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Courts & crime, 1942

1,110 stories in Riverina's papers · page 34 of 56

Narandera Police Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 August 1942 · page 2

At the Narandera Police Court before Mr. F. Grugeon. P.M., David Alexander Taylor applied for exemption from military…

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Municipal Valuation Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 August 1942 · page 2

A valuation court for the purpose of hearing objections against the Wagga Municipal Council's valuation of rateable land of an…

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Court-Martial Sentence

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 August 1942 · page 5

BRISBANE, Friday.—A United States court-martial last night sentenced Private J. W. Floyd, aged 25 years, to imprisonment for six months with hard…

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Liquor Traffic Commonwealth Police Proposal Rejected by Prime Minister

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 August 1942 · page 3

CANBERRA, Friday. — Stating that he saw no reason for establishing a Commonwealth police force to duplicate the police…

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Teller Sentenced to Three Years' Gaol

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 2

BRISBANE, Monday.—A sentence of three years' imprisonment was imposed on Walter Roderick Blundell, aged 26 years,…

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Hank Teller Charged with Theft of £10,500

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 1

A former teller in the Commonwealth Bank nl Townsville, Walter Rodney Blundell, aged 26 years, was charged on Friday at the Mackay,…

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Men Sentenced for Being Absent From Civil Corps

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.—At the City court to-day. Alexander Cameron, aged 46 years, was sentenced to 14 days' Imprisonment for…

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Police Court Friday, July 31 (Before Mr. J. S. Hart, J.P.) Drunk and Offensive Behaviour

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 1

Thomas Robert Simpson (25). railway employee, was charged with using insulting words to Wallace McLean Peacack at the Narandera…

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Scared Of Bulls Farmer Charged with Ill-treating an Animal

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 1

THAT he was scared of bulls and had been tossed several times during his life was one of the excuses advanced on behalf of…

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Town Hall Conference With Police Inspector

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 4

At last night's council meeting a report was received on the conference, last Tuesday night. with Police Inspector Ravelli on the…

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Goulburn Gaol Break

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 August 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A prisoner named Jenkins escaped from Goulburn gaol last night by cutting through the bars of his cell and climbing over the…

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Gambling Rouse Murder

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 August 1942 · page 1

NEW YORK, Monday (A.A.P.).—Robert G. Green, notorious Broadway journalist and bookmaker, and Morris Wolenski,…

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Biggest Sub. Sea Captain Has Seen, Off Australian Coast Men On Unarmed Trawler Would Have Gone Down Fighting If They Had Had a Six-- Pounder-- But It Was Murder SYDNEY

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 5 August 1942 · page 1

TELLING HIS STORY WHILE MAINTAINING A VIGIL BY THE BEDSIDE OF HIS BADLY WOUNDED BROTHER, ALEXANDER, CAPTAIN WILLIAM REID, MASTER OF AN UNARMED TRAWL ER. WHICH WAS ATTACKED OFF THE AUSTRALIAN EAST…

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Leeton Police Court Cruelty to Bull Farmer Fined £3

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 August 1942 · page 4

That he was scared of bulls and had been tossed several times during his life, was stated on behalf of Robert Farrar, prominent…

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Conspiracy Case Year in Gaol for Each Defendant

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 August 1942 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—At the Central Police Court to-day when the hearing was continued of the case in which Bruce Miller…

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Historic Gaol Gutted by Fire. Berrima's Grim History

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 6 August 1942 · page 1

Berrima Gaol, one of the most historic structures in the Commonwealth, and through whose portals there passed many of Australia's most daring…

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Queensland Police Seek Inquiry

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 August 1942 · page 2

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—The Queensland Police Union has decided by ballot to ask the Government to appoint a Royal…

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Teller Sentenced to Three Years' Gaol

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 7 August 1942 · page 3

A sentence of three years' imprisonment was imposed on Walter Roderick Blundell, aged 26 years, a bank teller, at Townsville, Queensland, Supreme…

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Theft of Pine Posts

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 7 August 1942 · page 4

John Hoskin Rowe pleaded guilty to stealing 30 pine posts, the property of Horace Phillip Barton, of Farm 1133, Whitton…

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Father's Death Son Charged with Manslaughter

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 August 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday. — Following a family argument Bt his home in Carrington-street, Cabramatta, early last night, William Montefiore, aged 63…

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