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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1924

1,644 stories in Riverina's papers · page 37 of 83

Alleged Burglary at Henty

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 16 June 1924 · page 3

Michael King, Thomas Murdock, Joseph Allen and Herbert Morgan charged with that they did, on April 20th, at Henty break and enter…

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£250,000 Jewellery Theft. Police Find Fingerprints. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 June 1924 · page 2

A reward of £2000 has been offered in connection with the Wernher jewellery robbery. The jewellery, of which about £250,000 worth, out of a…

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Breaking, Entering and Stealing at Clear Hills

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 16 June 1924 · page 3

Robert Moore and James Frank Kennedy were charged with that they did, on 22nd May, at Clear Hills, break and enter the dwelling house of…

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Police Court To-day Before Mr MacDougall, P.M. No Ticket

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 16 June 1924 · page 2

F. McCarthy was charged with over[?]travelling on his season ticket, which covered from Sydney to Gundagai. Mr Vaughan, for defendant, pleaded…

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A Stolen Car. Gaol for Joy Riders

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 16 June 1924 · page 2

The three motor "joy riders" chased through Gundagai streets a few weeks ago by Sergt. Hinde were brought before Judge…

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Police Court. Monday, June 16

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 17 June 1924 · page 2

JameS Hunt was fined £1, in default seven dayS, on a Charge of using indecent language in East Street on June 14…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, June 16. (Before Mr. H. Chippendall, P.M)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 June 1924 · page 3

The following cases were heard before Mr. H. H. Chippendall at the Wagga Police Court yesterday:— ALLEGED STEALING OF PONY…

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Leeton Court House

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 17 June 1924 · page 2

Mr. E. A. Buttenshaw, M.L.A., forwards the following letter which ho received from the Hon. T. J. Ley, Minister of Justice, dated Sydney…

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An Appeal From a Tumut Magisterial Decision Appellant Goes Back to Gaol. a False Declaration Under Peculiar Circumstances

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 17 June 1924 · page 5

Richard Winslett, a well-known jockey about these parts, asked Judge Beyan, at Gundagai last Tuesday, to quash the conviction of two months'…

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Order of the Bath at Bathurst. Punishing Gaol Rioters. Bathurst

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 June 1924 · page 2

The gaol officials to-day explained how punishment had been meted out to those prisoners who had taken an active part in the recent riot at…

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She Took Snuff. Domestic Infelicity and Murder. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 June 1924 · page 3

The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says that M. Granjeat and his wife had just retired from a wine business at Genevilliers and…

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Charged with Stealing Three Sucking Pigs. Four Accused Committed for Trial

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 20 June 1924 · page 2

At the regular monthly sittings of the teuton Putty Sessions Court, on Tuesday last, before Mr. Chippindall, P.M., Patrick O'Neill, 36 years…

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Pined for Stealing

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 20 June 1924 · page 3

Having been drinking heavily and not aware of his actions were given in the cause of Maurice Francis Dore being arraigned on a charge of…

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Gaol for Wire Cutting. SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 June 1924 · page 4

On a charge of having malicloulsy cut the telephone wire at the Club House Hotel, Abercrombie street, Geo. Bell (46) was sentenced at the…

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Theft of Art Union Ticket Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 20 June 1924 · page 1

Mark Rroadribb, who was found guilty at the quarter sessions of receiving in connection with the theft of the winning ticket of a Katoomba…

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Strange Methods. Allegations in Industrial Court. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 June 1924 · page 2

In the Industrial Court to-day John White, of Westmere, a member of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Railways Union, applied to…

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Burglary Interrupted

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 June 1924 · page 4

Yesterday morning the two heavy padlocks on the front door of O. Gilpin's drapery stores in Fitzmaurice street, Wagga, were found to be…

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Wagga Licensing Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 June 1924 · page 4

A quarterly Licensing Court for the Wagga Licensing District will be held at the Court House on July 21, commencing at 10 a.m. This will be the…

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Sydney's Court Congestion

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 June 1924 · page 4

Owing to the congestion at the Darlinghurst Quarter Sessions, the Attorney General has decided that three courts shall sit during July. In this…

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"The Cat's Paw." Art Union Ticket. the Stealing Case. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 June 1924 · page 6

Mark Broadcibb, who was found guilty at the quarter sessions of receiving in connection with the theft of the winning ticket in the Katoomba…

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