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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

1,494 stories in Riverina's papers · page 54 of 75

Remands in Stealing, Receiving Charge

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 10 September 1946 · page 1

ALBURY, Tuesday: Two men were charged in Albury court with stealing and receiving £1125 worth of cigarette paper. Douglas Bernard Jones,…

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Hospital Treatment After Accident, Court Told

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 September 1946 · page 2

When a utility hit a post near a railway bridge on the Albury road an July 7, the driver, George Turn bull Brown, and his three…

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Police Court (Yesterday.) Before Mr. R. A. Hardwick, P.M. Stealing

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 11 September 1946 · page 2

James Albert Sporn, aged 25, pleaded guilty to a charge that, at Cootamundra, he did steal one ladles' suit and one men's lumber jacket, of the…

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Woman Again Refuses to Give Evidence Two Men Charged With Geelong Murder

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 September 1946 · page 2

GEELONG, Tuesday: When the coroner's inquest was continued to-day into the deaths of William Stewart Sheargold, 28, and Ernest…

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Constable Tells of Fatal Shooting in Police Car

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 September 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A detective stated in the City Coroner's Court to-day that after three shots had been fired in. a police car at Matraville, on August 11, he stopped the car, and turned to find…

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Stern Gang Boasts of Murder

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 12 September 1946 · page 1

JERUSALEM, Thursday: The terrorist Stern Gang in "a communique" posted up in Tel Aviv, took responsibility for the murdering of Sergt…

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Wagga Chef of Police Promoted

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 September 1946 · page 2

Police Superintendent G. B. Howard, chief of the Riverina Administrative District, with headquarters Wagga. has been…

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Italians Raid Food Shops, Fight Police

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 September 1946 · page 1

MILAN, Wednesday: Thousands of demonstrators battled against police at Mestre, when the police unsuccessfully…

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Dead Man's Name Called in Court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 September 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday: When the name of Douglas Charles Graves, 28, was called in the Quarter Sessions to-day, the police said Graves was…

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Police Court Monday, 9th SEPTEMBEK (Before Mr. H. G. Cobley. P.M.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 13 September 1946 · page 4

Henry James Carter (6l) and Gordon John Wilson (28) were each fined 10/. in default 24 hours, on charges of being found drunk…

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Police Court Wednesday, September 11 (Before Mr. Hardwickc, P.M.) Aplication for Delivery of Goods

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 13 September 1946 · page 6

Harold Edwin McCarthy (representing the Railway Department) made en application for the delivery of goods, that were in the custody of…

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Mounted Police Charge London Squatters

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 13 September 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Friday: Mutinied police charged squatters outside Abbey Lodge, which was occupied on Wednesday…

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Gaol For Savage Assault on Woman

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 September 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: James Vincent Cameron, 18, of Gleba, was sentenced to two years' goal when he was found guilty of having…

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To Be Charged with Murder of Officers

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 September 1946 · page 1

BERLIN, Friday. The American Military Government announces that it has handed over to Britain, France and Czechoslovakia, nine…

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Five Years' Gaol; 'Appalling Record'

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 September 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: Edgar Ralph Schrives, 42, no fixed abode, was sentenced to-day to five years' gaol at the Quarter Sessions…

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Murder Charges Broken Down

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 September 1946 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday: Following an open verdict in the Barwon River murder inquest early this week, the murder charges against…

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Man Remanded on Charge of Murder

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 September 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri: Mervyn Garvie (39), laborer, charged with the murder fo Cecil John Kelly, at Bulli, on August 28, was…

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Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 September 1946 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sunday: John O'Hanlan (61) was shot dead at Davalla Siding, about 28 miles from Bowen, between Rockhampton and…

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10 Years' Gaol For Insulting Troops

Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 September 1946 · page 1

ROME, Sunday (A.A.P.): The United States Military Court at Florence sentenced General Kurt Maexler German commandant…

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Assault Charge Dismissed at Wagga Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 September 1946 · page 2

At the Wagga Police Court yesterday, before Mr. R. A Hardwicke Pit, Frederick Stanley Williams was acquitted an a charge of…

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