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New England · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

545 stories in New England's papers · page 8 of 28

Settlement Purchase Areas Bald Blair Block Armidale Land Court

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 12 March 1941 · page 2

Three applications for settlement purchase areas were heard by the District Land Board at Armidale to-day…

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Theft of Tools Garage Premises Entered

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 4

Tools valued at approximately £30 were stolen by a thief or thieves who broke into the garage premises of S. C. Wharton in East…

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Alleged Murder Death of Brother-in-law CAIRNS

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 1

In the local Police Court Harry J. Smith, station owner, was committed for trial on a charge of having wilfully murdered…

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Licensing Court

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 6

The Licensing Magistrate Mr. F.T. Scroope) yesterday approved H. J. Robinson' application or [?] [?] at Armidlae show next week…

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Adjournments in Small Debts Court P.M.'s Brief Comment

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 7

The Polico Magistrate (Mr. K. T. Scroupe) made brief comment, in the Small Debts Court at Armidale yeaterday on continued applications…

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A.R.P. WARDENS Assault Threats Serious View Taken Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 15 March 1941 · page 1

Threats of assault on A.R.P. Wardens when they called at private homes to compile registers of occupants at Er[?]wille and…

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Husband Charged with Murder of Wife Wellington (N.S.W.) Tragedy Wellington (N.s.w.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 17 March 1941 · page 4

A remand for 14 days was granted at Wellington Police Court this morning when Harvey Oliver Potts was charged with the murder of his wife,…

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Murder and Suicide at Lonely Homestead on Queensland Border

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 17 March 1941 · page 4

A farm hand's thwarted love for his employer's 16year-old daughter is alleged to have been the cause of a double tragedy at a lonely homestead, at The Summit, near the Queensland border, 56 miles north-west of…

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Wife Murder Remand Granted Further Serious Charge WELLINGTON, N.S.W.

The Inverell Times · Monday 17 March 1941 · page 1

A remand for fourteen days was granted at the local Police Court this morning when Harvey Oliver Potts was charged with the murder of his…

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Murder and Suicide At Tenterfield

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 18 March 1941 · page 5

A farm hand's thwarted love for his employer[?] 16-year-old daughter is alleged to have been the cause of a double tragedy at…

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Court Claims Lasted Two Years

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 19 March 1941 · page 3

When walking along the pavement outside a butcher's shop in Willes[?] England, a woman slipped on a pi[?] of far which had apparently sot on to…

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Court Proceedings Two P.P. Board Matters

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 19 March 1941 · page 4

In the local Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. F. Scroope. P.M. the P.P. Board proceeded against William Ernest Sharpe on a charge of…

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No Subversive Activity Waterside Workers' Official Tells Court SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 19 March 1941 · page 1

"The union executive has done everything in its power to keep ships moving" declared the secretary of the Waterside Workers' Federation (Mr…

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Remanded for Week Man on Murder Charge Police Tell of Finding Body NEWCASTLE

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 March 1941 · page 1

A remand for a week was granted at the Police Court this morning when Roger Gordon Trimmer (25), labourer, was charged…

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Wife Murder Ghastly Tragedy Husband Remanded NEWCASTLE

The Inverell Times · Friday 21 March 1941 · page 1

A remand for a week was granted this morning when Roger Gordon Trimmer, 25, labourer, was charged with having murdered…

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Efforts to Get Case Before High Court "Will Use Dynamite to Do It" SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 21 March 1941 · page 4

The Quarter Sessions Appeal Court to-day dismissed the appeal of John Royston Wishart, solicitor, from a sentence of imprisonment imposed…

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Agents Protest Police Powers to Examine Country Books Cash.Guarantee Resented

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 26 March 1941 · page 4

Armidale agents met yesterday, under the chairmanship of Mr. W. J. Hawke, to consider proposed amendments to the…

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Demonstrations After Yugoslav Sign-up with Axis Patriots Declare: "We Perish in Dishonour and Slavery" Clashes With Police; Blood Flows In Montenegro Riots (Australian Associated Press.) London, Tuesday. Yugoslavia To-day Joined the Axis Powers, Leaving Greece the Only Independent State in the Balkans

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 26 March 1941 · page 1

Under the terms of the protocol signed at Castle Belveder, Vienna, to-day by the Premier (Dr. Tsvetkovitch) and the Foreign Minister (M. Cincar-Markovitch), Yugoslavia adheres to the terms of the Tripartite Pact, entered between Germany, Italy and Japan and signed at Berlin on September 27, 1940…

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Murder and Suicide

Guyra Argus · Thursday 27 March 1941 · page 4

A farm hand is alleged to have been the cause of a double tragedy at a lonely homestead, at The summit, near the Queensland border, 50 miles…

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Proposed Police Reserve Force

Guyra Argus · Thursday 27 March 1941 · page 3

The Police Reserve Bill which was [?]roginally introduced in the Legislative Assembly in October 1939, will be passed through parliament…

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