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Courts & crime, 1939

1,898 stories in Riverina's papers · page 29 of 95

Fighting Resumed in Spain Nationalists Reopen Offensive Peace Negotiations Fail Assault Expected on Madrid London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1939 · page 1

A Burgos communique says that Nationalists have opened an offensive on the Cordoba front, immediately breaking the Republican lines…

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Dumosa Dam Murder Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 March 1939 · page 5

Photographs of the Dumosa Dam murder victim were sent to all police stations in Victoria to-day, and to other States, in an effort to identify…

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I.R.A. MEMBERS Nine More Sentenced LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 29 March 1939 · page 1

Nine members of the Irish Republican Army, who were convicted for participation in the recent bomb [?]rages, were sentenced to terms of…

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Salesman Convicted Murder Charge Reduced to Manslaughter Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 March 1939 · page 4

After nearly (our hours' retirement a jury in the Criminal Court to-day, which was trying; Desmond Toole, aged 27 years, alesman, on a charge of…

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Woolcott-forbes Indian Police Search Fails Bombay

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 March 1939 · page 7

The police have so fer failed to trace John Woolcott Forbes, of Sydney, anywhere in India. Forbes is on bail on a charge of…

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Lotteries Act Challenged High Court Appeal "Foreign Lottery" Tickets Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 March 1939 · page 4

The validity of the New South Wales Lotteries and Art Union Act, which prohibits the sale in the State of tickets in lotteries conducted outside New…

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Segration of Natives Negroes Demonstrate in Cafe Town Fight with Police Cape Town

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 March 1939 · page 4

Headed by a Dana, 4000 colored men formed a torchlight procession to Parliament House and sought to interview Parliamentarians against…

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Police Court (Today) Before Messrs. F. R. Dickson and H. Budge, J's.P. Three Charges Against Stranger

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 3

John Wilson France (28) was fined 10/, or one day, on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. On a charge of using indecent…

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M'kay and Talbot Charged in New Zealand Arson Allegation Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 2

Gordon Robert M'Kay, aged 4[?] years, and James Arthur Talbot, aged 38 years, who have been charged with having unlawfully interfered with the…

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Lord Runciman Nothing to Say on International Affairs Police Protection in Sydney SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 4

A posse of plain clothes police and uniformed men awaited the arrival of the liner Strathnaver to-day to frustrate any attempt which might be…

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"Foreign Lottery" Case High Court Reserves Judgment Interstate Trade Question Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 4

The High Court to-day reserved judgment in the cue involving a point of law as to whether the sale in New South Wales of what are regarded as…

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Narandera Quarter Sessions Man Sentenced to Gaol

Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 6

At the Narandera Quarter Sessions on March 27, before His Honor Judge Hill, Eric Allen, who pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering…

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Guilty of Common Assault Charles Edward Millard, Sentenced to Two Years' Hard Labour I

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 1

At the Narandera Quarter Sessions on Wednesday last, before His Honour Judge Hill, Charles Edward Millard (20)was…

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Alleged Common Assault

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 2

William Lewis Rymer was charged with assaulting Josephine M. Nulty, at Leeton on 31st December. Mr. John Bruxner, L.LB…

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Bridge Explosion Men Charged in England London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 1

Two men who have been detained in connection with the bomb explosion on Hammersmith Bridge have been charged under the Explosives Act…

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Hammersmith Bridge Explosions Two Men Charged London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 4

William Browne, barman, and Edward John Connell, salesman, both 22 years of age, were charged at Bow-street Police Court with maliciously…

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Quarter Sessions MONDAY, 27th MARCH (Before His Honor Judge Hill) Guilty of Horse Stealing

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 2

Hubert Charles Langman was charged with unlawfully taking a horse the property of Charles Lacey, some day in November last at…

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CORRESPONDENCE (We do not necessarily endorse the views of our correspondents) Police Court Reports (To the Editor "The Dally Advertiser")

Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 2

Sir.—While the action of the police in withholding the names of convicted persons is to be commended under circumstances such as were stated in…

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Telegraphic News Pyjama Girl Murder Search for Further Clothing ALBURY

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 2

The continued absence of any report that clothing like that recovered from the lagoon on the Howlong Road had been stolen strengthens the…

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"Did Not Carry Girl," says Accused Assault Charge Against Leeton Man Dismissed New Year's Eve Happenings

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 6

ON a charge of commonly assaulting a young Leeton girl at the rear of the Cabaret while a dance was in progress on the night of December 31, 1938, William Lewis Rymer was discharged by His Honor Judge Hill at the Narandera Quarter Sessions on Wednesday…

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