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Courts & crime, 1931

1,289 stories in Riverina's papers · page 46 of 65

Wagga Police Court Monday, September 14 (Before Mr. D. F. Parker, P.m.) Offensive Behaviour

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 15 September 1931 · page 2

Edward Frederick Francis was charged with having behaved in sn offensive manner, and with having been drunk in Baylis-street on…

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Shooting Affray Business Man for Trial Assailants Charged with Conspiracy Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 15 September 1931 · page 1

At the Liverpool Police Court to-day, Daniel Mendon Simmons, aged 46 years, a city business man, was committed for trial on a charge of…

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Landlock Removed While Under Police Guard the Leeton-bred Trotter

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 15 September 1931 · page 2

Landlock, an aged trotter, who was impounded by the Victorian Trotting and Racing Association at Richmond (Victoria) on August 17, pending…

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Man Before Court Three Times in Five Days a Stranger and a Tarpaulin

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 15 September 1931 · page 2

To be convicted on three separate occasions within a space of five days was the record established by John Bennett. On…

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Small Debts Court (Before Mr. D. F. Parker, P.m.) Cheque Not Honored

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 15 September 1931 · page 2

Francis While su[?]d A. G. James Ltd. for the recovery of £21 for goods received by the defendant company for which the company had given a…

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Theft Charge Former Olympic Games Representative Sentence Suspended Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 16 September 1931 · page 2

When Claude Angelo, of Port Melbourne, who represented Australia at the Olympic Games in 1924, appeared at the Williamstown Police Court…

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Hillston Police Court

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 17 September 1931 · page 3

On Tuesday, 8th September, before Mr. N. L. Sheridan, P.M.— Edward Norman Bernard White was charged with failing to return an…

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Attempted Escape From Blayney Lock-up Boy Charged With Murder BLAYNEY

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 17 September 1931 · page 1

Gordon Cantrill, aged 10 years, who was charged with the murder of Ms brother, Hurley Cantrill, made an attempt to escape from the lock-up, this…

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Communists and Police Clash at Wellington Three Men Arrested Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 17 September 1931 · page 1

In a clash between police and Communists in the grounds of Parliament House to-day three men were arrested after a fierce struggle. A number…

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Murder of Schoolgirl Man Sentenced to Death London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 18 September 1931 · page 1

Arthur James Farraday Salvage, aged 23 years, who was found guilty of the murder of Ivy Godden, a schoolgirl, was sentenced to death at the…

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Police Court Tuesday. Before Mr. H. A. Hardwicke, J.P

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 18 September 1931 · page 3

Patrick Martin, a stranger, was fined 10/ for indecent language in Parker street…

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Ormond Murder Detective Sues Newspaper Libel Alleged Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 18 September 1931 · page 2

Where was a sequel to police inquiries into the death of Me[?] Griffth; aged 12 years, at Ormond, in November last when, in the Civil…

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A Tip From the Court

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 18 September 1931 · page 5

JUDGE'6 LENIENCY FOR TRAILER It is not suggested that Mr. Just ice Halse Rogers from, but as a result of his decision in…

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Communist Charged "Armed with Offensive Weapon" No Evidence of Interest Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 18 September 1931 · page 1

When Frederick Theodore Farrell, aged 33 years, a Communist, appeared at the Central Court today on a charge of having been armed with an…

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Communists and Police Clash in New Zealand

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 18 September 1931 · page 3

In a clash between police and Communists in the grounds of Parliament House, Wellington (N.Z.), three men were arrested after a fierce struggle…

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Chilian Mutiny Leaders Sentenced

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 19 September 1931 · page 1

SANTIAGO (Chili), Thursday. Six leaders of the recent naval mutiny in Chili wore condemned to death by a court-martial. Two others…

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Junee Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 19 September 1931 · page 4

The Australian General Electric Co. sought an order at the Junee Court for re-possession of a wireless set, with accruing costs, from the…

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Farm Tragedy Youth Shot Brother On Murder Charge CARCOAR

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 19 September 1931 · page 4

An inquest was opened to-day into the death of Harley Cantrell, aged 18 years, who was shot on a farm about 15 miles from Orange on Monday…

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Detective Alleges Libel Action Against "Smith's Weekly" Ormond Murder Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 19 September 1931 · page 4

The hearing of the case in which Senior Detective James Norman Bruco is claiming £3000 damages from "Smith's Weekly" in respect to…

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Britannia Bank City Court Reference Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 19 September 1931 · page 23

At the Central Court to-day Phillip James Mond, 44, and Victor William Cunningham, 37, were remanded on a charge of having "At Sydney and…

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