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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

1,494 stories in Riverina's papers · page 24 of 75

Remand on Theft Charge

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Three men were to-day charged at Paddington Court with breaking, entering and stealing clothing valued at…

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Woman on Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Charged with having. murdered Beryl June at Balmain, Phyllis May Evans, aged 38 years was to-day…

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Death Sentences for Murder Op Chinese

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 April 1946 · page 2

RABAUL, Tuesday: For the murder of four Chinese prisoners of war on New Britain in April, 1942 a Japanese soldier and a Formosan…

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Leakage of Police Information

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Acting Commissioner of Police (Mr. Scott) has called for a report on alleged leakage of information of police…

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Police Plane to Be Changed

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: An Avro-Anson plane, which was bought by the New South Wales Police Department, will be exchanged for a…

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Sequel to Win at Races Men Charged With Attack on Woman

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A man who said that he won a large sum of money at the races told the police that he was followed home by…

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Queensland Judge For High Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 April 1946 · page 2

The Chief Justice of Queensland Sir William Webb, has been appointed to the seventh place on the bench of the High…

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Milan Gaol Baffle Continues

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 April 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday: "Three thousand prisoners in San Vittore Gaol at Milan (Italy), who swore to resist to the death, last night…

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Supreme Court Sitting at Cootamundra

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 April 1946 · page 2

Steps have been taken for the issue of a proclamation directing that sittings of the Supreme Court, or a judge thereof, for the hearing…

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Terrorists Attack Police Station British and Arab Casualties

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 April 1946 · page 1

JERUSALEM, Wednesday: One Arab policeman was killed and one British and Arab constable were wounded to a terrorist raid on…

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Meat Industry Dispute Court Action In Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Prompt action by Mr. Justice Cantor in summoning an immediate conference of the Meat Industry…

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Three Months Gaol Assault on Girl

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 2

Ill the Children's Court at Leeton, on Thursday, a defendant was sen­tenced- to three months gaol for nn assault on n girl…

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Jap Sentenced to Death

Daily Advertiser · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 3

SINGAPORE, Thursday: Two Jap geamen were sentenced to death for beating and torturing two civilians in the Andamans in June…

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Woman's Alleged Theft To Help Husband

Daily Advertiser · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: The police claimed in the Central Police Court to-day that part of a large sum of money allegedly…

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Police Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, P.M. Railway Trespass

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 5

William Lindsay (18) pleaded guilty to trespassing on railway properly, and was fined £2; in default, 4 days. Defendant was a strange to…

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TRAMMIES Want Police Protection

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 1

Unless police protection is provided for tram men on trams and buses destined for sporting fixtures tomorrow, they will refuse to work…

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Police Court Wednesday, April 24 (Before Messrs. H. G. Cobley and S. H. Wright, J.P.) Smashing Plate Glass Window

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 1

George Wilfred Dickenson (22) was charged with maliciously Injuring a Plate glass window, the property of Steve Vasilos, such injury being to an…

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Industrial Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, P.M.

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 5

William Joseph Maher and Thomas Patrick McDevitt, trading as Maher and McDevitt, were prosecuted on four charges of breaches of the award…

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Gaol for Assault on Girl

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 April 1946 · page 2

In the Children's Court at Leeton on Thursday, a defendant was sentenced to three months' gaol for an assault on a girl…

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Police Court Friday. Octobee 9, 1868 (Before the Police Magistrate, and F. A. Thompson Esq., J.P.)

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 April 1946 · page 4

George Hurst, on remand for stealing four ducks, was sentenced to two months' Imprisonment in Wagga Wagga gaol…

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