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Courts & crime, 1935

1,747 stories in Riverina's papers · page 43 of 88

Reckless Motoring City Police Campaign Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 8 June 1935 · page 1

A police campaign against reckless drivers was inaugurated last night, when a new fleet of fast cars and motor cycles patrolled the roads…

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Not Guilty On Murder Charge Trial of Only Four Hours

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 8 June 1935 · page 7

After a retirement of less than two hours at the Darlinghurst Co[?]t on Thursday, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty in the charge…

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More Police For Country Protest by Shires Conference

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 8 June 1935 · page 1

A protest against the closing of police stauons and the curtailment of police forces in country districts was carried at the Shires…

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Girls Can Marry Court Gives Consent to Minor

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 8 June 1935 · page 6

Newtown Court on Wednesday had its first application for consent to marry under the 1934 amendment of the Marriage Act…

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Suicide Pact Husband Dies Wife Before Court Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 June 1935 · page 1

Mrs. Beatrice Roberts, aged 48 years, domestic duties, was sentenced to imprisonment until moon at the Newtown Court to-day for having…

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Police Court Today

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 10 June 1935 · page 4

Before Mr. J. A. S, Balmain, P.M. Indecent Language Williams Dickenson pleaded guilty to a charge of using indecent…

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Hands in Fire Police Take Fingerprints Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 June 1935 · page 1
Also in The Gundagai Independent

A man taken to the Paddington police station this afternoon after his arrest on a charge of street betting immediately rushed towards the…

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Thieves Active Safebreakers Chased by Police Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 June 1935 · page 1

Hearing an explosion early to-day, Constables Ravaillon and Bingham, who live in separate houses near the Batman railway station, jumped out…

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Convent Baided German Secret Police Methods Sister Dies of Shock

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 June 1935 · page 4

When the secret police sternly searched the convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd at Reinickendorf, near Berlin, one day last March, a nun was…

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Police Drag Lagoon Stolen Articles Recovered Coats, Gloves and Racquets

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 June 1935 · page 2

A number of Wagga residents were intrigued yesterday morning by the appearance of two police constables in a boat on the Wollundry Lagoon. They…

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Police Drag Lagoon Stolen Articles Recovered Coats, Gloves, and Recquets WAGGA

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 10 June 1935 · page 1

A number of Wagga residents were intrigued by the appearance of two constables in a boat on the Wollundry Lagoon. They had a grappling…

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Road Safety Police Patrol at Work No Fatalities in Sydney at Week-end Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 June 1935 · page 5

The police safety patrol, which has been organised to keep watch on it inerant motorists, following the heavy toll of recent months, operated very…

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District News Barellan Police Court

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1935 · page 4

At the Police Court on Friday, May 31 st, before Mr. J. A. S. Balmain, P.M., Michael Guihen, of Griffith, was charged with failing to destroy…

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Police Court Wagga, Monday, June 10 (Before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.m.) Charge of Theft

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1935 · page 4

Edward Mann was charged with having stolen a sum of money from Mr. E. M. Foster, of "Connorton," Albury road. Defendant, who was deaf and…

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Albury Gaol Residence

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1935 · page 2

The tender board of the Public Works Department yesterday received two tenders for the erection of a residence for the second officer at…

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Police Visit Hotels

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1935 · page 2

Members of the Wagga police force were active at the week-end. It is understood that two hotels were visited on Saturday night and that as a…

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Police Protection in Country Districts

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1935 · page 2

The Hon. R. T. Ball, M.L.A., has received the following letter from the Chief Secretary, dated 4th June, 1935:—…

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Well-known Jockey Charged with Wounding with Intent Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1935 · page 1

Rupert M'Innes, a well-known cross-country jockey, was charged at the Warrnambool Court to-day with having wounded John Alexander Gibson,…

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Cyclist's Death Police Recruits Dismissed Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1935 · page 2

Norman Douglas Carr, aged 17 years, of Gympie road, Apsley, was killed when his bicycle was struck by a taxicab near his home date last night…

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