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Courts & crime, 1941

994 stories in Riverina's papers · page 37 of 50

Hospital Secretary Charged

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 September 1941 · page 2

Reginald Leslie Ryan, 45, the former secretary of the Cobar District Hospital, was charged at the Central Court, Sydney, with embezzling £5, the property of the…

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Police Court Friday, 5th SEPTEMBER (Before Mr. J. S. Hart, J.P.) Indecent Language

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 9 September 1941 · page 2

Albert James Webster (41) was charged with using indecent language on a road at Gillenbah. Detective Love stated that on a…

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Wagga Police Court Monday, September 8, 1941 (Before Mr. C. F. Denton, P.M.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 September 1941 · page 3

At the Wagga Police Court yesterday, before Mr. C. F. Denton, P.M., William Sheridan Winterbottom. of 6 Richard-street, Wagga, was charged…

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Murder Trial Adjournment to Find Witnesses

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 September 1941 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—The defending counsel in the Duckworth murder trial, which began at the Central Criminal court to-day, was granted…

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£5000 in Daughter's Name Bankruptcy Court Evidence

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 September 1941 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—Robert Ross, of Balmain, said in the Bankruptcy Court to-day that he had asked his daughter to put £5000 belonging to his…

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Wife Put on Roster Admission in Divorce Court Husband's Hopeless Case

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 September 1941 · page 5

In the Sydney Divorce Court a solicitor said that in 1927 he drew a [?] of housework for his wife. followed it for a fortnight, then…

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Scenes in Court Acquittal on Wife Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 September 1941 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—When the jury at the Central criminal Court to-day acquitted Richard James Duckworth, aged 40 years, on a charge of…

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Textile Strike Compulsory Ballot Sought Matter Before Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 September 1941 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Notice was given in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day by the New South Wales Chamber of Manufacturers of an…

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Peculiar Charge ‘Stealing His Own Car” But Case Was Settled

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 11 September 1941 · page 2

A case which held features of unusual interest was quickly disposed of at the Young Police Court on Friday last…

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Workers' Compensation Court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 September 1941 · page 4

The Workers' Compensation commission will sit at Wagga on Thursday, September 18. Five eases have…

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Tumut Police Court Pharmaceutical Boards Prosecution

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 September 1941 · page 3

At the Tumut Police Court. Arthur George Bellchambers, formerly of Queanbeyan, was charged with having, in contravention of the Pharmacy…

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Police Constable Needed at Adelong

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 12 September 1941 · page 4

As a result of representations of the Tumut Branch of the Graziers' Association of N.S.W. to the Police Department for a police…

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Wheat Options Ruled to Be Gambling Supreme Court Case at Dubbo

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 September 1941 · page 2

DUBBO, Thursday.—A Supreme Court jury at Dubbo to-day ruled that the purchase and sale of wheat warrants, commonly called options or forwards, was…

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No Criminal Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 September 1941 · page 4

A criminal court had been set down for Wagga on September 23, but as there are no criminal cases listed, those jurors who had been summoned to sit on the court…

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Two Girls Injured Police Search for Hit-run Drivers

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 September 1941 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police are looking for a hit-run motorist who knocked down and In lured two girls at St. Peters last night. The girls, whose…

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Wagga Police Court Monday, September 15, 1941 (Before Mr. C. F. Denton, P.M.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 September 1941 · page 4

Mr. William M. Brady, of the Taxation Department, proceeded against six persons at the Wagga Police Court for falling to furnish an income tax return. A plea of…

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Police Warning on Illegal Fishing

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 16 September 1941 · page 3

District police have been specially instructed from Headquarters, to use their every endeavor to prevent illegal fishing…

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Wheat Options Ruled to He Gambling Supreme Court Case at Dubbo

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 16 September 1941 · page 4

A Supreme Court jury at Dub[?] on Thursday ruled that the purchase and sale of wheat warrants, community called options or forwards, was…

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6-Day Ordeal of Aged Man Found Exhausted After Griffith Police Dragged Tank Wandered After. Leaving Hospital

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 16 September 1941 · page 3

MISSING for more than six days after he had been discharged from the Griffith District Hospital, an aged man was…

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3 Months Each For Pair Who Stole Three Gallons of Petrol Bench Comes Down Heavily on Practice Said to be Rife Close Net of Police Evidence Around Farm-workers

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 16 September 1941 · page 2

WITH comment from the bench that thieving of petrol was becoming far too rife since the introduction of rationing, two district farm-workers were each sentenced to three months hard labour—a month for each gallon of petrol which they admitted stealing in a recent…

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