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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1925

1,611 stories in Riverina's papers · page 56 of 81

The Java Murder Hotel Boys Suspected Missing Property Found Welteverden

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 6 October 1925 · page 2

A half-burnt trunk, belonging to Mrs. Mac[?] was found unrobbed in an empty house next to the hotel. Ten hotel boys are now being…

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Teller Charged Sydney

The Daily Express · Wednesday 7 October 1925 · page 1

W[?]red Hadebaum, 30, a teller, was charged at the Central Court this mor[?]ng with stealing £1,615 the property of the National Bank of…

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Ba[?]s Street Burglary [?]E of Recei[?]

The Daily Express · Wednesday 7 October 1925 · page 2

George william Se[?], aged [?], was charge before Mr. Justice [?] at the Criminal Court yesterday with having broken and entered…

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Man Saved From Gaol Cargo Pillaging Melbourne

The Daily Express · Wednesday 7 October 1925 · page 4

Sentencing John Fowler Ship[?], 35 steve[?], who was found guilty at the city Court to-day of having [?] in [?]ul p[?]ssession of a pair of…

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The Right to Kill French Murder Law Paris, October 5

The Daily Express · Wednesday 7 October 1925 · page 1

For the third time in a year, a French jury has settled the question of the right to kill by acquitting Yvonne Raynal, 19, of the murder of…

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Steward’s Death a Murder Charge Stevedore Remanded Melbourne

The Daily Express · Wednesday 7 October 1925 · page 4

Leslie Ev[?], 24, [?]e, was charge with murder at the [?] Court to-day, following the death [?] the Melbourne Hospital yesterday of…

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Cir[?] Court Crown Cases Fail Technicalities of [?]Ce

The Daily Express · Wednesday 7 October 1925 · page 2

Harold Donald Cl[?]t [?]d before Mr. Justice Ferg[?]n and a [?]y of [?] at the Criminal Court [?] [?]day charged with having…

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Circuit Court Tuesday, October 6, 1925. (Before Mr. Justice Ferguson.) (Crown Prosecutor, Mr. James Moriarty.)

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 October 1925 · page 2

The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court, circuit sittings, opened at the Wagga Court House yesterday. Mr Justice Ferguson presided. His…

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Supreme Court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 October 1925 · page 2

The civil eases to be heard by Mr. Justice Ferguson at the Wagga Court House will commence at 10 o'clock this morning. This arrangement was…

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Cricket Hobbs Goes to Gaol. Parliamentary Honors Proposed. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 October 1925 · page 4

Hobbs had a double appearance in the news columns to-day. He has been asked to stand as the Liberal candidate for the Tooting Division against…

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Deportation Board Witness Prefers Gaol to Reduced Wages. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 October 1925 · page 2

Before the Deportation Board to-day Thomas Hill, quartermaster on the steamer Themistocles, in refusing to answer Mr. Lamb, said that the…

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District Court Again to Be Urged Electricity Rates and Main Roads Votes

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 October 1925 · page 6

The following was the attendance at the meeting:—The Mayor, Ald. R. M. Harris, in the chair, and Alderman C. J. O'Sullivan, A. W. Wright, J. E. Hoad…

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Police Buildings

The Daily Express · Friday 9 October 1925 · page 2

The Chief Secretary, Mr. Lazzarint has advised Wagga Municipal Council that reports are being obtained in regard to the removal of the…

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Tumblong Assault Case. Jury Failed to Agree

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 9 October 1925 · page 2

The jury in the Tumblong assault case were locked up till midnight on Monday, when they still disagreed and were discharged…

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Culcairn Police Station

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 October 1925 · page 2

Mr. M. Kilpatrick, M.L.A., has been advised from the Chief Secretary's Department regarding the question of the erection of a police station at Culcairn…

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Right to Kill Another French Case Murder Under Provocation Paris, October 7

The Daily Express · Friday 9 October 1925 · page 2

“Nothing less than murder under provocation." Madame Chaput, wife of a professional Wrestler was to-day clanged…

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Fascists for Police Enrolment Refused (Reuter Service) LONDON, October 7

The Daily Express · Friday 9 October 1925 · page 2

Attempts by British Fascists to enrol as special constables have been abandoned at Liverpool, Wolverhampton and Manchester…

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District Court YESTERDAY (Before Judge Bevan) Dispute Over Fruit

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 9 October 1925 · page 2

Robert Fenwick v. Norman E. Harrison, trading as Harrison Bros., Cootamundra claim £20/5/5, for sale of fruit through defendant, as…

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The West Blowering Case A Grievous Bodily Harm Charge Hood Before the Court Committed for Trial

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 9 October 1925 · page 1

MANGUS ANDERSEN, WHO HAD HIS SKULL SMASHED IN ON AUGUST 20 LAST AT WEST BLOWERING, AND WAS A PATIENT IN THE TUMUT HOSPITAL SINCE, WAS SUFFICIENTLY RECOVERED FROM HIS INJURIES TO ATTEND THE TUMUT…

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The West Blowering Case Our Main Roads. A Grievious Bodily Harm Charge Hood Before that Court Committed for Trial Keeping Them in Repair

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 9 October 1925 · page 1

MANGUS ANDERSEN, WHO HAD HIS SKULL SMASHED IN ON AUGUST 20 LAST AT WEST BLOWERING, AND WAS A PATIENT IN THE TUMUT HOSPITAL SINCE, WAS SUFFICIENTLY RE. COVERED FROM HIS INJURIES TO ATTEND THE TUMUT Mr. E. F, Crouch, consulting, ellgrincer to the N.S. Wales Main Roads Board, and brother of Mr. H. H. Crouch, of Tumut, recently…

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