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Courts & crime, 1937

8,720 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 250

Marine Court Inquiry Caradale and Kakariki MELBOURNE

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 4

The Marine Court Inquiry into the collision between the Caradale and Kakariki, in which the Kakarikl was sunk, resulting in the loss of five…

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District Court. (Before Judge Thomson.) Claim for Commission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 5

Claiming that they had had a person "ready, willing, and able to purchase" the Fitzroy Hotel, Cowra, John Robert Jones and George Mackay, trading as J. R. Jones and Co., of…

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15 Ratings Did Not Return Navy Enlists Aid Of Police

The Sun · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 2

Since December 1, the naval authorities have sought the assistance of the police in tracing 15 ratings who have failed to report for duty…

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Wrestling on a Motor Cycle Thrilling Event For Police Carnival

The Sun · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 8

Constables J. Brown and E. W. Ferguson will combine with Constables Reilly and Langham, champion police motor cyclists, in a…

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Waterfront. Tension Engineers Meet To-day Onus on Court

The Labor Daily · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 5

ARISING out of the failure of the Federal Arbitration Court and the employers tp restore the heavy wage cuts that were imposed under the Premiers' Plan and continued by successive, variations in the basic wage, there is every indication that the…

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Food Relief Claims. Questioning of Children by Police. Complaints Not Proved

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 10

A reply has been received by Mr. Cahill, M.L.A. for Arncliffe, from the Premier (Mr. Stevens), to complaints that children have been questioned by police about food relief…

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Chinese Officers Kill General Court-martial Then Execution Peking

The Sun · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 21

REBEL troops at Sianfu, where Chang Hsueh-liang lately held the leader of the Republic, Chiang Kai-shek as hostage, court-martialled and executed their own commander, General Wang Yi-che…

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Women In Soviet Police Net Wife of Litvinov, Radek's Daughter Moscow

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 3

IN their clean-up of persons suspected of opposing the Soviet regime, the secret police are reported to have arrested…

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Vacate Works Court's Order to Strikers. Cordon Drawn. Troops in Readiness. DETROIT, Feb. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 10

Judge Gadola granted an injunction ordering "stay-in" strikers at two General Motors Corporation plants At Flint (Michigan) to get out within…

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Supreme Court. Vacation Causes. (Before Mr. Acting Justice Owen and jury.) Motor Car and Bicycle Collision. Claim for Damages

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 5

Harry Roland Lees, aged 17, of South Strathfield, was plaintiff in an action for damages against Constance Attwill. The action arose out of a collision on the…

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Murder Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 2

Charged with having feloniously and maliciously murdered Grace Maud Ewes, at Sydney, on January 20, Henry John Thomas, laborer, 55, was…

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Man Wounded. Theft Charge Deferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 12

When James Hogan, 38, clerk, Thomas Leslie Dorter, 32 masseur, and Edward Heath, 37, labourer, were charged before Judge Sheridan in the Quarter Sessions yesterday,…

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Charge of Murder

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 12

On a charge of having feloniously and maliciously murdered Miss Grace Maud Eves, Henry John Thomas, 55, labourer, was remanded by Mr. Atkinson, S.M., yesterday, to…

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Police Promotions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 10
Also in The Daily Telegraph

The Executive Council yesterday approved the following police promotions:—Sergeants 1st class C. L. Gavin and W. J. Keefe to be inspectors 3rd class from January 21, 1037,…

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Murder and Suicide Inquest

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 2

"I find that Mrs. Woods and her three children were murdered on December 9 by Woods while he was of unsound mind, and that Woods…

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Remand in Murder Charge

The Labor Daily · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 1

At Central Police Court yesterday, Henry John Thomas, 55, a laborer, was remanded until February 11, on a charge of having on January 20…

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Police Assocn. President

The Labor Daily · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 6

Sergeant First-Class Gavin, president of the N.S.W. Police Association, was yesterday appointed by the Executive Council to the rank of…

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Police Sergeant Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 11

Two days ago Sergeant M. Morgan, 50, was transferred from Gladesville to Parramatta police station, and yesterday he was knocked down by a motor lorry after he had stepped…

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Court Sidelights

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 4

WITNESS: I did not buy the overalls. I only priced them. Mr. Meagher (solicitor): The only thing you don't price is beer…

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