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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

1,494 stories in Riverina's papers · page 64 of 75

Police Fire on Rioters in India

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 2 November 1946 · page 1

CALCUTTA, Friday: It is officially revealed that the police fired 83 rounds and the troops 14 rounds in Bombay last night, injuring 18…

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Police N.C.O's Excluded From Conference

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 2 November 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Non-commissioned police and the Press were excluded, on the suggestion of the Police Commissioner (Mr. McKay)…

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Marrar Man Given Three Months for Assault on Female Magistrate' Serious View of Offence in Train

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 4 November 1946 · page 1

“I take a very serious view of this offence” said the Police Magistrate (Mr Hardwicke) in Junee Court prior to [?] a young…

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Shocking Sydney Murder

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 4 November 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: The body of a woman was found. In a gully at Cooper Park, Bellevue Hill, late yesterday afternoon. She had been criminally…

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Wyalong Sensation Ends in Court Magistrate Describes Pistol Firing Episode as Flashness; £50 Fine

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 4 November 1946 · page 4

A policeman stated at the West Wyalong Police Court that a. miner, who pleaded guilty to discharging a pistol at night, without…

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Shocking Murder in City

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 November 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: The body of a woman was found in a gully at Cooper Park, Bellevue Hill, late this…

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Man Charged With Manslaughter of Brother

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 November 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday: Following a truck accident at the military reserve at Liverpool last night, Reginald Charles Crossingham, 28, was…

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German Generals Charged With Grimes in Grete

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 November 1946 · page 3

ATHENS, Sunday: General Brauer, German Military Commander of Crete from 1942 to March, 1944, and General…

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Filching Trees Warning by Magistrate

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 5 November 1946 · page 1

Three defendants were summoned to appear before Mr. G. O. Etherton, Police Magistrate, at Lockhart, on Wednesday, on charges of stealing…

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Police Court Wednesday, October 30 (Before Mr. H. G. Cobley. J.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 5 November 1946 · page 2

Albert Joint Barnes, (63) wan charged with drunkenness, bat did not appear. His recognizance was forfeited…

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"Old Fat Man" with Girl Before Murder

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 November 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: "An old fat man" was seen talking with Joan Norma Glnn, 11, some hours before she was assaulted and strangled…

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Sensational Police Claim in Lavers Case

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 November 1946 · page 1

GRENFELL, Monday: Frederick Lincoln McDermot, 38, laborer, according to the Crown Prosecutor, was overheard to say at Griffith in 1944: "I 'did' Lavers. I had no money to pay. I hit him on the head, and the body was placed in the back of the car, taken to a sheep yard and buried."…

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Sensational Police Case in Layers Case

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 5 November 1946 · page 1

GRENFELL, Tuesday: Frederick Lincoln McDermot (38), laborer, according to the Crown Prosecutor, was overheard to say at Griffith in 1944,…

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Victim of Sydney Murder Identified Woman Believed to Have Chased Handbag Thief

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 November 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: The strangled and mutilated victim of the Cooper Park murder has been identified as Mrs Ada Lambert, 45, a laundress, who resided in Woollahra. Her body was found in thick bush in the park at Bellevue Hill…

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Police Court (Yesterday)

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 6 November 1946 · page 2

Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, P.M. Evading Fare. Ronald George Madden, soldier, was charged with travelling from Goulburn…

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Police Probe on Murder of Woman

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 6 November 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Police working on the Cooper Park murder case say they are concentrating on a definite line of investigation. The…

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Woman, at Murder Inquest, Says Police Questioned Her For 7 Hours

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 6 November 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Accusations that the police had questioned her continuously for seven hours, and had bullied her into making an untrue statement regarding her associations with Constable William…

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Human Blood on Pump Handle; 1936 Grenfell Murder

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 6 November 1946 · page 2

GRENFELL, Tuesday: Four witnesses gave evidence when the hearing of the Lavers murder case resumed to-day…

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Police Break Up Meeting of Housewives

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 6 November 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A meeting of housewives at Newtown this morning to gather signatures for a petition protesting against the…

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Motorist Kidded Himself Fined on Two Counts Gundagai Police Court Case

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 7 November 1946 · page 3

“You can put in what you damn well. like, I'll get it all stopped,” said an Albury motorist, Alfred [?]H. Nicholls, to Senior Constable…

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