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Courts & crime, 1934

1,368 stories in Riverina's papers · page 42 of 69

Deserted Ship Seven Years Ago German Reports to Police Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Monday 30 July 1934 · page 2

Wilhelm Hermann Rath, who stated that he was a German sailor who deserted from the German, ship Westphalen at Port Adelaide seven years…

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Police Court Wednesday. July 24

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 31 July 1934 · page 2

Donald L. McNicol was fined £5, together with 8s court costs, and £1 expenses, in default 13 days, on a charge of using a shop for the…

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Leeton Police Court Alleged Stolen Skins

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 31 July 1934 · page 5

Bertie Henry Edwards (36), was charged at Leeton police court yesterday morning, that on the 27th day of July, 1934, he did at Kooba…

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Theft of Rabbit Skin

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 31 July 1934 · page 4

When the Farmers and Graziers wool store in Smollett-street, Albury, was opened for business yesterday it was discovered that 400 lbs. of first…

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Death of Japanese Aborigines Charged Darwin

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 31 July 1934 · page 1

The trial of three aborigines—nat chelmar, Mow, and Narkays—on a charge of having murdered five Japanese fishermen in December, 1932…

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Umpire Stabbed Police Intervention at Williamstown Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 31 July 1934 · page 8

Wild scenes, in which the field umpire (Mowlam) was stabbed in the arm with a hatpin, and a boundary umpire (Lewie) was kicked on the…

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Murder Trial Sensational Statement by Accused Alleges Husband Confessed to Slaying of Percy Smith Jury Fail to Agree

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 31 July 1934 · page 1

The hearing of the case in which Lillian Anderson, 23, was charged with the murder of her husband, Monerieff Anderson, 33, at Wagga on…

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Jury Again Fails to Agree in Anderson Case Remand to Next Court Bail Question Accused Goes Back to Long Bay

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 31 July 1934 · page 1

After being locked up for the night the jury, returned at 9.30 o'clock on Friday morning and the foreman announced that the jurymen had failed…

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Sentenced to Death VIENNA, Later

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 1 August 1934 · page 1

Within three hours of the passing of the death sentence on them, and the rejection of their petitions for clemency, Otto Planette, 35, ex-soldier,…

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Sentenced to Death Vienna

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 August 1934 · page 2

Producing Dr. Dollfuss' blood-stained and powder blackened collar when the trial was resumed to-day, Dr. Dzekely, an expert on firearms, declared that…

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Dr. Dollfuss Assassination Two Men Sentenced to Death High Treason Charges Wife to Make Appeal to Widow VIENNA

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 August 1934 · page 2

The trial opened to-day, before the Military Court, of Otto Planetta, aged 35 years, an ex-soldier and chauffeur, on a charge of having murdered the late Chancellor (Dr. Dollfuss} and of being guilty of high treason, and…

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Murder of Japanese Long Sentences for Caledon Bat Blacks Darwin

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 August 1934 · page 2

A sentence of 20 years' imprisonment was passed on Nathelmar Mow and Narkaya, Caledon Bay aborgines to-day who were found guilty of the…

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Dealer in Horses Appears Before Court Magistrate Praises Police

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 3 August 1934 · page 3

WHEN convicting Frederick Norman Dempsey at Narandera Police Court with having in his possession, a draught…

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Leeton Police Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 3 August 1934 · page 2

John Francis Andrews (38) was charged at Leeton police court yesterday that in Pine Avenue, Leeton, on 23rd ult, he was found drunk and…

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Hobart Sensation Alleged Attempted Murder. Hobart

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 August 1934 · page 3

Unprecedented public interest was shown in the court proceedings to-day arising out of the bomb outrage in a Hobart house yesterday. William…

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Colonel Campbell Law and Order Squads Police Chief's Attitude Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 August 1934 · page 3

The Commissioner for Police (Mr. Childs) said to-day that he had taken steps in connection with the remarks reported to have been made by Colonel…

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Alleged Murder at Illalong Creek Young Man Shot Early on Sunday Morning with Savage Sporter Rifle. Died in in Yass Hospital on Monday Morning Grim Tragedy Follows Night of Revelry, Dancing and Singing

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 3 August 1934 · page 3

Following a rifle shot in his left breast early last Sunday morning at a house at Illalong Railway Quarry, Leslie Arthur Cowling (26) hovered…

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Criminal Sentenced Stealing at Leeton

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 August 1934 · page 14

James Bell, with a lengthy record, was convicted at Leeton Court on a charge of breaking the window of L. D. Trim's store and stealing…

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Murder Charge Victim Refuses to Talk

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 August 1934 · page 6

Following the death at Yass Hospital of Lesley Cowling, who was said to have died as result of bullet wound during a fight for rifle at a…

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Wagga Murder Trials Morey's Appeal Awaits Third Anderson Trial Yesterday's Proceedings Special Court May Be Constituted SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 August 1934 · page 1

The appeal of Edward Henry Morey against his conviction and sen fence to death at Wagga for the murder of Percy Smith was stood…

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