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Courts & crime, 1936

9,720 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 250

Why M. Blum Was Attacked Appeal to Murder Deputies Paris

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 February 1936 · page 1

THE attack by Royalists on the Socialist leader, M. Leon Blum, outside the War Ministry yesterday, was evidently a…

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A Fine Trial Police Eight in Heavy Boat

The Sun · Saturday 15 February 1936 · page 3

THE police rowing eight, which, it is hoped, will be sent to Berlin to represent Australia at the 1936…

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Two Men Remanded in Murder Shooting At City Garage No Bail Given

The Labor Daily · Saturday 15 February 1936 · page 9

WITHOUT speaking a word, James Leighton Massey, 21, motor mechanic, and Aubrey Potter, 22, mechanic, were remanded to February…

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Olympic Games. the Police Eight. Suggested Inclusion in Team

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 February 1936 · page 18

Although a definite decision on the suggestion that the Police eight-oar crew should be sent to Berlin will not be made until after the New South Wales Rowing…

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From Car Shooting Story Court Claim Man Remanded

The Sun · Saturday 15 February 1936 · page 3

"IT is alleged that Hourigan was shot from a passing car while he was walking along the street,"…

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Race Results. Approach to the Court. to Restrain Broadcasting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 February 1936 · page 17

A big Bar has been engaged for the impending litigation in the Equity Court to restrain a broadcasting station from continuing to broadcast descriptions of race meetings, and…

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Abduction Charge Man Committed for Trial at Central Court

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 February 1936 · page 6

That she had gone away in order to find her own mother was stated by Nancy Whelton, 16, at Central Court yesterday, when Charles Edward…

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District Court. (Before Judge H. G. Edwards.) Boarding Lorry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 February 1936 · page 12

George Robert Jansen, by his next friend, Richard George Jansen, both of Avocalane Glebe, sued J. Whiteley, of Wigramlane, Glebe, for £400 damages for injuries…

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Law Notices. Monday. February 17. High Court Op Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 February 1936 · page 12

Original Jurisdiction.—Before his Honor Mr. Justice Evatt. in No. 1 High Court.—At 10.30 a.m.: Trautwein v the Commissioner of Taxation, Commonwealth of Australia (part heard); same…

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Escape From Cell. Ingenious Plan. Police Garage Snips Used. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 February 1936 · page 17

Reginald Morgan Christopner, 24, labourer, and Horace George Kuhn, 25, bootmaker, escaped from the cell in which they were imprisoned at Renmark, by squeezing through…

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Court of Criminal Appeal. Rex v Pomfret; Rex v Hickey

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 February 1936 · page 12

Both these appeals are reported elsewhere in this issue. The Solicitor-General, Mr. Weigall, K.C. (instructed by the Deputy Clerk of thE peace,…

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Short Pint of Beer Vendor Fined £7 in Newtown Court

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 February 1936 · page 5

Jack Levison Sims, of the Salisbury Hotel Stanmore, was fined £7 in Newtown Court yesterday, for having sold beer short in measure…

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Trial Granted Husband Was Convicted Of Slaying His Wife Full Court

The Labor Daily · Saturday 15 February 1936 · page 8

VICTOR MARSHALL POMFRET, who was convicted at the Quarter Sessions in December last of the manslaughter of his wife, and…

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Tamworth Shooting; Youth In Court Grazier Dead in Shed Five Bullets In Body Near Home Tamworth

The Labor Daily · Saturday 15 February 1936 · page 1

BEFORE Mr. R. A. Hill, Chamber Magistrate at Tamworth Court, to-night, Lionel John Roberts, 17, of…

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Charged with Murder Youth Who Worked On Station

Truth · Sunday 16 February 1936 · page 12

RIDDLED by five bullets, the body of George Robert Gidley King, 26-years-old grazier, of Moorooble, Limbri, was found last…

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Death Follows Gunshot Wounds Man Charged with Woman's Murder

Truth · Sunday 16 February 1936 · page 20

WITH gunshot wounds in her stomach, alleged to have been received in a shooting affray at a house in Conadilly-street last week, Eva Marion Marjorie Saunderson, aged 32 years, resident of Gunnedah, died in Gunnedah…

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Murder Is Charge

Truth · Sunday 16 February 1936 · page 12

CHARGED with murder in connection with the Darling-hurst-road petrol station murder, James Leighton Massey, 21,…

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Gaol For Complaint MAGDEBURG

Truth · Sunday 16 February 1936 · page 16

BECAUSE he complained of a Nazi lawyer's insult to him before the Magdeburg Bar Association, a Jewish lawyer,…

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Man Hunt on in S.A. Prisoner's Escape From Gaol ADELAIDE

Truth · Sunday 16 February 1936 · page 1

A STATE-WIDE man-hunt is in progress for the two prisoners who broke from Re[?]mark Gaol, yesterday. Hundreds of…

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Two Stabbings Brisbane Police Called BRISBANE

Truth · Sunday 16 February 1936 · page 14

WITHIN half an hour last night Brisbane police received calls concerning two alleged stabbing affrays—one at East Brisbane…

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