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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

2,006 stories in Riverina's papers · page 13 of 101

Titles Office Murder Two Men Charged Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 2

William John Cody, aged 24 years, laborer, and Rupert Davies, aged 28 years, were charged at the Central Criminal Court to-day with the murder…

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Brazen Burglary Dunedoo

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 1

Articles Including shoes, hats, suits, wearing apparel, foodstuffs, tobacco, and cigarettes, were taken by thieves last night when they broke into Alam's…

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Theft of £545 Two Men Committed for Trial

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 6

Charged at Young Court with breaking, entering, and dealing, a charge involving £545, Muriel Edna Goodlock told the court, “I…

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Police Sergeant Injured Dunedoo

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 6

The police are searching for a man who last night attacked Sergeant Kemp at the Dunedoo lock-up. It is thought that the man struck the sergeant down…

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Greek Bound Over for Receiving Share From Town Hall Theft YOUNG

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 4

That a British court makes no racial distinctions was o principle enunciated by his Honor. Judge Coyle, in the Young Court of Petty Sessions, when…

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A Money-maker Police Intervene SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 1

Police action has been responsible for the frustration of an extraordinarily during plan to secure money from applicants for positions in the…

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Police Damages Claim Nominal Defendant Appointed Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 3

The Executive Council to-day appointed the Under-Secretary for Justice (Mr. Nott) as nominal defendant on behalf of the Government in the…

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"She Knows Where the Money Is" Judge and Missing Balance of Lost Roll Woman Pleads Guilty to Breaking, Entering, and Stealing

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 3

To give Muriel Edna Goodlock an opportunity of saying what had become of the £200 which the police, failed to recover out of the…

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S.M. Will Double Penalty Where People Disregard Court Summonses Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 1

"I won't have people disregarding summonses that have been served on them and in future I will double the penalty in all these cases where people…

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Judge Here Next Tuesday No Quarter Sessions Cases Three District Court Matters

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 5

There are no cases for the Court of Quarter Sessions on Tuesday next, 23rd February . Attendance, of jurors has been countermanded. Those…

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Swaledale Wins Tumut Cup Nelson Court's Newmarket Highweight to Veneraion Weights For To-day

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 8

Beautifully fine weather, splendid attendance, and most interesting racing were the features of the Tumut races yesterday, the opening day of the 1937 Cup meeting of the Tumut Turf Club…

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Ganmain Police Court Application Under Moratorium

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 3

At the Gamain Police Court last week, before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.M., an application was dealt with under the Moratorium Act…

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Death Sentences Passed Dramatic Court Scene Melbourne Titles Office Murder MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 4

In one of the most dramatic scenes ever witnessed at the Criminal Court, Rupert Davies, aged 28 years, storeman, and William John Cody, aged 24…

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Daring Theft From Store Dunedoo

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 1

Articles including shoes, hats, boots, wearing apparel, foodstuffs, tobacco and cigarettes were: taken by thieves last night when they broke into Alan's…

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District Court at Cootamundra

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 2

The Quarter Sessions and District Court are set down for next Thursday, but so far there has not been any notification of any cases listed for the…

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Forty Gipsies Fight Police End Pandemonium Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 1

About 40 gipsies who are camped near Lansdown Bridge, on Liverpoolroad, Iought for some time to-day following heated arguments which…

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Dispute About Theatre Case in Equity Court

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 2

The hearing was commenced in Sydney on Tuesday of the Equity suit against Nicholas Laurantus, of Narandera, well known picture theatre…

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Road Fatality Car Driver at Court SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 1

At the North Sydney Police Court Royle Charles Cooney, 40, manager, was remanded till February 26, on a charge of having feloniously slain…

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Accountant Sentenced Betting with Employers' Money Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 3

At the Quarter Sessions to-day Bernard Sydney Armstrong, aged 31 years, an accountant, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for larceny from…

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U.S.A. Strike Police Use Tear Bombs Waukegan (Illinois) Saty

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 1

A force of 120 policemen and deputy sheriffs failed in a two hours' siege to dislodge over 100 sit-down strikers at two plants, fan steel and…

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