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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

1,494 stories in Riverina's papers · page 62 of 75

Police Search Stuttgart Large Quantity of Arms Found

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 22 October 1946 · page 1

STUTTGART, Tuesday: American military police, who conducted a house to house search following Sunday's bomb explosions, detained thirty…

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Licensing Court Application for Spirit Licence Withdrawn

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 22 October 1946 · page 2

On Thursday last Mr. Bliss, Licensing Magistrate, visited Narandera for the purpose of hearing applications for spirit merchants' licences…

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Basic Wage Change Arbitration Court Matter Chifley

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 October 1946 · page 2

CANBERRA, Monday: The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) to-day reiterated that alteration to the basic wage must…

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Interesting Incidents in Mr. W. Wills' Life Travelled on Police Train on Night of Kelly Gang's Capture

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 22 October 1946 · page 2

To have rdden in the special train that conveyed the police from Benalla and intermediate stations to Glenrowan on the night of 3rd July. 1880…

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Young Woman Sentenced at Wagga Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 October 1946 · page 2

A young woman at the Wagga Court yesterday was sentenced by Mr. R. A. Hardwicks, P.M., to three months' imprisonment on each of…

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Gaol for Begging Alms

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 October 1946 · page 2

Leonard E. Cumberland, 56, and Donald McSween, 39, both laborers, were each sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment by Mr. R. A…

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Wagga Magistrate Plages Young Driver on Bond

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 October 1946 · page 2

George Lionel Lymbery, 21-year-old ex-airman, of 62 Berry-street, North Sydney, was allowed a bond at Wagga Court yesterday by Mr…

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Police Court (Yesterday). Before Messrs. E. Smythe and G. A. Bruderlin, J'S.P. Offensive Behaviour

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 23 October 1946 · page 2

Jack; Butler pleaded guilty to a charge or behaving In an offensive beihaviour in Parker street. He was also charged with maliciously…

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Judge Says Basic Wage Case Might Be Forced on Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 October 1946 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Acting Chief Judge Drake Brockman said during the hearing of the 40-Hour Week case to-day that…

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Police Association Secretary

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 October 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Senior, Constable Francis Charles Laut has been appointed secretary of the New South Wales Police Association…

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Ill Treatment of Sheep Grazier Before the Court

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 24 October 1946 · page 2

In the Wagga Police Court on Monday, well known grazier, Richard ard 'Henwood, pleaded not guilty to three charges of cruelly ill-treating…

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One Month's Hard Labor Strangers Before Gundagai Court

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 24 October 1946 · page 1

Pleading guilty to stealing several articles of clothing, the property of Desmond Beveridge. of the Royal Hotel. Gundagai. three strangers…

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Police Court Saturday, 19th OCTOBER (Before Mr. H. G. Cobley, J.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 25 October 1946 · page 2

Joseph Dixon (82) and Allan Gordon Headlam (31) were charged with that on 19th October, at Narandera, they did take and use a motor vehicle,…

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Women Favor Poison For Suicide, Says Doctor; Sydney Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 October 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday: Poisoning was a favorite way of suicide with women, the Government Medical Officer (Dr. Clarence Ernest Percy) said to-day at the inquest on Mrs. Audrey Elva Cable, 29, who died…

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Leeton Police to Be Relieved of Transport Clerical Work

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 October 1946 · page 6

ANNOUNCEMENT by the Transport Department that it proposes to accept the Leeton Shire Council's offer for the use of a room…

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Acouitted of Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 October 1946 · page 3

BRISBANE, Friday: Raymond Kendall Daniel, 35, business manager, was acquitted at the Criminal Court last night of the…

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Bride of 13 Tells Strange Story in Divorce Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 October 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: "I have never heard of a more extraordinary set of circumstances," said Mr. Justice Maxwell in the Divorce Court…

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Dachau Guards Sentenced

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 October 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.): Paris announced that the Allied Military Tribunal sentenced 46 ex-guards at Dachau to sentences varying from…

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Little Girl's Story of Assault

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 October 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: Medical examination has confirmed a nine-year-old girl's story of a criminal assault by a man at Gladesville…

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Police Swoop Checks Italian Revolt

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 October 1946 · page 3

ROUE, Sunday: Italian police claim to have foiled an attempt to overthrow the present Government. Political police, acting under…

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