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Courts & crime, 1929

1,994 stories in Riverina's papers · page 19 of 100

Boxing Leckie Defeats Grime Police Stop Fight in 14th Bound Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 April 1929 · page 6

Billy Grime, the Australian [?]eather-weight, was defeated by Johnnie Leckie in the fourteenth round of their contest at the stadium last night, when…

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A Famous Force Canadian Mounted Police

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 April 1929 · page 5

Some of the recommendations of the board which recently investigated the shooting of the aborigines in Central Australia are to be adopted, and the…

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Parkes Assault Case New Trail Begun Three Men Before the Court Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 April 1929 · page 2

At the Central Criminal Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Ferguson, Arthur Callaghan, aged 26 years, Walter Littler, aged 32 years, and…

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Appeal to Higher Court Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 April 1929 · page 2

The State attorney general, Mr. Boyce. said today that the Crown had decided to lodge an appeal to the High Court of Australia against the…

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Doctor Late for Court Subpoenas Must Be Obeyed Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 April 1929 · page 2

When the name of Dr. Karl Owen Jones, of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, was called as a witness in a claim for damages in respect to a motor…

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Cross Action for Assault

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1929 · page 2

W. McInnes Nish and W. J. Elliott contested a cross action for assault, language, etc. Mr. Dodds appeared for Nish and…

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Coolamon Police Court. Wednesday March 2nd. ( [?] ) False Pretences

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 5 April 1929 · page 4

Thomas Win Allen was charged with falsely pretending that a [?] of paper party written party joined purposing to be a cheque by the…

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Parkes Assault Case Jury Fail to Agree Locked [?] for the Night Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1929 · page 3

That they were "beasts in human form," was a statement made by the Crown Prosecutor, Mr. M'Kean, in his address to the jury in the Criminal…

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Police Commissioner Mr. Mtchell to Retire Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1929 · page 5

It is disclosed that the Commissioner for Police, Mr. James Mitchell, handed to the Under-Secretary of the Chief Secretary's Department, Mr. Harkness,…

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Ranee of Pudukota Chauffbur in Police Court Fined for Dangerous Driving London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1929 · page 1

The Ranee of Pudukota, formerly Miss Mollie Fink, of Melbourne, at, tended the Hendon Police Court to-day when her chauffeur, James Robert…

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Parkes Assault Case Three Men Acquitted Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1929 · page 1

After deliberating for 22 hours, the jury in the Parkes assault case, in which Bertie Charles Littler, Walter Harold Littler, and Arthur Callaghan…

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Rings Offered Police Investigations'

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1929 · page 8

Detectives are actively interesting [?] themselves in the broadcasting throughout the Wagga, Bathurst and Illawarra district, of letters from a…

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Arbitration Court M.H.R. Suggests Abolition Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1929 · page 3

At the Country Union luncheon today Mr. Gregory, M.H.R., said that it was not the tariff alone that was causing depression in Australia, but the…

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Stealing Charge at Junee

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 April 1929 · page 2

At the Junee Police Court on Thursday, before Mr. D.F. Parker, P.M., Herbert James Hill was charged with stealing a Gladstone bag containing…

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Police Court To-day Before Mr. Harrison, P.M. Car Resgistration

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 8 April 1929 · page 2

W. F. Watkins, for whom Mr. Kinsey appeared, pleaded guilty to falling to have the registration of a car transferred within the specified…

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Job Declined Alleged Safeblowing Plot Two Firemen Charged Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 April 1929 · page 2

John Melbourne Wilkins, aged 28 years, and John Barr, aged 25 years, both members of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, were charged in the City…

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Junee Police Court

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 9 April 1929 · page 2

At the Junee Court Herbert James Hill was charged with stealing a Glandstone bag containing various articles of clothing, valued at £6, the…

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Bowling Club Burglary Young

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 9 April 1929 · page 1

The police have arrested a youth, under the age of 18, in connection with the breaking and entering of the bowling club pavilion, and…

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Conspiracy Trial Woman Alleges Assault Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 April 1929 · page 1

At the Central Criminal Court Royal Anderson, aged 43 years, traveller, and Eugean Spalding, aged 21 years, [?] woman, were charged with having…

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Light Court Day Yesterday

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 April 1929 · page 2

Usually it is well into the afternoon before the business at the Wagga Police Court on Mondays is completed. but yesterday morning, despite the…

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