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Courts & crime, 1937

2,006 stories in Riverina's papers · page 7 of 101

Municipal Appeal Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 8

When the municipal appeal court was resumed yesterday afternoon, the first case listed was that of Jean Fenn Lusher, who appealed against last…

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Valuation Appeal Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 13

The Municipal Valuation Appeal Court, adjourned from Monday, was concluded yesterday before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.M. Mr. W. Robertson…

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Another Soviet Trial Prominent Men Charged Alleged Confessions London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 1

The Moscow correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that Karl RadeK. Sokolnikoff, Platokoff and others have all been led to confess…

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Police Station Was Saved with Bucket Brigade

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 14

A bucket brigade of men and women after a hard fight, succeeded in subduing a fire in Rockley Police Station near Bathurst. When the…

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Police Officer Resigns When Debts Pile Up Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 1

Michael Herbert Foreman, formerly officer, in charge of the Catherine Hill Bay police station, told the Registrar in Bankruptcy to-day that, he…

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Mine Shaft Mystery New Police Theory Murder and Suicide Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 1

Detectives to-day abandoned the double murder and murder and suicide theories in the Wedderburn mine shaft mystery. The search of the bush…

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Murder of Policeman Monroe (Michigan)

Daily Advertiser · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 5

Alcide Benhoit, who on Wednesday last killed a policeman (R. F. Hammond) and handcuffed his body to a mailbox, pleaded guilty and was…

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Police Mystified Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 1

Police are mystified by the discovery of two bundles of clothes near Sydney beaches. Kenneth Artherson, a park ranger, found a bundle of man's…

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Police Court SATURDAY, 23rd JANUARY

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 2

Charles Henry Edwards (43), a recent arrival in the town, was charged with being drunk and disorderly in East Street…

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Prisoners Gone Mad Whites and Blacks Fight in American Gaol New York

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 4

At Frankfort (Kentucky) the National Guard has reported that the negro and white prisoners remaining in the goal are fighting with each…

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Humour in Court Some Unrehearsed Incidents

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 1

AT the Leeton police court during the week, it was given in evidence that an arrested man had stated to a policeman that…

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Alleged Murder of Native Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 1

Galfred Mervyn Collins Firost, aged 24years, overseer, who waws charged at the Central Court to-day with having unlawfully killed Mulmul a native,…

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Murder Charge at Darwin Darwin

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 6

Following the death at the Darwin Hospital yesterday of e half-caste named George Chandler, another half-caste, Andy Snake, was to-day…

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Darby Munro Jockey's Wife Alleges Assault Divorce Proceedings SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 1
Also in Daily Advertiser

The well-known Jockey, Darby Munro, was proceeded against by his wife, Mrs. Iris Munro, on an information alleging assault and the use of…

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Captured by Police MELBOURNE

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 1

The armed man for whom the police have been searching since the shooting of Mrs. John Reynolds, at Nilma North, near Warragul…

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Married Woman Shot Police Search Bush for Fugitive MELBOURNE

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 1
Also in Daily Advertiser

Armed police are searching the bush around Warragul for a man who shot Mrs. L. Reynolds, a young married woman, on her husband's dairy farm…

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Wedderburn Mystery Mr. Greenaway's Story Did Not Know Police Were Seeking Him MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 4

An amazing story was told to-day by Mr. P. A. Greenaway, farmer, of Rushworth, who was sought by the police of all the States for a week for…

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Charged With Stealing

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 4

Appearing at the Hillston Police Court on Saturday last, before Messrs. J. C. Carters and K. Bray, J s. P., on the two charges as mentioned in our…

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