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Courts & crime, 1943

1,135 stories in Riverina's papers · page 5 of 57

Sly-grog Sales Melbourne Police Make 'Arrests Whisky £3 a Bottle

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 January 1943 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—As part of determined drive to stamp out Illicit liquor sales wireless patrol and city licensing police arrested five men and a…

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Alleged Assault Two Men Charged Remanded to Military Custody

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 4

LEETON. Wednesday.—When Francis Joseph Callaghan and Harold Reginald Messiter appeared at the Leeton Police Court…

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Enemy Alien Charged Failure to Register Pole Before Court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 4

At the Leeton police court yesterday Bolaslaw Conrad pleaded guilty to a breach of the national Security Alien Control regulations…

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Sale of Goods Without Full Number of Coupons City Store Proprietor Sentenced

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—On a charge or having sold goods without obtaining the necessary number of coupons, James M'Leod…

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Suspended Police No Royal Commission Cabinet Decision

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 January 1943 · page 4

SYDNET, Wednesday.—The State Cabinet to-day refused the request of the N.S. Wales Police Association that a Royal…

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Magistrate Refuses To Deal With Charges Against Soldiers Alleged Assault of Policeman

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 29 January 1943 · page 1

WHEN Francis Joseph Callaghan and Harold Reginald Messlter were charged at the Leeton police court on Wednesday on a number…

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Gaol Sentences Unlawful Taxation Exemptions

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—William Charles Thannet Miner, taxation agent, of North Sydney, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and George…

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Police Court Tuesday, January 26 (Before Mr. F. Grugeon, P.M.) Sunday Trading

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1943 · page 1

Gordon Leslie Odewahn was charged with keeping hie shop open on Sunday, 27th December, for the purpose of trading…

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Breach of Enemy Alien Regulations German Fruit-picker Charged

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 29 January 1943 · page 4

AT the Leeton police court on Wednesday Bolaslaw Conrad pleaded guilty to a breach of the National Security Alien Control…

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Leeton Court House Statistics

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 29 January 1943 · page 4

THE following statistics in connection with business transacted at Leeton Court House during the year 1942 have been released by…

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Junee Fair Rent Court

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1943 · page 2

At the Junee Fair Rent Court before Mr. T. A. Doolan, P.M. it was stated that Michael Francis Hanlon, storekeeper, rented a cottage at Junee…

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Cabinet and Police Commissioner Government May Take Action

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—If the Police Commissioner (Mr. Mackay) does not comply with the desires of the Cabinet to issue a summons…

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Business at Tumut Court House for 1942

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 29 January 1943 · page 2

Mr. P. A. Kennedy, Tumut C.P.S., has made available the figures of the vital statistics of Tumut and the business transacted by the Tumut Court…

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Police Chief’s Demand Man-power Rules Cause Clash

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 29 January 1943 · page 2

The Commissioner of Police. Mr. McKay, has asked that the police force should not be subject to the man-power regulations which, he says, prevent him…

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Dead Man Discovered on Hydro Lawn Police Unaware of Cause of Death Coroner To Hold Inquiry

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 29 January 1943 · page 1

A dead man reclining on his back on the lawn in the Hydro grounds, facing Chelmsford Place Gardens, was discovered on…

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Company Director Sentenced for Theft

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1943 · page 6

AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Friday.—Deported from Sydney, Leonard Bolton Noss, company director, was to-day sentenced to 2 1/2 years'…

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Had 20 Ration Books Man Sentenced to Six Months' Gaol

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—On two charges of having supplied a woman with ration books, and one charge of having in his…

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Theft of Blankets

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1943 · page 4

"We did it together." Gordon Do[?]in Wannell, soldier, told Mr. I. Beavers, P.M., in the Albury Court yesterday when he and another soldier…

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Theft of Cereals

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1943 · page 4

When three soldiers were charged in the Albury court yesterday with the theft of two packets of cereals valued at 1/3, Victor Robert West…

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Magistrate Comments on Rental

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1943 · page 4

When Mr. W. A. Welsh applied to Mr. I. Beavers, P.M., in the Albury Fair Rente Court yesterday for an eviction order against a…

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