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Murray · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

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Balranald Police Court Wednesday, 15Th September Before Mr. A. B. Collins, P.M.

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 18 September 1937 · page 3

There was a lengthy hearing at the local police Court on Wednesday, 15th September, when Mr. A. B. Collins, P.M. dealt with the following cases…

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Deniliquin Court House

The Independent · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 1

Among the many fine buildings in Deniliquin is that of the Court House, which is surrounded by gardens and shrubs, giving the building a pleasing setting…

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"Safer in Gaol"

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 21 September 1937 · page 4

Frank Green, who was committed for trial on September 10 on a charge of having attempted to discharge an automatic pistol at sergeant Thomas…

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Revision Court

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 21 September 1937 · page 1

The rolls of electors in Deniliquin Municipality, Conargo and windouran Shires were submitted to Mr. A. B. Collins, P.M., to-day and certified as…

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New Book "A Murder in Sydney"

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 23 September 1937 · page 3

Here is a murder story without any mystery, an Australian story without any bush, in which the feelings and behaviour of the…

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Absconder Sentenced Escaped From Police

The Independent · Friday 24 September 1937 · page 3

Jack Lees, 19, aircraft ground mechanic of no fixed place of abode, who was remanded from Echuca to the Mildura Court of General…

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Police Court [?]Eged Bigamy

The Independent · Friday 24 September 1937 · page 3

[?] Collins, P.M., Herbert [?] appeared on a charge of [?]y. [?] charged that on…

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Police Cleared

The Independent · Friday 24 September 1937 · page 2

Judge Markell, in the report of his Inquiry into matters arising from his first Royal Commission into Illicit betting, finds that charges made…

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Murder on Station Girl Found Shot in Back

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 September 1937 · page 7

Mary Learey, aged 22 years, who was employed as a cook-laundress on Angullong Station, about 25 miles from Carcoar, on the Cadia road, was…

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The Pyjama Girl Murder. Reference in the Assembly. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 24 September 1937 · page 1

The Commissioner of Police has advised the Premier that it would not be in the public interest to table in Parliament the papers in connection…

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A Stay-in Strike. Police Action at Brisbane. BRISBANE

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 24 September 1937 · page 2

A large body of police early to-day evicted the stay-in strikers in the Castlemaine-Perkins Brewery at Milton. The men, many of whom were…

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Corowa Police Court

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 28 September 1937 · page 2

Yesterday morning before Mr. J. B. Rodgers, J.P., Frederick James McMahon, 24, was charged with offensive behaviour at the Corowa…

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Proof Against Theft

The Independent · Tuesday 28 September 1937 · page 1

During an address on Business Budgetry at the Commerce Club's lunch, Mr. M. V. Anderson said owners of retail businesses should provide for…

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Albury Police Court

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 October 1937 · page 33

For riding a bicycle in Townsend-street, Albury, on August 29, without a front light showing, Ellis Charles Eddy was fined 8/…

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Police Court TUESDAY, 28th SEPTEMBER (Before Mr. I. Beavers, P.m.) Police v. CUTTS

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 1 October 1937 · page 2

At the Henty Police Court on Tuesday, Lancelot Cutts was charged by the police with having, on 15th September, in a public street, driven a…

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Police Evict Strikers "Stay-in" Pickets Surprised

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 October 1937 · page 39

Just before dawn stay-in strikers at the Milton Brewery (Brisbane) were evicted without any trouble by a squad of 70 police, who slipped through the…

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Natives Clash with Police Capetown, September 25

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 October 1937 · page 14

While being rounded up by police at Harding, East Griqualand, 63 native tax defaulters attacked the police. A sergeant was struck with a battler axe…

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Keep to the Left Police Help Needed White Line Not Favored

The Pastoral Times · Friday 1 October 1937 · page 3

AGREEMENT with the Municipal Council’s proposal to institute a “keep to the left” system for pedestrians in the main streets was…

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Police Buy 8 Ford V-8 Coupes to Patrol Roads in Place of Motor Cycles

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 2 October 1937 · page 3

In the interests of economy land efficiency the Victorian Police Department has decided to use cars instead of motor cycles for road patrol work…

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Police Court

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 5 October 1937 · page 3

Norman Stanley Dow was convicted of drunkenness by the PM., Mr. I. Beavers at the Police Court yesterday and fined £2. He also entered into a…

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