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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

1,898 stories in Riverina's papers · page 53 of 95

They Said It in Court

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 16 June 1939 · page 6

Woman "My neighbours have been threatening me so much lately that I have been living with my husband for protection."…

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Chain Letters "Magic of Multiplication" Police Revelations

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 16 June 1939 · page 1

Investigations carried out by Inspector O'Keefe, who has charge of the special squad used for the suppression of starting-price betting and…

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Police Appeals Act Dissatisfaction in Force Parliamentary Inquiry Suggested SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Friday 16 June 1939 · page 1

The annual conference of the Police Association carried a resolution to-day that a Parliamentary Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the…

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Amusements Exciting Murder Mystery

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 June 1939 · page 4

A novel and tremendously exciting newspaper murder mystery with Barry K. Barnes and Valerie Hobson in the principal parts, Paramount's new…

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Police Conference Request for 500 More Men Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 June 1939 · page 10

The annual conference of the Police Association decided to-day to ask the State Government to appoint an additional 500 men to the force…

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Police Court Today Before Mr. F. Grugeon, P.M. Railway Trespassing

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 19 June 1939 · page 4

Pleading guilty to trespassing on Railway property, Leo West was fined £1, or two days. After Hours…

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Royal Murder Plot BUCHAREST

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 June 1939 · page 4

The police announce that they have arrested a nan who has fully confessed to the murder plot. (Earlier references to the plot appear…

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Mr. Clapp on Jitters, Gaol, and Railway Chops

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 June 1939 · page 2

Level crossings are the safest places on the road; offending motorists should take gaol sentences in week-end instalments; oversea and interstate visitors…

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Frontier Murder German Policemen on Trial Prague

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 June 1939 · page 4

More than 30 witnesses testified at the trial of the German police sergeants, Bulle and Stehr, who were involved in the shooting of a Czech…

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True Stories of French Secret Police

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 June 1939 · page 2

This is the sixth and last of the stories about the fate of a wealthy American girl who was mixed up with the Marseille underworld. Another true story series concerning the French secret police will start next Monday…

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Woolcott-forbes Search Police Losing Hope London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 June 1939 · page 1

Hope of locating John Wolcott Forbes, of Sydney, is fading, because of the negative outcome of a police search throughout the Continent…

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Death of Mr. Hawkins "Accident," Say Police State Funeral Today SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 19 June 1939 · page 1

Police investigating the tragedy are convinced that the fall to death of the Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr. Hawkins) was an accident. It is…

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Human Riddles That Have Vexed the World (Copyright by Watkins Syndicate, Inc.) the Franklin B. Gowen Murder

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 June 1939 · page 2

Apparently in the best of health and spirits, Franklin Benjamin Gowen, former president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway, on Monday, December 9, 1889, bade good-bye to his wife and daughter at his handsome suburban…

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Death of Mr. Hawkins Accident, Say Police Leant Out of Window State Funeral To-day SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 June 1939 · page 1

Police investigating the tragedy are convinced that the 100ft fall to death of the Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr. Hawkins) was an accident. It…

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Heavy Bail in Sheep Stealing Charge

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 20 June 1939 · page 2

CHARGED at Leeton Court on Saturday with stealing a sheep, the property of S. J. Hinton, valued at 30/, Leo Watts (25) was…

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Police Court (Yesterday.) Before Mr. F. Grugeon, P.M. Traffic Cases

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 20 June 1939 · page 2

Daniel Flannery was charged with driving in a manner dangerous to the public. The police asked for an amended…

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Aviator's Death Man Charged with Manslaughter London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 June 1939 · page 1

The death is announced of the aviator Captain Nicholas Comper, who designed the Comper-Swift machine which held the England-Australian…

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Woman's Death Police Puzzled As to Cause of Injury Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 June 1939 · page 7

The police, who delayed the funeral of Mrs. Sylvia Windsor, aged 32 year of North Fitzroy, are still puzzled after a post mortem examination as to how…

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While the City Squeals the Country Suffers Also Tumut Police Station Under-staffed

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 20 June 1939 · page 1

Complaints are prominent at the present time that the number of robberies in Sydney is due to the lack of officers associated…

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Labor Daily Ltd. Company in Perilous Condition Court Application Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 June 1939 · page 2

"The company is in a perilous condition. The indebtedness to the, Bant of Kew South Wales at the present time is £51,161, and the total liabilities of…

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