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Courts & crime, 1937

2,006 stories in Riverina's papers · page 64 of 101

Divorce Court Decide Nisi Granted SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 1 September 1937 · page 1

Mr. Justice Boyce, in the Divorce Court to-day, granted Mrs. Ethel Maude Hill a decree nisi for dissolution of her marriage with Royden…

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Legislative Assembly Basic Wage Fixation Police Investigations Questioned SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 September 1937 · page 4

The Premier (Mr. Stevens) declined to make a statement at the present stage of the details of the Government's proposals to fix the State basic wage…

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Mount Hope News Police Court

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 2 September 1937 · page 2

At the local Police Court, held on the 18th. inst., before Mr. R. Donaldson, P.M., Selina May Beauchamp sued Patrick Joseph Carey for…

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Five Years for Brutal Assault Bethurst

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 September 1937 · page 1

Albert Wilson aged 21 years, who pleaded guilty yesterday, to a charge of having, assaulted and robbed a 77-year-old woman at Lithgow, was…

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Wife on Charge of Murder Denies Shooting Husband Says He Killed Himself Allegations Concerning Police Methods SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 September 1937 · page 1

At the Central Criminal Court to-day Mary Cecilia Thomas, aged 39 years, was charged with having at her home at Lane Cove on…

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Jury Disagree In Murder Case SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 2 September 1937 · page 1

The jury in the case in which Mary Cecilia Thomas was charged with the murder of her husband, after being locked up all night, announced,…

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News of the World "Stealing Her Husband's Love"

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 3 September 1937 · page 2

Two interesting cases me shortly to conic before the London and New York courts. In New York a young married man,…

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Bankrupt Dieter Admissions in Court Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 September 1937 · page 1

Cornelius Vere de Vere Dreyer, a dieter, admitted in the Bankruptcy Court to-day that he had been sentenced to six months' imprisonment…

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Theft of Stores Nayy Officers Charged Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 September 1937 · page 2

A Navy court-martial in Sydney dealt with three officers in connection with a theft of stores from Garden Island. One was dismissed…

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Murder Sentence Appeal to High Court Fails Hobart

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 September 1937 · page 1

The application on behalf of Donovan Henry Charles Crudden Packet for special leave to appeal against the conviction and sentence against him,…

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Alleged Theft of Cows Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 September 1937 · page 5

George Clyne Hall, aged 60 years, butcher, and Herbert Hartley, aged 36 years, laborer, were committed for trial at the Penrith Court to-day on…

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Police Drivers

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 September 1937 · page 4

The New South Wales Government has decided that all police officers shall be taught to drive cars, so that they may better administer the traffic…

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Death Sentence Carrington Assault on Little Girl

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 September 1937 · page 3

Sentence of death was passed by Mr. Justice Stephen, on Victor Emanuel Wilson, 21. at the Central Criminal Court yesterday on a…

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Revision Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 September 1937 · page 6

A revision court will be held at the Wagga Court House on Monday, 13th at 10 o'clock, for the purpose of revising the triennial list of electors and…

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Caravan Patrols Roving Country Police

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 4 September 1937 · page 9

An interesting insight into new police patrol methods for the interior districts was revealed at Waradgery, Shire Council- meeting, when…

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Attempted Burglary

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 6 September 1937 · page 2

An unsuccessful attempt was made to break into Mr. G. A. Bruderlin's store in the early hours of Sunday morning…

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Police Court (To-day.) Before Mr. P. Grugeon, P.M. Marshall v. Barrett

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 6 September 1937 · page 2

Mrs. Minnie E. Marshall took proceedings against Mrs. Barrett for insulting language, alleged to have been used on 31st August…

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Thomas Murder Case Second Trial SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 6 September 1937 · page 1

The second trial commenced at the Central Criminal Court to-day [?] Mary Cecilia Thomas, who is charged with having murdered her husband,…

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Young Englishman Detained in Soviet Gaol Fellow Workers Shot Moscow

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 September 1937 · page 1

Charged with espionage, Robert Valentine Bell, a young Englishman, has been detained in an Ogpu gaol at Leningrad…

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Advice, Not Arrest London Police Methods in Motorist Cases

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 September 1937 · page 3

Advise, whenever possible, not prosecution; this is the order that has gone out from Scotland Yard to all police stations here in regard to dealing with…

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