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Courts & crime, 1931

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Queensland Shearing Disputes. Pastoralists Ask For Police Protection. BRISBANE

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 1

Queensland pastoralists have asked the Premier for police protection against the intimidation of shearers wishing to work under award rates…

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A Raid by Bogus Police. Four Arrests Made. SYDNEY, Wednesday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 1

The police, last night, arrested four men alleged to have been concerned in the sensational raid on the house of Chinese market…

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The Governor-general. To Resign from High Court. CANBERRA

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 2

Sir Isaac Isaacs, who will resign his position as Chief Justice of the High Court, on January 15th, will not draw his pension as retiring judge…

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Fined £150 Alleged Possession of Cocaine Returned Soldier Before Culcairn Police Courts

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 2

At the Culcairn police court on Monday, George Marshall, 35, a returned soldier and an ex-chemist, eas charged with having…

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Youth Hanged in Cell Had Deen Charged with Murder

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 2

Stanley Jackson, aged 18 years, who had been charged with the particularly brutal murder of Mrs. Julla Gerchell aged 87 years, at Drummoyne…

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Escapees From Prison Camp. Re-arrested and Sent to Gaol. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 3

William Tansey and James Jeffrey, who escaped from Tuncurry prison camp, yesterday, were re-arrested to-day. They will be lodged in Goulburn…

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Small Debts Court Summonses for Rates

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 2

The Hay Small Debts Court, the P.M. being on the Bench, dealt yesterday with a number of summonses for rates…

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Later Particulars. A Police Theory. MELBOURNE, Monday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 3

The police think that the girl, Adeline Hazel Wilson, who was found murdered on vacant land, was not outraged. They are inclined to think…

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Riot in Adelaide Follows Unemployed March. Attack on Police. Bars and Sticks Used. Thirteen Persons Injured. Adelaide

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 2

Rioting in which 13 persons, including eight police officers were injured, occurred near the Treasury Buildings at noon, to-day. The rioting…

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Prisoner Hangs Himself Gaol

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 31

Stanley Jackson, aged 18 years, who was arrested recently for the alleged murder of Mrs. Julia Geraschel, aged 87 years, at Drummoyne, was found…

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The Oldest Town in Southern Riverina Police Court Recorded Date Back to 1845

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 5

So many of the buildings in Mou[?]amein are new that it is difficult to believe it is the oldest town in the southern Riverina…

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Forty Years in Gaol Scholarly Criminals Terrible Record

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 17

"Yours is a very terrible and difficult case commented the Recorder, Sir Gervais Rentoul, at Sandwich Quarter Sessions in dealing with James Daggan…

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Murder of Hazel Wilson Death From Suffocation

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 1

The only development in the Hazel Wilson murder mystery was the release of the Government Pathologist's report on Tuesday that death…

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Albury Police Court (Monday, January (Before Mr. A. G. Hardwick, P.M.) One Month for Fraud

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 9

Eric Edward Gregson, aged 18 years, was charged with having fraudulently attempted to obtain £20 from William Joseph Pearce, of Bethanga. It was…

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Native Heads Carried 200 Miles for Murder Evidence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 6

Two aboriginal heads were included among on exhibit of spears, [?]lay pipes, hair belts and [?]in cloths in a "native revenge" double murder case…

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Albury Police Court (Continued from page 9.) Tuesday, January 13. (Before Mr. Hardwick, P.M. Sydney) Breaches of Agricultural Seeds Act

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 47

Sydney Hampton Wade, inspector under the Agricultural Seeds Act, proceeded against Sammons, Edwards and Co. Pty., Ltd., for selling seeds…

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Coldblooded Assault Policeman Shot at Balldale Midnight Prowler Armed with Revolver Did Not Hesitate to Shoot

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 1

WHILE on his way home at 11.45 p.m. on Wednesday night last, Constable Taylor police constable at Balldale, was the victim of a cold-blooded attack, as a result of which he is now an inmate of the Corowa Hospital suffering from the effects of a bullet wound in the…

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A Famous K.c. Sums Up Women the Art of Keeping a Husband: Behind the Scenes in the Divorce Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 35

Polito and dangerous, a deadly cross-examiner, Sir Ellis Hume-Williams might have boon chosen by heaven for tho express mission in life of acting as…

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Our Police Force

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 17 January 1931 · page 1

We owe very much to our police force, though we may not always recognise the splendid service that they render. Too often they are…

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Constable Charged Remanded at Central Police Court Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 2

At the Central Police Court to-day charges of alleged drunkenness as indecent language were proferr[?] 28, who, is was alleged, had been…

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