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Courts & crime, 1938

8,297 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 250

Assault Alleged Liverpool

The Labor Daily · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 7

Constables Costello and Roughley, of the Fairfield police, arrested three well-known Cabramatta youths and took them to the Liverpool…

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Capitol Murder at Seance

The Labor Daily · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 8

MURDER during a seance is the eerie background for "The 13th Chair," screened for the first time at the Capital last Friday. This…

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150 Charged with Treason Madrid

The Labor Daily · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 5

RAIDS conducted in the city resulted in the arrest of 150 persons on charges of treason and having plotted to overthrow. the…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 6

Before the Registrar.—At 10.15 a.m.: Brennan [?] Galvin. At 10.45 a.m.: Edwards v Arthur and another. At 11.10 a.m.: Cross v Lessing…

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Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 6

In Divorce.—Before Mr. Acting Justioce Edwards.— In the Divorce Court.—At 10 a.m.—Causes' Bookaill v Bookaill: Button v Button: Vyner v Vyner; Mootgameric v Montgomeric: Phillips v…

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Girl of Six Strangled Coroner's Verdict of Murder Alleged Confession By A Windsor Gardener Police Dog's Trail

The Sun · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 3

AFTER listening to a dramatic recital of evidence concerning the death at Windsor, on Christmas Eve, of Marcia Hayes, aged six, the Coroner to-day committed Alfred Spicer, a gardener, for trial on a…

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Attempt to Wreck Police Car Alleged

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- The driver of a stolen car is alleged to have attempted to wreck a police patrol car, which was chasing him through Carlton streets last…

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Girl's Death. Man on Murder Charge Remanded. KATOOMBA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 6

Roland Stewatt Young 24 appealed before Mr. Finlay, J.P., at the Katoomba Police Court yesterday, to answer a charge of having murdered June Clemenger, 20, at Medlow Bath,…

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Murder Charge Remand Girl's Death at Medlow Katoomba

The Labor Daily · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 5

Charged with having feloniously and maliciously murdered June Clemenger, 20. at Medlow Bath on January 14. Ronald Stewart Young, 24,…

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Munition Dump And A Murder Boris Karloff, Marie Wilson-- Haymarket-Civic

The Sun · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 8

MURDER-MYSTERY, comedy and romance are mingled in "The Invisible Menace," in which Boris Karloff stars without benefit of…

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No Black Hand Gang Evidence Bomb Murder of Italian Ingham (Q.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 7

POLICE so far have obtained no evidence to support the theory that Vincenzo Dagostino, killed by a bomb at Ingham,…

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Golden Casket Tickets Sending £2000 A Month From Canada, Is Allegation Agent Charged Vancouver

The Labor Daily · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 5

THAT an agent for the Queensland Golden Casket in Vancouver was sending remittances that sometimes ran into £2000 a week was…

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Typhoid Germs. Cagoulard Method of Murder. How "Traitor" Escaped. Paris, Jan. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 10

An unnamed member of the French secret society, the Cagoulards, told Surete officials a startling story, since confirmed, of how his superiors had…

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Fur Theft Chase. 70 m.p.h. in London Suburb. One Suspect Killed. Two Injured. London, Jan. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 9

One man was killed instantly and three others were injured, two seriously, when a police car crashed broadside into a car it was pursuing, following a smash-and-grab fur theft…

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Law Notices. Monday, January 17, 1938. [?]Ederal Bankruptcy Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 6

Before his Honor Mr. Justice Lukin, Federal Judge in Bankruptcy.—7th Floor, Commonwealth Bank Building 112 pitt Street, Sydney.—On Monday, January 17, at 10.30 a.m.—Hearing of creditor's…

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Bakery Robbed. Accountant's Story to Police. Tied Up by Masked Men

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 11

Detectives oie investigating a rrporl by the accountant at J. M. Grant Bakeries in Olivia Lane, Surry Hills, that about 6 p.m. on Saturday he was…

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Woronora Dam Rapidly Takes Shape Balmain Police Team At Tug-o'-war

The Sun · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 10

THIS SCENE OF ACTIVITY is the Woronora Dam, which is rapidly talking shape on the Woronora River. Work is being pressed on at a feverish rale to cope with the problem of water supply during dry seasons. ALTHOUGH HE APPEARS to be in mortal agony, he's only training for the Police Sports. Constable E. Jones, member of the Balmain police tug-o'-war team, shows an agonised face as he puts every ounce of his strength into a…

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Plot Alleged in Madrid. Police Round Up 153 Persons. MADRID, Jan. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 10

The police [?]ounded up 153 men and women who were alleged to have been implicated in a plot against the Spanish republic. It is said that they belonged to an organisation…

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Police Eight in River Rescue Coaching Launch in Flames; Girl's Legs Burnt

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 1

TRAPPED on a blazing launch on the Parramatta River, near Putney, yesterday, three men and a girl were rescued by a police racing eight. The girl and one of the men on…

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Apply Sanctions Labor Demand for Japan How Police Got Back Pay LONDON

The Sun · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 5

THE International Trades Union Congress at Brussels to-day resolved to advocate the application of sanctions against Japan by all Pacific Powers, says the correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph."…

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