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Courts & crime, 1934

1,368 stories in Riverina's papers · page 57 of 69

Albury Murder Markings on Pyjamas Name of Chinese Firm Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 October 1934 · page 1

The markings on the hem of the pyjamas worn by the Albury murder victim have at last been deciphered. They are chinese characters denoting…

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Gundagai District's Good Record No Need for Judge Coyle to . Come Here To-morrow Quarter Sessions and District Court

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 15 October 1934 · page 2

The Gundagai distinct (in this instance it includes Tumut) is establishing a record and though the Quarter Sessions and District Court has…

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The Albury Murder New Campaign by Police

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 16 October 1934 · page 3

Detectives have planned a further campaign in their efforts to have the victim of the Albury murder identified. Photographers and an artist…

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Murder of Aborigines Five Others Charged Gruesome Tribal Rites Cairns (Q.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 October 1934 · page 1

Allegations that an aged aborigine, Alex Brown, bad been murdered and that invitations had been extended to other blacks by the murderer to drink…

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Police Court Show Week Drunks Vagrancy and Trespassers

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 16 October 1934 · page 2

THE police, in their clean-up of the town during show week, brought the following cases before the local justices:—…

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Two Men Charged Marseilles

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 October 1934 · page 1

Benes, Alias Raich, actually named Ivan Jajitch, was to-day charged with complicity in the assassination of King Alexander of Jugoslavia, and…

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Police Court Wagga, Monday, October 15 (Before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.m.) Dangerous Driving

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 October 1934 · page 3

William George Oldfield, of Cootamundra, was charged with having driven a motor car in a manner dangerous to the public. There was no…

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Police Activities During Show Days

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 16 October 1934 · page 3

Leeton escaped the list of crime offences that has been attendant at other towns during their Show week…

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Police Court (Before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.m.) Tuesday, October (Continued from last issue) Alleged Receiving

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 16 October 1934 · page 4

Frederick Norman Dempsey was charged with receiving one wardrobe, one chest of drawers, six cane chairs, eight kitchen chairs, one small table…

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Concord Shooting Laborer on Murder Charge Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 October 1934 · page 1

At the Burwood Court today Lindsay Fredrick Bell, aged 23 years, laborer, was remanded until November a charge of having…

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Sydney Murder Alleged Statement by Arrested Man Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 October 1934 · page 2

Visiting a house at Malvern during the week-end detectives arrested two young men on a charge of vagrancy. It is alleged that one of the men made…

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Albury Murder Further Examination of Body Little Result Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 October 1934 · page 2

An anatomical examination of the body of the victim of the Albury murder did not reveal anything likely to assist the police…

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Assault on Girl Attack with Bottle Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 October 1934 · page 4

Helen Wrightson, aged 21 years, of Lane Cove, wa brutally assaulted by a man near her home last night. Shortly after alighting from a bus she heard…

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Drassdorf Murder Statement by Paul MELBOURNE

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 October 1934 · page 1

At the City Court today William Arthur Henry Paul, 18, was charged with the murder of Paul Drasdorff, a Russian storekeeper, at Waverley,…

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Storekeeper's Murder Youths Detained in Melbourne Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 October 1934 · page 1

Authority will be sought in the City Court to-morrow by Sydney police officers to take to Sydney two young men arrested at the week-end on charges…

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Shopkeeper's Death Tooth of 18 Charged Waverley Shooting Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 October 1934 · page 6

At the City Court to-day William Arthur Henry Paul, aged 18 years, was charged with the murder of Paul Drasdoff, a Russian shopkeeper of…

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Albury Murder Girl In Pyjamas Story From Brisbane

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 18 October 1934 · page 4

A strange story which was told to the Brisbane Customs authorities, and which may assist the police to clear the identity of the Alubry murder…

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Murder Charge Woman's Statement Husband Was Violent Bathurst

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 October 1934 · page 6

The trial was continued of Eileen Francis Meagher, aged 36 years, who was charged with the murder of her husband, John James Meagher, aged…

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Illegal Use of Motor Car 12 Year Old Boy Charged Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 October 1934 · page 8

A 12 year old boy was charged at the Glebe police station to-day with having illegally used a motor car, with having driven a car without a…

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Lindbergh Kidnapping Hauptmann May Face Murder Trial New York

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 October 1934 · page 4

Bernard Hauptmann failed to-day in the initial attempt to avoid extradition to New Jersey to face his trial for the murder of the Lindbergh baby,…

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