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Courts & crime, 1937

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Police Assault Charge Report

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- The Chief Secretary (Mr. Bailey) has called for a report from the Police Department on the case of Mr. James Alexander…

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Fined for Assault on Police. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 9

At Lithgow Police Court, Leonard Richard Mawson was fined £7 on a charge of assaulting Constable P. J. Sweeney. On a charge of resisting the officer in the execution of…

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Charge Against Police Alleged Assault on Civilian Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 7

Arising out of an alleged attack on December 19 on a man who was on a visit from Broken Hill, the Chief Secretary, Mr. Bailey, will ask…

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Miner Charged

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 14

NEWCASTLE, Monday. -- Patrick Redmond (36), miner, was charged at Newcastle Police Court today with having feloniously slain James…

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Industrial Magistrate's Court. (Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate. Mr. C. A. Prior.) Claim by Waitress

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 6

Beryl McLeod claimed from Wong Hing of Thomas-street Sydney, £14/17/3 alleged to be due as wages and overtime for work performed as a waitress under the Restaurant,…

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Daring Theft of Watch Chain

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 8

Three youths effected the daring theft of a man's watch-chain in broad daylight in the city yesterday afternoon. Approaching Mr. Bass…

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Murder Charge; No Bail

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 7

DUBBO, Monday. -- Bail was refused Clifford Lionel Reburger (23), laborer, who today was charged with the murder of Ronald Arthur Peden (25),…

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Police Charge Against Police Adelaide

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 7

When Osborne Meehan, of Kilkenny, was charged at the Adelaide Police Court to-day with hindering the police in Wakefield Street on…

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Court Sidelights

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 7

MR. E. J. HARRISON, S.M. (reading exhibits in three indecent language cases at Paddington Court): These words were used in conversation…

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Police Courts. Alleged Stabbing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 7

Michael Curran, 38, gardener, was committed from the Central Police Court yesterday for trial on a charge of having maliciously inflicted grievous bodily harm on…

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AROUND the worId Zachariades Sentenced To Nine Years’ Imprisonment

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 3

ATHENS, Dec. 25.—The secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (Nikko Zachariades), one of the most popular and influential Greek…

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Search for Man on Holidays Wedderburn Murder Clue

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 1

Police throughout New South Wales were still trying late last night to communicate with Mr. P. A. Greenaway and ask him to…

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Boys Vote for Murder Films London, December 28

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 13

"Murder with a touch of love" is the ideal "film fare" of a Chorley Wood Grammar School boy. He is one of 150 boys who were…

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Dubbo Murder Charge Laborer Refused Bail Dubbo

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 1

"IT seems a case of pure misadventure," said Mr. G. F. C. Griffin in the Police. Court to-day when applying, for ball on behalf of Clifford…

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Probes Police Methods in Traffic Cases

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 2

Police methods in summoning doctors to examine persons at stations, and the taking of finger-prints, were probed by Mr. Neil McTague, solicitor,…

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Collapsed in Court Bathurst

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 6

There was a [?] in the Bathurst Police Court to-day when Mrs. Margaret Isobel Meyers, who is alleged to have been indecently assaulted by…

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Death of Chemist. Murder Charge Preferred. Plea of Misadventure. Dubbo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 8

At the Dubbo Police Court this morning, before Mr. R. G. Cookson, P.M., Clifford Lionel Reburger, 23, labourer, was remanded until Monday next on a charge of having, at…

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CLEANSING The Police Force Support for Our Demand

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 3

SYDNEY. — Truth has now taken up the point raised by The Workers’ Weekly about the police justifying unlawful activities…

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Apartment Murder. Alderman's Proposed System. Fingerprints Oe All Employees New York, Jan. 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 11

Alderman Morris has announced that he will embark on a campaign to make it compulsory for all apartment house and hotel employees to give impressions of their…

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Law Notices. Tuesday, January 1[?]. Commonwealth Arbitration Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 6

Before his Honor Mr. Justice Drake-Brockman, at Commonwealth Arbitration Court, Darlinghurst.— At 10.30 a.m.: Australian Railways Union v victorian Railways Commissioners and others,…

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