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Courts & crime, 1931

1,289 stories in Riverina's papers · page 47 of 65

Girl Alleges Assault

Daily Advertiser · Monday 21 September 1931 · page 2

The Albury police are investigating a story of assault told to them by the girl. On the matter being reported, Inspector Crozier, and other police,…

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Company Promoter Charged with Conspiracy Big Financial Scheme SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Monday 21 September 1931 · page 1

At the Central Police Court yesterday Phillip James Mond and Victor William Cunningham were charged before Mr. Fletcher, S.M., with…

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Horse Stealing Further Charges

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 22 September 1931 · page 4

On Saturday at the Leeton court, Charles Augustus Wennerbom (22), who was remanded on the 14th inst., on a charge of horse stealing,…

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Wagga Police Court Wagga September 21 (Before Mr. D. F. Parker, P.m.) Dirty Premises

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 September 1931 · page 6

Gordon Hill was charged with having failed to keep clean the keep clean the premises occupied by him in Lindsay street, near the Showground…

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Items of News Revision Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 September 1931 · page 2

A revision court was held by Mr. D. F. Parker, P.M., at the Wagga Court House yesterday for the purpose, of revising lists of electors of the…

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Death of Military Pensioner Clerk Changed with Murder Redfern Shooting Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 September 1931 · page 1

At the Criminal Court today, James Hogan, aged 33 years, a clerk, was charged with having murdered George Alfred Cooper, a military pensioner,…

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Brutal Murder Girl's Body Found in Residential Head And Face Smashed In No Arrest Yet Made SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 September 1931 · page 5

Brutally killed as she slept, her head and faced smashed in by repeated blows from some heavy instrument, the body of Sheila Margery Gilligan,…

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Assaults on Girls Police Investigation Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 September 1931 · page 1

The police are investigating the circumstances which surround brutal assaults on three girls. One case was reported a few days…

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Murder of Girl Startling Developments Aunt Found Drowned Daughter Missing Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 September 1931 · page 5

Not for many years have the police been called upon to solve such a mystery as surrounds the death of Shells Marjorie Gilligan, aged 15 years,…

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Pistols for Underworld Butcher Charged Heavy Fine Imposed Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 September 1931 · page 1

John M'Auley, aged 28 years, a butcher, appeared at the Central Court to-day on a charge of having carried an unlicensed automatic pistol…

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Horse Stealing Charges and One of Receiving Special Court on October 13

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 September 1931 · page 1

Before Mr. Parker, P.M., at the Leeton Court on Tuesday, Charles Augustus Wennerbom and Colin Lumley were charged on remand with…

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Police Court Thursday, 24th SEPTEMBER (Before Mr. D. Parker, P.M.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 25 September 1931 · page 2

Yanko Shire Council v. John T. H. Gosling, failing to destroy noxious weeds. Mr. Dangar appeared for the Yanko…

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Triple Murder German Mystery Three Killed in Flat Cologne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 September 1931 · page 1

A mysterious triple murder was discovered on the second floor of a flat at Dortmund. The body of a man named Mostier, aged 50…

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Prisoner in His Own Kitchen Peculiar Features of Assault Case Plummer was Amateur Pugilist P.M. Had His Doubts and Dismissed Case

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 September 1931 · page 4

A case which created unusual interest, and around which centred a number of domestic side issues, was heard by Mr D. F…

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Murdered 15-Year-old Girl in City Basement Aunt Found Drowned Police Search for Cousin

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 25 September 1931 · page 4

Sheila Marjorie Gilligan, aged 15 years, was found murdered in the basement of No. 164 Phillip-street, Sydney, early on Monday afternoon…

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Unregistered Motor Vehicles Parked in Back Lanes Treat the Force As a Joke But Police Make a Haul

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 September 1931 · page 6

That people in Leeton were not re-registering their cars and lorries, because it is cheaper to pay a fine, was the allegation…

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Assault Charge Dismissed

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1931 · page 4

At the Junee Police Court on Thursday Leslie Norman Rennick proceeded against Edgar Boy Plummer (his brother-in-law) alleging assault. After…

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Safebreakers Miss £1000 Bank Burglary at Cowra

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 26 September 1931 · page 9

Cracksmen who were disturbed while at work missed a big haul at the Bank of Australasia Ltd., Cowra on Sunday night. They were…

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Basement Murder Girl Battered To Death Bodies' Found in Basement

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 26 September 1931 · page 11

With her head shockingly battered, Sheila Marjorie Gilligan, 15 years, was found in a bedroom in Philip St. on Monday afternoon. She had been…

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Wrecked Air Liner Victims Robbed and Bodies Mayor and Police Inspector Arrested [?]

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1931 · page 1

[?], Thursday. The Mayor of the town of Balatsiza and the chief inspector of police have been arrested on a charge of having…

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