awaiting trial on a charge of the murder of William…

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Want Owner Now Stolen Jewellery Recovered by Police

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 9

Detectives investigating a robbery at Waverley yesterday found themselves in possession of valuable jewellery, believed to be the proceeds of…

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Radio on Ships Marine Court Makes Recommendations

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- The suggestion that all ships be fitted with wireless and that officials be appointed at all ports in Victoria to…

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Loss of Coramba. Marine Court's Finding. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 14

The Marine Court of Inquiry has decided that the cause of the loss of the steamer Coramba, which was lost with all hands on November 30 or December 1, was the severity…

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Law Notices. Wednesday. January 23. Federal Bankruptcy Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 11

Before his Honor Mr. Justice Lukin at Commonwealth Bank Building. Pitt-street and Martinplace.—At 10.30 a.m.: Petition for administration under section 155: Re estate of Bridget Ann…

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Radio at Sea Urged by Court Melbourne, Tues

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 5

FINDING that the coastal steamer Coramba was lost because of a storm, that the vessel was seaworthy, fully, equipped with…

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Law Report. Federal Arbitration Court (Before Judge Drake Brockman.) Railway Employees

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 11

In the application by the Australian Railways Union and the Federated Ironworkers' Association, against the Commissioner for Railways for New South Wales, for a new…

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Veteran Is Now a "Find" Mackney As Stroke of Police Surprise Move In Boating Of Eight

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 3

IT has come as a big surprise to rowing men to learn that Wal Mackney, interstate Rugby Union breakaway, is to stroke the Police…

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Anti-nazi Killed. Shot by Saar Police. Police Chief Charged with Murder. SAARBRUCKEN, Jan. 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 11

The police attempted to arrest Herr Paul Meyer, ex-Prefect of the Rhineland, on an old German warrant charging him with embezzlement, and when he resisted they shot…

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Assault on Woman Court Sequel "Knocked Me Down"

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 20

A trembling figure with one eye covered with bandages, Mabel Martin sat on a chair in the Parramatta Police Court on Monday nod told how she had…

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Bicycle Theft Youth Fined

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 22

When Detective-sergeant Sly went to Edward Percival Jasken's lodgings at Parramatta on January 15, he found two bicycles…

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Police Carnival

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 15

Following is the athletic programme for the police carnival at the Showground on February 23:- Throwing the 16lb hammer, 120yds handicap, throwing the discus, 75yds handicap (wives of…

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Police Carnival

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 12

The Governor-Designate (Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven) has promised to attend the annual police carnival which will be held at the Showground on Saturday, February 23…

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Unidentifiable Pistol. Magistrate's Comment. Glen Innes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 8

Thomas Russell Hamilton Newby pleaded guilty in the Glen Innes Police Court to having a pistol for which he did not have a licence…

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Police Story of Armed Man's Struggle Sequel to Warwick Farm Arrests Gaol and Fines on Pistol Charges

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 1

A THRILLING STORY of a struggle with an allegedly armed man at Warwick Farm early on the morning of January 7 was told by Constable Walkom at the Parramatta Police Court yesterday, when James Lucas (46) and Richard Mason Evans (23) were charged with having carried unlicensed pistols…

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Upset by Loss of Child Stealing Charge Against Woman

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 20

"Recently she had a child taken from her and I think it upset her nerves a good deal," said Detective-sergeant Sly, at the Parramatta Police Court on…

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Mae Holds Court

The Labor Daily · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 12

Mae West and a group of admirer in a scene from "Belle of the Nineties," which comes to the Prince Edward on Saturday…

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Title Claim Sent To Gaol Fraud Charge Kandos

The Sun · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 19

ALLEGED to have falsely pretended to be Sir John Baxter, a baronet, John Lawrence Baxter, described as an analytical chemist…

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INTERJECTION In Coroner's Court

The Sun · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 30

There was a mild stir in the Burwood Coroner's Court to-day when a voice interrupted a witness's evidence with "It's a lie! He was."…

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