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Courts & crime, 1940

1,292 stories in Riverina's papers · page 9 of 65

FORGED £5 Notes Four Men Charged Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 February 1940 · page 4

Further charges in connection with the recent discovery of forged £5 notes were heard at the Central Police Court to-day…

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Girl's Death Man Charged with Murder Alleged Confession at Police Station Rockhampton

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 4

That Edward Roy Weldon, aged 26 years, admitted having killed Alice Catherine Dyer, was alleged by Constable J. Egan in the Supreme Court…

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Girl's Death Man Charged With Murder ROCKHAMPTON

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 2

That Edward Roy Weldon, aged 26 years admitted having killed Alice Catherine Dyer, was alleged by Constable J. Egan in the Supreme Court…

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Woman Charged £1065 Fraud Alleged Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 1

Mary Victoria Sawdon, aged 45 years, according to allegations at the Central Police Court to-day, represented to Duncan Cameron that she was…

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Arms Dump Haul by Irish Police Dublin

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 1

It was officially stated that the police and military have discovered an arms dump near Dundalk containing 18 rifles, two machine-guns, 533 rounds…

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Anti-torpedo Gear Story of Alleged Invention Men Charged in New Zealand (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 7

A specially equipped deflector, said to have been sold to the British Admiralty for £280,000 to make British ships safe from torpedo attacks, was…

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Injured Man Little Hope for Recovery Sequel to Assault at Cootamundra Man Remanded To Monday COOTAMUNDRA

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 4

The condition of Mr. W. F. Nash, who was admitted to Cootamundra Hospital yesterday after an alleged scuffle with a man who called at his…

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Police Court Monday, February 12 Drunks

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 2

Patrick Kilday (82) was fined 5/. in default the rising, on a charge of drunkenness. Lionel Clifford Thornton (24) was…

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Clergyman Sent to Gaol

Daily Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 3

As a sequel to an open-air pacifist meeting in Wellington (N.Z.) on Friday night, the Rev Ormond Edward Burton and William Daniel O'Reilly,…

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Woman's Death Septuagenarian Charged Formerly a Sydney Doctor LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 8

A septuagenarian, Andrew John Gibson—registered in his alleged real name as Henry Cecil Rutherford Darling, a medical practitioner of Sydney—has…

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North Melbourne Stabbing Wharfman on Murder Charge Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 2

Following a drinking bout at North Melbourne on the night of December 21, an altercation took place between Frederick Stringer, aged 42 years, and…

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Stubble Fires Police Asked to Take Action

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 2

At the monthly meeting of the Yanko Shire Council on Wednesday last, several landholders applied for permission to turn stubble on their…

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Smart Police Arrest "Longlands" a Winner of Grand National Hurdle

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 2

"Longlands," a previous winner of the Grand National Hurdle race, aud a horse well remembered by followers of the turf, was stolen…

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Woman's Eye Blackened Husband Bound Over for Assault Junee

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 6

Medical evidence that Mrs. Laura Stewart was suffering from a bruise and blackened eye and injuries to the upper jaw and lips and other injuries…

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Six Months' Gaol Man Posed As Naval Officer Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 2

Anthony Campbell Dreyer, aged 40 years, a ship's engineer, was at Paddington Police Court to-day sentenced to six months' imprisonment for…

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Alleged Car Theft Early Morning Episode Leads to Arrest at Whitton Whitton

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 4

Harold Cox, aged 20 years, and Harold Walley, aged 22 years, were charged at the Whitton Police Court to-day before Mr. R. S. M. Taylor, J.P., with…

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The Latest (Second Edition) Murder Charge Jury Disagrees in Melbourne Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 2

The jury in the Criminal Court disagreed in the trial of James Simpson, aged 33 years, a waterside worker, of North Melbourne, who was…

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Row in Camp Aboriginal Charged with Assault Case at Leeton Leeton

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 2

Ernest M'Gee, aged 22 years, an aboriginal, on remand, was charged it the Leeton police court yes[?] afternoon with having assaulted…

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Police Court Today Before Mr. P. Gurgeon, P.M. A Further Remand

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 2

George Hubert Randall was further remanded until next Monday, on a charge of assaulting William Frederick Nash inflicting grievous bodily harm…

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Police and Soldiers in Scuffle Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 1

Hundreds of people completely blocked the traffic in George street, Haymarket on Saturday night, to watch police and soldiers engaged in…

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