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Courts & crime, 1946

1,494 stories in Riverina's papers · page 23 of 75

Japanese Sentenced

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 April 1946 · page 1

SHANGHAI, Tuesday: A military commission sentenced four Japanese officers to imprisonment with hard labor for the execution of…

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Murder Charge After Six Years

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 April 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A man was charged in the Central Criminal Court to-day with a murder committed nearly six years ago…

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Woman to Stand Trial On Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 April 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: In the Coroner's Court to-day Dorothy Irene Gordon, aged 39 years, of Kogarah committed for trial on a…

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Widows Charged with Costs of Husbands' Executions Horrible Nazi Tactics Revealed at Nuremberg

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 April 1946 · page 1

[?]NURE[?]ERG Tuesday (A.A.P.): The families [?]tion: This was revealed in the records now in the hands of the War Crimes Tribunal, which also show that families had to pay 1/6 daily for prisoners' upkeep…

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Secret Promotion in Police Force "Vicious Things," Says Mr. Lazzarini

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 April 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The system of "secret promotions" in the police force was a serious anomaly and was likely to cause considerable…

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County Council Offices to Be in Glamis Court Upstairs Floor to be Occupied

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 April 1946 · page 2

The Southern Riverina County Council is to rent the whole of the upstairs portion of Glamis Court, Gurwood-street, Wagga, as administrative offices. This was agreed to at a meeting of the council held at the…

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Leeton Police Court An Assault Charge

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Thursday 18 April 1946 · page 4

Colin James Grady proceeded against Gordon Furner, aged 20, at the Leeton police court on a charge of assault and the defendant was…

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What May Be Charged For Hillston Racecourse and Showground

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 18 April 1946 · page 2

For the information of the Hillston Labor League (who at its last meeting carried a resolution that information be sought as to whether it was compulsory…

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Unwritten Law in Murder Cases Right of Appeal to Condemned Man

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 April 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday: "Forty-eight hours before the time fixed for the hanging, a condemned man in Lincoln Gaol was told yesterday…

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Police Court Monday, April 15 (Before Mr. H. G. Cobley. J.P.) Drunks

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 19 April 1946 · page 2

Edmund David Finnen (32) and Charles Ernest Pedler (31)were charged with drunkenness, but did not appear…

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Two Cyclists Killed Truck Driver-Charged

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: One cyclist was killed and another fatally injured on Thursday night at Wilomby road, near Cessnock Frank…

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Shooting of Myles McKEON Three Men Charged

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 April 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Three men were charged at the Central Court with the murder of Mylea Henry ("Face") McKeon on March 29…

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Charged with Murder of Parents

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 April 1946 · page 1

LONDON. Sunday (A.A.P.): After the discovery at their Southport home of the bodies of Major and Mrs. Hugh Heald, both of whom…

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Murder Theory

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: The body of Angus Butters, aged 50 years, of Ayles avenue, Murwiliumbah, was found in the yard of the Royal…

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Murder of W.A.A.F. OFFICERS Germans to Face Charges

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 April 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.): Evidence that four British W.A.A.F. officers who parachuted into France to aid the Maquis were trapped and…

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Woman On Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: A woman was to-day charged with murder following the death of Beryl lange, aged 20 years of E[?] on the south…

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Theft of Valuable Antiques From British Castle

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Monday: Four masked men, using a Rolls Royce car, overpowered and bound the watchman and stole antiques valued at…

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Murder of Australians Near Batavia

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 1

BATAVIA, Monday: The Indonesian Government has sent a note to the Australian political adviser (Mr. Brookes) regretting the…

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Large-scale Revolt in Milan Gaol 2500 Prisoners With Guns and Bombs

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 3

MILAN, Monday: Armed with light machine-guns and hand grenades, 2500 prisoners who began a revolt at the San Dittore gaol…

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Shots Fired in Sydney Streets Suspect Thieves Chased by Police

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Detectives fired live shots at Edgecliff early this morning in their attempts to capture three men who were seen…

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