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Courts & crime, 1931

1,289 stories in Riverina's papers · page 4 of 65

Woman at Gap Strange Conduct Detained by Police Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 2

A woman, aged about 25 years, was found at 6 o'clock this morning on the rocks at the edge of the cliffs at The Gap. She had evidently been there…

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Missing Woman Discovered Alive Police Were Digging for Body London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 1

Investigations into the disappearance of Winifred Parrant took a sensational turn at the week-end. It was discovered that she was alive and well,…

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Fugitive Car Exciting Police Chase Five Shots Fired. Two Men Arrested Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 3

In a thrilling chace through the suburbs and city streets to-night the police fired five shots at a speeding car and eventually arrested two men…

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Coolamon Police Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 2

At the Coolamon Police uoCrt, before Messrs. A. W. Stinson and J. Iverach, J'sP., Norman Alexander James was fined £10, in default two…

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Upper House Abolition Appeal Against Full Court Decision High Court Hearing Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

In the High Court chambers to-day Mr. Justice M'Teirnan fixed January 23 as the day on which the High Court will hear the appeal of the…

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Ormond Murder Pathologist's Report Trail of False Clues Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 1

The report of the Government pathologist (Dr. Mollison) states definitely that Adeline Hazel Wilson, aged 16 years, who was found murdered at…

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Escaped Prisoners Recaptured by Police Again Wounded Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 2

John Horace Hayes, aged 25 years, a mechanic, who escaped from Yatala labor prison in APril, 1930, was recaptured to-day at Upper Sturt, where he…

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Death of Walter Dallz Daughter Charged with Murder a Remarkable Statement ADELAIDE

Daily Advertiser · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 1

Frances Eileen Dall, aged 14 years, was charged at the Polite Court to-day with having murdered her father, Walter Dall, at Kumorna Siding on…

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Shoplifting in Leeton Young Girl Fined for Stealing Pair of Shoes

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 2

Before Messrs W. J. Adams and W. C. Barker, J.s.P., yesterday, Venessa Kelly (19), pleaded guilty to stealing a pair of shoes from the…

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Girl Choked in Sudden Access of Rage, Is Police Theory to Divert Suspicion Killer in Panic Disposed of Body to Suggest Sex Murder Post Mortem Exam. Still Indefinite

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 1

The Victorian Government Pathologist, Dr. Mollison, is still unable to say definitely whether Adeline Hazel Wilson, 16, victim of the latest…

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C.w.a. Younger Set on the Night Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 2

The C.W.A. Younger Set had an enjoyable evening on Mr. Williams night court, and looked very neat in their tennis costumes. The next…

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After Wheat Stealers Motor Car at Midnight But Were Only Police

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 16 January 1931 · page 7

Wheat has been stolen from paddocks in the Millwood-road district. At about midnight one night last week, says the Coolamon-Ganmain…

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Stealing Ladies' Handbags

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 17 January 1931 · page 15

At Wagga Police Court on Monday, Harold Edward McCarthy (33) pleaded guilty to having, on New Year's Eve, stolen two ladies'…

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Illicit Rum[?] Still Discovered Chemist to Be Charged Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 January 1931 · page 3

Over 100 gallons of illicit rum is alleged to have been discovered by the police whon they raided a house at Paddington this afternoon. A man…

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French Football Man Charged with Manslaughter. Second Tragedy Occurs Paris

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 January 1931 · page 3

While the Bordeaux Court was considering its judgment in the case in which Fernandez Tailanto, a footballer, was charged with manslaughter in…

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Police and Prisons Servce Must Bear Reductions Result of 44-Hour Week Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 January 1931 · page 4

Employees of the Prisons Department, together with the police, have been informed that they will have to bear redactions as other branches of…

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Police Court To-day. Before Mr. Harrison, P.M. Liquor Cases

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 2

Willia" Peter Costelloe, licensee of the Hotel Cootamundra, was charged with having persons on his premises after hours, and with having his bar…

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Attempted Murder Charge Traveller Remanded Fired Shots at Wife Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 3

John Bard, alias Jack Holt, aged 31 years, traveller, was remanded at the Central Police Court yesterday on a charge of having maliciously shot at…

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Police Raid on Gambling School. Elaborate Precautions Sydney, Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 2

When the police raided an alleged Chinese gambling school at Botany last night they found that such detailed precautions had been taken that…

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