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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1943

1,135 stories in Riverina's papers · page 20 of 57

Police Court Wednesday, May 5 (Before Mr. J. S. Hart, J.P.) Drunks, Etc

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 7 May 1943 · page 3

Charles Williams (44) was charged with being drunk and disorderly in East Street on 4th May. Constable McRae stated that about…

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Silence in Sofia Serious Happenings Feared Following Police Chief's Death

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 May 1943 · page 1

ISTANBUL. Thursday.—Something serious is happening in Sofia, which is sealed off from the outside world. All external…

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Cannery Workers Break Camp Pine Avenue Bivouac Deserted Boss Cocky Expresses Thanks for Co-operation and Praises Police

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 7 May 1943 · page 2

THE large body of men who were camped at the foot of Pine Avenue, Leeton, for the duration of the fruit harvesting and…

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Solicitor Sentenced

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 May 1943 · page 6

SYDNEY, Friday.—A sentence of three years imprisonment was imposed on William Clark Dickie, aged 41 years, solicitor, who was convicted at the…

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Theft From Chinese

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 May 1943 · page 2

On a charge of having stolen parsnips, the property of Georgie Ah Yeok, a Chinese gardener. John Beasley was fined £5 at the…

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Police Court (Yesterday) Before Mr. F. Grugeon, P.M. Bethungra Case adjourned

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 11 May 1943 · page 2

The case in which Elsie Galvin is proceeding against Lisle Starr, on a charge of alleged insulting words, was adjourned for a week by consent…

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(TODAY) Before Mr. R. Palmer, J.P. Alleged Horse Stealing

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 11 May 1943 · page 2

William James McGuinness was charged with stealing a grey gelding valued at £25, the property of Arthur Trussell…

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Russian Offensive Surprise Assault Near Velikie Luki Germans Bombarded Increasing Momentum of Kuban Battle

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 May 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Monday. (A.A.P.)—All eyes on the Russian front are now concentrated southwest from Velikie Luki where, according to latest reports from Moscow and Axis sources, the Russians made a…

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Man-Hunt Near Perth' by Police and Soldiers

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 May 1943 · page 2

PERTH, Monday. — Police and soldiers armed with rifles and tommguns are scouring the area north at Perth for two…

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No "Bull" About This Junee Court Interlude

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 11 May 1943 · page 2

For the greater part of the day the evidence in the Junee Police Court was drab, and serious, but there were one or two interludes which gave…

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Husband Charged with Murder

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 May 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Following an alleged admission by a man who entered the Redfern police station tonight the police later entered a house…

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Wagga Police Court (Before Mr. F. Grugton, P.m.) Tuesday. May 11, 1943 FINED £10 for Illtreating Horse

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 May 1943 · page 4

Cecil Roy Thompson, woodcarter, of wagga, pleaded guilty to a charge of cruelly illtresting a borse by working it with a sore…

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Police Inquiry Constables Dismissed From Service

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 May 1943 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—As the result of a recommendation submitted to the NSW Police Commissioner (Mr. Mackay)…

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Murder Charge Man's Alleged Story to Police

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 May 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.—Herbert George Ott, aged 31 years, sheet metal worker, was remanded at Redfern Police Court to-day until…

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Leeton Police Court Attempt to Move Vehicle While Under Influence

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 May 1943 · page 4

LEETON, Wednesday.—At the Leeton Police Court to-day before Mr. R. Soiling, P.M., Samuel Stanley Southgate. aged 32 years, was charged…

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Police Search for Truce Driver

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 May 1943 · page 2

The Wagga police are continuing their inquiries into the accident which occurred in Baylis-street, Wagga late…

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Boy Lured Away Dogs Used in Police Search

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 May 1943 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.—Lured away last night by a man who was apparently drunk, and who waited outside a shop near Marrickville…

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Guilty of Murder

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 14 May 1943 · page 1

AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Friday: John Sidney Crawford, 20, seaman, who shot dead two American servicemen, today was round guilty of murder at…

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Police Court Tuesday, May 11 (Before Mr. J. S. Hart, J.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1943 · page 1

Thomas Colin Sheah (82) was charged with behaving in an offensive manner at the Narandera railway station on llth May…

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Busy Day in Children's Court a Variety of Offences

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 14 May 1943 · page 4

TUESDAY was a busy day in the Children's Court at Leeton, when a strange assortment of offences committed by delinquent…

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