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Courts & crime, 1943

1,135 stories in Riverina's papers · page 36 of 57

Tumbarumba Court Hawker Fined £20

Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 August 1943 · page 2

At the Tumbarumba Police Court last Thursday before Mr., I. Beavers, P.M. Jim Elias licensed hawker was fined £with £6/16/ witness…

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Adelong Hawker Before the Court Fined £20 at Tumbarumba

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 16 August 1943 · page 1

At the Tumbarumba Police Court last Thursday before Mr I. Beavers, PM Jim Elias, licensed hawker was fined £26 with £6/16 witness’…

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Magistrate Dismisses Charges

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 17 August 1943 · page 2

A sequel to an accident on the Leeton-Griffith road near Whitton on the evening of July 22, was the appearance of Athol Alexander Ross…

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Police Court Monday, 16th AUGUST (Before Mr. J. S. Hart, J.P.) Indecent Language

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 17 August 1943 · page 3

Charles Smith (55) was charged with using indecent language in East Street. It was stated that the language was…

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Price Fixing Validity of Regulations Upheld by Court

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 17 August 1943 · page 4

The validity of Commonwealth price-fixing regulations was upheld by the High Court which pointed out that in modern times all countries…

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Did Not Know War Was on Court Defendant's Statement

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 August 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.- He had not known that there was a war on and had never heard of Japan, declared a man aged 28 at the Paddington…

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Prices Order to Be Challenged in Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 August 1943 · page 1

MELBOURNE. Tuesday: A writ was issued in the High Court by S. Dickens. Pty., Lid., self-service grocers, of West Melbourne, challenging…

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Prices Order To Be Challenged In Court

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 19 August 1943 · page 2

A writ was issued in the Court by S. Dickens Pty Ltd. self— service grocers, of West Melbourne, challenging the validity of the prices…

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Man's Wrists Cut Woman Charged with Attempted Murder

Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 August 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: With the tendons of both wrists severed, John Hooder, aged 24 years, of East Sydney, walked into the…

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Alleged Theft of Guns and Ammunition

Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 August 1943 · page 2

John Dominic Hammond, aged 19 years, a soldier, was before the Wodonga (V.) police court yesterday. An alleged statement by…

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Millionaire's Death Murder Trial at Nassau

Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 August 1943 · page 1

NTSSAU (Bahamas): At the resumed hearing of the charge against Count de Marigny of having murdered his father-in-law,…

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Committed for Trial at Cootamundra of Theft in Junee

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 20 August 1943 · page 8

At Tumut court John Edward Starr and Mervyn Bugg were charged with various thefts, including one of breaking and entering the shop of William…

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Prices Order to Be Challenged in Court

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 20 August 1943 · page 6

A writ was issued in the High Court by S. Dickens Ply. Ltd., self-service grocers, of West Melbourne, challenging the validity of the prices…

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Adelong Hawker Before the Court FINED £20 at Tumbarumba

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 20 August 1943 · page 6

At the Tumbarumba Police Court on Thursday of last week, before Mr. I, Beavers, P.M., Jim Elias, licensed hawker, was fined…

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Woman Charged with Intent to Murder

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 August 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: On a charge of wounding John Charles Hodder, with intent to murder, Iris Eileen Mary Webber, 37, was…

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Soldiers Charged by Labor Candidate

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 August 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: Allegations that a number of uniformed soldiers attached to as area office in Lang. where Major Harris is…

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Russian Assault Concentration Against Kharkov Important Success Capture of Smiyev After Two Hay Fight

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 August 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Friday. - The Russians, in their massive assault against Kharkov, at the moment apparently concentrating on cutting off the city itself entirely. Correspondents emphasise that the capture on Wednesday of Smiyev was a big…

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Allied Invasion of Europe Go Ahead Order to Strike Believed to Have Been Given Several Assault Points Probable Quebec, Thursday (A.A.P.)

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 August 1943 · page 1

"There are rapidly multiplying signs that the hour for the invasion of Continental Europe is at hand and that the Allied High Command has given the 'go…

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Gaol for Robberies in Riverina Towns

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 August 1943 · page 2

Two soldiers, Mervyn Bugg and John Edward Starr, who were committeed for trial on charges of breaking into motor garages in Adelong and Tumut…

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Hotel Keeper Charged

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 24 August 1943 · page 1

Frederick James Duncan was charged with keeping the bar of his licensed premises open at unlawful hours on 17th July…

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