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Courts & crime, 1935

1,747 stories in Riverina's papers · page 37 of 88

Flogging Ordered in Assault Case

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 May 1935 · page 3

A flogging of ten strokes was ordered by Judge Macindoe in the Melbourne court for Keith Williamson, 19, kitchen hand, who had pleaded…

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Shark Evidence Unique Murder Trial

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 May 1935 · page 1

Murder will out-- at any rate when a captive shark in the Coogee Aquarium recently disgorged the arm of a man, the detectives got busy, and…

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Albury Murder Additional Reward Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 18 May 1935 · page 1

A reward of £200 has now been added by the Government to the original sum of £500 Offered in connection with the Albury murder…

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Inverloch Murder Charge Against Youth Withdrawn Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 May 1935 · page 6

When Gordon Herbert Knights, of Ormonde, appeared before the City Court to-day a charge of having murdered Ethel Belshaw at Inverloch was…

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Albury Murder Extension" of Reward Offer Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 May 1935 · page 8

A notification in the Government Gazette tonight announces that the offer of a reward of £500 for information leading to the conviction of…

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Sensational Turn Arrest on Charge of Murder Sequel, to Shark Disgorging Arm Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 May 1935 · page 7

There was a sensational development to-night in connection with the finding of the arm of James Smith, aged 40 years, a billiards marker, of Glad[?]…

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Police Court To-day Before Mr. J.A.S. Balmain, P.M. Alleged Assault and Robbery

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 20 May 1935 · page 4

Cecil William Webb was charged with assaulting and robbing George Ponting, and was remanded on the application of the police until May 27…

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Albury Murder Police Seek Brisbane Girl Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 May 1935 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

The Queensland police are seeking a young woman named Marshall, who went to Brisbane from Melbourne in May, 1934. It is stated…

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Murder of Young Woman Footballer Found Guilty South African Crime Capetown

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 May 1935 · page 1

After a trial lasting nine days, Detective-Sergeant J. H. Coetzee, of the South African railway police, and a leading Rugby Union footballer in…

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Tumut Shire Protests To the Depletion of Police Force

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 20 May 1935 · page 1

At the Tumut Shire meeting last week, Mr. Hohn Elliot asked for permission to speak to the Council as he had been informed that the…

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Tales of the Blacks Reminiscences by Lindsay Powell Jacky Lewis and the Police

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 May 1935 · page 3

In the days when the (I was almost saying when the world was wide) bush was a little wider, and more unfenced than it is to-day, in the course of my…

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Warden's Court To-day Before Mr. J.A.S. Balmain P.M.

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 20 May 1935 · page 3

Laura Francis James for whom Leslie James appeared, as the agent was granted authority to enter 10 acres of land for mining purposes…

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Police Court Wednesday, May 15 (Before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.m.) Butcher Charged P.M. Reserves Decision

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 21 May 1935 · page 1

William Harold Bertleson was charged with having a skin of a light red belter in his possession, reasonably suspected of having been stolen…

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Human Arm in Sharks' Pool Charge of Murder How Police Unravelled Mystery Chance Supplied Remarkable Clues

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 21 May 1935 · page 2

The investigations which detectives have carried out since a human arm was disgorged by a shark in Coogee Aquarium on April 24 took a dramatic turn on Friday night, when…

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Stabbing Affray Cross-country Jockey Charged Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 May 1935 · page 6

At the Warrnambool Court today Rupert M'Innes, aged 27 years, a wellknown jockey, was charged with having wounded John Alexander Gibson…

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Boree Creek Police Station

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 21 May 1935 · page 2

The Hon. R. T. Ball, M.L.A., has received the following letter from the Commissioner of Police, dated 15 th May, 1935:—…

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Police Court Wagga, Monday, May 20 (Before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.m.) Dangerous Driving

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 May 1935 · page 3

At the Wagga Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Harris, P.M., Keitr Snodgrass was charged with driving a car in a dangerous manner…

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Marriage Delayed Man Sent to Gaol Auckland (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 May 1935 · page 1

While a girl was waiting for her prospective husband at Whangarioei, he was in police custody being questioned regarding some gelignite and…

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Albury Murder New Line of Investigation Woman From Victoria

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 21 May 1935 · page 3

During the week-end Detective-sergeant McRae, who is in charge of investigations into the Albury murder, has been making inquiries in…

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