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Courts & crime, 1935

9,096 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 250

Not Guilty Tennant's Creek Murder Charge Judge's Advice

Truth · Sunday 10 February 1935 · page 16

ALICE SPRINGS, Saturday. "I DON'T think that remark is warranted, your Honor," said Clifford Rentrey, when after…

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Judge's Advice Resented Climax to Murder Trial Acquittal Alice Springs

The Sun · Sunday 10 February 1935 · page 2

Resentment at advice offered by Judge Wells to leave firearms alone was the climax provided by Clifford Renfrey when be…

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Police Too Fast Weighty Crew Took Maiden Fours

The Sun · Sunday 10 February 1935 · page 47

New South Wales Police and Leichhardt secured rowing prominence yesterday, when the Riverview mile course of the Lane Cove River…

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Beach Guard's Cruelty Caustic Comment by Magistrate Hit Puppy On Nose With Whistle Until It Bled

Truth · Sunday 10 February 1935 · page 1

KNOWN everywhere along the coast for his prowess as a surf carnival competitor; idolised on Bondi Beach (where small boys point with pride to the permanent life saver), Aubrey Laidlaw, champion swimmer, was found guilty at…

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Mackay to Be Next Police Chief Mr. Stevens Says So

Truth · Sunday 10 February 1935 · page 1

WILLIAM J. MACKAY, will be appointed Commissioner of Police when Mr. W. H. Childs…

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Police Hide and Seek Lively Chase After Suspect Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 10 February 1935 · page 1

A game of hide and seek over the roofs of tall buildings at the corner of King-street and Flinders-lane, between police and a suspect took…

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They've Had V.c's. for Less! Modern 'Hero' Elopes With Wife and Eight Children Theft Charge Fails

Truth · Sunday 10 February 1935 · page 12

ALL heroes are not to be found on the battlefield. At the Bathurst Police Court last week, it was stated that…

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Austria Expects Trouble Vienna Police Ordered to "Stand By" Vienna

The Sun · Sunday 10 February 1935 · page 5

Expecting trouble over the anniversary next Tuesday of the Social Democrat revolution last year, the authorities have ordered all police to…

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Rowing Police Bob Up Arrest Double with Maiden Fours Stroke King Excels

Truth · Sunday 10 February 1935 · page 6

THOUGH the senior crews from the Police have failed to bring off success, a maiden four showed remarkable…

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"Hot Numbers" Conversations by Telephone Records in Court New York

Truth · Sunday 10 February 1935 · page 16

GRAMOPHONE records of sizzling telephone conversations between Fay Webb Vallee, the estranged wife of the well-known…

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Romeo & Juliet In Wartime Romance Court-martial No Bar to Digger's Fervor

The Sun · Sunday 10 February 1935 · page 11

AS I strolled leisurely along Pitt-street a figure idling on the opposite side struck me as being hauntingly familiar. I stood watching, wondering -- something restless at the back of my mind…

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Failed On The Court Our Tennis Visitors But Visit Was Well Worth While

The Sun · Sunday 10 February 1935 · page 41

Whether the visit of so many of the world's leading tennis players results in a monetary loss or not,…

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Perth Murder. Police Investigations. PERTH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 9

Chief Inspector Purdue, who is directing the police investigation of the murder of Edgar Arthur Whitfield 60, watchman at Caris Bros. Ltd., and the theft of jewels worth…

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Girl Nazi Sentenced to Death. Attempted Murder of Austrian. VIENNA, Feb. 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 10

The first woman to be sentenced to death under the special procedure introduced in 1934 after the Socialist revolt was Hilde Goessl, a Nazi, 19, who was convicted, with Max Wild,…

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Metal Bearings Theft From Railway

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 2

Charged with having stolen about 100lb. of gun-metal, the property of the Railway Commissioners, at Auburn, between December 1 and February 6. Robert…

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"Murder in the Private Car"

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 5

This film brings its Charlie Ruggles as a comical detective for the first time. So efficient is our Chas., that he's always on the spot when a crime is committed—…

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Perth Murder Case Perth

The Labor Daily · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 1

Police have not been able to secure much Information about the murder of Edgar Whitfield, 59, in a jewellery store last Tuesday night, but…

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Police in Debate

The Sun · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 10

"That the time has come in Australia for the restriction of female labor in industry," is the subject of a debate to be held at Sydney School…

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To Prevent Ruin & Murder London

The Labor Daily · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 1

SPEAKING at the banquet of the British Chamber of Commerce in Paris, the Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, referred to the Anglo-French conversations, emphasising that the work then done was not directed against any other country…

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New Routh Wales Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 14

The New South Wales Police Club held a m[?] at Long Bay Range, comprising 20 shots in two stages at 800 yards for the championship and Sam Lands Cup. The scoring was exceptionally…

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