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Courts & crime, 1947

1,374 stories in Riverina's papers · page 18 of 69

Leeton Police Court Postponement of Cases

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 4

A number of cases set down for hearing at the Leeton police court, before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, S.M., on Tuesday, were postponed until the…

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Police Court Wednesday, 15th MARCH (Before Mr. Hardwicke, P.M.) Convicted of Stealing from Air Training School

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 4

Frederick Norman Casburn (51) was charged with on 5th October, 1946, at the R.A.A.F. Air School, Narandera, he stole one leather…

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Menace to Taxi Sentenced to Ten Years

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Judge Markell in the Quarter Sessions today, sentenced Russell Thornthwaite, 23, to 10 years' imprisonment on five charges…

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Alleged Thefts at Leeton Garages; Two Men Charged

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 2

LEETON, Monday: Two men were remanded at Leeton Court of Petty Sessions this morning on charges of breaking, entering and…

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Recruiting for Police Age Limit Lower

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 4

State Cabinet on Monday authorised the Commissioner of Police, Mi. MucKay, to recruit young men in their twentieth year for the N.S.W…

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Six Months for Escape From Police

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Kelvin Lenore Diggins, 21 laborer, was to-day sentenced to six months' hard labor for escaping from…

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Boy Charged With Murder of Father

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 2

BRISBANE, Tuesday: A boy of 16 has been arrested on a charge of murdering his father. The arrest follows the finding of…

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Not Guilty of Murder or Manslaughter

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Clifford Rupert Barclay, 46, Berkley street, Brunswick, was found not guilty of murder and not guilty of…

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Police Matter, Says P.m

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 1

The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) refused to be drawn into comment in the House of Representatives yesterday on the disturbance…

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Court Refuses Brewery Expansion

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 2

AUCKLAND, Tuesday: The Land Sales Court to-day refused to approve of New Zealand Breweries Ltd. purchasing a hotel at Akaroa…

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Collaborator's Huge War Fortune; Police Raid Monasteries

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 3

PARIS, Tuesday: Joseph Joanovici, known as Monsieur Joseph, cleared a profit variously estimated at £20,000,000 to £80,000,000 sterling by acting as a shipping agent for both the French and…

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Full Court Majority Decision Favors Separate Hearings

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: By a majority decision, the Pull Aribatration Court has decided to hear the 10-hour week case and basic wage…

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Dover Heights Assault; Laborer Charged

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 March 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A man who was alleged to have participated in an assault on a man and his wife and child at Dover…

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Japanese General Charged With Rabaul Crimes

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 March 1947 · page 5

RABAUL, Wednesday: The trial owned to-day of Major-General Akira Hirota, former Supply Commander of Field Depots for the…

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Licensing Court

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 20 March 1947 · page 2

A sitting of the Licensing Court is being held ai the Court House, Hillston, to-day (Thursday). The main business will be the…

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£60,000 Army Goods Theft in New Guinea

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 March 1947 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wednesday: The Army is investigating the theft of £60,000 worth of material from New Guinea…

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Police Hunt for Man Who Was on Train

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 20 March 1947 · page 1

When a Bundanoon resident was farewelled at Sydney by a of friends and failed to turn up at his d es tination, Bundanoon, he…

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Two Charged With Dover Heights Assault

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday: Two men were remanded without bail to April 3 when they appeared at the Central Court to-day on a charge…

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Daring Rice Theft In Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday: Thieves to-day stole 170 bags of brown rice weighing three tons from a bulk stare in Ultimo near…

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Tobacco Theft Batlow Storekeeper Robbed

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 2

Cigarettes, tobacco and cigarette papers valued at £171711 were stolen from the Batlow Store owned by Mrs…

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