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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

1,898 stories in Riverina's papers · page 51 of 95

Leeton Police Court (Before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.m.) Trading After Hours Leeton

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 June 1939 · page 4

James Fraser, licensee of the Hotel Leeton, pleaded guilty, at the Leeton court ta a charge of allowing his premises to be open during prohibited…

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Preference to Unionists Court's Powers

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 10 June 1939 · page 5

To present sweating in industries, covered by Federal awards, the Government has decided to make absolute the Arbitration Court's powers…

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Theft Charge at Leeton Man Pleads Guilty Case Against Second Man Dismissed Leeton

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 June 1939 · page 3

At the Leeton Police Court to-day before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.M., Roy Jensen, aged 20 years, who pleaded guilty to stealing £6 the property of…

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Double Shooting Charge No Evidence by Police Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 June 1939 · page 3

On a charge of having shot at Charles M'Guire and Michael Phillips with intent to murder Sydney Sloane, aged 24 years, was discharged at the Central…

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Woman Missing Police Drag Murray River at Tocumwal Tocumwal

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 June 1939 · page 1

rearing the woman might have been drowned, the police are searching for Mrs. J. Shuttleworth, aged about 68 years, who disappeared after she left…

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German Police Chief Murdered Rigid Proclamation in Czech Town Prague

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 June 1939 · page 2

As a sequel to the murder of the German chief-of-polioe, Wilhelm, Kniest, a rigorous proclamation has been issued in the City of Kladne…

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Banished From Tribe Court Punishes Black Marble Bar (W.a.)

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 June 1939 · page 9

The severest punishment known to wild aboriginals—life banishment from the tribe—was inflicted on Ginawadda, a Rudolph Range aboriginal, by a…

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Cream From Victoria Sale Rohibited in Sydney High Court Judgment Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 June 1939 · page 8

The High Court of Australia has ordered that the Metropolitan Cream Company of Waverley, Sydney, should be restrained from selling or…

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King George Meets President Roosevelt Scene at Railway Station Tremendous Crowds Line Route Planes, Tanks and Police Squads I.R.A. Leader Out on Bond WASHINGTON

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 June 1939 · page 1

The hands which for so long hare been figuratively clasped across the sea met actually to-day when King George and President…

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True Stories of French Secret Police

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 June 1939 · page 2

Searching for an American girl (whose name cannot be divulged, known here at Carol Hilliard), Capt. de Beck and Louis Lemoine,…

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Palestine Bombings British Police and Soldiers Killed Jerusalem

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 June 1939 · page 4

A British constable was killed and several injured by a bomb which exploded inside the general post office. Two bombs which exploded in the…

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Reign of Terror in Kladno Shooting of German Police Chief Prague

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 June 1939 · page 4

Something akin to a reign of terror is pipping Kladno where the German chief-of-police, Wilhelm Kniest, was shot dead on Thursday. The Czechsts…

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Serious Assault Charge Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 June 1939 · page 7

Stanley Gordon Wilson, aged 26 years, and Henry Austin Hunter, aged 24 years, were remanded at the Newtown Police Court to-day on charges of…

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Valueless Cheque Man Sentenced at Narandera

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 June 1939 · page 7

At the Narandera Police Court on Thursday, June 8, before Mr. T. A. Doolan, P.M., Robert Donald M'Lachlin, aged 49 years, was sentenced to…

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Police Conference Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 13 June 1939 · page 1

Addressing the annual conference of the New South Wales Police Association today Police Commission: W. J. Mackay, referring to crime, suggested…

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Dumosa Murder 3000 Men Traced Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 June 1939 · page 1

Although the police have been unable to identify the body of the young man who was murdered in a hut near Dumosa three months ago, they have…

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Secret Tunnel From French to Belgian Territory Amazing Police Discovery London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 June 1939 · page 1

The police and customs agents have discovered an electrically lighted, cemented tunnel with an underground railway leading from the Chateau Mont…

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Arbitration Vital Change in Law Preference to Unionists Court to Have Power to Order

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 13 June 1939 · page 3

A notable advance in industrial legislation will have been effected when a Bill, of which the Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) gave notice in…

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Jewish Girl Sentenced Jerusalem

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 June 1939 · page 4

An eighteen-year-old Jewess, Rachel Ohevami, was sentenced to life imprisonment for depositing a bomb in a prison…

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Alleged Wholesale Murder London

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 14 June 1939 · page 1

According to the British United Press, nine women were arrested in Madrid, and charged with 5000 murders. They allegedly confessed to the…

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