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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

1,898 stories in Riverina's papers · page 48 of 95

Betting Offences Second Charge Mat Mean Gaol Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 June 1939 · page 4

In an effort to suppress illegal starting-price betting, the police intend in all future arrests for this type of offence to lay the charge…

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Self-defence Claimed In Murder Charge SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 1 June 1939 · page 1

The trial commenced at the Central Criminal Court today of Leslie Cornelius Wilson 29. laborer, charged with the murder of Stanley James…

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Double Murder Charge But No Sign of Body Unusual Procedure in N.S.W. DUBBO

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 June 1939 · page 2

Albert Andrew Moss, aged 61 years, laborer, was charged here to-day with having committed two murders. Without a body, or even part of a body, in…

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Police Officers Acquitted on Theft Charge Wentworth

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 4

Sergeant Cecil Royal Kirk and Constable John heodore Rowland were acquitted to-day on a charge of having stolen £40, the property or the Public…

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Week-ends in Gaol

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 6

New Zealand is to adopt the ed fines, but when such action did not appear to be meeting the American method of punishing…

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The Tenterfield Murder

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 3

After the damning comment by the Chief Justice in the Supreme Court in Sydney last Friday, when dismissing the appeal by Kelly, the…

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Gold Theft Important Discoveries KALGOORLIE

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 1

Although they have made no arrests so far, the detectives engaged in looking for the masked and armed bandits who stole gold valued at £1100…

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Licensing Court

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 2

At the Tumut Court yesterday morning an application by the Licensing Inspector for an order under Section 40A of the Liquor Act for…

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Gold Theft Detectives Make Important Discoveries Kalgoorlie

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 2

Although they have made no arrests so far the detectives engaged in looking for the masked and armed bandits who yesterday stole gold valued at £1100…

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McKay and Talbot Sentenced AUCKLAND, N.Z.

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 2

Gordon Robert McKay (43) was sentenced to four years' gaol, and James Arthur Talbot (42) to two years gaol. These sentences were…

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Child Kidnapped Man Arrested and Charged Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 2

A young man was arrested this afternoon and later charged with having by force taken a child from its parents. He was arrested on the Sydney-road…

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Police Conference Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 7

Delegates to the New South Wales Police Association conference, which opens on June 13, are expected to urge an overhaul of the promotions…

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Alleged Theft of £240 Man and Woman Remanded Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 1

In the Central Police Court to-day Robert Bence Wood, aged 24 years, a clerk, was charged with having on or about March 27, stolen £240, the…

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Two Murder Charges No Bodies Camp Attack Described

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 5

Without a body, or even a part of one, Dubbo police on Wednesday charged a man with having committed two murders…

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Dubbo Murder Trial Alleged Statement by Accused SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 1

When the case in which Albert Andrew Moss, charged with having murdered an old-age pensioner. Thomas Robinson, was resumed at Dubbo…

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Cabaret Crime Charge of Murder Victim's Dying Depositions SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 1

The shooting of Stanley James Leonard, aged 25 years, at the Pirates' Cave Cabaret, Sydney, on March 15, was recalled to-day when, at the…

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Piha Bones Case Four Years' Gaol for M'kay Two Years for Talbot Judge's Comments Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 1

Gordon Robert M'Kay, aged 43 years, was sentenced to four years' imprisonment and James Arthur Talbot, aged 38 years, to two years by…

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Murder Charges Accused Man in Mental Hospital Witnesses' Stories Of Moss' Association With Robinson DUBBO

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 4

Albert Andrew Moss, aged 61 years, who has been charged with two murders, was a patient in the Orange Mental Hospital until late last year…

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Egg Board Deduction Held Valid by Full High Court Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 2

In dismissing fee claim of Ernest Hooper, poultry farmer, of Werribee, who sought for damages from the Egg Board, the Full High Court to-day…

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Assault on Constable Imprisonment or Compensation Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 June 1939 · page 2

For having assaulted Constable Gaul at King's Cross on April 1. Charles Spooner, aged 39 years, electrician, was sentenced to nine months'…

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