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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1943

1,135 stories in Riverina's papers · page 50 of 57

Divorce Court Ruling

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1943 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday: Before a member of the services can change his legal domicile to another State, be must establish a permanent…

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Sir Harry Oakes Count De Marigny Acquitted on Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1943 · page 3

NASSAU (Bahamas). Friday: Count Alfred de Marigny was found not guilty on the charge of having murdered Sir Harry Oakes,…

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Horse Stealing at Blowering Defendant To Appear Before Tumut Court

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 15 November 1943 · page 2

At the Tumbraumba Police Court on Monday last, Laurence John Reynolds, 19, was remanded to the Tumut Police Court on a…

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Court May Investigate Woman's Financial Position

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 15 November 1943 · page 2

Mr. Johnson has completed his contract at the Ian Macdonald maternity block of the Junee hospital and Mr. C. Gehrig of…

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Stock Stealing Young Man Sentenced To Five Months' Gaol

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 16 November 1943 · page 1

At the Tumut Police Court on Friday last, before Messrs. P. A. Kennedy and R. L. Blakeney, J's.P., Laurence…

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Wife Charged with Murder of Husband

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 November 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: A remind until November 22 was ranted at lie Central Police Court to-day when Thelma Linnel Cook, 22, appeared on a charge…

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Hotelkeeper Gaoled High Price Charged Whisky

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 November 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: Leo Bernard Collins, hotelkeeper of the Cirterion Hotel, corner of Sussex and Liverpool streets Sydney, was sentenced to 6 months'…

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Soldiers' Theft From Bookmaker on Race-course

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 November 1943 · page 2

BRISBANE, Monday: In the police court to-day four soldiers, John Arthur Rivette, 20. Robert Kenneth Hutchinson, 20. John Joseph Cain, 26…

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Police Court (Yesterday) Before Mr. H. L. Sargeson, P.M. On Three Charges

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 16 November 1943 · page 4

Raymond Thomas Maguire was charged that he did, at Cootamundra, behave in an offensive manner, resist arrest, and assault Plainclothes…

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Six Months Gaol for Publican Profiteering in Sale of Liquor Sydney

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 16 November 1943 · page 3

Convicted of selling goods above the fixed price Leo Bernard Cullen, licensee of the Criterion Hotel, corner of Liverpool and Sussex Streets,…

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Murder Charge Alleged Attempt to Do Away with Witness

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 November 1943 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday: Allegations that a cold-blooded attempt had been made to do away with possible witnesses, on the theory that "dead men…

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Harvest Award Suspended by Court Wheatgrowers' Application

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 November 1943 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday: Judge Kelly, in the Arbitration Court to-day, suspended until further notice the operation of the grain…

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Doctor Sent to Gaol

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 November 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Dr. Clifford Gearin, 55, was sentenced to one year hard labor to-day for unlawfully issuing a prescription for a drug…

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Officer Charged Signing of Mobilisation Forms

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 November 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Lieut Cyril Oliver Thompson, who holds temporary rank of captain, appeared at a general court martial to-day on seven…

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Wagga Police Court Tuesday, November 16, 1943 (Before Mr. H. L. Sargeson, P.m.) Negligent Driving Charge

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 November 1943 · page 3

James M'Dermald, military sergeant, was charged with negligently driving a military truck on the Wagga-Kapooka road on…

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Young Soldier’s Passionate Appeal To Police Magistrate

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 18 November 1943 · page 3

“Let me have a bond; make it one where I will have to be good behaviour for 10, 20, or 50 years if you like, but don’t send…

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Black Marketing Three Months' Gaol and £10 Fine

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 November 1943 · page 6

STONEY, Wednesday: John R. Anderson. 26, oxywelder, was sentenced to three months' hard labor to-day at a special Federal Court, set up…

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Censorship Order Validity Test in Court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 November 1943 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday: In the High Court to-day Truth and Sportsman, Ltd., challenged the validity of a censorship order made under the National…

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Red Army's Grip Firms White Russia Line Seriously Threatened Massive Assault Severs Railways and Highways

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 November 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday (A.A.P.).—The massive Russian assault on the German lines of communication is now severing the railway and highways from White…

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Doctor Sent to Gaol

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 19 November 1943 · page 5

Dr. Clifford Gearin, 55, was sentenced to one year hard labor in Sydney for unlawfully issuing a prescription for a drug. "The proper place for…

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