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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1932

1,504 stories in Riverina's papers · page 15 of 76

Gaol Breaker Committed for Trial

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 5 March 1932 · page 13

Ernest Albert Richards, who escape from the Yatala (S.A.) labour prison on December 31 and was rearrested at Brisbane on February 16,…

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Income Tax Case Full Court Quashes Conviction

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 5 March 1932 · page 15

Scathing comment on the manner adopted by the Federal Income Tax Department in conducting a prosecution against Arthur Ernest Wood,…

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Licensing Court King's Own Hotel Bath Improvements Ordered

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 5 March 1932 · page 7

At the Wagga Court House on Tuesday, Mr. W. Le Brun Browne chairman of the Licenses Reduction Board, heard an application by…

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Local and General BURGLARY!

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 7 March 1932 · page 2

A burglar or burglars committed a very daring robbery on Friday night or early on Saturday morning at Mrs. Davis's boarding house in Adam…

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Police Court Friday, March 4

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 8 March 1932 · page 2

Michael Cummings (24) and Lance Cummings (28) were charged with riotous behaviour in East Street. It was stated that at 9.30 p.m. on…

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Wagga Police Court Wagga, March 7, 1932 (Before Mr. D. F. Parker, P.m.) Riotous Behavior

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 March 1932 · page 3

Ernest Eastman pleased not guilty when charged with having behaved in a riotons manner in Fitzmaurice-street…

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Court of Domestic Relations

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 March 1932 · page 2

A Court of Domestic Relations, which in fact forms a judicial anteroom to the Divorce Court, is functioning with great success in Chicago,…

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Girl's Pitiable' Plight Covered with Grease in Garage Man Charged With Abduction Launceston (T.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 March 1932 · page 1

Following the discovery of Marjorie Musson, aged 17 years, in a pitful condition an a garage in the city last night, detectives arrested Harold…

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Strasbourg Murderer Emulating Kuerten Mocking Letters to Police Paris

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 March 1932 · page 1

The murderer of Susanna Feiyers, whose nude body was found in the St. He[?] cemetery in Strasbourg, is e[?]kating the feats of Peter Kuerten,…

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Junee Tragedy Inquest on Death of James Fitzpatrick Verdict of Natural Death At the Junee Court House yesterday

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 March 1932 · page 2

morning, the coroner (Mr. A. H. Bennett) held an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of James Fitzpatrick, who died as a…

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Two Adelaide Trainers Death Narrowly Averted "Don't Shoot, Dan," Said Ned, "It's Stanny' and 'Little' Jim!" Veteran S.a. Trainer Forced to Watch for Police in Back Robbery

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 8 March 1932 · page 6

[The following from the Adelaide 'Observer,' was sent by a Cootamundra sport as being of interest to old hands in Cootamundra who remember…

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Infant's Death Was Body Burnt? Man and Woman Charged with Murder Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 1
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A ghastly tragedy, the police allege, lies behind the arrest of a man and woman at a house in Haw thorn yesterday. It is alleged that…

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Police Court Yesterday Before Mr. Palmer, J.P. Alleged Larceny

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 4

William Jackson was remanded until next Monday on a charge of stealing a bicycle, the property of Clair Clifford Tinder, and valued at £10…

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Police Inquiry

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 2

Mr. Inspector Moroney, of Wagga, as Commissioner, sat at Gundagai court all Saturday last, on an inquiry into charges preferred against Sergt…

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Lindbergh Baby No Demand for Ransom Police Announcement Hopewell (N.j.)

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 1

CAPTAIN Lamb, of the State Police, announced that no demand for ransom had ever been made for the Lindbergh baby, and that…

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Lindbergh Baby No Demand for Ransom Police Announcement Hopewell (N. J.)

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 2

Captain Lamb, of the State Police, [?]nounced to-day that no demand for ransom had ever been made for the Lindberngh baby, and that neither…

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Alleged Stealing

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 3

At the Hillston Police Court on Tuesday last, before Mr. N. L. Sheridan, P.M., Reginald Unsworth was charged with stealing a pig, the…

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Dartmoor Mutiny 32 Convicts Charged Formal Hearing Later London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 1

The 32 Dartmoor convicts were today paraded by a strong guard before Superintendent Smith, who formally charged them with offences…

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Paddington Murder Long Search Ends Young Man Arrested Detectives as Tramps SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 2

After months of unceasing search, during which detectives, dressed as swagmen, searched from one end of New South Wales to the other, for the…

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