Sentenced to Death
At the Central Criminal Court on Tuesday Catherine Mary Thompson, aged 41 years, was found guittu by the jury of murder in the second…
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Leeton Police Court Alleged Offensive Behavior
At the Leeton Police Court On Wed-nesday, before Mr. T. A. Doolan, P.M Frederick H. Knox pleaded not guilt-to a charge of offensive behavior in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Threatening Words Family Disputes Lead to Court The Magistrate's Advice
WILLIAM Dunmore Lang was proceeded against by his brother Milton David Stephen Lang, at the Leeton police court on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder Allegation Grass Seeds and Snail Slime As Evidence
SYDNEY, Thursday. - The City Coroner to-day committed William Er-nest MacDonald, aged 40 yews, for trial on a charge of having murdered…
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SYDNEY. Friday. — At the Central Police Court to-day Harold Ronald Hale, aged 21 years, William Frederick Bryan aged 19 years, and Arthur…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Embezzlement Leeton Railway Clerk Charged
LEETON, Friday.—At the Leeton Police Court, before Mr. T. A. Doolan, P.M., Reginald William Crowe, aged 25 years, was charged with embezzling £138 from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Steel Helmets for Police
MELBOURNE. Friday — In read[?]ness for air raids steel helmets are being issued to the Victorian police Constables on patrol and on traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man's Body in River Recovered by Police in Water Since
While two employed of the Wagga Municipal Council, Messrs. John Galvin and Robert Standen, were engaged removing an electric post on the bank of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Advice to Bicycle Owners
Owing to the prevalence of unauthorised persons taking bicycles from where they are left in Wagga, the police again advise owners to take…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Took Horse and Bicycle Now Has to Spend Three Months in Gaol
At the Gundagai Police Court on Thursday afternoon last, before Messrs J. C. Carters and L. Boyton J'sP. James Cecil Castles (19) was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stole "Blitz Waggon" Man Sought by Police
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police throughout the state especially in towns on main roads leading to Sydney, have been advised to be on the alert for the apprehension of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Office Became Court For Minor Case
William Krough, the maker history at the Junee Court House at the latter end of last week, can blame wartime conditions…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Trying to Track Trickster Who Fooled Garagemen
Police are trying to track a man who recently "put one over" a Junee garage under rather mean circumstances…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder Trial Yass District Tragedy Grazier Charged
SYDNEY, Monday.—The principal exhibit in a murder trial which began at the Central Criminal Court to-day was the skull of Ida May Faulder, aged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fight in Pine Avenue Described at Police Court Offensive Behaviour Charge
A FIGHT in Pine Avenue on the night of Saturday 10th inst., was described by the police when James Knox was charged at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court Monday, 23rd MARCH. (Before Mr. J. S. Hart, J.P.) Drunk
William Richards (53) was charged with drunkenness, but did not appear. His recognisance was forfeited. Language, Etc…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wagga Police Court Monday, March 23, 1942 (Before Mr. T. A.Doolan, P.m.) Negligent Driving Charge
Arthur Hull was charged with having driven a motor vehicle negligently at Wagga on February 9 last. Mr. H. J. Kennedy (Messrs. Walsh and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Depositions Ordered To Be Taken in Junee Police Court
Depositions were taken at the monthly silting of the Junee Court of Petty Sessions yesterday. It was the first sitting after the recent State…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder Charge Crown Case Concluded in Yass Tragedy
SYDNEY, Tuesday.-The Crown today concluded its case in the trial at the Central Criminal Court of Thomas William Davis, aged 49 years grasler,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Found Nine Dozen Boxes Of Matches In Home During Search For Missing Bicycle
A JUNEE RAILWAYMAN WAS YESTERDAY FREED AT THE SITTING OF THE COURT OF PETTY SESSIONS FROM A CHARGE THAT HE KNOWINGLY HAD IN HIS POSSESSION NINE PACKETS EACH CONTAINING A DOZEN BOXES OF…
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