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Courts & crime, 1931

1,289 stories in Riverina's papers · page 7 of 65

Kyeamba Shire Valuation Court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 2

The Kyeamba Shire Council clerk (Mr. C. L. Daley) announces that a court for the hearing of objections against valuations for the year 1930…

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Alleged False Statement Company Promoters Charged Affairs Of Mining Company SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 2

At the central Court to-day Frederick Ortel, aged 42 years, and Clive Ashley Cooper, aged 43 years, company promoters, were charged with having…

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Wage Reduction Municipal Contractors Approach Court Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 3

The application of the recent 10 per cent. wage cut to members of the Federated Municipal and Shire Employees' Union of Australia was…

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Woman's Death on Lonely Heath Police Have New Theory London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 1

The discovery of bloodstains near the road 50 yards from where the mutilated body of Louise Maude Steele, aged 18 years, was found, sent Scotland…

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Police Court

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 2

This week the following cases were dealt with at the local court of petty sessions. Robert Mathieson (19 years) was…

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

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 2

William Peter Costelloo, licensee of the Hotel Cootamundra; who was charged with having persons on his premises after hours, and with…

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Alleged Theft No Evidence Offered SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 1

When John Brown Tennant, 30, the manager of a city financial firm, was charged at the Central Court with having stolen £10,000, the solicitor for the…

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Newtown Murder Death of Italian

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 5

Frank De Luca, a friend of Guiseppe La Spina, the Italian who was murdered at Newtown (Sydney) on Monday morning, said that he would…

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Alleged Theft No Evidence Offered Manager Discharged Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 1

When John Brown, Tennant, aged 30 years, the manager of a city financial firm, was charged at the Central Court with having stolen £10,000, the…

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Believed Drowned Police Search for Body Goulburn

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 1

The police are dragging the river near Kippilaw for the body of a man who, it is thought, was been drowned. A swag was found on the river bank…

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The Alleged Kunama Post Office Robbery Police Investigate Matter Now with Postal Dept

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 2

The reported robbery at Kunama Post Office was investigated by Sergt A. Jones, head of Tumut Police, and the matter is now being dealt with…

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Shooting at Darlington Point Charge of Intent to Murder Revolver Shots Through Hotel Door Darlington Point

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 1

William Henry Shooks was charged with shooting at Edgar George Tucket with intent to murder him before Mr. Hardwick P.M. to-day. Mr. Beard of…

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Elwood Murder Interest in Inquest Crowd Excluded From Court Man Committed for Trial Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 4

When the inquest into the death of Mary Dean, aged 26 years, a school teacher, who was murdered near her home at Elwood on November 21, was…

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Elwood Murder Adam Graham Committed for Trial

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 12

The murder of Mary Dean, 25. a teacher, of Elwood, in the early hours of November 21--the second of a series of sex crimes which shocked…

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Newtown Murder an Italian Arrested Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 15

Crose police inquiries into the mastery surrounding the murder of an Italian fruiterer, Gulseppe la[?]Soina, at Newtown recently, ended…

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Police and Sherers Clashes in Queensland Brisbane

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 11

The situation in the shearing distriets is becoming increasingly difficult and clashes between strikers and the police are becoming more…

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Wages Reduction Applications to Court Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 4

Seven more applications were made by employers to the Arbitration Court to-day asking that employees be brought under the recent 10 per cent…

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Reduction in Police Pay "Taking a Frightful- Risk" Adelaide

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 14

Referring to the decision of the Government to reduce the wages of the police by 10 per cent., Mr. L. B. Fenwick, secretary of the Police…

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Newtown Tragedy Italian Shot Dead Compatriot Charged with Murder Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 1

An arrest was made at 10 o'clock on Friday night at Newtown Bridge of a man who was subsequently charged with having feloniously and maliciously…

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Shearers' Strike Serious Turn Police And Strikers Clash Shots Fired Rockhampton (Q.)

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 1

The shearers' strike in the central-west of Queensland has taken a serious turn. There was a clash between police and strikers at Emerald last night…

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