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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

1,374 stories in Riverina's papers · page 16 of 69

Alleged Assault on Female at Batlow

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 6 March 1947 · page 3

Kevin Charles O'Connor, an employee at the Bago Forest, near Batlow, was charged at the Tumut Court House on Monday with…

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Nurse's Evidence in Brisbane Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 March 1947 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wednesday: In the Criminal Court to-day the case was continued in which Reginald Winfield Spence Brown. 49, accountant,…

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Court to Hear Hours and Wage Cases Together

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 March 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: The Full Bench of the Arbitration Court this afternoon confirmed its decision to hear the 40-hour week and…

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Two-up Game at Camp Hut Police Confiscate Dice and Money

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 6 March 1947 · page 7

When Junee police raided the recreation hut at the railway roundhouse camp on the night of February 12 a game of two-up was in…

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Goes to Gaol As Protest Against Alleged Injustice District Grazier Who Was Fined for Failure to Destroy Rabbits (To the Editor)

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 6 March 1947 · page 2

Dear Sir.—In reference to the column which appeared in the “Independent” on March 3rd concerning my refusal to pay the fine…

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Chinese Accused Found Hanging in Gaol

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 7 March 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday: Chan Kwan, 31, one of two Chinese charged with the murder of Yeung Shing and the wounding of Albert Sydney Pack, 46,…

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Charged 1/6 For Shave, Fined £20

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 March 1947 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday: Frank Ladd Spencer, hairdresser, was to-day fined £20. with £2/2/ costs, in the City Court, for having…

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Court Convictions Altered Against the Union and Lewis

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 7 March 1947 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Friday: The Supreme Court upheld the contempt of court convictions against John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers,…

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Police Allege 12-Year-Old Theft; Remand at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 March 1947 · page 2

Norman Aus. 30, was charged at the Wagga Police Court yesterday with having on April 18, 1935, attempted to steal two suit cases…

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Chinese Held On Murder Charge Found Hanging

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 March 1947 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday: The body of Chan Kwan, 31, one of the two Chinese charged with the murder of Young Shing, 50 bosun, and of…

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Civic Matters Land Sale to Police Boys' Club; River Motor Launch Planned; Deputation in Parking

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 March 1947 · page 2

The Wagga City Council last night decided to receive a deputation from several Wagga organisations to ask for the postponement of parallel parking. The council's decision was made after an amendment…

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Mine Manager Sentenced for Gold Theft

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 March 1947 · page 2

KALGOORLIE, Sunday: Walter Stuart McColl, 50, mine manager of Sydney, was sentenced to 12 months' gaol yesterday for unlawful…

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Charged with Theft From Experiment Farm

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 March 1947 · page 2

George Thomas Jackson, painter, of Wagga, wag arrested on Saturday night and charged with stealing one hundredweight of white lead and…

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Man Charged with Theft From Car at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 March 1947 · page 2

Robert Eadie, 64, was charged at Wagga Police Station on Friday with stealing a suitcase containing personal and business papers from a…

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King's Medal For Wagga Police Superintendent

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 March 1947 · page 2

superintendent G. B. Howard, of Wagga, is to be presented with the King's Police Medal by the Governor (Lieut.-General Northcott) at…

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Roof Arrest After Boy "Tips" Police

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 March 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: Police who acted on information given by an eight-year-old boy arrested a man on the roof of a factory at Surrey…

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Police Court

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 2

SATURDAY, 8th MARCH (Before Mr. H. G. Cobley, J.P.)…

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Batlow Assault Charge Dismissed

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 2

At the Children's Court at Tumut last Thursday Kevin Charles O'Conor was charged before Mr. Hardwicke, P.M., with assaulting a female…

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Suspended Sentence in Paint Stealing Charge

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 2

Norman George Jackson pleaded guilty at the Wagga Police Court yesterday before Mr. Hardwicke, P.M., to a…

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Postal Employee Fined for Theft From Mails

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 2

An employee of the Wagga Post Office was yesterday fined £20 on a charge of stealing four packets of cigarettes the…

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