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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

2,006 stories in Riverina's papers · page 58 of 101

Shots Fired Ex-pugilist Reports Attack to Police Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 August 1937 · page 5

The police are Investigating a report that several shots were fired at a man In Burry Hills last night. A former pugilist, Arthur John Graham,…

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Hospital Ownership Dispute in Equity Court Judge Appoints Fee Collector SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 August 1937 · page 5

Mr. Justice Long Innes in the Equity Court to-day appointed Mr. A. G. Campbell to act as official receiver to ' collect fee's from patients and manage…

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Tumut Police Court

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 9 August 1937 · page 4

Before Mr. S. A. Thornton, Relieving P.M. The District Magistrate, Mr. Frank Grudgeon, was detained on…

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Licensing Court

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 9 August 1937 · page 4

Alfred Cox was granted the transfer of the Wynyard Hotel, Tumut, from Mabel Ester Spencer…

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Freaks in Court

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 August 1937 · page 2

Fraulein Grisela, who is seven feet in height, and is claimed to be the world's tallest woman, had to bow her, head to enter a court at Vienna to…

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Police Believe Her Dead SYDNEY, Later

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 9 August 1937 · page 1

Police and civilians are still searching for Miss Mary (St. George, who has been missing from her home at Petersham since yesterday week, when…

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Woman Murdered Sugar in Pocket As Clue Policeman Charged New York

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 August 1937 · page 1

Deductions, reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes and based on six lumps of sugar in the coat pocket of a French woman, Mile Irma Pradier, aged 27…

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ON £200 BAIL Tullibigeal Skin Buyer Alleged Attempt to Murder

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 9 August 1937 · page 3

Jack Tick, skin buyer, of Tullibigeal, at the Lake Cargelligo Police Court, was committed for trial at the Wyalong Quarter Sessions on a charge of…

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Missing Waitress Police Feat Foul Play SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 9 August 1937 · page 1

Police are investigating the remarkable disappearance of Miss Mary St. George, aged 51 years, who has not been seen since leaving for a picnic…

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Rector Calls Police Threatened by Enraged Crowd Wedding Postponed London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 August 1937 · page 1

Enraged friends of a couple whose wedding had been postponed, threatened the Rev. J. Burford, of Stoney Stanton, Warwickshire, until he locked…

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Skin Buyer Charged

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 2

Jack Tick, skin buyer, of Tullibigeal, was charged at the Lake Cargelligo Police Court last week with attempting to discharge a loaded…

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Wagga Police Court Monday, August 9 (Before Mr. J. A. Harris, Pm.) Milk Vendor Fined

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 3

William Stewart, milk vendor, was Charged With selling adu[?] milk. Mr. C. Gr[?]appealed for the defendant, who pleaded gunty…

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Spanish Socialist Leader Trotsky Reveals Murder Mexico City

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 3

A statement by Leon Trotsky reveals the murder of "Andres' Nin, Spanish Socialist leader. Trotsky said that the O.G.P.U…

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U.S. Supreme Court Bill Passes Senate Member's Craftiness Washington

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 1

The United States Senate to-day passed the compromise bill for the reform of the Supreme Court. Senator Garner took advantage of a…

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Petrol Prices Full Court Appeal By Vacuum and Shell Companies SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 2

The Vacuum Oil Pty. Ltd., and the Shell Company of Australia, Ltd., appealed to the Pull Court to-day against the judgment of Mr. Justice Nicholas…

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Alleged Intent to Murder

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 August 1937 · page 4

John Tick skin buyer of Tullibigeal was at Lake Cargelligo commited to stand his trial at the Wyalong Quarter Sessions on a charge of…

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Proba Clerk Sentenced to 21 Months SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 11 August 1937 · page 1

Gordon Harold Annett, 36, probate clerk, who had pleaded guilty to ten charges of having forged cheques and uttered them, was sentenced to one…

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Man Sent to Gaol Head of Women Shoplifters Gang? Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 August 1937 · page 1

Reginald Patrick Pettiford, aged 27 years, a dealer, was sentenced to three months imprisonment at the Central police, Court to-day on a charge of…

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Police Protest Against Attacks in the House SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 11 August 1937 · page 1

A meeting of the Police Association decided to protest to the Chief Secretary, Mr.Chaffey, against certain members of Parliament making…

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To Be Court-martialled French Deserter of 1914 PARIS

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 August 1937 · page 2

The case of the deserter, Louis Delcourt, who recently gave himself up to the military authorities after 21 years in hiding, only to find that he had…

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