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Courts & crime, 1936

9,720 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 250

Murder Charge Is Preferred Man's Wounds Proved Fatal Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 6

FOLLOWING the death of James Taylor, 32, in hospital on Saturday night, Herbert Nelson Lane, 30, laborer, of Collingwood, appeared…

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Horses Wait Rider In Court Case

The Sun · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 3

Just another week of freedom from the galling restraint of saddle and bridle remains to the untamed young horses of Coonamble, for Roy…

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Protest Against Police Being Sent to Torres Straits

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 2

The I.L.D. also passed a vigorous resolution of protest against the sending of a police party from Queensland to suppress the discontent among the…

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Railways. Regulation Strike. Commissioner Applies to Court. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 9

The commissioner for Railways (Mr. J. W. Davidson) to-day approached the Industrial Court seeking an interpretation of a clause in the Railway Workers' Award which deals with…

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Man Hunt. Police Besiege Skyscraper Armed with Guns and Bombs. New York, Jan. 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 9

One of the wierdest man hunts the New York police have ever undertaken is under way to-night. Two hundred patrolmen ana detectives are carefully searching every square…

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Mrs. Edols to Be Freed To-day In Gaol Nearly Four Years; Judge Says Contempt Not Purged Bench "Not Impressed by Hysterical Appeal"

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 10

Pale and haggard, Mrs. Aimee Belle Edols heard the Federal Judge in Bankruptcy, Mr. Justice Lukin, yesterday order her discharge from Long Bay gaol upon the expiry of her sentence of two years for fraud at 6.30 a.m…

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Coach Is Included In Mosman Crew RAPER Will Row No. 2 Sydney Is Ready Police Too

The Sun · Tuesday 28 January 1936 · page 3

Changes in a champion crew when its test is near at hand are not relished. Mosman, however, has made one…

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Alleged Assault

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1936 · page 20

It was reported to the police yesterday that Frank Neilly, chief officer of a coastal boat, had been assaulted and robbed of about 8/. Police subsequently arrested a man, who…

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£500 Said to Be Involved Young Clerk Charged

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 29 January 1936 · page 12

Pressing for substantial bail, Sergeant Toole, police prosecutor, stated at Central Court yesterday that he understood approximately £500 was…

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Armed Men Hold Up Garage. Audacious Theft. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1936 · page 16

Two armed and masked men walked into the City Gate Service Station, city, early to-day, and tied up the assistant and his companion, and escaped with £2/3/4 in cash…

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Critics Of Police LONDON

The Sun · Wednesday 29 January 1936 · page 1

There is a disposition in some quarters to criticise the police…

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New Clue Vicar's Murder Watch Find Melbourne

The Sun · Wednesday 29 January 1936 · page 19

With a thin film of rust on their works, the gold and silver watches stolen from Rev. Harold Laceby Cecil by his murderer at St. Saviour's…

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Heat Aids Police To Make Weight

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 January 1936 · page 12

SPECIAL duties, including strike patrol, have interrupted training for the Police Carnival to be held at the…

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Disobeyed Court Woman To Be Attached

The Sun · Wednesday 29 January 1936 · page 13

Because of her alleged failure to file accounts in connection with the administration of an estate of which she had been appointed executrix,…

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For Trial Death Pact Story Murder Charge 'Molested Girl' Melbourne

The Sun · Wednesday 29 January 1936 · page 15

AFTER he had heard evidence of meetings and an alleged death pact between a young woman…

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Egyptian Riots Police Fire On Mobs CAIRO

The Sun · Wednesday 29 January 1936 · page 12

The police were obliged to-night to fire on mobs at Damanhur. A boy was killed and another wounded. Two students at Mansura and one…

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C.I.B. Corruption Alleged During Case at Central Statement Is Produced Four Charged

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 29 January 1936 · page 8

ALLEGATIONS of bribery and corruption within the Criminal Investigation Branch of the police force were…

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Clashes in Egypt. Police Bullets Wound 17. LONDON, Jan. 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1936 · page 20

Although there have been no clashes in Cairo, police at Damanhur and at Mansurn fired on demonstrationists, wounding five at Damanhur and 12 at Mansura. Fifteen…

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Conspiracy Charge. Four Men in Court. One a Former Detective

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1936 · page 20

Ernest Pierce Coombe, 40, and Charles Richard Tanser, 52, agents, and John Ellis Findlay, 40, and William Campbell, 35, clerks, were charged at the Central Police Court…

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"Good Liar" Liverpool Theft Magistrate's Comment

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 30 January 1936 · page 14

" You're a good liar—and a rather bad one also," Magistrate C. Pickup told Frederick Anderson (45) at the Liverpool Police Court on Friday…

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