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Courts & crime, 1946

1,494 stories in Riverina's papers · page 55 of 75

Fined £7 for Stealing Machinery

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 September 1946 · page 2

Pleading guilty to stealing machinery valued at £2/10/, Cecil John Breed was fined £7 at the Wagga Police Court yesterday by…

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Central Police Court Stir Reaction to Mr. Menzies' Meeting

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 17 September 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A stir was caused at the Central Police Court today when one of the men arrested during the disturbances at the Macabeen Hall,…

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Police Court Wednesday, September 11 (Before Mr. Hardwickc, P.M.) Committed for Trial

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 17 September 1946 · page 1

John Francis Brown (19) was charged with that he did on 9th August, at Narandera, break and enter the jeweller's shop of Norma Agnes…

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Alleged Murder Over Radio Horror Stories

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 September 1946 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday: In the Criminal Court to-day it was alleged a man had confessed that he, killed another man because he…

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Woman Causes Stir in Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 September 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Then was a stir in Central Court the rooming as Major Cousens was about to resume his…

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Man Sentenced to Death for Murder

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 September 1946 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: In the Criminal Court to-day Trevor Francis Sanderson McKenzie, tailor, formerly of Hastings, was sentenced…

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Police Court (Yesterday.) Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, P.M. Alleged Assault

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 18 September 1946 · page 2

Clarence Baker was charged that he did assault a female. Mr. Dawson appeared for the defendant, who pleaded not guilty, and…

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Fifteen Men Charged

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 September 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Fifteen men charged at Central Court to-day with disorderly behavior at Mr. Menzies' meeting last night…

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Police Suspicious About "Smokes"

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 18 September 1946 · page 2

Arrested at Cown by Det.-Sgt. Windsor, of Sydney (and formerly of Young), and described by the police as a "show follower," Patrick Newton was…

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Police Guard Over Burned Man

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 September 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Severely burned when blazing petrol flared up in the kitchen of his home last night, Charles Edward Randall, 43,…

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Cockfighting, Alleged; Roosters in Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 September 1946 · page 2

BRISBANE, Tuesday: The bodies of three game roosters, a number of live birds and 25 needle-pointed spurs were among exhibits at the…

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Communist H.Q. in Greece Occupied by Police

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 September 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.) : Police in Athens have occupied the headquarters of the Communist organisation and have arrested 25…

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Commercial Hotel, Wagga, to Be Rebuilt Direction by Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 September 1946 · page 1

The chairman of the Licensing Board (Mr. J. Scobie) at a sitting at a sitting of the Licensing Court at Wagga yesterday, directed that…

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Licensing Court

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 19 September 1946 · page 5

At a sitting of the Tumbarumba Licensing Court, on Thursday last, Mr. E. J. Etherton, Licensing Magistrate, granted the transfer of the…

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Police Court Offensive' Behaviour Charge Young Man Fined for Drinking Liquor in Street

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 19 September 1946 · page 5

At the Tumbarumba Police Court oh Saturday last, before Messrs. H. V. Connington and D. L. Fleming, J's.P., Arthur Sydney MfcHale (25)…

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Police Court Saturday, 14th SEPTEMBER (Before Mr. H. G. Cobley, J.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 20 September 1946 · page 3

Kenneth Aubrey Wood Lawson (52) was charged with drunke mess, but did not appear. His recognisances were forfeited…

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Inadequate Police Protection State Member's Criticism

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 20 September 1946 · page 4

Mr. Doug, Dickson, M.L.A., in the House: Am non, member made reference to the police in his electorate, and I want to mention what is occurring…

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Police on Watch for Firebug Blaze Starts In Wool Store

Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 September 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: Kerosene was poured into a hollow under a door of a five-storey wool store at Ultime…

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Alleged Letters By Cousens To Japanese Woman Read In Court

Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 September 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: Major Charles Hughes Cousens admitted at Central Police Court to-day that while at Tokyo Radio he had given presents of a black handbag, a wireless and a packet of "Camel" cigarettes to the Japanese journalist, Miss Foumi Saisho…

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Police Call Box

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 September 1946 · page 2

A tender has been accepted for the election of a police call box at the corner of Baylis and Edward-streets, Wagga. It will have direct…

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