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Courts & crime, 1947

1,374 stories in Riverina's papers · page 32 of 69

Wagga Police Searching for 40 Bags of Cement

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 2

Wagga police are searching for 40 bags of cement—about two tons— which are missing from the railway siding at Tamboola, near Coreinbob…

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Kouvelis Hold-up; Two Men in Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Two men appeared before Paddington Court to-day on charges relating to the alleged hold-up by two masked men…

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Two in Court For Hold-up at Kouvelis's

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 1

Two men appeared before Paddington Court yesterday on charges relating to the alleged hold-up, by two masked men, of the home of Jack…

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Heavy Embezzlement Four Years' Gaol

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 12 June 1947 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Thursday: James Vincent Angley, 44, assistant manager of the Australian Provincial Assurance, Ltd., in Adelaide, was sentenced to four…

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Embezzled £7706; Four Year's Gaol

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 June 1947 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Wednesday: James Vincent Angley, 44, assistant manager of the Australian Provincial Assurance Ltd.. In Adelaide, was…

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Gaol Sentences For Meat Black Marketing

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 June 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday: Three men were sentenced to terms of imprisonment by Mr. Justice Dixon in the High Court today on black…

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Radio Station Owners Charged by Ex-Soldier

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 June 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: The Proprietors of radio station 2LM Lismore (Richmond River Broad-casters Pty. Ltd.) were charged…

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Human Bones police Inquiries Cease

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 13 June 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Human bones and teeth found several weeks ago in a cave near Kyogle belonged to several different persons, all aborigines…

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High Court Decides Meat Control Valid

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 13 June 1947 · page 2

The Full High Court on Monday unanimously decided that the Black-marketing Act regulations fixing the ceiling price for meat and other…

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High Court Upholds Commission in Leeton Land Case

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 June 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday: The New South Wales Irrigation Commission can legally refuse consent to the transfer of irrigation farm leases to naturalised Australians of…

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S.p. Bookmaker and His Assistant Fined After Police Raid

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 13 June 1947 · page 4

AT THE Leeton police court on Tuesday before Mr. Qulggan, S.M., Alee Bornholt pleaded guilty to using premises in Pine…

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Court of Petty Sessions Wednesday, June 11 (Before Mr. Hardwicke. P.M.) Fined for Betting

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 13 June 1947 · page 1

Sidney Ernest Wyatt (33) was charged with that on 24th May he used a place situated in East Street, Narandera, and known as the "South…

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Millions Involved in Wheat Claim Now Before High Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 June 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Claims by wheatgrowers throughout Australia against the Federal Government, involving between £20,000,000 and £40,000,000, may rest on the decision of a case which began in the High Court today…

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Arrested at Kalgoorlie Over Big Melb. Theft

Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 June 1947 · page 3

PERTH, Sunday: Leslie James Gleeson, 28, a truck driver of Melbourne, was arrested at Kalgoorlie on Friday night in connection with…

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Wagga Police Probe Into Smashed Window

Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 June 1947 · page 2

A plate glass window at the Producers Distributors Society's depot in Flinders Street, Wagga was smashed between Friday…

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Two Charged with Theft

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 June 1947 · page 2

Two men have been arrested in connection with the theft of a quantity of rabbit skint and £10 in money from Tumbarumba some…

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Gaol For Assault on Policeman

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 June 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY. Monday: Pleading guilty to charges of assault, indecent language and maliciously damaging a policeman's uniform, Roy…

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Daring Railway Theft Alleged

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 June 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY. Monday: Thieves are alleged to have driven a motor lorry into Sydenham goodsyards today, smashed a lock from a shed…

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Railway Yard Theft at Sydenham

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 17 June 1947 · page 1

Thieves are alleged to have driven a lorry into Sydenham goods yards yesterday, smashed a lock from a shed door, loaded the lorry with stolen…

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Intense Manhunt Follows Murder

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 June 1947 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday: The discovery-of the strangled body of a 13-year-old schoolboy, Brian Vincent Olive, has caused one of the…

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