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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

994 stories in Riverina's papers · page 14 of 50

Sentenced to State Institution for Twelve Months Two Young Junee Boys On Arson Charge

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 24 March 1941 · page 3

Judge Barton sitting at the Wagga Quarter Sessions last week sentenced two young Junee boys to State institutions for a period of a twelve…

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Alleged Wounding and Intent to Murder Former Adelong Man Accused

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 24 March 1941 · page 2

Baden Powell Brown, 40, laborer, appeared at the North Sydney Court on Monday last, before Mr. Goldie, S.M. on a charge of feloniously…

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Secret Printing Plant Police Search Believed Successful Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 March 1941 · page 4

Military police intelligence officer are if the opinion that they have dis covered the secret printing plant, which lias been responsible for the…

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Baronet Charged with Earl's Murder

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 2

Major Sir Henry Delves Broughton has been charged at Nairobi with the murder of the Earl of Errol, who was found dead…

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Assault on Female Elderly Man on Bond

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 4

Thomas William Higgins, aped 67 years, who pleaded guilty on Friday last to a charge of indecent assault on a female, appeared before His Honor yesterday for…

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Mr. J. A. Harris, P.m. Farewelled at Wagga Police Court Many Tributes Paid

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 4

Prior to the commencement of proceedings at the Wagga Police Court yesterday morning Mr. J. A. Harris, who has been Police Magistrate in…

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Wagga Police Court Monday, March 24, 1941 (Before Mr J. A. Harris, P.M.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 4

At the Wagga Police Court yesterday before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.M., Francis Joseph Healy was charged with travelling on a railway without paying his fare,…

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Police Court Before Mr. Grugeon, P.M.

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 26 March 1941 · page 2

Marshall William Cubbon, an old man with a board, was again before the court. It was alleged that he had been begging, particularly for…

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Police Court

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 27 March 1941 · page 2

At the Hillston Police Canst on Tuesday afternoon the following cases were dealt with before Mr. A. B. Collins, P.M…

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Cranedrivers' Wages Arbitration Court Refuses Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 March 1941 · page 2

The application by cranedrivers employed at Cockatoo Docks for an increase of 3/ a week was rejected by Judge O'Mara in the Federal…

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Clay Bird Shoot Wagga Police Spitfire Fund Benefits Tourist Hotel Wins Teams Match

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 March 1941 · page 7

Although weather conditions were far from favorable, more than 100 shooters and a large number of spectators attended the clay bird shoot conducted by the…

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U.S. Labor Trouble Free Fight Outside Steel Works 1400 Police on Guard Washington

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 March 1941 · page 2

Twenty C.I.O. pickets and 20 policemen were injured in a free fight at the work gates of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation as A.F.L workers filed…

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Ganmain Police Court

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 28 March 1941 · page 3

At the Ganmain Police Court yesterday, before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.M., Reginald Sidney Herbert Pyne, licensee of the Royal Hotel Ganmain…

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Serious View of Robbery and Assault

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 28 March 1941 · page 2

WHEN the solicitor appearing for a defendant at the Griffith Court of Petty Sessions, who was charged with the assault and…

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Police, Too

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 28 March 1941 · page 1

A Stale investigation into certain methods adopted by some of our police would also not go amiss. Too often prisoners in the dock at police…

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English and American Women Charged Tokio

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 March 1941 · page 1

The "Asahi" correspondent in Keijo said that the Korean Governor-General had been arrested. with 15 English and American women missionaries…

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Six Months' Gaol for Ignoring Call-up Wollongong

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 March 1941 · page 1

For failing to attend a call-up to register for universal training, George Curtis, aged 25 years, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at the…

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Parents of Eight Die: Shotgun Blasts at Wattle Hill Reserve Two Children See Father Allegedly Murder Mother, Commit Suicide Tragic Scene When Remainder Arrive From Work

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 28 March 1941 · page 2

BEFORE the horror-stricken gaze of two of the youngest of his family of eight children, it is alleged that a 51-year-old fruit-picker last evening shot his wife in the back, with fatal and ghastly effect, before re-loading the lethal weapon—a single-barrelled shotgun—…

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Indecent Assault Charge Case Postponed

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 March 1941 · page 2

Mr. Moors, Crown Prosecutor, yesterday made an application to His Honor that the hearing of a charge against William O'Con­nor of alleged indecent assault be postponed…

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Wagga Quarter Sessions (Before His Honor Judge Barton) Greyhound Conspiracy Case Three Men Sentenced

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 March 1941 · page 2

There was not a vacant seat in the Wagga Court House yesterday afternoon when the three men. Aloysius Oliver Jones, William Patrick Johns and Frederick…

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