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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1936

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Police Guard All Roads Hold-up Men Wanted for Murder Guard Shot In Head; Bandits Escape With £1758 MELBOURNE

Truth · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 18

DESCRIPTIONS of the three bandits wanted for the murder of James Edward Scriven, 64-years-old State messenger, whom one of their number shot daring a sensational hold-up yesterday afternoon, when £1758…

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Ex-detective Charged with Alleged Conspiracy Prisoner's Story Says That He Paid Money and Was Assisted To Leave State Other Men Before the Court

Truth · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 19

NOW serving a sentence of three years' gaol for stealing, and admitting to several aliases, William Campbell, 35, clerk, made allegations against an ex-Sydney detective, John Ellis Findlay, at the Central Police Court last week…

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Leichhardt Stadium Police Warn Wrestlers For Rough Tactics

The Sun · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 26

Tom Lurich and George Pencheff, wrestled a draw last night at Leichhardt Stadium, each man obtaining a fall. It was a fast contest. At the end of…

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McARTHUR Again Case Before High Court

Truth · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 10

JOHN WILLIAM SHAW McARTHUR, company promoter, figured in the High Court last week, before Mr. Justice Evatt and Mr. Justice McTiernan…

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Young Man's Claim In Police Cell For Two Hours

Truth · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 22

THAT he had been kept iu a police station cell for two hours without knowing what charge had been made against him was the sensational…

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Gold Cadgers Plausible Tale Told At Door Police on Trail

Truth · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 22

THERE are oilier ways of getting gold than by digging it out of the ground, and they come easier, too. with a plausible tongue than with…

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Roosevelt, a Spender, Stretches the Purse Biting Into His Capital Supreme Court Turns Tide Of Business

Truth · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 12

THINGS have been happening in the United States. On the same day, January 7, the President sent his official Budget Message to Congress, and the Supreme Court by a…

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Two States Hunt For Killers Bandits Are Believed Making Border Dash Police Closing In On Albury Road MELBOURNE

The Sun · Sunday 2 February 1936 · page 1

INTENSIVELY searching for the three bandits who, late yesterday, shot down in cold blood James Edward Scriven, 64, a Government messenger, and escaped with £1758 in cash, the police are watching all…

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Woman Charged

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 2

Dulcie Lawrence (38), at the Parramatta police Court, was charged with having received a quantity of wearing apparel and other articles…

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Theft Sequel Man Fined

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 4

Sergeant Dudley and Constable Little went with James Pritchard (65) to the latter's camp at Warwick Farm. On searching the camp, they found twelve…

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Theft of Fountain Pens

The Sun · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 8

On a charge of having, on July 5, 1035, stolen several fountain pens and pencils, the property of W. C. Penfold and Co., Frederick Harris,…

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Many Charges Sentenced On One

The Sun · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 7

Charles Edward Martin, alias Leslie Thomas Tarrant. 23, laborer, was sentenced to six months' by Mr. May, S.M., at Burwood Court to-day…

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Murder of Prospector

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 1

BROOME, Saturday.--After police proceedings lasting two days an aborigine, Wagara, was committed for trial on a charge of murdering a…

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Third Time Driver Charged P.m's. Comment

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 2

"You have the appearance of a man who drinks," Magistrate C. Pickup told Arthur Yeadon (50), who at the Liverpool Police Court…

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Magistrate's Ruling Parramatta River is a Public Place

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 2

In a case at Ryde Court, the magistrate, Mr. G. S. Goldio, S.M., ruled that a waterway such us the Parramatta River is a public place. He…

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Police Counts. Thefts From Shops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 5

At the Central Police Court on Saturday, Edith Collins, 52, was fined 15/ for stealing a finger ring worth 1/11 from David Jones' Ltd. Ernest Roy Tarlington, 28, dealer, was…

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Wants Police Protection London

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 8

Mr. Keith Williams, the company promoter, who unsuccessfully sued Mr. Jack Trevor for £10,000, arising out of losses at a charity gambling…

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Police Force As Vocation Applications Invited

The Labor Daily · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 8

From time to time the Commissioner of Police invites applications from candidates for the police force and it is understood that at the…

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Police Raid House in the City

The Labor Daily · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 10

Balding a house in Kippax street. City, shortly before midnight on Saturday, a police squad, heeded by Sergeant Chuck, arrested a man on a…

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Murder Sequel French Couple Detained in Paris Paris

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 February 1936 · page 1

The police have detained a French couple in connection with the death of Max Kassel. an itinerant jewellery dealer, whose body was found under…

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