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Courts & crime, 1932

1,504 stories in Riverina's papers · page 54 of 76

Football Riot Police Charge with Batons Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 27 August 1932 · page 1

After Oakleigh had beaten Paddington in the final of the C grade Eastern Suburbs Junior League, a section of the spetcators became…

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"Tin Hare" Inquiry License for Orange Cruickshank to be Charged With Perjury SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 August 1932 · page 4

The Royal Commissioner (Mr. Justice Halse Rogers) today continued the inquiry into the allegations of bribery and corruption in connection…

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Alleged Theft by Trick

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 August 1932 · page 2

George Lloyd and Raymond Lawrence M'Mahon were charged at the Wagga Police Court on Saturday before Mr. D. F. Parker, P.M., with…

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Police Court Saturday Before Mr. G. J. Johnstone, P.M.

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 29 August 1932 · page 2

Clarence Michael O'Connor was charged with stealing one grey blanket one brown sweater, jar of honey, bag of sugar, suitcase, and fork, the…

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Valuation Court Friday Before Mr. G. J. Johnstone, P.M. R.C. Church Appeal

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 29 August 1932 · page 4

The Roman Catholic Church appealed against the rateability of the tennis courts land. Mr. Kinsey appeared for the…

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Cullen Bullen Shooting Man Dies in Hospital Brother Charged with Murder Bathurst

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 August 1932 · page 1

The victim of the shooting affray at Cullen Bullen on Saturday night, Frederick Agnew Hogansen, aged 25 years, died in the Portland Hospital…

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Alleged Theft of False Teeth

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 30 August 1932 · page 2

Constable Cramp, of Oaklands, arrested a man at a camp near Rennie Siding last week, and charged him with stealing a set of false…

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Alleged Assault and Trespass. Decision Reserved

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 30 August 1932 · page 4

On Thursday morning before Mr. G. Letty, J.P., C.P.S., and Mr. C. R. Barrett, J.P., Harry Perry and his two brothers-in-law, Albert Leonard…

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Wagga Police Court Wagga, August 29, 1932 Before Mr. D. F. PARKER, P.M. for Inquiry

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 August 1932 · page 3

Two young men were charged with being idle and and disorderly persons with insufficient lawful means of support. Both pleaded not guilty and…

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Arbitration Court Boot Trade Award Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 August 1932 · page 2

A consent award for the wood heel and last section of the boot trade in New South Wales and Victoria, effective from September 1, was made in…

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Youth Arrested Police Have Exciting Chase Deportation Warrant Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 August 1932 · page 1

Following an exciting chase through the back streets of Woolloomooloo the police arrested a 19 year old youth this morning against whom a…

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Wagga Police Court Wagga, August 30, 1932 Before Mr. D. F. PARKER, P.M. Given a Chance

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 August 1932 · page 3

James Albert Larkins, aged 56 years, was charged with having been drunk and disorderly in Sturt-street, Wagga, on August 29. He pleaded…

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Transport Commission Reduction of Federal Awards State Wage As Minimum Arbitration Court Application MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 August 1932 · page 1

Considerable surprise was caused to-day by the action of the New South Wales Transport Commission in amending their original claim before the…

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Alleged Theft of Jewellery Valent Remanded Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 September 1932 · page 1

At the Central Court to-day, Thomas Proudfoot, aged 27 years, an English valet, was charged with having stolen £200 worth of jewellary and other…

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Attempted Murder Conviction Quashed New Trial Ordered Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 September 1932 · page 1

The High, Court to-day quashed the conviction and ordered a new trial in the case of Guy Neville Kingsbury, who was convicted recently on a…

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Coolamon Police Court Unlicensed Revolver

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 2 September 1932 · page 1

At the Coolamon police court, on Tuesday last, before Messrs. L. W. B. Johnstone and M. L. Kingdon, J’s.P., William Christopher McKay was…

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Assault and Trespass Three Lockhart Farmers Fined

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 September 1932 · page 2

Before Messrs. G. Letty and C. R. Barrett, J'sP., at the Lockhart Court yesterday three young Lockhart district farmers, Harry V. Perry, Harold…

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Bogus Notes Police Seize Plant Wollongong

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 September 1932 · page 1

In a raid in a house at Corrimal to-day, the polite seized portion of a plant alleged to have been used in making counterfeit notes. A man was…

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Stole for Bread Dole Rejects Make Demonstration Three Men Arrested in Griffith Store Solicitor and Sergeant Clash in Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 2 September 1932 · page 6

Alleging that they had been wrongly refused the dole, three men, William Stonier, Walter Ewen, and Fred Nicoli went at mid-day on Thursday…

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Money by Trick Two Showmen Sentenced Decoys Heavily Fined

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 3 September 1932 · page 8

The Police Magistrate (Mr. D. F. Parker) at Wagga Police Court' on Monday imposed salutary sentences of six months each on two travelling…

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