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Courts & crime, 1944

1,130 stories in Riverina's papers · page 21 of 57

Youth Charged with Murder

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 April 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.: Brian Rowel Lort. aged 17, was charged at Liverpool Court to-day with the murder of Ellen Auld at Cabramatta on April…

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Police Court Thursday, April 17 (Before Mr. H. C Cobley, J.P.) Alleged Assault

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 25 April 1944 · page 3

Thomas Pascall (also known as Thomas Pasko was charged with unlawfully asaulting Sabastina Caragno. On the application of the police an…

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Murder of Waitress Man Charged with Being Accessory After Fact

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 April 1944 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday: Cecil Bobbs, aged 37. a metal worker of New Lambton. was committed for trial today at Fitzroy Court on a charge of…

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State Police Not Involved

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 25 April 1944 · page 1

No member of the N.S.W. police face was in any way connected with the incidents at newspaper offices which resulted in revolvers being…

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Wagga Police Court Monday, April 24, 1944 (Before Mr. H. L. Sargeson, Pm) Hotelkeeper Heavily Fined

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 April 1944 · page 4

At the Wagga Police Court yesterday, the magistrate (Mr. H. L. Sargeson) imposed a fine of £10 when a hotelkeeper pleaded guilty to a…

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Police Vote on Link with Labour Council

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 25 April 1944 · page 4

The annual conference of the N.S.W. Police Association decided to refer to the rank and file members a proposal to affiliate with the N.S.W…

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Officer Found Dead Murder Suspected

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 April 1944 · page 2

PERTH, Tuesday: Last seen alive on Tuesday afternoon, the body of George Spiers, an officer of the accounts branch of a…

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Police Hunt for Mysterious Business Man

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 April 1944 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Commonwealth police have now extended to all States their search for a mysterious business who magnate…

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Russian Air Force Pounds German Lines Preparations for New Assault on Sebastopol

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 April 1944 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday. (A.A.P.)—Although German sources are saying that the full has ended at Sebastopol, and is about to end in the Narva and Pskov areas, reports from Moscow suggest that the…

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Assault Charge At Narandera

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 April 1944 · page 4

At the Narandera Police Court before Mr. H. G. Cobley. J.P., Thomas Pascall (also known as Thomas Pasko) vas charged with unlawfully…

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Hanged for Murder Women Demonstrate

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 April 1944 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Wed.—Harold Box was hanged at Adelaide Gaol to-day for the murder of Lance Brown financier. He did not…

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Police Watch Thief at Work

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 April 1944 · page 2

NEW YORK, Mon. (A.A.P.): Under the eyes of three detectives, Fred Hanson, 40-year-old Swede, "jemmied" his way into the fashionable…

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Burma Battle Allied Troops Moving in for Assault No Dissension Between Leaders

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 April 1944 · page 1

LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.).—"Long columns of Allied troops, tanks and guns are moving towards Kohima," says an…

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Censorship Dispute Move for Transfer to High Court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 April 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.: An application made by Consolidated Press Ltd., publishers of the "Sunday Telegraph" and "Daily Telegraph,"…

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'Sydney Morning Herald" Action Alllging Contempt of Court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 April 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.: Mr. Justice Maxwell, of the State Supreme Court, to-day granted an order nisi calling upon John Fairfax and Sons Pty.,…

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Charged with Scandalous Behaviour

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 28 April 1944 · page 4

Maurice Francis Dore, aged 47 years, pleaded guilty at the Leeton Police Court to a charge of scandalous behaviour in Chelmsford Place…

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The War Germans Await Double Assault "Eve of Decisive" Events"

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 28 April 1944 · page 3

The German Command, describing the lull on all fronts as "the calm before the storm," is awaiting the opening of the drive on the…

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Full Court Refuses Crown Attempt

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 28 April 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Later: The State Full Court today refused to deal with an attempt by the Crown to atta[?] The Sydney Morning Herald" and William…

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Allied Air War German Targets Again Bombed U.S. ASSAULT Spitfires' Increased Combat Range

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 April 1944 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday. (A.A.P.)—The air war from Britain continued throughout yesterday. Following a Mosquito attack on Cologne on Tuesday night, about 1000 U.S. bombers and long-range fighters yesterday plastered targets at the…

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Trotsky Party Leader Charged

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 April 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Thurs. (AAP): Four Scotland Yard detectives to-day made a second raid on the Paddington headquarters of the Trotskyist…

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