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Courts & crime, 1934

1,368 stories in Riverina's papers · page 5 of 69

Charge Of Murder MELBOURNE

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 16

At Prahran Court to-day, John Thomas Garrigan, 33, blacksmith, was remanded until Friday next on a charge of having murdered George…

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Police Station Robbed

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 4

On a charge of stealing eleven half flasks of brandy, the property of Tooth and Co. from the storeroom Co. from the Tumut Police Station, David…

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Murder Mysery Solved After 20 Years Paris

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 2

After the passage of a decade the police claim to have solved one of the most baffling murder mysteries in French crimal history. The victim…

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Money Found Supreme Court Writs

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 3

Two Supreme Court writs were issued on Wednesday by Mr. C. P. White, solicitor, representing the parents of the two children, will…

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Opium Raids Four Chinese Fined Haul by Wagga Police

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 14

The Wagga Police Court on Monway was the scene of a number of cases in which Chinese residents were charged in connection with…

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Alleged Libel T. J. Ley's Action in London Court London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 4

The hearing was begun in the King's Bench Division to-day before the Chief Justice and a jury of the action by T. J. Ley, formerly of…

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Double Murder Death of Farmer and His Wife Sensational New Zealand Case Detective's Evidence Auckland.(n.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 4

Further links in the chain which led to the arrest of William Alfred Bayly on a charge of having murdered Samuel Pender Lakey and his wife,…

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Police Court To-day Before Mr. J. A. S. Balmain, P.M. Horse Stealing

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 22 January 1934 · page 4

John Ryan was charged with stealing a horse, to the value of £10, the property of Herbert Miles. Defendant pleaded guilty…

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Telephone for North Wagga Police Quarters

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 January 1934 · page 2

In reply to personal representations. Mr M. Kilpatrick, M.L.A. for Wagga, has been informed by the Commissioner of Police (Mr. W. H. Childs)…

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The Tangle of the Tumut Tragedy Concluded at Coroner's Court Evidence Tells Tale of Domestic Disruption

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 22 January 1934 · page 1

“WHEN GOT TO THE FRONT DOOR OF THE HOUSE I COULD HEAR VOICES INSIDE. I LISTENED FOR AWHILE, THE DOOR WAS OPEN, I STRUCK A MATCH, AND I SAW WILLIAM TINDALL SITTING ON THE BED WITH MY WIFE'S HEAD IN HIS LAP. I BLEW THE MATCH OUT , AND STRUCK TINDALL ON THE HEAD WITH THE GUN…

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Albury Assault Case

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1934 · page 2

George F. Merriman, aged 19 years, of Albury, was charged at the Albury Police Court yesterday with having inflicted grievous bedily harm on…

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Death Pact Parisian Lovers Murder and Suicide Paris

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 January 1934 · page 1

Leaving a letter saying that she thought more of love than of life, Rachel Mery, a 24 year-old Parisienne, allowed her lover to place a revolver…

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News and Notes From N.r.m.a. Police to Lecture

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 23 January 1934 · page 4

The Department of Education has notified the N.R.M.A. that approval has been given for senior officers of the police force to lecture…

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The Martininquiry Confession Of Deceased Woman Scathing Remarks of Corner Verdict of Wilful Murder & Suicide

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 23 January 1934 · page 2

The closing scenes in the disappearance of Florence Eliza Jane Martin, wife of John Martin, and her 18-months-old child, Frederick, from their home at Newtown, Tumut, on Saturday night, January 6, and the subsequent finding of the bodies of the mother and tho child, tied together and drowned in the Tumut River on the following Tuesday, were enacted at the Courthouse yesterday, when the inquest…

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New Police Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 January 1934 · page 1
Also in Cootamundra Herald

Fifty-five probationary constables were sworn in to-day and later were addressed by the Commissioner of Police (Mr Childs). They average 21…

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Police Dismissals Paris

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 January 1934 · page 1

The wholesale dismissal and suspension of police heads was agreed upon by the Chamber of Deputies to-day as the first step in the clean up of the…

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Child Murder. Religious Fanatic's Terrible Crimes Seattle

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 January 1934 · page 1

Oskar Hestness, a fisherman, and apparently an insane religious fanatic declaring himself a "messenger of God," was gaoled here to-day on a charge of…

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Overdose of Drug in Sleeping Draught Woman's Death Coroner Recommends Police Action Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 January 1934 · page 1

Recording a finding of accidental death from an overdose of barbitone at the conclusion of the inquest into the death of Mrs Ruby Morison, aged…

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Tumut Court Assault Charge Tumut

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 3

At 10.30 o'clock on Monday night, Sergeant P. Stewart and Constable Fitzgerald were called to a house in Capper street, Newtown, Tumut. On…

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