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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

1,747 stories in Riverina's papers · page 64 of 88

Coolac Case in Bankruptcy Court Debts Total £6,572

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 6 September 1935 · page 4

Evidence that beneficial rains had fallen in the Gundagai district during the past seven weeks, and this should have the effort of improving…

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Acquitted of Murder Perth

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 September 1935 · page 2

Lazarus Silverman, aged 44 years who was acquitted on a charge of murder of a caretaker when £5000 worth of jewellery was stolen from…

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Death Of Actress Husband on Murder Charge

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 September 1935 · page 2

Eric Mareo 41, musician, of Auckland, has been arrested on a charge of having murdered his wife, Thelma Clarice Mareo, who died on April 15…

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Assault and Robbery Charge Against Woman and Two Men Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 September 1935 · page 4

The hearing of the charge against Kenneth Charles O'Connell, plasterer, Thomas Clout, mechanic, and Muriel O'Connell, domestic, of having…

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Hurried League Meeting Hears Abyssinia's Defence Italy Charged With Trickery Russia Defines Attitude Litvinoff Declares League of Nations Should Stand Firm GENEVA

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 September 1935 · page 2

In a brief and pointed speech at a hurriedly called meeting of the League of Nations Council to-night M. Litvinoff announced on behalf of the Soviet Government its readiness to assume all its responsibilities under the League…

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Grimes Act Challenge in High Court By Communists and Friends of Soviet SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 September 1935 · page 4

Three persons, Frank Wiggins, Ben Scott and Frederick Kewley, who claimed to be members of the Communist Party and of Friends of the…

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Hitler Attacked by New York Magistrate Bremen Incident New York

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 September 1935 · page 1

Further international complications are expected as the result of the action of the City Magistrate, Mr. fouls Brodsky, in discharging five men who…

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Police Court

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 10 September 1935 · page 2

At the court of petty sessions on Thursday. Frederick William Turner (32), a stranger, was charged with stealing from the star Hotel two…

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Alleged Assault on Impounding Officer

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 10 September 1935 · page 1

Mr. Mackay, Noxious Weeds Inspector and Impounding Officer, leged that when he was impounding stock belonging to Henry…

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Wagga Police Court (Before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.m.) Monday, September 9, 1935

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 September 1935 · page 3

James Aubrey Harper was charged on three counts of having stolen a bicycle, a hose, and some pictures. He was convicted, and fines totalling £9…

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£690 Robbery Two Men and Women Charged Alleged Confession Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 September 1935 · page 1

Further evidence, was taken at the Central Police Court to-day, in the case in which Kenneth O'Connell, aged 31 years, plasterer; Muriel. O'Connell…

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Armed Police Sent to Innisfail Innisfail

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 September 1935 · page 1

Large batches of police have been drafted to Innisfail to afford protection for the canegrowers, who expressed their intention of cutting their own…

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The Police Patrol Adelong Man Fined for Not Heeding Officer's Signal

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 10 September 1935 · page 4

The first case of its kind to be heard an the Gundagai Police Court, for failing to stop when a police constable signals a motor driver to…

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City Hoax Accident That Did Not Occur Police, Firemen, and Ambulance Called Out Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 September 1935 · page 3

A series of hoaxes involving ambulance stations, fire brigades, and police were perpetrated at Camperdown to-night…

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Tattooed Arm Case at Criminal Court Trial of Brady Opens Counsel's Unusual Request Concerning Jurymen Refused by Chief Justice Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 September 1935 · page 1

At the Central Criminal Court to-day, before Chief Justice Jordan and a jury, the trial commenced of Patrick Brady on a charge of having on April 8, 1985, at Cronulla, feloniously and maliciously murdered James Smith. The…

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Police Court Tuesday Before Mr. E. J. Cocks, J. P Indecent Language

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 11 September 1935 · page 3

Charles Sheather was fined £2 on a charge of using indecent language in Parker street. George Ponting was fined £3 on a…

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Assault and Robbery Charge Two Men Committed Woman Set Free Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 September 1935 · page 1

Thomas Croft, aged 30 years, mechanic, and Kenneth Charles O'Connell, aged 31 years, plasterer, were committed for trial at the Central Police…

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Brady Again Before Court SYDNEY, Later

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 11 September 1935 · page 1

When Patrick Brady (or Jack Anderson) was charged, on a provisional warrant, at the Central Court today with having, at Hobart, forged a…

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Brady Acquitted of Murder Judge's Direction to Jury End of Sensational Shark-arm Case Counsel's Strong Fight Further Charge Laid SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 September 1935 · page 1

The extraordinary case concerning the tattooed arm which was disgorged by a captive shark at the Coogee Aquarium some months…

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Gaol Escapee Captured Sydney

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 12 September 1935 · page 5

A message from Rabaul stales that Ludwig Schmidt, who escaped from Wewak gaol on August 20th while, awaiting trial on a charge of…

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