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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

1,204 stories in Riverina's papers · page 26 of 61

Murder Charge Arrest After Seven Months

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 May 1945 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sunday: After months of intensive searching, during which the police combed New South Wales and Victoria…

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Quisling in Court Hears Accusations Read

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 May 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.): Vidkun Quisling began a legal battle for his life yesterday in a crowded little courtroom in Oslo…

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Wagga Parking Method Highly Dangerous States Police Magistrate

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 4

The system of parking vehicles head-on to the kerb at an angle of 45 degrees which exists in the municipality of Wagga Wagga was…

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New Ration Books Precautions Against Theft

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: All possible precautions against the theft of ration books are to be taken by electoral officers in charge of…

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Police Court (Today) Before Mr. H. L. Sargeson, P.M. Indecent Language

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 2

John Kingsly Martin pleased guilt, to using indecent language in Gundagai road. Plainclothes, Constable Haskew said…

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Police Court Monday, 28th MAY (Before Mr. H. G. Cobley, J.P.) Drunks

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 3

John Stephen Newman (69) was fined £1, in default 48 hours' hard labour, on a charge of being found drunk in East Street, on Saturday. He had…

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Wagga Police Court Monday, May 28, 1945 (Before Mr. H. L. Sargeson, P.m.) Heavy Fines and Damages

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 4

Pleading guilty to charges of illegally using a motor car at Wagga on the night of May 22, two soldiers were fined £20 each…

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Sent to Gaol for Bigamy Man Marries at Wagga and Again at Merewether

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: Leading Seaman Neville Colin Hazelgrove, 29, at Parramatta Quarter Sessions to-day pleaded guilty to a…

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Bankruptcy Court Shortage in Trust Funds

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: Norman Sandford Cotter, solicitor, whose estate was sequestrated in April, told the Bankruptcy Court to-day…

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Heavy Fines for Overcharging Ten Defendants at Albury Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 2

Allegations were made by officers of the Prices Commission at the Albury Police Court yesterday against 10 persons engaged in…

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Negligent Driving Charge Dismissed Tumut Garage Proprietor Before Wagga Court

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 4

At the Wagga Police Court on Monday, before Mr. H. Sargeson, P.M., John Edwin Kelly, motor garage proprietor, of Richmond-street,…

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Theft From Museum

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 May 1945 · page 3

HOBART: Four necklaces have been stolen from the Hobart museum. They were made of shells by a now extinct tribe of…

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Death Sentence Blayney Constable's Murder

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 May 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.: Sentence of death was passed on Cyril Norman, 31, at the Central Criminal Court this afternoon for the…

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Bogus Police in Paris

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 May 1945 · page 2

LONDON, Tuesday: Dressed in correct military uniforms, and carrying forged police inspectors' credentials, a gang of bogus…

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Electric Shock for Judge Divorce Court Evidence

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 May 1945 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tuesday: To test the evidence given by a woman petitioner, Mr. Justice Street to-day took an electric shock at the Divorce Court…

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Shot Former Gundagai Constable Man Sentenced to Death

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 31 May 1945 · page 3

Sentence of death was passed on Cyril Norman, 31, at the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, on Tuesday afternoon, for the murder of…

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A.I.F. Ready for Final Assault on Tarakan Manila

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 31 May 1945 · page 1

The Ninth Division of the AIF is regrouping for the final assault on Tarakan. The main Japanese concentrations…

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Theft and Destruction At Port Moresby

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 1 June 1945 · page 1

CANBERRA, Friday: After the second bombing raid on Port Moresby there was general and extensive theft and destruction of civilian property…

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Death Penalty for Murder

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 1 June 1945 · page 2

Cyril Norman, 31, was sentenced to death in the Central Criminal Court in Sydney on Tuesday for having murdered Constable Eric George…

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Ninth Divy Preparing For Final Tarakan Assault MANILA

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 1 June 1945 · page 2

The Ninth Division of the A.I.F. is regrouping for the final assault on Tarakan. The main Jap concentrations are now north of…

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