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Courts & crime, 1936

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Assault Charge Fails Mixed Company at Bexley House

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 17

SOME remarkable allegations were made in the Kogarah Police Court last week when Robert Bailey successfully defended a…

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Prayers in Gaol "Greater Than In Private Homes," Says Leader

The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 7

Comparatively speaking, the amount of daily praying in the gaols and prison camps in this State was greater to-day than…

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Pest Punched Then Pinched by Police

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 10

A LOCAL and notorious pest, William George Dubois 36 was the recipied at some justibiable strong-arm stud when he fell foot…

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Stray Bullet Brings Two Youths to Court

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 15

A STRAY revolver bullet, which inflicted wound in the leg of Mrs. Edith May Birt at Morrison-road Ryde on Christmas Eve…

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Murder Of Vicar Still Mystery Many Rumors As to Motive Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 7

Twenty-three days of investigation by a squad of eight detectives finds them little nearer to the murderer of Rev…

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Police Search for 2 Boys Missing From Homes Since Thursday Newcastle

The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 11

Newcastle police are seeking two boys whose absence from their homes since Thursday is causing anxiety to their parents…

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Changes in Police High Command Seven Superintendents Will Retire In 1936 Likely Promotions

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 1

A VAST reorganisation of the police administration is in slow process, and during the coming year the whole High Command—consisting of the Superintendents who function as the Commissioner's…

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Grave Police Error Mistaken Identity Innocent, in Cells Not Allowed to See His Wife Brisbane

The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 1

A GRAVE police error which resulted in Gerald Charles ROSS Mumby, a Melbourne…

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Sentenced for Stealing. Palienl al Sydney Hospital

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 6

Robert Burns. 54, gardener, was sentenced at the Central Police Couit on Saturday to six months' imprisonment with hard labour on each of two charges of stealing…

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Innocent Man in Gaol Queensland Police Admit Error Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 6

A clear case of mistaken identity was admitted by the Queensland police when Gerald Charles Ross Mamby, a Melbourne…

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Vicarage Murder Victorian Police Claim to Be Near Solution

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- Detectives claim they are close to a solution of the Vicarage murder case. Detective-Sergeant Carey, who has…

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Stealing Charge School of Arts Officer Bound Over

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 1

"I didn't know that I was doing at the time," John Solomon Ewing (29) told the magistrate (Mr. C. Pickup) at the Liverpool Police Court on Friday…

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Girl's Death Two Women Charged WAGGA

The Sun · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 7

After a well-known girl had died in the Wagga Hospital to-day from septicaemia, two women were arrested on a murder charge…

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Fine Work Record Police Year

The Sun · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 8

WHEN the crime returns for 1935 are completed, it is expected that they will reveal a record year in respect of…

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TRACE-MAN Night In Rain Police Vigil

The Sun · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 8

SOAKED by rain throughout Saturday night, detectives had spent 28 hours on duty before they traced the…

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BOMBING Red Cross Unit. Doctor's Account. "Wholesale Murder." LONDON, Jan. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 11

Dr. Pride Hylander, a survivor of the raid on the Swedish Red Cross ambulance at Dolo, on which bombs were dropped and machine-guns fired, says…

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N.s.w. Hard Court Tennis Association

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 3

Your interests on the council of the above association were well looked after during the year by Mr. Woodhouse, W. Sidney, E. Townsend and the…

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Go to Court Teachers Await Chance HOBART

The Sun · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 7

Delegates at the council meeting of the Federal State School Teachers' Association to-day decided that the part of the association's constitution…

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Suspect Kills Himself. Cornered by Police. Sequel to Shooting of Constable

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 11

James Alfred Penrose, 18, suspected of having shot and critically wounded Constable John Terbutt near the Central Railway Station early on…

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Leniency of Judges Deplored Heavier Penalties For Shooting At Police Member's View

The Labor Daily · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 5

THAT the Government should instruct the judiciary to use the utmost severity when sentencing criminals who carried…

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