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Courts & crime, 1933

1,405 stories in Riverina's papers · page 56 of 71

Woman Attacked Neck Slashed by Man Police Make Arrest Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 October 1933 · page 1

Stopping to investigate the screams of a woman in City road, Darlington, shortly after midnight, the driver of a motor car found a young woman…

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Circuit Causes Court Wagga Friday, October 13 (Before His Honor, Mr. Justice Stephen) Leeton Garage Lease

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 October 1933 · page 2

Arthur Ernest Wood, a garage proprietor, of Leeton, proceeded against Alfred Thomas Cox and Thomas Lawrence M'Parland for damages arising…

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Police Court To-day

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 16 October 1933 · page 3

Before Mr. J.A.S. Balmain, P.M. Expired Certificate Francis R. Winchester pleaded guilty to failing to return an expired…

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Surry Hills Shooting Man Charged and Remanded SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 16 October 1933 · page 4

At the Central Court' to-day Percy John Lawson, 31, was charged with having feloniously shot at Vincent Bede Monahan on Saturday, with…

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Irish Murder Vile, Dastardly Crime, Says Coronek Belfast

Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 October 1933 · page 1

As a sequel to the murder of Constable Anderson last week-end, and the failure to arrest the three murderers, police aud detectives, with the…

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U.S. Labor Troubles Mounted Police Charge Demonstrators Foreign Goods Boycott 25,000 Strikers in California New York

Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 October 1933 · page 3

Mounted police rode their horses through 3900 demonstrators at the headquarters of the National Recovery Act to-day and made 50 arrests…

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Alleged Stealing

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 17 October 1933 · page 4

Eric Graham Belman (24) was charged at the Leeton Police Court, before Mr. A. V. Quiggin, J.P., on Friday morning, that on the 12th of…

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Forged Documents Government Employee Sentenced Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1933 · page 4

A sentence of six months imprisonment was pressed on Susan May Duncan, aged 44 yours, at the Central Court to-day on a charge of having…

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Police Court Monday, October 16, 1933 (Before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.m.) Offensive Behavior

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1933 · page 6

Edward James Kearney, aged 34 years, was charged with offensive behavior in Crampton street, Wagga, on October 14…

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Intent to Murder Man Demanded on Serious Charge Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1933 · page 4

At the Central court to-day, Percy John Lawson, aged 81 years, sheet metal worker, was charged with having feloniously shot at Vincent Bede…

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Circuit Court Causes Wagga, October 13 (Before His Honor, Mr. Justice Stephen) Leeton Garage Lease

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 17 October 1933 · page 3

Arthur Ernest Wood, a garage proprietor, of Leeton, proceeded against Alfred Thomas Cox and Thomas Lawrence M'Parland for damages…

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Circuit Causes Court Wagga, Monday, October 16 (Before His Honor, Mr Justice Milner Stephen) Claim Against Shire Councils

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 October 1933 · page 6

June Stoessel, aged 12 years through her father, Otto Herbert Stoessel, farmer, of Uranquinty, proceeded against the Mitchell and…

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Police Inquiry Big Cocaine Stealing Plot Ex-detective's Story Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 October 1933 · page 1

At the continuation of the police inquiry to-day ex-Detective Coffey said that Bolger had told him that a man named Schiffman had planned to rob…

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Four Men Charged Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 18 October 1933 · page 1

Four men were charged at the Central Court to-day with having attempted to break and enter the store of Peter Matheson, in Elizabeth street,…

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A. C. Willis' Home Burglary Charge Against Woman Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 October 1933 · page 1

Commenting that it was unusual for a woman to break and enter, Mr. Laidlaw, S.M., at the Central Court to-day, remanded Elsie Mary Reilly,…

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Intent to Murder Alleged Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 October 1933 · page 1

Harold Frederick Wood, aged 27 years, a laborer, was remanded at the Globs Court to-day until October 26 on a charge of having shot at Robert…

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Ex-police Chief Shot on Frontier Berlin

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 October 1933 · page 2

The Socialist ex-chief of police, Herr Eggerstedt, who escaped from a concentration camp at Kaperdorf, was shot lead on the Dutch frontier when he…

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Five Men Befort Court Alleged Conspiracy SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 18 October 1933 · page 1

At the North Sydney Police Court to-day five men, Alexander Richard Holley (30). Leslie Wellington Horne (39), and Joseph Lat Cardilin (58),…

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Circuit Causes Court Wagga, Tuesday, October 17 (Before His Honor, Mr. Justice Stephen) Claim Against Shire Councils

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 October 1933 · page 3

The bearing was continued of the case in which June Stoessel, aged 121 years, through her father, Otto Her berl Stoessel, farmer, of Uranquinty,…

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Junee Visitor Strikes Trouble Wool Stealing Allege Losses at Wantabadgery

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 19 October 1933 · page 2

A man named Robert John Riley has been driving about the Junee district in a well equipped Nash car, and on Monday last he engaged the a…

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