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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

1,494 stories in Riverina's papers · page 5 of 75

Fined for Stealing

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 2

Lance Guest (22) was charged with stealing a camera, two camera lenses, a box of photographic plates, one hyperdermic syringe, a set of…

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Millionaire Now Out of Gaol Again Mentioned in Court Case

Daily Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 2

LONDON, Thursday: clarence Hatry, the former millionaire, who was sentenced to 14 years' gaol for fraud in 1930, is in the news again…

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U.S. Soldier Charged with Murder of [?]Aps Letter to Girl Friend in New Jersey

Daily Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 1

NEW YORK, Thursday: A letter evidently written before his court martial by Joseph Hicswa, a U.S. soldier, from a stockade in…

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Police Court (Tuesday) Before Mr. R. Hardwicke. P.M. Accident Aftermath !

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 6

John Thomas Ryan (37) pleaded guilty to driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor…

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Alleged Theft of £1700 From City Hotel

Daily Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: At the Central Police Court to-day Joyce Walsh, aged 19 years, was charged with stealing £1700 from…

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Police Court Wednesday, January 16 (Before Mr. Hardwicke, P.M.) Adulterated Milk

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 2

Frank Blake (officer of the Board of Health) v. Roland Curry, Belling an article of food which was adulterated…

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Six Months Imprisonment for Stealing Wallet and Money

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 3

AT the Leeton police court on Tuesday, before Mr.. E. R. Harvey P.M., Alfred Keith McNamara, aged 31 years, was…

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Cheque Forger Charged Could Not Read or Write

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 4

A man who claimed that he could not rend or write, was sentenced to three months' goal, with hard labor, at Orange; on a charge of forgery. He…

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Charges Against Germans Murder and Destruction Reported

Daily Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 2

LONDON, Thursday: Eighteen Germans, including three generals, are charged before the Minsk district military court with…

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Army Officer to Face Court Martial

Daily Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 2

LAE, Thursday: Captain John Joseph Murphy, of Brisbane, will be tried by general court martial to-morrow on two charges of having…

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Foremost Nazi Conspirators Now on Trial at Nuremberg Court

Daily Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 1

NUREMBERG, Thursday: The former German Minister for the Interior (Dr. Frick) did not personally stain. his hands with blood. He was the managerial genius of the Nazi conspiracy, stated the prosecutor (Dr. Robert Kempner, a German lawyer who…

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Gundagai Business Houses Prosecuted Special Federal Court Hands Out Bill For £73

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 1

Last June Gundagai received a visit from Wallace Michal [?] an inspector from the Branch. Young Mr. March spent…

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Leeton Magistrate Farewelled

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 3

Mr. E. R. Harvey, P.M., made his final appearance as presiding magistrate at the Leeton Police Court on Tuesday, having been appointed…

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Ten Years' Gaol For Carrying Pistol

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: Maurice Nicholls, aged 30 years, photographer, pleaded guilty at the General Police Court to a charge…

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Bad Language Used at Police Station

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 3

Stanley Toner was charged at the Leeton police court on Tuesday before Mr. E. R. Harvey, P.M., with using bad language at the police…

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Military Court For War Crime Trials

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 1

AUCKLAND (N.Z.). Friday: The Government has nominated the Hon. Erima Harvey North-croft, Supreme Court Judge, as…

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"Killer" Caldwell Awaits Verdict of Court Martial

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: At the conclusion of the evidence to-day in the R.A.A.F. court martial of Group Captain Oliver Clive Robertson ("Killer") Caldweil, the president announced that the evidence and…

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Weird Story Told in Braidwood Court Man Committed To Stand Trial at Goulburn

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 21 January 1946 · page 4

A weird drama of a man who allegedly waited in the bush for two days in an attempt to shoot at a woman, who at one time was alleged to have lived with him, was unfolded before the Braidwood Police Court on Thursday. The Police case was presented by Serg[?]…

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Stealing Cigarettes and Swimming Trunks From Hotel Rooms

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 2

Stanley Sutton, laborer, 30, employed on forestry work at Bago, cried throughout the hearing of evidence at the Tumut Court House yesterday…

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Warden's Court

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 3

Applications to enter by Ernest G. Cubbins and Alexander McDonald were, at the applicants' request, adjourned until March 7th…

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