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Courts & crime, 1940

1,292 stories in Riverina's papers · page 43 of 65

Fines For Minor Traffic Offences At Yesterday's Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 9 August 1940 · page 2

Pleading guilty to not having returned an expired driver's license. Clifford M. Dunn said that he had now returned the license, but was…

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Rumanian Police Alleged Kidnapping of Britisher Legation Demands Inquiry London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 August 1940 · page 1

Rumanian police in plain clothes, it is alleged, kidnapped a British legation messenger and threatened to shoot him unless he supplied a daily list…

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Federal Finances Declared Sound in Court of Arbitration Unions' Wage Claim Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 August 1940 · page 1

The condition of the Federal Government's finances was not only sound but it was improving, declared Mr P G. Clearey during the hearing of the…

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Federal Government Orders Probe Of A rea A liens' Affairs Big Questionnaire: Long Task for Leeton and Griffith Police

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 9 August 1940 · page 3

OVER the past couple of weeks an intensive probe into the affairs of unnaturalised aliens on the Murrumbidgee irrigation area has been conducted by the police of Leeton and Griffith, at the instance of the Commonwealth authorities…

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No Cases Since District Court Re-established Yet Were Many Sittings at Narandera Curious Anomaly in Leeton Litigation

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 9 August 1940 · page 3

FOR the second time since the re-establishment of the District Court at Leeton, no cases were heard. The second sitting was…

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Leeton Police Court (Before Mr. D. Parker, Sm.) Unclean Premises Leeton

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 August 1940 · page 2

Explaining that a number of his pigs had died because a plague of mice had bitten off their ears, Harold Edward Trickett Sheldrick, of Farm…

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Junee Hospital Full Court's Decision Board's Attitude Supported SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 August 1940 · page 7

"There is no provision in the Hospitals Act for the exercise by subscribers of any other function than that of taking part in the triennial…

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Death of Girl Four Charged with Murder

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 August 1940 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Police early yesterday arrested two women and two men, and charged the women with murder and the men with being…

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Death of Girl Women Charged with Murder Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 August 1940 · page 3

Police early to-day arrested two women and two men and charged the women with murder and the men with being accessories before the fact. The…

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Alleged Assault at Cootamundra

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 12 August 1940 · page 3

Following a report on Thursday morning, Detective Humphris and Constable Jekrey proceeded to a spot near the Cootamundra railway…

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Aborigines on Murder Charge

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 August 1940 · page 1

DARWIN, Monday: Two aborigines have been brought to Darwin and charged with allegedly murdering lubra in the Daly district recently. It…

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

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 August 1940 · page 3

Clifford Whitfield pleaded guilty to falling to return an expired driver's license, and was fined 5/, court costs 8/…

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Aborigines Face Murder Charge Darwin

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 August 1940 · page 2

Two aborigines have been brought to Darwin and charged with allegedly murdering a lubra in the Daly district recently. It is understood that three…

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Junee Hospital Full Court Finding

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 12 August 1940 · page 2

“There is nothing in the Hospitals Act which gives the subscriber the right to do anything except elect a part of the Board of Directors…

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Industrial Court (Today) A. Tinning [?] Delisch Bros

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 August 1940 · page 2

His Worship announced that in the case of A. Tinning, industrial inspector versus Deltsch Bros., that the matter had gone before the Industrial…

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Police Appeal Saturday's Meeting Forceful Address Scrap-iron Wanted

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 August 1940 · page 4

At a public meeting, in the Town Hall on Saturday, his Worship the Mayor, Ald. F. R. Dickson, introduced Sergeant Blackman, who…

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Train Escapees Sentenced

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 13 August 1940 · page 4

MELBOURNE; Tuesday: The three men who recently disarmed their police escort on the Albury train and escaped from custody' when they reached…

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Gundagai Police Court (Before Mr. F. Grugeon, P.M.)

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 13 August 1940 · page 1

At the Gundagai Police Court on Tuesday last Keith Wilson, aged 19 years, Keith Bedford, aged 18 years. and Herbert Backhouse, aged 26…

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Albury Train Escapees Sentenced in Melbourne Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 August 1940 · page 4

The three men who recently disarmed their police escort on the Albury train and escaped from custody when they reached Melbourne were…

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Police War Effort

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 13 August 1940 · page 2

Owing to unforeseen, circumstances, the Ladies' Committee meeting in connection with the Police War Effort will take place in the School of Arts…

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