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Courts & crime, 1939

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Tumut Hotel Improvements Licensing Court Held on

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 3

The Licensing Board sat at the Tumut Courthouse on Tuesday morning to deal with matters concerning hotels in Tumut,…

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M'kay and Talbot Again in Court Further Remanded

Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 4

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thursday—When Gordon Robert M'Kay, aged [?] years, and James Arthur Talbot, aged 38 years, appeared on remand at the…

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District Court WEDNESDAY, 29th MARCH (Before His Honor Judge Hill)

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

The District Court list was opened on Wednesday, and although a large number of cases were listed, the court sat for less than half an hour…

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Equity Court Case Delated by War in China Claimants to Sydney Estate Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 5

The war in China is holding up the Sydney Equity Court case concerning the estate of £52,000 left by Alfred Clarke. The claimants for…

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Wagga Police Court (Before Mr. Hawkings, P.M.)

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 9

At the Wagga Police Court on Monday James McDonald was remanded to Sydney on six charges of false pretences…

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Police Promotions

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 6

The following police promotions were announced in Sydney yesterday: Sergeant Hill, of Wagga, to be sergeant first class; Sergeant C. W. Phillips, of…

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Sentence Of Two Years for Assault on Woman

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 5

As she pushed her baby's perambulator along a street, on the night of February 11, she was savagely assaulted by a youth, with whom she…

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Death Sentences French Murder Trials Paris

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 1

After a three weeks' trial, Weidmann, whose case caused the greatest sensation since that of Bluebeard Landru, was found guilty on six…

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April Fool's Day Police Hoaxed Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 2

Practical jokers made a grim jest to mark April Fool's Day, when they hung a dummy of a man from the Sydney Harbor Bridge. The…

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Police Commissioner's Salary Increase of £250 a Year

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 14

The salary of the Police Commissioner (Mr. MacKay) was increased by decision of the State Cabinet several months ago. It is…

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"Pyjama Girl" Murder Analyst to Examine Clothes From Lagoon Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 4

Articles of clothing found in a lagoon on the Howlong-road, were brought to Sydney to-night by Detective Wilkes, who has charge of the…

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Two Years' Gaol Narandera Man Convicted of Assault Narandera

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 5

Charles Edward Millard, aged 20 years, pleaded not guilty at Narandera Quarter Sessions when charged before His Honor Judge Hill with common…

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Young Man Acquitted Alleged Assault at Dance Narandera

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 4

William Lewis Rymer, who was remanded from the Leeton Court of Petty Sessions on a charge of common Assault on a Leeton girl, was…

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Death Sentence "Mass Slayer" in France Accomplice Also Sentenced Paris

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 4

Death-sentence was pronounced on the German refugee "mass slayer," Eugene Weldman, and his accomplice, Roger W. Million…

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Dumosa Murder Axe Found in Dam Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 4

Believed to nave peen the weapon used to kill the unknown Dumosa murder victim, an axe was to-day recovered from the dam in which the body of the…

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Scout Court of Honor Formed

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 4

Yesterday the Scouters of the 1st and 2nd Wagga and 1st North Wagga Scout groups, formed a Court of Honor to govern tile affairs of these three…

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Dam Murder Case Water to Be Pumped Out Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 5

Detectives investigating the Dumosa murder, have ordered the water to be Pumped from the dam in which the man's body was found a week ago…

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Woolcott-forbes Case Man Charged in London Denies He Is Accused London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 4

A man charged at Bow-street to-day in the name of John Woolcott-Forbes, as a fugitive offender, with conspiracy to defraud in Sydney, claimed that his…

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Terrorists in London Bomb-laden Car Tours City Five Outrages All Available Police in Search LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 4

Irish Republican Army supporters, touring London in a powerful car loaded with bombs, submitted the city to a night of terror as a…

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Theft Charge

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 2

Leslie Bagley was charged with stealing two frocks, the property of C. Farrah. He was also charged with having goods in his possession…

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