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Courts & crime, 1935

1,747 stories in Riverina's papers · page 47 of 88

City Visitor Reports Theft Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 June 1935 · page 2

A man aged 63 years came to the city some days ago with £800 worth of uncut precious stones, two diamond rings and £14 in cash. Following the…

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Wagga Police Ball

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 June 1935 · page 5

Representatives of the Wagga District Hospital, Lewisham Hospital, District Ambulance, and members of the Wagga police force present at the Police Station when the money raised by the Wagga Police Charity Ball was presented. Each institution received £91…

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Police Court To-day Before Mr. A. S. Balmain, P. M. Offensive Behavior

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 24 June 1935 · page 3

Alan Henry Ryan pleaded guilty to a charge of offensive behavior. He was fined £1 court costs 8 Traffic Case…

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Brutal Assault on New Zealand Inventor Auckland

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 June 1935 · page 4

Victor Penny, aged 35 years, a leading radio experimenter who had submitted several inventions to the British War Office, was attacked and…

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Albury Murder Another Missing Girl Sought

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 24 June 1935 · page 3

Detectives investigating the Albary murder case are now engaged in trying to trace the whereabouts of a girl who, they have been informed,…

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Small Debts Court

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 24 June 1935 · page 3

Ronald Rhall, who in a previous court, had obtained a judgment order against Percy Lees, garnisheed William Frederick Nash…

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Albury Murder Another Missing Girl Sought Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 June 1935 · page 1

Detectives investigating the Albury murder case are now engaged in trying to trace the whereabouts of a girl who, they have been informed, has…

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Gundagai Police Raid Alleged S.P. Betting

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 24 June 1935 · page 2

Last week a man, who was known as a Mr. McDonald came to Gundagai and took a room at the Royal Hotel. He was…

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Latest Wires 'Man Killed by Police Los Angles

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 24 June 1935 · page 2

Fred W. Fried (40) vice—president of the Pacific Marine Federation and an active worker in the recent tank strike was shot and…

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Whitton Police Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 25 June 1935 · page 3

At a recent court held at Whitton, J. Martini Breheny was convicted trespassing on property owned by Jas. Taylor, of "Ulong" Whitton…

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Police Court Monday, June 24 (Before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.M.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 June 1935 · page 6

Mr. D. E. Lewis, municipal health inspector, proceeded against Ernest Doubleday on a charge of having failed to inform the council that the…

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Vagrancy Charge Perth Murder Mentioned Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 June 1935 · page 1

When Matthew Walsh, aged 23 years, barmen, of St. Kilda, and Keith Gill, aged-21 years, jockey, appeared at the City Court to-day on a charge of…

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Heavy Sentence 45 Years' Gaol for Kidnapper of Boy New York

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 June 1935 · page 6

Harmon Waley, aged 24 years, who pleaded guilty to a charge of having kidnapped George Weyerhauser, the nine year old son of a millionaire…

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N.Z. Mystery Police Guard Injured Man Auckland

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 June 1935 · page 1

The police will not allow anybody except relative to visit Mr. Penny, the victim of an assault at Takepuna, who is now in hospital. The police are still…

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Ryan Surrenders to the Police After Four Years Accused of Mail Robbery Back From Abroad Remanded: Bail Refused

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 25 June 1935 · page 6

Joseph Harold Ryan, 35, one of the accused in the Canberra mail robbery, when £10,000 worth of Australian ranknotes, the property of the…

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Disgorged Arm Case Not Sufficient For Coroner's Jurisdiction Supreme Court Finding Body Essential, Says Judge SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 June 1935 · page 1

The application on behalf of Patrick Brady to make absolute a rule nisi calling upon Die City Coroner (Mr E. T. Oram) to show cause why he…

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Albury Murder Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 June 1935 · page 4

Another line of inquiry which the detectives thought might lead to a solution of the identity of the Albury murder victim has proved a false…

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London Murder Appeal London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 June 1935 · page 1

Ruling out the plea that Mrs. Alma Rattenbury, who recently committed suicide, and George Percy Stoner, who was sentenced to death, should have…

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Twelve Months' Gaol for Dangerous Driving Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 June 1935 · page 1

Judge Curlewis at the Quarter Sessions to-day sentenced Sydney Tippett, aged 22 years, a motor driver, to 12 months imprisonment for dangerous…

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Contempt of Court Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 26 June 1935 · page 1

Mr. Justice Halse-Rogers to-day delivered judgment, in the proceedings for contempt of court in which the applicant was Patrick Brady and…

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