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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

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Court Martial That Cost £400

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 January 1941 · page 2

The court martial of Aircraftman Frank Harle in Perth on December 18 and 19 is estimated to have cost the Government £400 or £500. Harle objected to doing…

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Excitement in Cowra on Christmas Eve Smoke Bomb Fired Inmates of Hotel Smoked Out Police and Piquets Long Time Restoring Order

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 1

Adopting mob rule tactics a big body of soldiers on Christmas eve took charge temporarily of one of Cowra’s leading hotels…

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Police Court (Yesterday)

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 3 January 1941 · page 2

Before Messrs. S. Moorhouse and G. Black, Js.P. Albert Munro Cameron was fined £1 on a charge of using indecent…

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Murder and Robbery

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 3 January 1941 · page 1

HOBART, Friday: Erle Royce Robinson, porter at Moonan railway station, three milles from Hobart, was murdered early yesterday morning…

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Police Promotions

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1941 · page 4

The following police promotions were announced in Sydney last night: Constable to be constable first-class: S. P. W. Lawler, Jugiong; R.L. Allan, Albury…

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Murder of Greek £1000 Reward Offered Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1941 · page 1

A reward of £1000 is offered to-day to any person giving information leading to the apprehension and conviction of the person or persons responsible…

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Items of News Police Spitfire Fund

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1941 · page 4

A valuable gift has been given for disposal to the Ariah Park branch of the Wagga sub-district Police Spitfire Committee by Mr. T. H. Turner, of…

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Gaol Without the Option

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 6 January 1941 · page 2

Kingsley Bowman, 20, described as a laborer, a dark, little man, was Charged at Junee with being armed with an offensive weapon, a…

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Police Court

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1941 · page 1

William Joseph Cummings (40), was charged with having insufficient lawful means of support. The police staled that they did not…

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Cootamundra Car Theft

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1941 · page 2

Claude Anthony Ingram, aged 85 years, of no fixed abode, was charged at the Albury Police Court yesterday was having stolen some clothes and…

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Wagga Police Court Monday, Janurby 6, 1941 (Before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.M.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1941 · page 4

At the Wagga Police Court yesterday before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.M., much of a long sitting was taken up in assault charges arising out of a disturbance in…

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Final Assault Italians Lose Army of 70,000 LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1941 · page 1

Before finally assaulting Bardia the Australians were in the highest spirits, lying strung out in a thin line along the base of rocky hillocks. A typical…

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Sent to Gaol Without The Option Vicious Knuckle-duster Found in Junee

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 7 January 1941 · page 3

When Kingsley Bowman (20 years), described as a laborer, appeared in the Junee Court he at least offered variety to the list…

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Assault

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 5

A young member of the A.T.S. had a message to deliver. "May I fee the captain?" she asked the sailor on the gangway…

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Cootamundra Car Theft

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 2

Claude Anthony Ingram, 36 of no fixed abode, was charged at Albury court on Monday with having stolen some clothes and a small sum of…

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Jehova's Witnesses More Sent to Gaol Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 8

The maximum sentence of six months' imprisonment was imposed on Arthur Johnson, aged 23 years, in the Burwood Court to-day for…

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Pyjama Girl Murder Bodt Not to Be Buried Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 5

Rumors that the preserved remains of the Albury pyjama girl murder were to be buried were denied by the, Police commissioner to-day. The body…

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Bonds and Debentures Found Buried in Fowl Yard Ex-police Officer Robbed Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 4

Detective-Constable Lynch described in the Kogarah court to-day how £4500 worth or bonds and debentures had been found buried in a fowl yard near…

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Gundagai Police Court

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 9 January 1941 · page 1

Three quarters of an hour was sufficient to dispose of all the cases listed for hearing by Mr. F. Grugeon, P.M., at the Gundagai police…

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Gaol Without Option

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 9 January 1941 · page 6

Kingsley Bowman, 20, described as a labourer, a dark little man, was charged, at Junee with being armed with an offensive weapon, a…

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