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Courts & crime, 1945

1,204 stories in Riverina's papers · page 15 of 61

He Final Assault on Germany Is Near Planes Blast Path For Montgomery Chaos in Germany As Leaders Sound Warning

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 22 March 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday. A GREAT AREA OF NORTHERN GERMANY HAS BEEN DEVASTATED BY ALLIED PLANES BLASTING A PATH FOR [?]IELD MARSHAL MONTGOMERY’S FORCES. TEN RAILWAY…

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Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area Bigamy Case Judge Loth to Pass Sentence But "Must Follow Full Court Decision

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 March 1945 · page 4

Michael Smith, aged 47 years, pleaded guilty at the Narandera Quarter Sessions on Monday, before Judge Berne, to a charge of…

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Lilley Sentenced to Five Years

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 23 March 1945 · page 2

David John Lilley, who pleaded guilty on Monday last to a charge of having stolen military goods at Kapooka camp, near Wagga, on…

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War News Ruhr Cut Off Result of Air Assault

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 23 March 1945 · page 2

The Ruhr to all intents and purposes is cut off from Western Germany, following the latest Allied air attacks, which is described as the…

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Allied Air Assault Again Stepped Up Nine Airfields Bombed "Tremendous Victory Dividend"

Daily Advertiser · Friday 23 March 1945 · page 2

LONDON, Thursday. (A.A.P.): "Frontline hedgehog towns guarding the approaches from the Rhine to Bremen and Hanover, also the marshalling yards of the entire north German plain and the…

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Jones Case Attempted Murder Charge Evidence Cargo of Whisky From Tasmania

Daily Advertiser · Friday 23 March 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: When Clifford Tasman Thompson shot himself in Long Bay Gaol while on remand on a charge of…

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"The Greatest Air Assault of All Time" Ruhr Cut Off! Enemy Traffic at a Standstill a Haze of Fires and Smoke

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 23 March 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Friday: To all intents and purposes the Ruhr has been cut off from Western Germany, following the latest massive Allied air…

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Acquittal On Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 24 March 1945 · page 1

BRISBANE, Friday: In the Criminal Court to-day Norman Ralph Brooks, 23, of Brisbane a soldier. was found not guilty of having murdered Jack…

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Attempted Murder Charge Evidence for Defence in Dr. Jones Case

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 24 March 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: When the hearing of the case in which four men are charged with the attempted murder of Dr. Reginald…

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Record Air Assault Ruhr Severed From West Germany Accurate Bombing Italian Based Planes Active

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 24 March 1945 · page 4

LONDON, Friday. (A.A.P.): Described as the greatest air assault of all time, the latest massive Allied air attack has to all intents and purposes cut the Ruhr off from Western Germany. U.S. and British-manned planes, which for weeks…

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The Latest (Second Edition) Russian Break-through on Czech Border Expected to Lead to Berlin Assault

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 24 March 1945 · page 2

LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.): The Exchanee-Telegraph correspondent in Moscow says that Moscow observers expect that Marshal Koniev's latest break-through on the CZechoslovakian frontier will speed up into an all-out…

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Police Court (Before Mr. H. G. Cobley, J.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 26 March 1945 · page 2

Last week George William Gledhill (48) was fined £1, in default 48 hours, on a charge of behaving in an offen-give manner at the railway station…

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Gaol for Stealing Cigarettes

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 March 1945 · page 2

James William Cameron, transport driver, of Culcairn, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment at the Albury police court…

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Brothers Sentenced to Gaol

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 March 1945 · page 2

Two brothers, Henry Charles Holder, laborer, aped 20, and Valentine James Holder, laborer, aged 19, both of Culcairn were…

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Police Staff Transfers

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 March 1945 · page 2

Superintendent G. B. Howard, of Wagga, stated yesterday that several transfers in staff had come to hand. 'Sgt. J. T. Marshall,…

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Wagga Police Court Monday, March 26, 1945 (Before Mr. M. S. Meagher. S.m.) Fined for Building Breach

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 March 1945 · page 3

At the Wagga Police Court yesterday, before Mr. M. S. Meagher, acting stipendiary magistrate, Arthur H. Blamey, of Wagga, was fined £5…

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Four On Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues: Keith Kitchener Hull, 27, salesman: Daphne Irene Kenney, 21; Irene Merle Day, 39; and Nancy Burley, 24. were all…

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Tennis Player On Theft Charge

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 March 1945 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wednesday: Eric Montgomery Maidens, Queensland's third ranking tennis player, pleaded guilty at the City…

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Nazis Murder Dutchmen

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 March 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday: "Germans in Holland recently executed 400 Dutchmen, including many youths, as a reprisal for an…

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Two Men Sentenced to Death Sydney

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Thursday 29 March 1945 · page 2

At the Central Criminal Court, to-night, Clifford Tasman Thompson, also known as Cliffie Thomas, and Alexander McDonald Jowett, also…

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