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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1933

1,405 stories in Riverina's papers · page 35 of 71

Brutal Piracy Passengers Murder Captain and Crew Woman Among Victims Shanghai

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 July 1933 · page 1

Reports of a particularly brutal act of piracy and series of murders have just reached here from Dairen. According to immediate details an 1800…

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Guilty of Stealing

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 4 July 1933 · page 2

At the Leeton Police Court on Wednesday hist, Mr. Quiggin, J.P., sent Rupert Jago, aged 23 years, and John Thomas Giddy, aged 25 years,…

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Police Court Thursday, June 29 Unwholesome Food Seized

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 4 July 1933 · page 4

Wallace A. Scoles (health inspector for the Municipal Council and an officer duly authorised in that behalf by the Board of Health to prosecute)…

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Valuation Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 July 1933 · page 3

Tho Kyeamba Shire Council submitted 85 appeal cases before Mr. D.F. Parker, P.M., in the Valuation Court. At a friendly court held…

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Police Court Wagga. Monday, July 3, 1933 (Before Mr. D.F. Parker, P.m.) Alleged Transport Act Breach

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 July 1933 · page 3

The Commissioner for Road Transport proceeding against A.J. Hill and Sons for driving a motor lorry between Melbourne and Wagga which was not…

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Croydon Park Tragedy Court Case Struck Out Marshall Perkins Critical Condition Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 July 1933 · page 1

When the name of Herbert Frank Perkins was called at the Burwood court to-day to face a charge of stealing a letter sent through tho post, the…

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Police Court

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 5 July 1933 · page 4

Before Mr. Balmain, P.M. After Hours Beresford Cobett, Alan Ryan, and Richard Mortlock, for whom Mr…

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District Court Tuesday, July 4 (Before His Honor Judge Coyle) Hire Purchase Agreement

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 July 1933 · page 3

The Gurwood Investment Co. Ltd. claimed £78/6/3 from J.W. Gray as balance due under a hire purchase agreement, alleged to have been made…

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Hillston Police Court

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 4

At Hillston Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. G. J. Johnstone, P.M., the following cases were dealt with:— Ernest Arthur Fogg, charged with…

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Gundagai Police Court

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 3

Among the cases listed for hearing by Mr. Balmain, Police Magistrate, on Tuesday last were two under the Motor Traffic Act, and several prose…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 2

Answering to a charge of having stolen one sheep, the property of T. A. Field, valued at 10/-, on 7th June, 1933, near Vieta Station, near Hillston…

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Warden’s Court

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 3

William Thomas Fitzgibbon, miner, residing at South Gundagai, for riot complying with the labor .condition required by the Act, had his…

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Licensing Court Licensing Inspector’s Report

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 3

AIL the premises were reported to be in a clean,, sanitary condition, and reasonably well conducted during the past 12 months. There were minor…

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South Gundagai Man Fights His Case When charged With Unsatisfactory Condition Premises of Premises

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 2

At the Gundagai Police Coairt, before Mr. Balmain, P.M., a complaint was made as to the unsatisfactory condition of the premises occupied…

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Case Settled Out of Court Qundàgai Woman and Workers' Compensation Commission

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 2

In the matter of à determination between Mary Elizabeth Davis and Henry Charles Osborne, both of Gundagai, before his Honor-Judge…

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Convicted on Charge of Dangerous Driving Local Man Before the Court

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 2

Before Mr. Balmain, P.M., at the Gundagai police court, on Tuesday, Frederick William Rolles, of Henley-street, Gundagai, was convicted of…

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Alleged Attempt to Poison Mother of Eight Arrested Police Marooned by Floods Taree

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 2

There was a dramatic development in the police inquiries into the alleged attempt to poison Thomas Kebster, when a woman, the mother of eight children,…

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District Court Wednesday, July 5 (Before His Honor Judge Coyle) Hire Purchase Agreement Gurwood Investment Co. v Gray Verdict for Defendant

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 4

The case was [?] yesterday in which the Gurwood street Investment Co. Ltd. proceeded against J.W. Gray. of Lockhart. to recover the sum of…

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Alleged Stealing and Receiving Rice From Murrami

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 7 July 1933 · page 2

There was quite a stir in the town yesterday, when the police arrested a man on a charge of stealing rice and a justice of the…

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Cruelly Ill-treating Horses Driver Goes to Gaol

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 7 July 1933 · page 2

At the Leeton Petty Sessions Court yesterday afternoon, Norman Grenville Schultz, aged 37 years, pleaded guilty to three charges of ill-treating…

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