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Courts & crime, 1931

1,289 stories in Riverina's papers · page 42 of 65

Consorting Act Victorian Police Want It

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 15 August 1931 · page 12

Migration to Melbourne of criminals forced out of other States by the operation of Consorting-with Criminals Acts is steadily increasing,…

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Murder Charge Girl Buried Alive Doctor's Opinion Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 August 1931 · page 4

The trial of George Errol Coats on a charge of having murdered Phyllis Simons, aged 17 years, whose body was found in a soil dump at…

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High Court Judges Won't Accept Reductions

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 15 August 1931 · page 12

Three Judges of the High Court have informed the Prime Minister that they are not prepared to accept a reduction in salary, but that they…

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Simba Case Calnan and Quest Before Court Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 August 1931 · page 7

At the Central Summons Court to-day William Caiman, of Randwick, was charged with having in a letter to the collector of Customs wrongly…

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Police Court To-day Before Mr. E. H. Harrsion, P.M. No, Driver's License

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 17 August 1931 · page 3

Bernie Quarmby was charged with driving a motors vehicle without a license. The case had been postponed from the previous week, and was…

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Small Debts Court

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 17 August 1931 · page 3

John Bourke proceeded against Ernest Dunn for 15/, alleged debt for a load of wood. The defendant maintained that the…

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Betting Alleged Busy Day for Police Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 August 1931 · page 4

The police were, as usual, very active this week-end in connection with alleged betting. There were several arrests…

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Man Poisoned Careless Use of Cyanide Spurious Coining Plant Police Discovery Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 August 1931 · page 2

In a room in a boarding house in Surry street, Darlinghurst, in which Edgar Ronald Stokes, alias James John Ritchie, aged 27 years, died…

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Police Court Wagga, August 17, 1931 Before Mr. D. F. PARKER, P.M. Serious Charges

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 August 1931 · page 3

George James Henz and Jack Woods were charged with having attempted to break and enter the premises of Norman Hely…

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Story of Assault Girl's Hoax Tissue of Lies Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 August 1931 · page 1

Yesterday a girl, aged 18 years, living at Emu Plains, reported to the pollen that while in her room early on Saturday night a man sprang up in…

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Woman Leper Surrenders to Police Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 August 1931 · page 1

The women leper, who escaped from Peel Island lazarette on July 26, surrendered to the health authorities today. She stated that she had had a…

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Police Pay Deputation to Minister Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 August 1931 · page 1

A meeting of the executive committee of the Police Association to day decided to send a deputation to the Chief Secretary (Mr. Gosling)…

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Touching Scene Returned Soldier's Costs Subscribed in Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 August 1931 · page 2

A touching incident occurred in the Mudgee Police Court recently when sympathisers paid the costs of a sick returned soldier, convicted of…

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Viceroy of India Plot to Assassinate Frustrated by Police Calcutta

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 August 1931 · page 1

Police frustrated what they believe to be a plot to assas[?] the Viceroy (Lord Willingsdon) who is vising Cawnpore tomorrow, when…

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Divorce Suit Field v. Field Court Again Crowded Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 August 1931 · page 1

When the Field divorce case was resumed to-day the court was crowded, great public interest being evinced in the proceedings…

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Theft Of Letters Alleged Postal Official Arrested Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 August 1931 · page 2

Postal inquiry officers this afternoon arrested a postman, with more han ]7 years' service, on charges of laving stolen letters…

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New York Gangsters Attacked by Police Jealous Woman's Revenge New York

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 August 1931 · page 5

Machine guns, rifles, and revolvers spat viciously for an hoar to-day around an apartment in Brooklyn where six gangsters barricaded…

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Trotter Impounded Incident at Richmond Gelding Kept Under Police Guard. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 August 1931 · page 6

Shortly after the trotting meeting at Richmond began yesterday, Mr. G. J. C. Dyett, secretary of the Victorian Trotting and Racing Association…

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Transport Trust Omnibus License Fees Appeal to Court Fails Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 August 1931 · page 1

Mr. Justice Edwards, in delivering reserved judgment today in the case in which the Sydney and Newcastle Motor 'Bus Owners' Association…

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Police Court Echo of Football Match

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 21 August 1931 · page 3

At the Ganmain Police Court last week, before Mr. D. Parker, the P.M., Maurice Bean Alfred Sean John Ceely and Keith Ceely were charged…

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