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Courts & crime, 1943

1,135 stories in Riverina's papers · page 53 of 57

Wagga Court Days

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 November 1943 · page 2

Starting from next Monday. police court days at Wagga are to revert to Mondays and will be held on the first, second,…

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Self-defence Plea Youth Charged with Murder of Woman

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 December 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: pleading self-defence in reply to a charge of having murdered Mrs. Mary Pritchard, aged 52 years, of…

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Call-up Allegation Man Charged with Taking £[?] BRIBE

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 December 1943 · page 2

PERTH, Tuesday: An account of an alleged conversation between a legal officer, the W.A. Manpower Directorate and principal of a Perth motor…

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Failed to Touch Toes Worker Collapses in Compensation Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 December 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Almost immediately after medical evidence had been given that his Wood pressure was perfectly normal, George Rook, aged 56…

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Soldiers Charged

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 December 1943 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday: Two soldiers, Keith Bingham, 20, and Frederick Dick, 20 were remanded at Newcastle police court…

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Two Months' Gaol

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 December 1943 · page 2

At the Albury police court yesterday Earl Thurling, aged 45 years, a laborer, of Lavington, was charged with having had…

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Bribe Alleged Solicitor Charged

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 December 1943 · page 6

PERTH, Wednesday: At the Perth police court to-day it was alleged that a solicitor had used his job in the Manpower…

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Three Months' Gaol Military Examination Evaded

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 December 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Louis Phillips, 42, a painter, of Paddington, was sentenced to three months imprisonment in the…

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COURT MARTIAl DELAYED

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 December 1943 · page 2

BRISBANE, Wednesday Because an objection was made to the president of the court martial (Lieut-Col. H. O. Harris). the…

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Military Trucks Four Men Charged with Theft

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 December 1943 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Thursday: Four arrests have now been made in connection with last week's theft of two military trucks containing engines and…

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Alleged Assault on Constable

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 December 1943 · page 2

At the Wagga Police Court yesterday, before Mr. E. J. Gibson, J.P., Leon Joseph M'Gregor, soldier, was charged with unlawfully assaulting…

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Police Court Thursday, December 2 (Before Messrs. A. R. Raschke and S. H. Wright, J's.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 3 December 1943 · page 3

Charles Robert Graham (30) was charged with, on 26th November, near Narandera, having in custody one 16oz tin of bacon rashers and one roast…

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Land Board Court at Leeton Property Owner's Appeal

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 December 1943 · page 4

Before the Land Board Court at Leeton a few days ago, James Hubert Marks, farmer, of Farm 1707, South Gogeldrie, appealed against the…

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Mr. T. Carey's Effort Recognised By N.S.W. Police Force

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 3 December 1943 · page 2

When Mr. Tom Carey, Liquid Fuel Inspector, of Narandera, was in Sydney recently on departmental business he received a pleasant surprise…

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Gaol for Manslaughter

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Charged with the manslaughter of a fellow inmate, Thomas O'Brien, 86 William Buttel 64, of Lidcombe State Hospital, was…

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Public Menace Boy Sent to Gaol for 20 Years

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1943 · page 6

SYDNEY, Friday: At the Central Criminal Court to-day Henry Bacon Secombe, 16, farm worker, was sentenced to 20 years' penal servitude…

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Murder Charge Accused Wife Complains of Thrashings

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: At the inquest to-day into the death of Sidney Linell Cook, of Hurstville, his widow, Thelma Linell Cook, who was present, was…

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Censorship Rule to Be Tested in Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY Friday: On behalf of Consolidated Press Ltd., a writ has been issued out of the High Court of Australia against the Commonwealth of…

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Girl Fatally Shot Man Charged with Murder

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 December 1943 · page 3

BRISBANE, Saturday.—An attempt had been made to kill her daughter on October 24, said the mother of Louisa Allen Muller at…

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Discharged Soldier Sentenced for Black Market Whisky. SYDNEY

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 6 December 1943 · page 1

Harold Edgar Aildiss, 48 a returned soldier from the middle East, was sentenced to two months Imprisonment at a special Federal…

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