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Courts & crime, 1939

1,898 stories in Riverina's papers · page 46 of 95

Yenda Diggers' Club Raided by Police Prominent Yenda Men Arrested

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 26 May 1939 · page 8

Visiting Yenda Diggers' Club Friday night, Griffith and Yenda police arrested several prominent, Yenda men, who were later admitted…

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Sectional Prices to Be Fixed Wide Rowers for Court

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 26 May 1939 · page 6

Power to fix maximum prices according to differences in quality or description or in the quantity sold, will be given to the…

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Wagga Burglary Arrest Made In Albury

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 27 May 1939 · page 3

The police lost no time in running down the perpetrators of the sensational burglary at Hunter Bros. Ltd. store in Wagga…

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Police Investigate [?]y

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1939 · page 6

The Wagga police continued their investigations yesterday into the robbery which occurred at the premises of Messrs. Hunter Bros. Ltd. on Wednesday…

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Mildura Hold-up Man Charged Mildura

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1939 · page 6

Emil Henry Opperman, aged 26 years, has been charged with robbery with violence…

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Hit On The Head £550 Theft at Mildura Mildura

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 27 May 1939 · page 2

A council employee was struck on the head by a bandit on Friday afternoon and robbed of £550. The victim was Eric Allen. He…

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Tawworth Wurder Full Court Dismisses Appeal Death Sentence to Stand Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1939 · page 1

The Pull Court to-day dismissed the appeal of John Trevor Kelly, aged 24 years, who was sentenced to death for the murder of Marjorie Constance…

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Dubbo Murder Charge Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 May 1939 · page 3

When Albert Andrew Moss, aged 60 years, appears before the Dubbo Court on Wednesday, charged with the murder of Thomas Robinson,…

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Linesman Charged £479 Stolen From Pay Clerk Mildura (V.)

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 May 1939 · page 1

Emil Henry Opperman, aged 25 years, linesman, was charged at Mildura police court to-day with having with violence, robbed Eric [?] an yesterday of £479,…

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True Stories of French Secret Police

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 May 1939 · page 2

Retained by the family of an American girl (whose name cannot be divulged, here known as Carol Hilliard) who had disappeared in the Marseille underworld, Capt. de Beck, with Inspector Guichard and the brilliant…

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Church in Germany Secret Police Use Terrorism London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 May 1939 · page 1

German secret police use every terroristic method to crush the Confessional Church, according to the Berlin correspondent in the "Manchester…

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Murder Charge Sequel to Taxi-driver's Death 18-Year-old Youth Remancer Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 May 1939 · page 1

Derwent Evans Arkinstall, aged 18 years, electrician's apprentice, was to-day charged at the Brisbane Police Court with having wilfully murdered…

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Robbery at Adelong Smart Work By Police Mackay’s Broken Into

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 29 May 1939 · page 1

Early on Wednesday morning, F. J. Mackay’s store, at Adelong, was broken into. It is undoubtedly the biggest affair of its kind…

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JEEVES Lands Betting Plunge at Holbrook Handicap to Thirloo Court Like and Radiant Gold Win Picnic Races

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 May 1939 · page 5

Backed from 5 to 2 to practically no offer the Tumut owned and trained Jeeves landed a big betting plunge when he won the…

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Charged with Intent to Murder Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 1

At the Central Police Court today Sydney Ernest Sloane, 24, laborer, was charged with having, at Paddington on Sunday, shot at Charles Maguire…

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Shocking Neglect Mother Charged with Child Murder Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 4

The Deputy-Coroner (Mr. M'Cann) to-day found that Evelyn Meynell had murdered her nine and a half months old child, John William Meynell, and…

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Armed Assault Alleged Kempsey

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 7

Allen Lloyd Drown, a youth, was charged at the Kempsey Police Court to-day with having on May 27, at Laurieton, while armed with a revolver,…

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Town and District Topics Remanded on Stealing Charge

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 2

When Roy Jensen (20) appeared at Leeton Court yesterday before Mr. A. S. Kendall, J. P. charged with having in his possession a leather…

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Botany Robbery Two Men Charged and Remanded Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 1

On a charge of having entered the Botany post office on May 12 and stolen £40 in cash and articles to a total value of £75, William Babington,…

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Shot Fired Attempted Murder Alleged Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 4

Surrounding a house at Paddington to-night, the police arrested a man and later charged him with attempted murder. The police state that…

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