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Courts & crime, 1931

1,289 stories in Riverina's papers · page 29 of 65

The Mail Robbery £7900 Recovered Patient Watching by Police

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 23 May 1931 · page 14

As a sequel to the sensational their of a mail bag containing [?]10,000 from a train between Sydney and Canberra on April 30, two me[?] were…

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Stabbing Affray Stiletto Recovered Handed Over to Police Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 May 1931 · page 4

The stilette by which Cecil M'Corinack was brutally stabbed to death on May 13 was found by a council employee in a drain in Stanley-street…

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German Bombs Found on Shelf in Shop Removed by Police Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 May 1931 · page 1

Three large German bombs were found last night on a shelf in the shop of Roy Harris, a fruiterer, in Victoria Avenue, Chatswood. They…

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Youth Charged

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 26 May 1931 · page 3

Ernest Herbert Linstead, aged 19 years, pleaded guilty when charged with having had in his possession a motor cycle reasonably believed to…

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Wagga Police Court Wagga, May 25, 1931 (Before Mr. D. F. Parker, P.M.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 26 May 1931 · page 3

The following cases were dealt with yesterday at the Wagga Police Court: INDECENT LANGUAGE ALLEGED George Herbert Taylor was charged…

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Doubling Up on Dole Working Yanco and Leeton Four Men Get Gaol

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 26 May 1931 · page 2

Four men appeared before Mr. Trenwith, relieving assistant C.P.S. at the Leeton Court on Saturday, charged with obtaining food relief or…

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Woman Takes Poison Husband's Throat Cut Police Obtain Statement Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 26 May 1931 · page 3

The police have obtained a statement from Mrs. Louise de Clauzel, aged 40 years, who was found in her home at St. Peter's suffering from…

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Orchard Thieves Thought Place Deserted But Got Their Deserts Caught Red-handed by Police

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 26 May 1931 · page 1

In pleading guilty before Messrs. Barker and Adams, Js. P., at the Leeton Court on Friday, to stealing oranges to the value of £1 from…

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Stealing Charges Woman Sentenced Dramatic Scene in Court Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 May 1931 · page 2

When Eileen Waterhouse, aged 30 years, pleaded guilty to two charges of stealing at the Quarter Sessions to-day, the police said that she was the…

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Forging and Uttering Two Men Sentenced Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 May 1931 · page 5

At the Quarter Sessions to-day, Judge Curlewis sentenced Patrick Brady, aged 37 years, a shearer, to three years' imprisonment on a…

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Killed by Kanakas German Prospector New Guinea Murder Ten "Boys" Also Killed SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 May 1931 · page 1

A letter was received in Sydney to-day giving particulars of the recent murder in New Guinea of Mr. Baum, a well known German prospector. It…

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Youth Charged

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 May 1931 · page 2

Ernest Linstead, who was remanded on Monday on a charge, to which he had pleaded guilty, of having been in possession of a motor cycle reasonably…

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"Spooks" in Police Forge Mr. Childs' Denial Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 May 1931 · page 1

The Commissioner for Police (Mr. Childs) said to-day that there was no truth, whatever in the suggestion that there were "spooks" in the police…

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Private Inquiry Agents Suggestion to License Opposed by Police Commissioner Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 May 1931 · page 1

The Commissioner for Police Mr. Childs) today expressed emphatic disapproval of the suggestion, to license private inquiry agents. He said that he…

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Leeton Police Court Drunk Cases

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 29 May 1931 · page 6

Before Mr. Quiggan C.P.S., at the Leeton Court on Tuesday morning, John Valentine Brooks (43) and Vincent Joseph McGlynn (19) were each…

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Police Court Wednesday Afternoon Before Mr. R. A. Hardwick, J.P. Alleped stealing of Beehives and Supers

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 29 May 1931 · page 5

Charles Edward Hussey was charged with staling twelve hives of bees, six of them the property of Percival Forth, apiarist, of Young, from a…

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Doubling Up on Dole Working Yanco and Leeton Four Men Get Gaol

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 29 May 1931 · page 1

Four men appeared before Mr. Trenwith, relieving assistant C.P.S. at the Leeton Court, on Saturday, charged with obtaining food relief…

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Alleged Theft Murder Charge Pending Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 May 1931 · page 6

William Bishop, aged 23 years, who will be charged with the attempted murder of Frank Dwycr, who was shot dead at a flat at Darlinghurst recently,…

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Wagga Police Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 May 1931 · page 4

At the Wagga Police Court yesterday, before Mr. D. F. Parker, P.M., a youth aged 18 years appeared on remand from May 27 on a charge of…

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Stealing The Thunder Labor's Red Herring Albury

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 May 1931 · page 22

Sympathy with the Riverina Movement was expressed by Mr. Fitzgerald, M.L.A., for Albury to-day. He said he approved of the general…

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