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Courts & crime, 1934

1,368 stories in Riverina's papers · page 40 of 69

Double Murder Bayley Hanged for N.Z. CRIME Declares Innocence to the Last Auckland (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 July 1934 · page 1

With a smite upon his lips, and displaying remarkable courage, Wilfred Alfred Bayley was hanged to-day for the murder of Samuel Lakey and his…

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Theft of Clothing

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 July 1934 · page 2

The Wagga Police on Friday received complaints that several camps at Uranquinty had been raidel, and that clothing and other article had been…

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Constable Charged Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 23 July 1934 · page 1

At the Quarter Sessions to-day William Henry Blyth, 26, police constable, was charged with having assaulted John Thomas Sims,…

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Burglary at Jugiong Mr. Thomas Coggan's House Broken Into Two Young Men Before the Court

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 23 July 1934 · page 2

On Thursday last Mr. Thomas Coggan's house on the main road, near Jugiong, was burgled. Only for a short while during the day was the…

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Police Court To-day Before Mr. J.A.S. Balmain P.M. Railway Trespassing

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 23 July 1934 · page 2

Jack Kaine and Eric Coventry, two strangers, pleaded guilty to transports on railway property. The stationmaster said they were…

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Police Raid Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 23 July 1934 · page 1

Two police officers, disguised as swagmen, raided a farm house four miles from Canberra, where S.P. betting was suspected. Later a man who…

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Acquitted of Murder Guilty of Manslaughter Trapper Remanded for Sentence MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 July 1934 · page 1

Wilfred George Nicholas, aged 21 years, trapber, was found guilty of the manslaughter of Clifford Joseph Parkes, another trapper, and he was…

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Industrial Court To-day Before Mr. Balmain, P.M.

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 23 July 1934 · page 3

Ryan Inson, Ltd., were proceeded against on a charge of a breach of the shop assistants' award, and on a charge of falling to exhibit a copy…

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New Wagga Tragedy Baby Found Dead in House Mother in Hospital Police Investigating

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 23 July 1934 · page 1

On Thursday. Wagga was filled with sensational rumors suggestive of another murder in the town. When the police were approached…

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Leeton Police Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 24 July 1934 · page 3

David James Thompson (52) was charged at Leeton Police Court on Monday, with being drunk in the yard of the Hotel Leeton. There was…

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Football Cases. All Dismissed by the Police Magistrate

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 24 July 1934 · page 1

Before the Police Magistrate (Mr. C. W. Swiney) at Lockhart on Wednesday, prosecutions brought about by the police, arising out of a feud…

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Police Court Wagga, Monday, July 23 (Before Mr. R. C. Atkinson, P.m.) Hotel Licensees Charged

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 July 1934 · page 2

The licensee of the Great Southern Hotel was charged with having committed an offence under the Liquor Act. Mr. H. J. Kennedy appeared for…

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Skin Stealer Convicted at Leeton Police Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 24 July 1934 · page 1

GEORGE MITCHELL was charged at Leeton Police Court on Thursday with having, on June 30th., stolen at Leeton 16 fox…

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Alleged Assault at Junee

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 July 1934 · page 2

It is stated that a young Junee man named Charlton was assaulted by two young men on Saturday night at Junee and that he was admitted to the…

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Woman Charged Allegations Against Defendant Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 July 1934 · page 6

When Eileen Peters, aged 25 years, a domestic Servant, appeared at the Central Court to-day on a charge of having fired a shot at James Pierce…

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Theft of Diamonds From City Jewellers Case Adjourned Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 July 1934 · page 1

At the Central Court to-day Eric Courtney, aged 34 years, plasterer, were charged with having stolen diamond rings valued at £1864, from…

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Bogged Again Police Officers' Adventure

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 24 July 1934 · page 1

While searching in the bush about fourteen miles from Leeton for the camp of a man who was suspected of having committed a robbery in…

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Tenancy Court Commission v DOWNIE

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 24 July 1934 · page 2

When the case, Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission v Joseph Aloysius Dowme for recovery of possession of tenancy, was called…

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S.P. Betting Police Raid Farmhouse Canberra

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 July 1934 · page 1

Two police officers disguised as swagmen raided a farmhouse four miles from Canberra where starting price betting was suspected…

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Burglary at Jugiong

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 25 July 1934 · page 2

On Thursday last Mr. Thomas Cog[?] house on the main road, near Jugiong, was burgled. Only for a short while during the day was the…

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