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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

1,747 stories in Riverina's papers · page 68 of 88

Police Court Friday, September 27

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 3

Gustav Peterson was fined £1, in default two days' hard labor, on a charge or drunkenness. William Elliott and Henry Hart…

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Sheep Stealing Charge

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 1

Much interest was centred in the Junee Police Court proceedings in which Neville Bye, butcher, was charged with having stolen two sheep…

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Four Men on Theft Charge

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 2

Four men Raymond Magnire, Joseph Davis, Douglas Macdonald and Frank Henry, were convicted at the Junee Police Court on a charge of…

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Police Court Monday, September 30, 1935 (Before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.m.) Starting Price Betting

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 4

William Frederick Ovington was charged with receiving money on a horse in contravention of the Betting and Gaming Act. Mr. E. Minchin…

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N.Z, Woman's Death Husband on Murder Charge Young Woman's Evidence Auckland

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 2

Eric Mareo, orchestra conductor, appeared at the police court to-day on a charge of having murdered his wife, Thelma Mareo, who died in Auckland…

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Shocking Crime Three Bodies Found Busied on Farm Police Make Arrest ADELAIDE

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 2

After a search of nearly a week me police found the bodies of Hugh Forbes, aged 45 years, his wife, and their daughter Joyce, aged 15 years…

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Noted Conductor Charged with Murder of Wife New Zealand Sensation Auckland

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 October 1935 · page 1

The case in which Eric Mareo, a well-known orchestral conductor, is charged with the murder of Ids wife, Thelma Mareo, on April 15, was continued…

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Criminal Circuit Court Before his Honor, Judge Halse Rogers. YESTERDAY, Alleged Murder

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 2 October 1935 · page 4

Charles Gow was charged that he did, at Tumut, on August 4, feloniously and maliciously murder Cletus Edward Halloran…

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Double Murder? Portions of Human Bodies Scattered in Scottish Ravine EDINBURGH

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 October 1935 · page 1

The discovery last night, of portion of bodies, including the beads of a man and a woman wrapped in newspaper at the bottom of a deep ravine…

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New York Murder Notorious Racketeers Shot Placed Against Wall New York

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 October 1935 · page 1

A gangster murder, cloself approaching in horror and method the infamous Valentine Day massacre in Chicago in 1925, occurred here thin afternoon…

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Shocking Tragedy Three Bodies Buried Farm Hand on Murder Charge Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 October 1935 · page 1

Arthur Nelson Durrant, aged 22 years, farm hand, was remanded at the police court today until October 11, without bail, on a charge of…

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A Big Cheque Lithuanian Charged

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 3 October 1935 · page 5

A Lithuanian, Peter Sven Jensen, 26, an engineer, was charged at the Marlborough Street Police Court (London), with obtaining, by false…

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Police Court Thursday last— Before Mr. J. A. S. Balmain, P.M. Loitering Stock

The Ardlethan-Beckom Times · Thursday 3 October 1935 · page 1

The police proceeded against Harry Tin for loitering stock. Sergeant Toone stated that Defendant was droving 2700 head of mixed…

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Man’s Body Found Wanted on Murder Charge Adelaide

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 3 October 1935 · page 5

The remains of Arthur William Figg, aged 47, who has been missing since his wife and four children were found murdered in their home in…

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N.Z. Trial Husband on Murder Charge Post Mortem Revelation Auckland

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 October 1935 · page 6

The court was again packed to-day when the trial of Eric Mareo, orchestral conductor, charged with having murdered his wife, Thelma Mareo, was…

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Lost Property Finder Must Report to Police Case at Young

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 3 October 1935 · page 8

If a man finds property anywhere be is in duty bound to report the matter to the nearest police station or be liable to face a charge of…

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Communist Bodies Federal Application to High Court Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 October 1935 · page 1

In the High Court to-day Mr. Justice Evatt stood over until the end of the present sitting the hearing of an application by the Federal…

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Gundagai Man Fails to Appear Order for Contempt of Court

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 3 October 1935 · page 4

At the Cootamundra Supreme Court yesterday, before His Honor, Mr. Justice Halse Rogers, an order nisi, returnable before October 21st…

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Dramatic Incident at Inquiry Witness Points to Man in Court Death of Reginald W. L. HOLMES

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 3 October 1935 · page 4

Oliver Summers, chiropodist, of George street North, at the Coronvr’s Court in Sydney yesterday, pointed out Albert Stannard, launch…

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Inquest Into Shooting of Reginald Holmes Coroners Court Crowded Alleged Identification of Man Seen Near Locality "Holmes Feared Losing Life" Widow and Brother Give Evidence SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 October 1935 · page 1

Large crowds filled the public gallery of the Coroner's Court to-day what the inquiry was opened into the death of Reginald William Lloyd Holmes, who was to have been a witness in a recent sensational inquiry, and who was found…

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