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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

2,009 stories in Riverina's papers · page 46 of 101

Girl Murdered Shocking Crime in South Australia Police Hunt for Clues Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 June 1938 · page 3

Despite the widespread investigations which they continued to-day, the police were unable to unearth a clue which might lead to the identify of…

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Airman Charged Goya Henry's Flights Defence Declares Regulations Invalid SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 June 1938 · page 1

Henry Goya Henry, the well-Known airman, was proceeded against in the Central Summons Court to-day on five informations alleging breaches of the…

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Murder at Sea Alleged Against Sailor Hong Kong

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 June 1938 · page 5

Able Seaman Edward Dwyer, aged 19 years, of H.M.S. Dorsetshire, who was charged with murdering Leading Seaman Robert Dickenson while the…

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Murder Charge Against Market Gardener Alleged Attack on Son Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 June 1938 · page 2

Antonia Guide market gardener, was to-day committed for trial on a charge of murder, after the inquest into the death of Angelo Carrafa, aged 49…

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A.W.U. Rule Struck Out by Court Question of Expulsions Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 June 1938 · page 1

In the Federal Arbitration Courts to-day Chief Judge Dethridge disallowed the rule of the A.W.U. constitution that any person divulging the business…

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Theft by Clerk Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 June 1938 · page 3

Ernest John M'Leod Miler, aged 36 years, clerk was remanded for sentence at the Quarter Sessions to-day on a charge of stealing £122 from the…

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Stealing From an Old Age Pensioner Young Gundagai Man Convicted

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 9 June 1938 · page 2

Two brothers, Allan and Percy Fields, of Gundagai ware before His Worship,, Police Magistrate Grudgeon at the Gundagai…

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Trade Union Rule Disallowed By. Court Members' Application Upheld Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 June 1938 · page 2

Rule number 12 of the Electrical Trades Union, dealing with the resignation of members, was disallowed in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day…

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Conspiracy Alleged Three Prominent Men Charged Sydney Court Crowded Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 June 1938 · page 1

An appeal for an early hearing of the case against Cotonel Eric Campbell Major General H. W. Lloyd, M.L.A., and Richard Arthur Duesbury was…

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Sentenced for Bag-snatching Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 10 June 1938 · page 1

Mr. Scobie, S.M., in sentencing Robert Lindsay Leafe, 21, laborer, to nine months imprisonment on each of two charges of having robbed women…

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Warden's Court

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 10 June 1938 · page 1

Osmond Albeit Archibald was granted suspension of labor conditions for six months on his gold leases Nos. 2608, 2730, 2557, ph…

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Grim Discovery at Island Gaol Port Moresby

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 10 June 1938 · page 1

A strong police cordon Has been thrown around Koki Island, about mile from Port Moresby, following the discovery of the bodies of the head…

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Fatal Street Accident Motor Cyclist Charged Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 June 1938 · page 8

Early this morning Berne Eugene Yeo, of Bowral, died in the Bowral District Hospital from injuries received in a street accident four hours earlier…

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Alleged Obstruction and Assault on Impounding Officer Cases Dismissed

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 10 June 1938 · page 1

At the Tumut Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. f. Grugeon, M., Edward J. Roddy was charged with obstructing a servant of The Tumut Shire Council as Impounding Officer of the said Council, to wit William Morris, on March 10 last…

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Grim Discovery at Island Gaol Man, Wife, and Daughter Dead MORESBY

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 June 1938 · page 3

A strong police cordon has been [?] around Koki Island, about a [?] Port Moresby, following the [?] of the bodies of the head…

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Thornton Before Court London

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 10 June 1938 · page 1

The allegation that John Bruce Thornton, having got Lord Nuffield abcard his yacht, intended to threaten to perform an operation, without an…

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Attempted Kidnapping of Lord Nuffield Court, Proceedings Sensational Story LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 June 1938 · page 4

How John Bruce Thornton allegedly planned to Kidnap Lord Numeld, motor him to a yacnt, force him to sign letters of credit, and then put him…

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Great Drug Coup Multi-Millionaire Arrested Police of Three Countries Co-operate LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 10 June 1938 · page 6
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The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says that the Surete believes that the arrest of the multi-millionaire restaurant owner, Leon…

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Gundagai Police Court Cruelty to Animals Alleged Two Tumut Men Charged

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 June 1938 · page 10

At the Gundagai Police Court on Tuesday a case of considerable interest to stockowners and dealers was heard by Mr. F. Grugeon. P.M. The…

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