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Courts & crime, 1942

1,110 stories in Riverina's papers · page 51 of 56

Tooma Robbery Littel Sentenced Wife Bound Over

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 November 1942 · page 2

At the Narandera Quarter Sessions yesterday, before His Honor Judge Stacey. James Wallace Littel, aged 21 years, and his wife, Iris Amelia Littel…

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Police Court Yesterday Before Mr .P. Grugeon. P.M. Indecent Language

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 17 November 1942 · page 4

James McGuinness was fined £2 for using indecent language in Wallendoon street on Saturday night. Constable Clifton said the language…

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Police Battle Against Japanese Settlers

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 November 1942 · page 1

RIO PE JANIERO, Sunday.—The police report a fixed battle against Japanese settlers in Sao Paola State. The Japanese, fully…

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Police Court Friday, November 18 (Before Mr. J. S. Hart, J.P.) Indecent Language and Insulting Words

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 17 November 1942 · page 3

Lloyd Stanley Parker (22) was charged with using indecent language. Constable Anderton said that four [?]men were under the influence of…

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Allies Join Forces Against Japanese in Papua Final Assault Expected Soon on Enemy Positions

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 November 1942 · page 2

SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA,—The Australian and U.S. columns covering the southern and eastern flanks of the Japanese beach-head at Buna have now joined, and are advancing on a wide front. A final assault on the Japanese…

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Police Denial

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 November 1942 · page 2

LITHGOW, Tuesday. — Published details of the demonstration by 3000 munitions workers last night have been denied by the police and the…

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Murder Charge Returned Soldier's Death

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 November 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — At Burwood Police Court to-day the District Coroner inquired into the death of Vemon Eric John Jackman, e returned…

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Police Commissioner Denies Resignation Rumors

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 November 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An emphatic denial of rumors that he intended to submit his resignation to the Premier (Mr. M'Kell)…

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German Baron Claim in Sydney Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 November 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — He had served as a lieutenant in the German Amy in the last war: but he had become a Suits citizen so that he could travel…

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Leeton Police Court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 November 1942 · page 4

When the case was resumed at the Leeton Police Court in which Robert Carl Lippelt, an unnaturalised German deserter, was charged with…

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“King Fighter of Yass” Appears Before Young Police Court

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 19 November 1942 · page 5

Demonstrating with a vengeance that he was the “king fighter of Yass” having knocked three men with one fell blow, a visitor to the…

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Victorian Inquiry Breaches of Duty by Police

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 November 1942 · page 4

MELBOURNE. Wednesday. — The Royal Commissioner (Judge Clyne) to-day found that Inspectors Charles-worth and Mahoney and…

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Aboriginal Sentenced to Penal Servitude For Indecent Assault

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 20 November 1942 · page 3

Malcolm Rivers, an Aboriginal from Vicoria, who had been residing about Leeton for the past six months, making boomerangs for sale, and in…

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Coolamon Police Court Fracas at Ganmain

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 20 November 1942 · page 3

At the Coolamon Police Court on Monday last, before Mears, E. Butterfield and M. L. Kingdon, J.’sP., F. E. Green for being found drunk, was fined 10/; for…

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Police Inquiries

Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 November 1942 · page 6

Following the disappearance of Barbara Bennett the film colony at Hollywood was stirred again by an announcement that the…

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Police Reported to Be Searching For Girl Who Allegedly Posed as Junee Resident In Sydney Police Court

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 20 November 1942 · page 8

IN A CITY QOUET THIS WE K NORMA ROACH (21) WAS OMARGED WITH HAVING INSUFFICIENT LAWFUL MEANS OF SUPPORT AND SENTENCED TO THREE MONTHS, BUT WAS RELEASED ON BAIL, IT WAS SAID THAT SHE WAS…

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Fa[?]ulous Prices Being Charged in Townsville

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 20 November 1942 · page 2

United States servicemen in Townsville are being charged 12-6 for water meions worth 2/- to 4/, according to the president of the Chamber of…

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Narandera Quarter Sessions Accused Found Not Guilty of Stealing Charge

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 20 November 1942 · page 3

AT the Narandera Quarter Sessions on Monday, before Judge Stacy and a Jury Henry Stanley aged 19, was charged that on May…

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Military Police Thrown Out of Train

Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 November 1942 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday. — Two military police were stripped and thrown out of the Melbourne express near Harden on Tuesday…

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Military Police Thrown Out of Train Melbourne

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 20 November 1942 · page 2

Two military police were stripped and thrown out of the Melbourne express near Harden on Tuesday. Arising out of the Incident, six soldiers…

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