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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

1,204 stories in Riverina's papers · page 51 of 61

Man Charged with Liverpool-street Bank Hold-up

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 November 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Harry Ross, aged 28 years, an engineer, was committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions on December 3 on…

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Murder Charge at Gilgandra Alleged Admissions of Wife

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 November 1945 · page 3

GILGANDRA, Tues.: A statement allegedly made by Mrs. Myra Tenandra Crowther, aged 45 years, wife of Edward Crowther, aged 50…

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Java Position Continues Tense Murder of British Officer

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 November 1945 · page 3

BATAVIA, Thurs. (A.A.P.): Although 42 hours have elapsed since the murder of Brigadier Mallaby, British Headquarters…

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Wife for Trial on Murder Charge Alleged Stabbing of Husband

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 November 1945 · page 3

MELBOURNE. Thurs.: On a charge of having murdered her husband, Eric Franklin, a railway worker, Mrs. Dorothy Franklin, 43,…

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Bank Hold-up Defendant Before Court

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 2 November 1945 · page 2

At the Central police Court, Sydney, on Wednesday last. Harry Ross, 28, was charged with having, white armed with an automatic pistol,…

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One of the Finest Court Houses Outside Sydney Judge's Praise for Gundagai Building

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 2 November 1945 · page 7

Prior to the commencement of the last Gundagai Quarter Sessions, the presiding Justice, his Honor Judge Berne, remarking on the fact that it…

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Government Challenged in Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 November 1945 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Frid.: Judgment in the test case on the validity of the Commonwealth legislation to nationalise airways was deferred in…

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£350 Theft at Parkes

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 5 November 1945 · page 2

Thieves broke into the Paragon Cafe, Parkes, and stole £350 in silver and notes from an unlocked safe. Police believe that the burglars effected…

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Court Martial Unlikely in Bennett Case

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 November 1945 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sat.: No further military action is expected to be taken against Lieut.-General H. Gordon Bennett as a result of the…

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More Seek to Join Police

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 6 November 1945 · page 2

More applications from young men to join the police force have been received in the last few days, but only about one-third of the applicants have…

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Man Pleads Guilty to Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 November 1945 · page 2

AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Tuesday: For the first time in New Zealand, a man pleaded guilty to a murder charge in the Auckland Supreme…

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State Assembly and Teachers' Salaries Police Premises That Hold Up Progress

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 November 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.: Admitting that members of Parliament had been inundated with urgent telegrams from public school teachers…

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Porter Sent to Gaol For Stealing

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 November 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY. Wed.: Pilfering on the railways had reached gigantic proportions and, according to a railway detective, £187,000 had…

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Theft From Dutch Air Arm Base

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 November 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.: Thieves stole £2758 in cash and cheques from a' safe in the rear of the Netherlands Fleet Air Arm base at Rose…

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Green Stains Bring Conviction Theft of Letter Containing Notes

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 November 1945 · page 6

SYDNEY. Wednesday: Two ten shilling bank notes treated with a chemical to cause green stains on the hands of anybody…

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Nationalisation of Police Force Referendum to Be Sought

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 November 1945 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wed.: After some delegates had advocated Federal control of police Instead of the present State control, the…

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Charged With Son's Murder

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 November 1945 · page 3

HOBART, Thursday: After snooting his son, John Walter Bennett, aged 66, a farmer, senticis grandson for the police…

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Police Court (Tuesday) Before Mr. M. S. Meagher, P.M. Butter!

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 9 November 1945 · page 2

Cecil Gordon Warton (32) pleaded guilty that he did knowingly have in a house situated at 3 Cowing street, Cootamundra, 40lbs of butter which…

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BUCHAREST Police Fire on Crowd

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 9 November 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Friday: Six persons were killed and wounded when troops fired on a small crowd outside the Roya Palace at Bucharest while a solemr…

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Police Hours Near to Slavery Standard Uniforms

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 November 1945 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Thursday: The secretary of the New South Wales Police Association (Mr Cosgrove) described the hours worked' by…

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