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Courts & crime, 1943

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

Record Bombing in S.W. Pacific Terrific Pounding of Cape Gloucester Installations Five Hour Air Assault Japanese Routed on Huon Peninsula

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 December 1943 · page 1

SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Tuesday.— In another devastating attack on Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Liberators, Mitchells, and Bostons on Saturday dropped 414 tons of bombs on the…

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Prisoner in Hong Kong in Gaol Designed by Himself

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 December 1943 · page 4

MELBOURNE. Wednesday: According to letters sent to his wife in Hawthorn (V.), Mr. V. Carton is a civilian prisoner in Stanley…

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Hollywood Murder Shooting of Gracie Fields' Former Secretary

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 December 1943 · page 2

NEW YORK, Tuesday (AAP): Gaetano Falciani, a gardener at one time employed by Miss Oracle Fields, has been sentenced at…

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Stranger Before the Court Two Months Imprisonment

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 23 December 1943 · page 2

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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Mighty Blow Expected Within 90 Days High U.S. Official's Forecast Assault on Continent By Allies

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 December 1943 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Wednesday: A high Government official, expressing concern over the complac[?]ry In America, warned:…

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Illegal Liquor Sales Court Rules That Fixed Prices Apply

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 December 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday: Holding that fixed liquor prices also applied to illegal sales, the State Full Court discharged the appeal [?] a…

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Theft From Safe

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 December 1943 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday: The theft of £240 from a safe at a private hotel at Darlinghurst was reported to the police to-day. The…

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S.p. Betting Police Raid Sports Club

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 December 1943 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tuesday: When they raided the Ocean View Sports Club. South Steyne, Manly, yesterday. before the running of the…

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Air Accident Court Marital or Civil Proceedings

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 December 1943 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Although the RAAF authorities stated that it could not be determined, until an official inquiry…

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Land Board Court J. H. Marks Appealed Against Town Rentals Assessment

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Wednesday 29 December 1943 · page 4

BEFORE the Land Board Court at Leeton, James Hubert Marks farmer, of Farm 1707, South Gogeldrie, appealed against the…

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Food Supplies Meat Ration and Gaol Diet

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 December 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: To offset meat rationing the NSW Health Department is preparing an amended dietary scale for hospitals, old men's…

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Relative Sought by Police

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 December 1943 · page 2

The police are anxious to get in touch with Mr. Donald Miller, brother of Mr. Alfred Miller, aged 73 years, pensions, who died in the Tumut…

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Police Court Tuesday, December 28 (Before Messrs. A. R. Raschke and T. M. Woolnough, J's.P.) Excitement on Christmas Eve

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 31 December 1943 · page 1

Esther Ann Noble (46) was charged with using indecent language. Plea guilty. Noble also pleaded guilty to…

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Allied Soldier Assaulted at Police Line-up

Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 December 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: A young laborer walked up to an Allied soldier and knocked him down in a police line-up at Balmain police station…

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European Invasion Plan Presented at Cairo By Allied Military Leaders Colossal Assault For Rapid End of War With Germany Russia Impressed by Choice of Leaders

Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 December 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.) — Revealing that General Eisenhower and Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder presented the recent Cairo talks w [?] mammoth plan for the invasion of Europe from the west, and that it was approved…

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