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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

1,192 stories in Murray's papers · page 8 of 60

Police and Natives. Clash in New Guinea. CANBERRA

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 24 April 1934 · page 3

A detailed report of a battle between a police party and natives in the wilds of New Guinea, has been received by the Federal Government…

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Mrs Edols in Court £3,000 Fraud Alleged. Hearing Adjourned Until April 30. SYDNEY

The Independent · Tuesday 24 April 1934 · page 3

On the information of the Federal Attorney General, alleging fraud against Mrs. Aimee Belle Edols it was mentioned at the Central…

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Police Court Friday, April 20. (Before Mr. C. W. Swiney, Pm.) Elkington v. TASKER

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 2

W. B. Elkington applied for an order for repossession of a cottage at Yerong Creek occupied by Mrs. Tasker. Plaintiff, in evidence, said that the house…

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Liquor at Luncheon at R. S. Celebrations No Action by Police Sydney

The Independent · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 3

The police will take no action in connection with the visit by a sergeant and a constable to a cafe at Maclean yesterday during the…

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Bombay Disturbance Cotton Workers and Police Many on Both Sides Injured Calcutta

The Independent · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 3

A grave situation developed at Bombay where fierce fighting between cotton mill strikers and the police followed the former's defiance of…

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Wool Stealing Pleads Guilty and Gets Six Months

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 1

At the Balranald Court on Wednesday morning last, before a bench of local justices, Charles Smith pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing two…

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Stealing From Mail Box Man Is Heavily Fined

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 1

At the Balranald Police Court on Monday morning, two large leaves of white bread, one of brown bread and two small crusts of the remains of a…

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Aiding and Abetting Charge Accused Acquitted Court Has No Jurisdiction

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 1

At the Balranald Police Court on Wednesday morning last, a man named Roy Curran was presented on a charge of aiding and abetting in…

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Closing Wahgunyah Police Station

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 1 May 1934 · page 3

In support of the protest made by the Rutherglen Shire Council against the closing of the Wahgunyah Police Station a petition advocating the…

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Mrs Edols in Court Got Credit for £3000 Said She Could Double It in Three Months. Sydney

The Independent · Tuesday 1 May 1934 · page 3

Mrs. Aimee Belle Edols appeared before the Central Summons Court to-day to answer a charge of having obtained by fraud credit for £3,000…

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Stealing From Mail Box

The Independent · Friday 4 May 1934 · page 1

Before Ba[?]ald Police Court last week, Francis Mitchhell, who pleaded guilty to stealing four loaves of bread and five letters from the "Boralli"…

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Stop Press Shocking Tragedy Woman and Two Children Found Dead Police Maintain Guard Over Bed Melbourne

The Independent · Friday 4 May 1934 · page 5

Mrs. Martha Less Turner, 35, of Glen Iris, who was found at her home with her throat badly gashed on Monday…

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Balranald Police Court

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 5 May 1934 · page 2

William Geabur Candlisle and Ronald Stewart were both brought before the local court and charged with that on the 27th day of April 1934 did use…

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A Swan Hill Assault. Two Women in Hospital. SYDNEY, Tuesday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 May 1934 · page 2

Savagely battered about the head with a tomahawk, Mrs. Annie Pomeroy (69), and her daughter, Miss Fanny Pomeroy (34), are now in…

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Noisy Exhausts Magistrate Says 90 Per Cent of Motor Bikes Should Not Be on Streets Sydney

The Independent · Tuesday 8 May 1934 · page 3

In the Traffic Court to-day, Ivan Frederick Kerrigan (19) was fined a nominal amount for having defective brakes and an ineffective silencer on…

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Police Transfers for Riverina Sergeant Morris to Retire in June

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 8 May 1934 · page 3

Sergeant T.C. Morris, who has been in charge at Corowa for the past 10 years, will retire from the service on June 7. Sergeant Morris spent…

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Police Magistrate Appointed to Deniliquin. Alterations in Court Sittings

The Independent · Friday 11 May 1934 · page 3

It is understood that from 1st July next the Police Magistrate for southwestern police district is to have his headquarters in Deniliquin in lieu…

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Police Court Monday, May 7, 1934

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 May 1934 · page 4

(Before Mr. C. W. Swiney, P.M.) motor vehicle within seven days, was failed to give notice of the sale of a motor vehicles within seven days, was…

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Stolen Bicycle Young Stranger Before Court. Sentenced to Two Months' Imprisonment

The Independent · Friday 11 May 1934 · page 3

Pleading guilty to a charge of having in his possession a bicycle reasonably suspected of being stolen. John Thomas Whitton (20) was sentenced…

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Overseas News Woman Sentenced to Death. Alleged Espionage in Germany. BERLIN

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 11 May 1934 · page 2

One of the most beautiful society women here, Baroness Vonberg, was sentenced to death by the secret military court, on charges of espionage in…

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