Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Courts & crime, all years

Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

1,204 stories in Riverina's papers · page 34 of 61

Sentenced for Breach of Recognisance

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

Harry Laurence Murphy was called up for sentence on a charge of assault and occasioning actual bodily harm to— Lamprell, near Euroley,…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Police Court (Yesterday) Before Mr. H. L. Sargeson. P.M. Malicious Damage

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 10 July 1945 · page 2

Percy Clarence Robins (34) pleaded guilty to maliciously damaging one glass door panel, the properly of Tooth and Co., Pty., Ltd., to the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Cost of Police Boys' Clubs Government to Assist

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 July 1945 · page 4

"In recognition of the splendid service rendered to our youth by the Police Boys' Clubs Movement." said the Hon. E. H. Graham. M.L.A.,…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Police and Citizens' Boys' Clubs Address to Wagga Rotary

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 July 1945 · page 4

At the weekly luncheon of the Wagga Rotary Club, held yesterday at the Bite Cafe, Baylis street, the guest speaker was…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Mutiny Case for High Court Validity of Charge to be Tested

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 July 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY. Monday: The Tamworth mutiny case is to go to the High Court for decision. This was announced to-day by Mr. W…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Horses Belonged to Wife Gundagai Man Wins Court Case More Straying Stock Prosecutions

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 10 July 1945 · page 1

On April 30 last Mr. Hoe Smith, impounding officer to the Gundagai Shire Council, pounced on four horses nibbling at what grass there may have been in Sheridan-St. He…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Youths on Theft Charge

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 July 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY. Tuesday: About £770, portion of £1200 alleged to have been stolen from the Marrickville home of Clive Cook, former…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Wagga Police Court Tuesday, July 10, 1945 (Before Mr. H. L. Sargeson, P.M.)

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 July 1945 · page 4

At the Wagga Police Court yesterday, before Mr. H. L. Sargeson, P.M , Arthur William Edwards. aged 22 years, laborer, pleaded guilty to…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Devastating Air Attack on Tokyo Greatest Single Day Assault

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 July 1945 · page 1

GUAM, Tuesday: More than 1000 planes operating from a fast American 'Task Force drawn from Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet, and led by Vice-Admiral…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Fair Rents Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 July 1945 · page 2

At the Wagga Fair Rents Court yesterday, Mr. H. L. Sargeton. P.M., reduced the rent of a cottage at The Rock from £1 to 14/6…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Rome Police Raid on Partisan Headquarters

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 July 1945 · page 1

ROME, Tuesday: The police raided a two-storey building on the outskirts of Rome used by a group of Italian partisans as their…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Woman's Body Found in Wardrobe Gruesome Murder in New Zealand

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 July 1945 · page 5

AUCKLAND (N.Z.) Tuesday: A general police alarm has been broadcast throughout New Zealand with the description of…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Murder Charge of Ten Years Ago

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 July 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.: If the application soon to be made to the Equity Court for a declaration by the Judge in Lunacy that Boyd…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Old Gundagai History— Murder At Spring Flat Who Killed Mrs Pilkington ?

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 12 July 1945 · page 7

There are many stories connected with that once auriferous and often immoral suburb of Gundagai Spring Flat. None perhaps is more curious than that which recounts the murder of Mrs Pilkington and the circumstantial evidence that convioted her alleged slayer…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Sentence for Stealing Varied

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 13 July 1945 · page 2

In an appeal by Vaugban Breden Boyle against the severity of a sentence of siz months imposed by the magistrate at the Griffith police court…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Traitor Sentenced to Death

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 July 1945 · page 1

PARIS, Thurs.: The High Court sentenced to death Paul Ferdonnet, the so-called radio trailor of Stuttgart. He was arrested while…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Alleged Assault and Robbery

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 13 July 1945 · page 2

Milton Andrew Robison was charged with that he did at Griffith on 2nd April assault John Maher and rob bim of the sum of £5…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

"Murder My Sweet"

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 13 July 1945 · page 2

Blackmail with a jade necklace at the price of silence, forms the theme of the new mystery thriller, "Murder My Sweet," opening to-night…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Alleged Forcible Ejection from Flat Solicitor and Wife Charged

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 July 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.: In the Special Federal Court to-day, William Charles Phillips Harvey alleged that he had been forcibly ejected…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Reghenzani Not Guilty of Malicious Wounding and Assault Acquitted by Narandera Jury

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 13 July 1945 · page 2

IT required only a retirement of about 15 minutes for the jury at the Narandera Quarter Sessions on Wednesday to decide that Carlos Rcghenzani, aged 19, was not guilty of the charges of maliciously wounding John George Tabain, of Corbie Hill on March 2nd, 1945,…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →