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Courts & crime, 1939

1,898 stories in Riverina's papers · page 57 of 95

Twenty Years Gaol FOR I.R.A. Bomb Throwers London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 July 1939 · page 6

Timothy Murray, aged 19 years. Patrick Dower, aged 21 years, Gerard Bradford, aged 24 years, and Patrick M'Aleer, aged 27 years, all members of…

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Police Use Tanks Disturbances in Vienna Ex-officer in Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 July 1939 · page 9

Police in Vienna are equipped with tanks, machine guns, revolvers, hand grenades, rifles, and sabres, according to Dr. John Sachs, formerly a…

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Hotel Theft, £600 SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 3 July 1939 · page 1

Notes and sliver to the value of £600 were stolen from the strong room of the White Horse Hotel, Hurstville, early yesterday. It is believed that a…

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Hotel Theft £600 Stolen Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 July 1939 · page 4

Notes and silver to the value of £600 were stolen from the strong room of the White Horse Hotel, Hurstville, early to-day. It is believed that a…

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

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 3 July 1939 · page 2

Alfred Edward Conway was fined £1 for driving a car without holding a licence. Police evidence was that the car was…

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True Stories of French Secret Police

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 July 1939 · page 2

Captain de Beck and Louis Lemoine, France's ace undercover agent, are trying to recapture Latouche the Jackal, notorious apache leader, who has escaped from gaol in Marseille. Lemoine explains his plan to Police…

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Police and I.R.A. Reprisals London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 July 1939 · page 3

Police in London and the big provincial towns will be reinforced during the week-end to prevent I.R.A reprisals for sentences recently…

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Police Kill Murderers Two Ofiicers Shot Vancouver

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 July 1939 · page 3

August Buelo, alias Ray Olsen, aged 30 years, a fugitive murderer of at least four people and the recent killer of two policemen, was killed at…

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Moss Plays Up in Court DUBBO Later

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 3 July 1939 · page 1

Andrew Albert Moss, 61, laborer, was placed in the dock at the Dubbo Police Court today, on a third charge that hod been laid against him in…

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Dubbo Disappearances Court Proceedings To-day Many Witnesses and Exhibits Dubbo

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 July 1939 · page 4

In the Ponce court to-morrow the hearing will begin of a case in connection with the disappearance of J. O'Shea from the Narromine district…

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Tenterfield Murder Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 July 1939 · page 4

The state Cabinet will meet on Wednesday and Thursday to consider the departmental estimates for the current year…

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Dubbo Murder Trial Three Charges Against Accused Scenes in Court Prosecution Outlines Evidence DUBBO

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 July 1939 · page 2

Exciting scenes marked the proceedings in the Dubbo Police Court to-day when Albert Andrew Moss, aged 61 years, laborer, appeared…

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The O'smea Murder Dobbo

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 4 July 1939 · page 1

When the case in which Albert Andrew Moss was charged with having murdered Timothy O'Shea was resumed at the local court today the…

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Alleged Assault Two Men Committed for Trial Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 July 1939 · page 2

Stanley Gordon Wilks, aged 26 years, driver, and Henry Austin Hunter, aged 24 years, driver, were committed for trial to-day on a charge of…

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Scoutmaster Killed Van Driver Charged with Manslaughter Armidale

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 July 1939 · page 3

Following a fatal collision between a motor van and a troop of boy scouts, the driver of the van, Lyle Wilkinson, aged 33 years, was charged…

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Wagga Police Court Monday, July 3 (Before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.m.) Competed with Railway

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 July 1939 · page 4

Sydney T. Watters was charged with having carried goods on a motor lorry in competition with the railways. Mr H. J. Kennedy (of Messrs. Walsh and…

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Police Officer's Fatal Collapse Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 July 1939 · page 6

White on his way to attend a conference. Police Superintendent A. Welsh, officer-in-charge of the Midland district, with headquarters at…

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Was There Police Escort? Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 4 July 1939 · page 1

The Metropolitan Commissioner of Police, Mr. F. J. Collings, denied a report that the Japanese Consul-General had been given police escort yesterday…

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Dubbo Murder Case Human Remains Produced in Court Dubbo

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 July 1939 · page 2

Two cardboard boxes, in which the police claimed were the remains of Timothy O'Shea, aged 65 years, were produced in the Dubbo Police Court…

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Cootamundra Police Court

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 6 July 1939 · page 1

The following cases were dealt with by Mr. F. Grugeon, P.M., at the Cootaundra Police Court, on Monday last:—…

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