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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1930

2,223 stories in Riverina's papers · page 18 of 112

Bankruptcy Proceedings High Court Appeal Fails Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 2

George Allan Bond, formerly governing director of G. A.. Bond and Co. (in liquidation), appealed to the High Court to-day to set aside a bankruptcy…

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Trawlers Collide Millimumal to Blame Admiratly Court Finding Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 2

Mr. Acting Justice Maxwell, in the Admiralty Court to-day, found that the trawler Milimumal was to blame for the collision with the trawler…

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Female Jack the Ripper Child Murders in Shanghai Police Baffled Shanghai

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 1

Crimes similar to those perpetrated by Jack the Ripper are baffling the foreign settlement 'police. Two child murders were committed in two days…

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Insulting Language Alleged Charges Against Members of Parliament Criticism of Police Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 5

Summonses have been issued against Rowland James, M.H.R., and J. M. Baddeley, M.L.A., in connection with the coal trouble. It is believed that…

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Eden-monaro Seat Mr. Cusack's Return Challenged Application to Court Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 1

Sitting as a Court of Disputed Returns, Mr. Justice Starke, in the High Court to-day, began the [?]ring of the petition by John Arthur Perkins…

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Sensational Murder Italian Fatally Stabbed at Newtown Fight in View of Passengers on the Platform Long Sheath Knife Plunged in Victim's Chest and Assailant Escapes Sydney

The Daily Express · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 1

A shocking murder was perpetrated on Newtown railway station at 11 o'clock this morning. The police have ascertained that a…

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Volunteer Assaulted Miner Fined "Cowardly Assault" Says Magistrate Cessnock

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 February 1930 · page 4

At the Branxton Police Court to-day George Chippendale, aged 37 years, a mines previously' employed at Rothbury was fined £10 and bound over to…

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Prime Minister Attacked Cruiser Question "Political Opportunism" Charged London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 February 1930 · page 4

Sir Samuel Hoare, formerly Secretary of State for Air, launched a vigorous attack against the Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, in the course of a…

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Police Court To-day Before Messrs. C. F. Denton and W. H Pinsdtone, Js.P. "Jumping the Rattler"

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 13 February 1930 · page 2

Four young fellows, all strangers, were in the dock. John Mulligan and Jack Forbes pleaded guilty to trespassing in a…

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Murder Suspected Poisoned Wine Early Arrest Expected Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 February 1930 · page 4
Also in Cootamundra Herald

Percy M' Donald, aged 50 years, of Queen-street, Fairfield, died last night in circumstances which lead the police to believe that a murder…

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City Murder Fatal Quarrel Murderer Still at Large Sydney

The Daily Express · Thursday 13 February 1930 · page 1

The murderer of the Italian, Dominico Belle, is still at large. A theory is now held by the police that a woman was probably the…

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Fiendish Murder Head Burnt, Body Chopped Up Cologne, February 11

The Daily Express · Thursday 13 February 1930 · page 1

The murder of Jchann Kirchner whose dismembered body, contained in a sack was found floating down the Rhine, has been traced to his 23…

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Man Killed with Axe Mother and Sister Confess to Murder Cologne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 February 1930 · page 3

The murder of Johann Kerchner, whose dismembered body in a sack was found floating down the Rhine, was traced to his sister, aged 23 years, and…

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Newtown Tragedy Murderer Still at Large Police Searching Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 February 1930 · page 8

The Italian who murdered a fellow countryman, Dominico Belle, on the Newtown station yesterday, is still at large The theory is now held by the…

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Officers Court-martialled Captain and Navigating Officer Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 February 1930 · page 3

Following the grounding of the Canberra, Captain G. L. Massey, who was in command of the ship, and the navigating officer, were both court…

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Judge Beeby's Award Full Court on Monday, Melbourne

The Daily Express · Thursday 13 February 1930 · page 1

The case in which the coalowners and the Government of N. S. W are asking for a writ of prohibition to prevent any further proceedings in…

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Coal Dispute Interim Award High Court Hearing Brief Proceedings MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 February 1930 · page 4

The case in which the coal owners and the Government of New South Wales are asking for a writ of prohibition to prevent any further…

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Death of Norman Brown Evidence at Inquest Miner Says Police Said: "Shoot to Kill" Maitland

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 February 1930 · page 4

Giving evidence today at the inquest on Norman Brown, who was shot at Rothbury, Joseph Cousins, a miner, and a councillor of the Kearsley Shire…

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Police Court To-day

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 3

Before Messrs. A. Bragg and C. F. Denton, Js.P. No Ticket George Rand pleaded guilty to…

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