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Courts & crime, 1925

1,611 stories in Riverina's papers · page 25 of 81

To-day's Wires Detectives Sent to Gaol. Melbourne, To-day

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Monday 18 May 1925 · page 4

Detective Clohm was sentenced to twelve months' gaol and Detective McPherson to nine mouths in connection with the attempted blackmail of the…

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Conspiracy Police Officers Appeal. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 May 1925 · page 4

It is understood that detectives Olholm and M'Pherson have decided to appeal against their conviction for conspiracy…

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Man Charged with Assault Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 19 May 1925 · page 1

At the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, Patrick Francis Roach was sentenced to three years' penal servitude on a charge of assault and robbery…

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Melbourne Police Scandal Detectives Sentenced. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 May 1925 · page 2

Detectives Olholm and M'Pherson, who had been remanded for sentence, were, to-day sentenced to twelve months and nine months imprisonment…

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Wagga Police Court. Monday, May 18,1925 (Before Mr. J. B. Gibson, P.M.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 May 1925 · page 3

Henry Joseph Mahon was proceeded against by the Mitchell Shire Council for failure to destroy noxious weeds on his property. Considerable work had…

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Milson's Point Hotel Entered Young Man Charged SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 19 May 1925 · page 1

Joseph McNamara, 25, was committed for trial at North Sydney Police Court on a charge of having entered the Imperial Hotel at…

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Trades in Gaol. Hard Work Out of Date Young Men Paid Too Much

The Tumut Advocate and Farmers and Settlers' Adviser · Tuesday 19 May 1925 · page 1

During the course of an address before the annual meeting of the Goulburn branch of the Prisoners' Aid Association, last week, Judge…

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Bad Man Sentenced Three Years for Assault and Robbery. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 May 1925 · page 3

At the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day Patrick Francis Roach was sentenced to three years penal servitude on a charge of assault and robbery in…

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Imprisonment for Police MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 May 1925 · page 2

A leading detective stated to-day in reference to the sentence on the detectives charged with conspiracy that one month's imprisonment for such men…

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Girl Charged With Theft Her Father the Informant Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 May 1925 · page 2

The father of a young woman who lives at Miller's Point insisted on the arrest of his 23-year-old daughter yesterday on a charge of having stolen…

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Murder of Indian Hawker Six Persons Liberated GLASGOW

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 21 May 1925 · page 1

Six out of the ten persons arrested in connection with the murder of the Indian hawker, Norr Nohamed, at Glasgow, have been liberated…

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Griffith Police Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 22 May 1925 · page 1

At the Griffith Police Court on Wednesday last, before Mr. J. B. Gibson P.M., the folowing fines were enforced for allowing stock to stray:—…

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Burglary at Municipal Markets £18 Abstracts from Safes SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 22 May 1925 · page 1

Thieves entered the offices of the premier Poultry and Producers' Co., the Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Company poultry section, and the…

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Small Debts Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 22 May 1925 · page 2

The Murrumbidgee Irrigation Dairy Fermers Co-operative Society Ltd. (plaintilf) v. Thomas Francis Thomas (defendant) to amount of cheque…

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Lighting Lockhart Court

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 May 1925 · page 2

Referring to correspondence from the Hon. R. T. Ball, M.L.A., respecting the request of the Lockhart Progress Association for the…

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Murder of Sirdar Minister for Education Arrested

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 22 May 1925 · page 1

Reuter's Cairo correspondent states that Pascha Amaher, Minister for Education in the Zaghlulaist Cabinet, has been arrested in connection with…

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Bound Over for Twelve Months. for Stealing Sister's Engage Ment Ring

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 22 May 1925 · page 5

At the Leeton Potty Sessions Court on Tuesday last, before Mr. J. B, Gibson, P.M., Thomas Andrew Cleary, who was represented by Mr Quirk,…

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Murder Toll in U.S.A. Astounding Figures. New York

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 May 1925 · page 2

America's annual toll of murder now exceeds 11,000, and the homicide rate for 1924 was more than double that for 1900, according to the statistician…

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Theft At a Theatre Artist Robs Fellow Artist London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 May 1925 · page 4

Harry Inagaki, known on the music halls as Harry Nambo, was convicted at the London Sessions to-day on a charge of possessing a diamond…

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Murder of the Sirdar Minister for Education Arrested Cairo

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 May 1925 · page 4

Ahmed Pasha, who was Minister for Education in the Zaghlulist Cabinet, has been arrested in connection with the investigation into the murder of…

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