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Courts & crime, 1937

2,006 stories in Riverina's papers · page 8 of 101

Darby Munro Jockey’s Wife Alleges Assault. Divorce Proceedings

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 3

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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Police Cars for Country Towns

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 2

Cootamundra usually manages, sooner or later, to catch up with anything it wants; but we do not desire to have the reputation of being everlastingly…

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Ordered Czar's Execution Man Now Charged by Soviet LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 1

The latest Old Bolshevik to be roped in by the O.G.P.U. (Russian secret police) is Beloborodoff, who, while president of Ekaterinburg (East Russia)…

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Ordered Gzar's Execution Man Now Charged by Soviet London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 1

The latest Old Bolshevik to be roped in by the O.G.P.U. (Russian secret police) is Beloborodoff, who while president of Ekaterinburg…

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Warragul Shooting Man Arrested by Police Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 3

A man was arrested just before dawn to-day in connection with the shooting of Mrs. John Reynolds, near Warragul. yesterday morning. The man…

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Melbourne Police Chief Inspector Duncan's Career Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 2

Inspector Duncan, of Scotland Yard was last night appointed by the Cabinet as Commissioner of Police for five years with salary and allowance of…

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Censure Motion Defeated in Commons Dismissals From Naval Dockyards Treatment of Men Attacked by Opposition "Sentenced to Industrial Death" Sir Samuel Hoare Describes Sabotage Proceedings Necessarily Secret LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 1

A Labor motion censuring the Government for the summary dismissal of five dockyard workmen without informing them of their offence or giving them an…

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Theft of Bicycles

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 4

The Wagga police are still troubled, by the theft of bicycles. Each year it is estimated that 2000 bicycles are stolen in New South Wales and never…

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Murder of Economist Paris

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 1

Soviet circles claim that the Russian economist, Navachin, who was murdered on Monday, held funds for the Trotsky party, and supplied money for…

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Melbourne Murder Accused Wishes to Trace Witnesses MELBOURNE

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 1
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Mr. Justice Macforlan in the Practice Court yesterday refused an application for ball by Antonio Barabar, of North Melbourne, boarding-house…

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More Court Humour and Nosey Bob's Comfort

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 4

MR. J. THORMAN, the local C.P.S., has a fund of humorous anecdotes about court happenings, some of which were…

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Police Count (Before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.m.) Failing to Register Dogs

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 3

Robert Carroll, Jack Bamblett, Leslie Davis, George Russell Arthur Smith, James Stanley, an Charles Simpson were each fined 10/,…

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Woman's Body in Harbor Man Charged with Murder Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 8

Investigations into the death of Miss Grace Maud Eve. aged 35 years, whose body was found floating in the water alongside the Manly wharf at midnight…

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Former Convict Wages In Gaol

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 14

A 33 1-3 per cent cut under the Premiers' Plan, in the earnings of a former habitual Criminal in Parramatta Gaol will be the subject of…

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Body in Harbor Murder Charge Follows Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 13

At the Central Court to-day, Henry John Thomas, 55, laborer, was charged with having murdered Grace Maud Eves, whose body was found…

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Police Raid 11 Cars Systematic Thefts Alleged

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 14

Dashing from house to house in the northern suburbs of Melbourne police and detectives seized eleven cars, a motor truck, valued at about…

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Court Lacks Power to Prevent Wife Leaving Australia Matter For Mr. Paterson SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1937 · page 5

Mr. Justice Evatt in the High Court to-day declined to grant a writ of mandamus directing the Minister for the Interior (Mr. Paterson) to cancel…

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Woman's Body in Harbor Man on Murder Charge. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 February 1937 · page 1

Henry John Thomas, aged 55 years, laborer, was charged before Mr. Harrison, S.M., at the Central Court to-day with having, on January 20,…

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Tumut Police Hunt for Missing Boys Found In Hut Clothes Saturated and Miserably Cold

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 1 February 1937 · page 1

The two sons of Mr. Ray Sturt, of Billapaloora State Forest, reported missing to the Tumut police on the afternoon of Monday last, were…

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