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Courts & crime, 1936

9,720 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 250

District Court. (Before Judtre Markell and jury.) Cross Actions for Damages

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 8

Lawrence Kilmartin and Nell Williams were parties to actions in which each claimed damages from the other. The actions arose out of a collision between two cars on…

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Striking Seamen To Be Evicted Landlord and Court Lined-Up With Shipowners

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 1

SYDNEY, Feb. 7.—In the Balmain Court yesterday, a seaman was ordered to vacate, within fourteen days, the premises of which…

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Use of Tear-gas As a Riot-breaker. Experiments by Indian Police. CALCUTTA, Feb. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 11

The Government of India has recently been considering the possibilities of Using tear-gas for dispersing unlawful assemblies, in order to avoid as far as possile, the use by police…

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Letters to Editor Police Politeness Scots Service P.C. POLITE (To the Editor of "The Sun")

The Sun · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 15

Let me quote a very fine example of a police constable. I entered a smokers' compartment of a tramcar last Saturday. The seats were fully…

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Mystery Murder at Darlinghurst Shot In Heart, Garageman Dies In Street Two Youths Ran From Scene; No Further Clue Report Of Gun Brought Help Too Late

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 1

Shot through the heart, Robert Stead, 28, staggered from the door of the Star garage in Darlinghurst Road, last night, and died without being able to give any clue as to his…

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Girl Of 14 Tells Of Vow By Penrose Six Shots Shoot Self If Police Came Visited Him Showed Her Gun Boy with Pistol Redfern Incident Penrose Inquest

The Sun · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 13

ARTHUR James Penrose, 18, with whom she was keeping company, had shown her an automatic pistol, At the inquest on Arthur James Penrose, a witness told of an incident at Redfern, when a youth fired…

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Of New South Wales Ministers Shelter Behind Arbitration Court Dispute At Port Kembla Dunningham Curtly Refuses to See a Deputation War on Women and Children

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 11 February 1936 · page 1

RUNNING away from the boasted decision of the Government, as a member of the recent Three-State Conference, to eliminate overtime from industry in the interests of employment, the acting-Premier, Mr. Bruxner, and the Minister for Labor and Iudustry, Mr…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 10

Queen's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate.—At 10 a.m.: For hearing: Australian Bo[?] Trades Employees' Federation v Australian Shipers, Ltd. (nine cases); Murphy v La Ros[?],…

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Police Courts. Theft From Benefactor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 10

James Calder, 20, labourer, was charged [?] the Central Police Court, with having stolen [?] suit of clothes, a pair of socks, mid a pawn ticket, valued at £4, from William Clancy,…

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Chinese Sentenced. Opium on Steamer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 10

Cheng Sui, 42, a steward was convicted at the Central Police Court yesterday, on a charge of having in his possession on [?]rd the steamer Taiping 180 "cigarellos," and…

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Former Detective Fined for Contempt of Court. Incident During Case. Protest to Magistrate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 14

During the resumed hearing at the Central Police Court yesterday of the charge against four men of conspiracy to defraud, one of the defendants, John Ellis Findlay, a former…

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Sent to Gaol Former Policeman

The Sun · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 19

On two charges of shop-breaking, one of warehouse-breaking, and a fourth of attempted warehouse- breaking, John Ena McDonald…

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Gaol for Life for Farm Laborer

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 7

ADELAIDE, Tuesday. -- A sentence of imprisonment for life with hard labor was imposed in the Criminal Court to-day by…

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Life Imprisonment. Farm Labourer Sentenced. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 17

Arthur Nelson Durrant, 22, farm labourer, who had pleaded guilty in the Criminal Court last Wednesday to manslaughter, when charged with having murdered Joyce Forbes, 16, at…

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Garage Murder Reward For Information?

The Sun · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 13

It is likely that the Government will offer a reward for the apprehension of the murderer of Norman Stead, together with a pardon for the…

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AUSTRALIANA Convict Police

The World's News · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 12

SET a thief to catch a thief was evidently the idea behind the formation of the first police force in New South Wales, for when Governor Phillip…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 10

Before his Honor Judge Sheridan, K.C., and juries, in No. 1 Court.—At 10 a.m.: Mcreer v Commissioner for Road Transport and Tramways (part heard) Not before 10.30 a.m.: Jessen v T[?]…

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Clue in Victorian Murder Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 5

As a result of investigations, detectives are now almost certain of the identity of one of the men concerned in the Titles Office murder,…

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Man Battered £40 Theft a Callous Bandit Melbourne

The Sun · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 20

COLIN ANGUS, 28, storekeeper, Postmaster and State Savings Bank agent, of Eldorado, a mining township between Wangaratta and Beechworth, was battered into unconsciousness last night by a thief who escaped…

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Federal Bankruptcy Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 February 1936 · page 10

Before [?] Bankruptcy, seventh floor, Commonwealth Bank Building, 112 Pitt-street.— At 10 a.m.: New South Wales Bankruptcy Act, 1898: Motion for release to operate [?]…

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