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Courts & crime, 1941

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Wagga Assumes Police H-Q-

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 21 August 1941 · page 2

Yesterday at the Wagga Police Station, which is to be the new location, police headquarters, the superintendent…

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Police Sergeant's Suicide Drank Poison SYDNEY--Thursday

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 August 1941 · page 3

The body of Sergt. Joremiah Breen, aged 55, attached to the Darlinghurst Police division, was found on a seat in a reserve at Coogee last night, and…

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Huns Murder 100,000 Serbs London, August 22

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 23 August 1941 · page 1

News reaching London gives a grim. and ghastly picture of conditions in countries occupied by the In Serbia alone 100,000 men,…

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Public Deff[?] to Appear in Court Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 23 August 1941 · page 7

The Attorney-General (Mr. C. E. Martin) announced to-day that the Public Defender (Mr. Champion) will appear for the first time in his new…

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Police Escort Tor Referee Orange

Border Morning Mail · Monday 25 August 1941 · page 4

The police had to escort the Sydney referee. Max Porter, from the field during a mix-up at the finish of the O[?]nge Rugby Union grand final…

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Police Escort for Referee Orange

Border Morning Mail · Monday 25 August 1941 · page 4

The police had to escort the Sydney referee. Max Porter, from the field during a mix-up at the finish of the Orange Rugby Union grand final…

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Late Cable News Plotters Sentenced in Tokio Shanghai, August 25

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 August 1941 · page 6

The Domei Agency Mates that the Japanese army surrounded 5000 Chinese troops in the Wowshan mountains the border of Hopei and Chansi and…

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Germans Murder Greek Mayor and Leading Citizens Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 August 1941 · page 3

According to reliable but unofficial information reaching the Greek Consul-General in Sydney, Dr. Vrisakis, the major and the leading citizens of…

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Motorists Fined by Albury Court

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 August 1941 · page 6

In Albury Police Court yesterday. William Archibald Wiltshire was fined £2 and 8 costs for having driven an unregistered motor bus in Albury and…

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Police Inquiring Into Woman’s Death Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 August 1941 · page 5

The Fitzroy police are investigating the dentil of Rose Anne Wyldes, aged 62, whose body was found late in-night in a room where she was staving in…

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Police Evidence Denied Two Soldiers Gives Benefit of Doubt

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 August 1941 · page 6

Three soldiers from [?] capmp pleaded [?] guilty at Albury [?] Court yesterday to charge [?] been [?] and [?] to [?]…

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Italian Wins Court Action Albury Produce Merchant Sued

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 August 1941 · page 6

In Alburv -Small Debts Court yesterday, G. Puglisi. Italian market gardener. Wangaratta claimed [?] from George P. Buchhorn. produce…

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A Soldier Charged Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 August 1941 · page 6

Juhn Reginald Sloss, a member of the A.I.F., was charged the Central Police Court this afternoon with damaging Plate glass windows of a [?]ily…

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Women Pickets Dispersed by Police Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 August 1941 · page 4

Fifty female textile workers who picketed the Alexandria spinning mills to-day were dispersed by police. They had come from the Globe Worsted mills…

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Played Saxophone in Lift, Then Assaulted Police MELBOURNE, Tuesday

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 August 1941 · page 2

Edward Co[?] Moloney, aged 29. a member of the A.I.F., appeared before Mr. McLean, P.M.. in the City Court this morning on a charge of…

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Doctor Saves Woman From Gaol Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 August 1941 · page 6

A doctor to-day saved a woman from being sent to gaol for [?]pt of court on the grounds that she was "markedly hysterical", and would get…

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Action Called "Despicable" a Soldier Sent to Gaol Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 August 1941 · page 3

Befriended by a Malvern woman, who accommodated him in her home because lie pretended to have his kneecap shattered in…

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Allegations Against Police Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 August 1941 · page 6

Speaking on the adjournment in the Legislative Assembly this afternoon, Mr. W. H. Lamb (Labor, Granville) alleged that during an S.P. betting…

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Police Headquarters Transferred To Wagga

The Pastoral Times · Friday 29 August 1941 · page 1

Superintendent G. G. Armstrong the administrative head of the Riverina police has retired. The headquarters will be transferred from Albury to…

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12 Charges of Theft Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 30 August 1941 · page 7

At Redfern Police Court to-day Keith Patrick Milwain, aged 22. faced 12 charges of theft. It was stated that Milwain had had a rubber stamp made…

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