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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

1,374 stories in Riverina's papers · page 20 of 69

Coolamon Police Court Reach of P.p. Act Heavy Penalties

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 28 March 1947 · page 2

On Wednesday lost at the Coolamon Police Court, before Mr. R. A. Hardwick, P. M., John Percy Hen[?], of the Wagga Road, was fined £5 and…

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Items of News Junee Railway Theft

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 March 1947 · page 2

Thieves stole tools valued at £40 from the Round House at the Junee railway yards on Wednesday night. The theft was discovered yesterday…

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Hol Suicide by Murder

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 28 March 1947 · page 3

[?] Spence Brown, [?] life imprisonment for the murder of Baronia Mary [?] in the Brisbane Friendly…

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Usurping Police Powers

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 28 March 1947 · page 1

NEW YORK, Friday: Homer Loomis, secretary of Columbian's Incorporated, an organisation preaching hatred of Jews and negroes was…

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Police Court Wednesday, March 19 (Before Mr. Forrest, J.P.) Goods in Possession

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 28 March 1947 · page 2

Robert living Hunter was charged with having 31 clothing coupons in his possession which might reasonably be suspected of having been…

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High Court-Ruling Affects T.A.A. Service

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 March 1947 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thursday: The developmental planning of Trans Australia Airlines has been conditioned by the High Court ruling…

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Mother Remanded On Attempted Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 March 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: Mrs. Constance Leslie Walker, of Beecroft, was remanded on £200 ball when she appeared at the Central Court to-day…

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Police Say Boy Stole £1000 in 2 Months

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 29 March 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Police allege that a 16-year-old youth, arrested at Waverley yesterday, admitted stealing about £1000 worth of…

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License Refused for Tumut-canberra Car Service Police Report Challenged

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 31 March 1947 · page 7

The Commissioner for Road Transport has refused the application of Mr H. R. Eurell, of Tumut, to operate a tourist…

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Five Years for Stealing

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 April 1947 · page 2

Norman John Menzies, 25, of North Wagga, was sentenced to five years imprisonment at the Wagga Quarter Sessions yesterday…

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Police Court (Today) Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, P.M.

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 1 April 1947 · page 2

Straying Stock Herbert Kelly pleaded guilty to allowing three horses to stray on Albert Park…

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Police Changes

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 April 1947 · page 2

Senior Constable W. K. Phillips has been transferred to Sydney. He will be succeeded as lock-up keeper at Wagga by Senior…

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Ley's Career Ended Guilty of Murder

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 1 April 1947 · page 1

The sentence of death passed on Thomas John Lev at the Old Bailey, London, on Tuesday, ended a colourful career…

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Man's Obsession About Wife; Story at Murder Trial

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 April 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: The trial began in the Central Criminal Court to-day of Arthur Redvers Hayne, charged with having murdered his…

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Tumut-canberra Car Service Police Report Challenged "Absolutely Incorrect"

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 1 April 1947 · page 4

The Commissioner for Road Transport has refused the application of Mr. H. R. Eurell, of Tumut, to operate a tourist…

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Interstate Unions Disagree on Court Penalty Rates Decision Rail Strike Threat In N.S.W. Recedes

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 April 1947 · page 1

Trade union officials in New South Wales were at variance with those in Victoria and South Australia last night on the effects of the week-end penalty rates decision announced by the Full Bench of the…

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Wagga Youths Sentenced to Five Years' Gaol

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 April 1947 · page 2

AT the Wagga Quarter Sessions yesterday Judge Berne sentenced two Wagga youths, Jack Arthur Inman, 18,…

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Wagga Youths Sentenced to 5 Years

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 2 April 1947 · page 1

At the Wagga Quarter Sessions. Judge Berne sentenced two Wagga youths, Jack Arthur Inman 18, and Geoffrey John Bruce 17, to five years!…

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North Wagga Woman Guilty of Assault; Bound Over For Five Years

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 April 1947 · page 2

After a retirement of 20 minutes, the jury at the Wagga Quarter Sessions yesterday returned a verdict of guilty in a case in which Mrs. Dorothy May McGregor, 26, North Wagga, was charged with…

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10 Years' Sentence at Wagga Court

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 2 April 1947 · page 2

At the Wagga Quarter Sessions, Tasman Davies, 24, of Albury was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. Davies pleaded guilty to breaking…

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