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Courts & crime, 1936

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Attractive Girl Is Charged

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 5

An attractive 18-year-old girl, Anna Plavin, domestic, stood in the dock at Central Police Court yesterday charged on four counts of…

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Shop Breakers Sentenced Gilgandra

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 8

A sequel to the recent sensational gunpoint arrest at Trangie, occurred at the Gilgandra Police Court to-day, when Donald Benson, 30, and George…

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Conflict of Evidence, Said Magistrate

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 10

Remaining that mere was a considerable conflict of evidence, Mr. Reed, S.M., dismissed an information at Central Summons Court yesterday…

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Theft of Horses. Liverpool

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 16

Horse thieves have been active in Moorebank and Chipping Norton districts, and some valuable horses have beens stolen. A valuable pony, owned by Lieutenant…

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Woman's Death. Shock for Husband. Announced in Police Court. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 15

[?]da Maude Gunning, 49, wife of Joseph Edward Gunning, was found dead at her home at Long Gully, near Bendigo, this morning. Her throat had been slashed. A…

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Said Police Had Punched Him Tote Bettor Fined at Campsie Court

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 7

"I do not believe your story that the police punched you; in fact. I am quite satisfied they did not," said Mr. Sutherland, S.M., at Campsie…

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Murder in Court. Lawyer Kills Lawyer. Then Fires at Judge. Chicago, Jan. 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 15

A case in court yesterday ended in a fusillade of revolver shots fired by a lawyer, as a result of which his rival attorney was killed, and the presiding Judge narrowly…

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Dog Prevents Theft of Car Mullumbimby

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 10

Paddy an Irish terrier, owned by Father R. H. Williams, priest in charge at Mullumbimby, frustrated an attempt to steal Father Williams'…

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Violent Scenes. Terrorists Sentenced. Polish Assassination Plot. Warsaw, Jan. 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 15

Dramatic scenes occurred at the end of the trial of 12 Ukrainian terrorists who were alleged to be the organisers of the plot that resulted in the assessination of the Polish…

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Magistrate to Retire Mr. McMAHON'S Fine Career on Bench

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 6

CROWNING a career on the bench, which bas been marked by fairness and sound judicial judgment, with a commendable administration…

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Police Courts. False Pretences Charges

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 10

Arthur Stanley Young, 23, motor mechanic, and Clarence Joseph Springer, 21, publisher, were charged at the Central Police Court with false pretences. It was stated that the…

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One-Minute Mystery Murder Behind the "Big Top"

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 15

FOFO, a round, roly-poly clown, had teamed with tall, gaunt, cadaverous-looking Tregar, who, wholly encased, except the eyes, in his famous, realistic skeleton garb, had amused…

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Murder Charge. Death of Aboriginal Woman. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 16

A male aboriginal of Fantome Island, was charged to-day at Townsville with the murder of Molly Huddy, an aboriginal woman, who was stabbed at Fantome Island on Sunday…

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A Court Scene in Malaya

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 31

The following article, written by an eye-witness of the incidents referred to, is of interest for several reasons altogether outside its undoubted literary merits. It describes a scene which, although it constitutes the ordinary working-day routine of a British official in the East, is yet full of novelty and humour to the uninitiated outsider; it describes the varied characters to be met with in Malaya in telling phrases…

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Aborigine on Murder Charge Woman's Body Is Exhumed Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 7

A CHARGE of wilful murder or a female aborigine, Molly Buddy, 30, was preferred against an aborigine from the Fantome Island, Palm…

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Alleged Police Punch Him S.m. Disbelieved Story

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 10

Allegations by Francis Fahey, 32, laborer, at Campsie Court yesterday that he had been punched by police at the Bankstown Police Station on…

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Family Tragedy. Two Women Dead. Murder Charge. Doubt About Husband's Sanity

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 16

At the conclusion of an inquiry conducted by the Parramatta district coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clark) at Parramatta yesterday, into the deaths of Rachael Harriet Brown, 54,…

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Women Collapse At Inquest Murder Verdict Talk Of "Bashing" Two Men for Trial

The Sun · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 13

AT the inquest into the death of Leslie Arthur Paterson, 34, barrowman, of Eden-Street, Willoughby, a statement, alleged to have been made by James Richard Geddes, was read. It stated : "I went to…

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Soiled Many Murder Cases Crooks Had Rare Brain to Outwit London, December 28

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 6

SENSATIONAL crimes and trials of 30 and 40 years ago were recalled by the death this week of Professor Augustus Joseph Pepper, predecessor of Sir Bernard Spilsbury, pathologist, and the first medicolegal expert of Great Britain to become famous…

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Sequel To Gaol Break Bid Dreaded Sentence Imposed Warder's Action In Firing Shot Is Commended Prison Trial

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 7

KENNETH AUBREY FARLOW, who made a dramatic bid to escape from the Parramatta Gaol on Saturday night, by attempting to…

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