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Courts & crime, 1943

1,135 stories in Riverina's papers · page 56 of 57

Boxing Six Police Separate Contestants Australian Middleweight Title

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 December 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: Six police we[?] required to separate To[?]ny Colteaux (11.5¾) and Al Walker (11.5¼) after Walker had been disqualified early…

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Boy Sentenced on Manslaughter Charge

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 December 1943 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday: Frank Brown, 14, of Williamtown, was sentenced to a year in gaol at the Criminal Court to-day on the…

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Amusements "Sky Murder" at Capitol

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 December 1943 · page 4

"Sky Murder." which will be seen at the Capitol Theatre this afternoon and evening, brings Walter Pidgeon to the screen in another of the popular Nick…

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Assaulting Police Charge

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 December 1943 · page 2

At the Wagga Police Court yesterday, before Mr. B. J. Gibson. J.P., Clifford Allan Williams, aged 19 years, soldier, was charged with…

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Sent to Gaol Unlawful Possession of Petrol Tickets

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 December 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: Manfred Goldschmidt, an American "snack bar" proprietor at Pott's point, was sentenced by the special…

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Entertainment Tax Important Court Ruling

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 December 1943 · page 1

BRISBANE, Friday: The State Pull Court to-day in a judgment ruled in effect that eating is not a taxable amusement The…

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Sick Allowances Arbitration Court Decision

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 December 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: Judge O'Mara in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day refused an application by, the A.W.C. to have sick pay…

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Contempt of Court Allegation Against Senator and Newspaper

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 December 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: A rule nisi to show cause why the Customs Minister (Senator Keane) and Associated Newspapers should not be committed for…

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Relief Porter Sent to Gaol for Stealing

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 20 December 1943 · page 2

A relief porter, John James Hourigan, was charged at the Cootamundra Court with stealing £4/18/6, the property of the Railway…

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Convicted on Fifteen Charges of Petrol Stealing

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 20 December 1943 · page 5

Samuel Cohen, of the Bethungra construction works, appeared at the Cootamundra Court last week on 15 charges of stealing petrol, totalling…

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Kharkov Atrocities Three Germans Sentenced to Be Hanged

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 December 1943 · page 2

LONDON, Sunday. (A.A.P.): Three Germans and one Russian, who were charged with participating in the brutal mass-extermination of peaceful…

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Cootamundra Court

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 December 1943 · page 2

Convicted on 15 charges at the Cootamundra police court of stealing petrol totalling 158 gallons, the property of the Railway…

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Stranger Before the Court Two Months Imprisonment

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 20 December 1943 · page 6

Over a week ago Constable C. W. Fisher, of Gundagai, found a stranger hitch–hiking along the main highway, being a rare…

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Assault

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 21 December 1943 · page 1

Phillis Amy Bell v. Evelyn Christian, assault on 12th December. Phillis Amy Bell, East Street, Narandera, stated that on Saturday…

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Theft of Bacon and Vinegar

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 21 December 1943 · page 2

At the Tumut Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. P. A. Kennedy and J. Tod, J's.P., Ronald Thomas Bowden, 26, laborer, was charged with…

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"Sky Murder" at Plaza

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 December 1943 · page 2

Laughs mystery and thrills strike home in rapid succession in Walter Pidgeon's latest adventure as Nick Carter in "Sky Murder," third of the…

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Wagga Police Court Monday, December 20, 1943 (Before Mr. H. L. Sargeson. P.M.) [?]

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 December 1943 · page 6

Remarking that it was a pretty bad case of crue[?] Mr. H. L. Sar[?] P.M., fined two shearers £10 each when they were convicted at the…

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Police Court Wednesday, December 16 (Before Mr. H. L. Sargeson, P.M.) Alleged Detention of Property

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 21 December 1943 · page 1

Frederick Roberts (Darlington Point) v. Farlow (a male), alleged detention of property. Plea, cause to show…

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Licensing Court (Before Mr. Sargeson, P.M.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 21 December 1943 · page 3

All application by John Thomas Ward for the transfer of the licence of the Star Hotel to Thomas Ward was granted…

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Petrol Thefts Gaol for Illegalities

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 December 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: At a special Federal Court to-day Ernest John Shade, 30 of Mascot, was Sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for…

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