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Courts & crime, 1938

2,009 stories in Riverina's papers · page 56 of 101

Fourteen Police Dismissed Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 9 July 1938 · page 6

The services of 14 constables have been terminated within two months including seven probationers who were informed that their appointment…

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Count Von Luckner Police Charge Crowd

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 9 July 1938 · page 8

Mounted police and a large number of foot police were brought la to break up a procession of about 509 people who marked through…

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Police Suicides Numerous in New York

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 9 July 1938 · page 11

A wave of suicides is sweeping New York's police force. Sixty-nine patrolmen have taken their lives since the stern disciplinarian Lewis Valentine…

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No Kidnapping Here Threatening Letters to Parents Eighteen Months' Gaol for Writer Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 9 July 1938 · page 9

"We do not want kidnapping of little children to happen in Australia, and it is going to be stopped at the beginning," said Judge…

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Police Charge Strong Opposition by Counsel "Suspicion and Guesswork" MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 9 July 1938 · page 2

Strong opposition to the action of the police in charging Leslie Henry Bannister, aged 27 years, motor driver, of Maryborough, with having stolen…

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Police Marathon Reader 500 Pages of Evidence Steady 14,000 Words an Hour

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 9 July 1938 · page 2

Constable R. L. Brownette, a member of the police debating team, has read aloud about 120,000 words of evidence at the Central Police Court in…

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State Government Labor Attacks Combines and "Insurance Racket" Police Commissioner Chief Secretary's Reply to Criticisms SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 9 July 1938 · page 6

A strong attack on the Government, which he described as the "catspaw puppet and servant of combines operating in New South…

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Daring Burglary Hotel Safe Burgled

Daily Advertiser · Monday 11 July 1938 · page 2

A daring robbery was carried out in Wagga early on Saturday night, when a safe at Carmody's Hotel was opened, and a sum in the vicinity of £70 was…

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Nurse Charged Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 11 July 1938 · page 1

At the Central Court today Esther May Gooding, 41, nurse, was remanded on a charge of having unlawfully abandoned a child, under the age of…

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Daring Burglary Hotel Safe Robbed WAGGA

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 11 July 1938 · page 1

A daring robbery was carried out in Wagga early on Saturday night when a safe at Carmody's Hotel was opened, and a sum in the vicinity of £70 was…

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Police Court Today Before Mr. F. Grugeon, P.M. Health Inspector Prosecutes

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 11 July 1938 · page 2

Ernest Edward Quinlan pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to keep premises in a clean condition. Mr. H. L. Kinsey appeared for the…

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Stranger Faces Charge of Stealing Gundagai Resident the Victim

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 11 July 1938 · page 2

On Saturday last, Mr. Robert W. Beatty, of Gundagai reported to tho police that his house in Ottway st. had attracted some person or persons…

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Hotel Raided in City Police Take 150 Names Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 11 July 1938 · page 1
Also in Cootamundra Herald

A large squad of police raided the Hotel Sydney last night and took the names of more than 150 persons. The raid occurred shortly after the city…

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Saturday Morning’s Sensation Fire Brigade Captain Calls Police Was Attempt Made to Burn Well-known Business Premises ?

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 11 July 1938 · page 2

There was a sen[?]ation in Gundagai on Saturday morning. Following an investigation by the Captain of the Gundagai Fire…

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Man's Death in Gaol Police Inquiring Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 July 1938 · page 1

Complaining of pains around his heart, William Harvey, aged 42 years, who was serving a sentence of 2 years, collapsed in the Parramatta Gaol…

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Man's Death in Gaol Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 12 July 1938 · page 1

Complaining of pains around his heart, William Harvey, aged 42 years, who was serving a sentence of two years, collapsed in the Parramatta…

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Police Court Wagga, Monday, July 11 Before Mr. J. A. Harris, Pm

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 July 1938 · page 3

A fine of £10, with 8/ costs, was imposed on Leslie Robinson on a charge of polluting water used as the source of supply for a public watering place…

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Nurse Charged with Abandoning Child Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 July 1938 · page 1

Esther May Godding, aged 41 years, a nurse, appeared at the Central Court to-day on a charge of having unlawfully abandoned a child under the…

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Brutal Assault German Motoring Ace Attacked London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 July 1938 · page 5

The story of a brutal assault on Manfred von Brauschitsch, the motoring ace and a relative of the Commander-in-chief of the German Army,…

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