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Courts & crime, 1945

1,204 stories in Riverina's papers · page 17 of 61

Day-long Air Assault on German Targets Big Ports Bombed

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 April 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.): Heavy raids on Kiel and Nord-bausen, and other night assault on Berlin, were the…

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Boy Believed Murdered Queensland Police Search for Cowboy

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 April 1945 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wed.: An 11-year-old boy is believed to have been murdered yesterday morning at Dundoo station, 100 miles from…

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Charlie Doon to Pay £600 The Tumut Tobacco Case Decided In Court To-Day

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 5 April 1945 · page 8

At the Tumut Police Court this morning before Mr Meagher, SM. well known Tumut resident Charlie Doon was heavily fined when he pleaded guilty to charges in what has become commonly known as the Tumut tobacco case…

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Manpower Officer Charged

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 April 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday; A manpower official, Edmund Thomas Dowse, pleaded not guilty in the Central Court to-day to a charge…

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Police Court Saturday. March 31 (Before Mr. H. G. Cobley, J.P.) Drunks

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 6 April 1945 · page 2

John Newman (53) was fined 10/- in default 24 hours, on a change of being found drunk in East Street…

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East Front the Vienna Assault a Double Threat

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 6 April 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Friday: With the capture of Bruck (which was announced by Marshal Stalin), Marshal Malinovsky burst clean through the gap…

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Brew Manufactured in Gaol Evidence at Inquest on Prisoner

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 April 1945 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: At the inquest to-day into the death of Kenny Raymond Jones, aged 24, who was Bervtaz a sentence at…

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Violent Crime Police Fear Outbreak

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 April 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: The police fear an outbreak of violent crime owing to large quantities of firearms of all descriptions reaching…

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Attack on Boy Police Search for Cowboy

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 April 1945 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thursday: A large posse of police ts searching a wide area of far Southwestern Queensland for a cowboy they want to…

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"Offensive" Telegram Received in Arbitration Court

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 April 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: In the Arbitration Court to-day Judge O'Mara described a telegram received from the general…

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Doctor Charged With Tax Evasion

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 April 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: It was alleged in the High Court to-day that a Macquarie-street doctor, by under stating his income, had evaded…

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Estate Agent Sentenced on Charges of Fraud

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 April 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: Alan Bernard Lucas, 40, land and estate agent, of Prince's Highway, Tempe, was sentenced to 23 months…

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Advance Towards Bremen British Tank Assault on Minden General Patton's Army Only 137 Miles From Berlin French Reach Neckar

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 April 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.).—With the British 11th Armored and Sixth Airborne Divisions holding 15 miles of the west bank of the Weser River around Minden, agency correspondents last night reported that American Ninth Army tanks and infantry…

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Frenchman Sentenced to Death

Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 April 1945 · page 1

VERSAILLES, Sun. (A.A.P.).—A court yesterday sentenced to death a 52-year-old Frenchman who in February, 1944 handed…

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Manpower Officer Charged

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 April 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: Edmund Thomas Dowse, 63, manpower officer, was committed for trial to-day for having pretended he had…

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Police Court Before Mr. M. S. Meagher, P.M. Betting Case

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 10 April 1945 · page 2

Victor Cheshire pleaded guilty to a charge of using premises for the purposes of betting, and also to publishing information as to betting relating…

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Police Investigate Alleged Razor Slashing

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 10 April 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Detectives are investigating the circumstances in which Frederick Roberts, 42, of Redfern, was sloshed about the neck last…

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Wagga Police Court Monday, April 9, 1946 (Before Mr. M. S. Meagher, S.m.) Goods in Possession Charge

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 April 1945 · page 6

At the Wagga Police Court yesterday, before Mr. M. S. Weather, acting stipendiary magistrate, of Sydney, Roy Jenkins aged 47 years, former…

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Police Fear Outbreak of Violent Crime

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 10 April 1945 · page 2

The police fear an outbreak of violent crime owing to large quantities of firearms of all descriptions reaching the Sydney underworld. The…

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Arrest on Murder Charge Victorian Man-hunt Ends

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 April 1945 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: A police man-hunt which lasted almost two years ended to-day with the arrest of a man whom…

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