Police Drive Against Traffic Offenders
Wagga police are launching another minor traffic blitz on motorists in Wagga. The blits is the outcome of an address given to the traf-…
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Yard "harbor for rats" Court told
Wagga City Council Health Inspector (Mr. D. Lewis) described the backyard of shop premises in Gurwood Street shared by Miss Ethel Forrest and Mr. George Kallas as "a harbor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court of Petty Sessions THURSDAY 20th NOVEMBER
Stanley Oswald Hoy Coulter (23) was charged with that on 1st September at Mortdale, he did falsely pretend to Lewis Frederick Hughes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Warning on Gypsies. Girl Charged with Stealing
A 19-year-old gypsy girl was released on £50 bail yesterday after she had been charged with stealing £10 from a travelling motorist at Tarcutta yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Charged with Theft of £14,000 at Station
PERTH, Thursday: Three men charged with theft of £14,000 worth of gold bullion from Kalgoorlie railway parcels office were committed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Kapooka stealing charge fails at Wagga
After a brief deliberation at the Quarter Sessions in Wagga yesterday, a jury acquitted 33-year-old Leslie Gordon Parkington, who had pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing 20 blankete from the Kapooka Quarter-Masters' Stores in May…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Eight Months Gaol for Driving Offence
"It weighs heavily on me to realise the effect to your family and your girl friend of imposing a sentence on you," Judge Brennan told Ronald Campbell Joseph McLachlan at yesterday's Quarter Sessions in Wagga before he sentenced him to eight months' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Leeton resident's car illegally used by Griffith youth Magistrate Imposes £25 FINE
On the afternoon of November 18, Mr. E. C. Tweedie left his Holden car outside his office in Kurrajong…
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A Quarter Sessions jury in Wagga yesterday found Leonard Sampson, of Melbourne, not guilty of a count of passing: a valueless cheque. Sampson pleaded not guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Judge at Wagga Court praises juries
Judge Brennan at the Quarter Sessions in Wagga yesterday said he hoped he would never see the day when there was no longer trial by jury in Australia. His Honor made the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Daylight robbery in Pine Avenue Man Arrested by Police
Stevens Bros, mercer's store in Pine Avenue was broken into in broad daylight about 7 o'clock on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wife "Begged Not to Be Strangled", Court Told
SYDNEY, Thursday: A South Coast postmaster, who, the Crown alleged, had strangled his wife, told the police that "she begged and prayed to her dying breath for me not to do it," it was stated at the Central Criminal Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Driving Under the Influence Sydney Man Fined At Adelong Court
At the Adelong Court of Petty Sessions last Friday George William Bright, of Campsie, Sydney, was fined £15…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sunday shooters caught and fined at Court New Australian Did Not Know It Was an Offence
When three men were charged at the Leeton Court of Petty. Sessions on Thursday before Mr. K. Smith, S.M., with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court Claim Over Killed Sheep Fails
A man sued for damages over the death of seven sheep on the Tumbarumba Road on May 14, had his plea of not guilty upheld by Judge Brennan in the District Court at Wagga…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court of Petty Sessions (Today) Before Mr. W. Finlay, SM. Theft Charge
Stanley Lawrence Collins (19), of Button street, was lined £5 on each, of two charges of stealing money, property of Miss…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Junee Widow Charged with Manslaughter
Following the death of a man in the Junee District Hospital last week, his widow was on Friday last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Follow Blood Trail
SYDNEY, Sunday: Two policemen today followed a trail of blood for two miles from the body of a dying man…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gaol Break in U.S.A. Eight Get Away
PITTSBURGH, Monday—Eight convicts overpowered six guards at Knife point and broke out of Western Pennsylvania…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Former Gundagai Postal Officer On Murder Charge
WHEN a former Gundagai Postal Official strangled his wife, she begged and prayed him not to do it, but he “just couldn't let her go for about 20 minutes,” the Crown told a jury in the Central Criminal court last Thursday. Rohert William Lawson. 51,…
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