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Courts & crime, 1937

2,006 stories in Riverina's papers · page 39 of 101

Basic Wage Arbitration Court Inquiry Commonwealth Statistician Gives Evidence MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 4

The Commonwealth Statistician (Dr. Wilson) gave evidence before the Federal Arbitration Court to-day regarding the index figures on which…

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Said They Were Police Is Allegation Against TWo Men Accused's Story Of Practical Joke Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 4

Allegations that two men had entered a house at Glebe, presented themselves as policemen engaged in the suppression of starting price betting, and that…

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Millie Creek Tragedy Dead Man Was Plaintiff in Court Case Unusual Position Arises Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 1

Ernest Harry Brown, whose body was found at Millie Creek on Saturday, was plaintiff in equity proceedings is which the defendant was M. Mullen…

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Items of News Imprisoned for Stealing

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 May 1937 · page 6

James Thomas, aged 24 years, on remand, appeared before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.M., at the Wagga Police Court yesterday, charged with having stolen…

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Conspiracy to Defraud Man Sentenced to 41 Year Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 May 1937 · page 1

At the Quarter Sessions to-day Guy Paul M'Donald was convicted of conspiracy to cheat and defraud, and was sentenced to four years and six…

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Mile Creek Murder Blue Mountains Search Penrith

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 29 May 1937 · page 2

The police net is closing in on the lower Blue Mountanis, where they believe the man for whom they are searching in connection with…

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Stockbroker's Profits Evidence in Bankruptcy Court Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 May 1937 · page 5

Giving evidence in the Bankruptcy Court to-day, Keith Brougham Docker, stockbroker, said that in the year 1934 he made a net profit of £10,780;…

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Soviet Chief of Police Shot in His Cell London

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 29 May 1937 · page 2

According to the "Daily Mail" correspondent at Warsaw, the former Soviet Chief of Secret Police, yagoda, who was arrested on many…

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S.P. INQUIRY Police Chief's Plea a Lesson to the Force

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 29 May 1937 · page 12

In a dramatic and frank appeal for the police involved in the proceedings fo the S.P. Commission the Commissioner for Police (Mr…

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Intense Man Hunt Police Eluded in Sydney Blue Mountains Search Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 May 1937 · page 5

The police believe that the man whom they want to interview in connection with the death of Ernest Harry Brown, on the Queensland border, has…

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Contempt of Court Rule Nisi Against Newspaper Lady Kingston Smith Mentioned SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 May 1937 · page 7

The Full Court to-day granted a rule, nisi attaching Smith's Newspapers Ltd. for contempt of court, the rule being returnable during the July…

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Wife Charged with Murder Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 31 May 1937 · page 1

At the Central Criminal Court to-day Annie Kathleen Northcott was charged with having murdered her husband, Carl William Northcott, 49,…

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Son Charged with Murder Tragedy at Batlow. Orchardist Found Shot. Tumut

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 31 May 1937 · page 2

This morning at the Tumut Police Court, before Mr. F. W. Smart, J.P., Edgar Archer Evans, aged 31, was charged that…

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Millie Creek Tragedy Murder Charge Against Laborer. Police Find Injured Man

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 31 May 1937 · page 1

At the Central Police Court (Sydney) on Saturday night, Harold Thomas Mullen, aged 36 years, laborer, was charged by provisional…

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Millie Creek Tragedy Murder Charge Against Laborer Police Find Injured Man Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 31 May 1937 · page 1
Also in Cootamundra Herald

At the Central Police Court last night Harold Thomas Mullen, aged 36 years, laborer, was charged by provisional warrant with having, on or…

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The Garah Murder Arrested Man Remanded. Sydney

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 31 May 1937 · page 3

At the Central Court to-day, Harold Thomas Mullens, 36, laborer, was charged with the murder of Ernest Harry Brown, on May 19th, at St…

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Police Chase Suspected Thieves Captured Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 31 May 1937 · page 1
Also in Cootamundra Herald

Alter an exciting chase a police patrol car forced a motor truck into the gutter at East Burwood early this morning and recovered stock valued at…

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Chicago Strikers Injured Clash with Police Chicago

Daily Advertiser · Monday 31 May 1937 · page 1

Twenty strikers were injured, two seriously, when 1000 strikers marching upon the Republic Steel Corporation plant were beaten back by police…

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