Steamers Confiscated by German Prize Court Berlin
The Prize Court has confiscated the Finnish steamers Tokas (965 tons) and the Jessio (1415 tons), which were captured while on their way to…
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1,292 stories in Riverina's papers · page 10 of 65
Street Brawls City Traffic Held Up Police and Soldiers in Souffle Sydney
Hundreds of people completely blocked the traffic in George-street, Haymarket, last night, to watch police and soldiers engaged in a scuffle. Four…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court Friday, 18th FEBRUARY
Roger Sheedy (59) was fined 5/, in default the rising, on a charge of drunkenness. Kenneth Campbell was fined 10/, in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Principals Charged, Many Names Taken, at Roadside Fight Crowd's Swift Scatter When Police Arrived
VARIOUSLY estimated at from three to five hundred, a crowd of men who were watching a grudge fight between two local Identities on the Brobenah Road on Sunday morning, scattered when members of the Leeton police force arrived on the scene in a car and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Teacher Killed Man Charged at Leeton LEETON
Severely injured when knocked off his bicycle by a motor car on Sunday night, Mr. Robert Nicholls, of the teaching staff of the Riverina…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wagga Police Court (Before Mr. J. A. Harris. P.m.) Monday, February 19, 1940
William Cowley was charged at the Wagga Police Court yesterday before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.M., with having broken and entered the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Investigate Sudden Death
THE contents of the stomach of a man who died suddenly at his home at Carathool at 5 a.m. on Friday have been sent to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Teacher Killed Companion Severely-injured Man Charged at Leeton
Severely injured when knocked off his bicycle by a motor car on Sunday night, Mr. Robert Nicholls, of the teaching staff of the Riverina Welfare…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Car Theft Early Morning Episode Leads to Arrest at Whitton
Harold Cox, aged 20 years, and Harold Walley, aged 22 years, were charged at the Whitton Police Court on Friday before Mr. R. S. M…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woman Shielded Defendant, Says Magistrate Nine Days in Hospital—denied Being Struck Described Chapter of Accidents
A STATEMENT that the chief witness had obviously been tutored was made at the Leeton police court on Friday afternoon, when a defendant of dark blood, Ernest McGee, referred to frequently In evidence by the nickname of "Foxy," was charged with occasioning actual bodily…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Officers Bankruptcy Proceedings Sydney
Detective-Sergeant Lawrence Dimmock, Detective-Constable John William Law, and Constable William Samuel Watt Tyler were examined…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Photographer Attacked Strong Comment by Magistrate Sydney
A case in which persons prominent in the newspaper industry were the principals drew sharp comment from Mr. Scobie. S.M., at the Central Police…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Quarter Sessions Today Before Judge Stacey. Breaking, Entering, and Stealing
Robert Desmond McGuinness pleaded guilty to breaking and entering the Cootamundra Golf Club House on November 21, 1939, and stealing a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gundagai District Court Many Garnishee Matters
Seven garnishee cases came before his Honor Judge Stacy, in the Gundagai District Court on Tuesday last, In nearly all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Military Officers Court of Inquiry Appointed London
The Secretary for War (Mr. Oliver Stanley) to-day announced the constitution of a Court of inquiry to investigate the conduct of two military…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Assault with Intent to Rob Two Men Acquitted of Serious Charge Case From Tumut “ I’ll Cut His Head Off.”
“WE can than that — Baker for this — mess. I’ll cut his — head off when we get off.” So spoke Leslie Clarke when with Maurice Bowene, he were arrested at Tumut in January last and charged with assaulting James Colin Baker, with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Leeton Police Court Youths Sentenced for Taking Car Leeton
At the Leeton police court to-day, before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.M., Harry Walby and Harold Cox were charged with taking and using a vehicle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Teacher Killed Companion Severely Injured Man Charged at Leeton
Severely injured when knocked off his bicycle by a motor car on Sunday night, Mr. Robert Nicholls, of the teaching staff of the Riverina…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Teacher Killed Companion Severely Injured Man Charged at Lbbton
Severely injured when knocked off his bicycle by a motor car on Sunday night, Mr. Robert Nictholls, of the teaching staff of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Youth Acquitted on Murder Charge Melbourne
Keith Barter, aged 16 years, laborer, was acquitted at the Criminal Court to-day on a charge of having murdered his father, Athol James Barker, aged…
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