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Courts & crime, 1938

2,009 stories in Riverina's papers · page 24 of 101

Aboringine on Murder Charge Darwin

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 8

Advice was received to-day that Constable T. Turner, of Dalley River apprehended an aborigine on a charge ' of murder arising out of the death of…

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Candidate Threatened Home Under Police Guard Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 3

After Mr. J. Hooke, industrialist candidate opposing Mr. Tang in Auourn electorate, had received a letter threatening to bomb his home…

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Court Ruling Taxation on Bonds Shares Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 7

An important decision was given in the Full High Court to-day when, by a majority verdict, it was held that bonus shares of a face value of £210,000…

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Police Court (Today.) Before Mr. J. A. S. Balmain, P.M. Railway Trespassing

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 3

Thomas Madden, Arthur, Williams, and Paul Kelly pleaded guilty to trespassing on railway property at Bethungra, and were each fined £3: in…

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Sought Car Thieves But Got a Wanted Man Gundagoi Police Make a Haul

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 4

The Gundagai police received a report that a car had been stolen from Melbourne, and subsequently to the receipt of that information, it was…

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Remanded on Charges of Breaking and Entering Two Men Appear Before The Local Court

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 1

The two men who were arrested by the local police on Monday last, were brought before the local court over which Messrs. W. C. Stribley…

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Police Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 3

John Bernard Matthews (23), John Joseph McCormack (29), Rupert Holland (30) and George Levey (26) were each fined £1 at the Leeton…

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Horse and Sulky Stolen Thief Sentenced to Gaol

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 1

James Sharam (49) was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment by Mr. J. A. Harris, P.M., at the Leeton police court on Thursday on charges…

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Ill-treatment Alleged Two Men Sent to Gaol for Theft Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 1

Allegations of having been kicked and punched in a room at Mascot police station on February 2 were made on Frederick Gibson, aged 54 years,…

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Theft of Pistol Alleged Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 4

Prank Donald Green, aged 35 years, laborer, was remanded at the police court to-day on a charge of having had in his possession on August 31 last…

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Theft From Bond Store Dress Samples Stolen SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 1

English dress samples, worth over £300, wore stolen during the week-end by thieves who raided a bond store at Woolloomooloo Bay. They rowed…

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Sought Car Thieves But Got a Wanted Man Gundagai Police Make a Haul

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 4

On Monday of last week the Gundagai Police deceived a report that a car had been stolen from Melbourne, and…

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Inquest Held at Wagga Court House Double Tragedy on Hume Highway

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 4

The coroner (Mr. J. A. Harris) conducted an inquest at the Wagga Court House yesterday into the deaths of Charles Rigby and Robert Williams,…

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Clerk on Stealing Charge Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 4

At the Central Court to-day Noel James M'Kenny, aged 22 years, clerk, was remanded until to-morrow on £800 ban on a charge of having stolen…

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Aeroplanes Damaged Police Find Evidence of Sabotage London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 4

Reports of sabotage at the Fairey Aviation Company's plant were confirmed in a statement issued by the Air Ministry to-day. It was found…

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Police Commissioner Seeks Salary Increase Comparison With Others SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 1
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There are several higher paid State public servants than the Commissioner of Police (Mr. Mackay), who has asked the Government to increase his…

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Police Slogan "Attack Crime From Cradle" Advanced Methods in New South Wales

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 2

Executive police offers in Sydney state that the main proposal of the Victorian Commissioner of Police, Mr. Duncan, for improving police work in…

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Police Court Trespass on Railway Property

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 31 March 1938 · page 2

Trespass on railway property in a way of riding in goods trucks and other vans is a common throughout the whole of the Commonwealth and…

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Former Jockey Charged Says He Had Been Certified a Lunatic Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 March 1938 · page 8

When Pearce Oscar Garnett, aged 54 years, appeared at the Licensing Court to-day on a charge of selling liquor without a license, the police said that…

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