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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

1,374 stories in Riverina's papers · page 35 of 69

Golfer Claims He Was Defamed Court Action

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 June 1947 · page 6

BRISBANE, Monday: As [?] that…

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High Court Upholds W.C. & I.C. May Refuse Transfer Land to Italians

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 24 June 1947 · page 4

IN a reserved judgment, the Full High Court unanimously held that the Irrigation Commission has power to refuse to give…

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Man Charged with Assault on Woman

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 June 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY. Tuesday: In the Central Police Court today Keith Russell, 23. postman, wag committed for trial on a charge of…

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Police Court (Yesterday)

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 25 June 1947 · page 2

Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, P.M. Indecent Behaviour Jerimiah Joseph Fallon pleaded guilty to behaving in an indecent manner in…

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Singapore Gaol Called "Belsen of the East"

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 June 1947 · page 1

SINGAPORE, Tuesday (A.A.P.Reufer): Conditions in the Outram Road Gaol. Singapore, which Mrs. E. M. Braddock, Labor M.P., in the House of Commons has described as the "Belsen of the East," are arousing angry…

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Form of Church Service Used by Bishop of Bathurst Attacked in Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 June 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Canon T. C. Hammond, Principal of the Moore Theology cal College, declared in the Equity Court today that a form of service of Holy Communion prescribed in a Red Book used by the Anglican Bishop of Bathurst (Dr. Arnold Lomas Wilde) was contrary to the laws of the Church of England…

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Police Constable Charged With Robbery

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 26 June 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: Police Constable Ernest, Lambert Spearman Rose, 52 appeared in the Central Court to-day on a charge of housebreaking…

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Wagga Woman Injured; Car Driver Charged

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 June 1947 · page 1

After a collision between a car and a young woman cyclist in Baylis Street at 6.20 p.m. last evening, the driver of the motor car was arrested and charged with driving…

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Wagga Car Driver Charged Girl Cyclist Hurt

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 26 June 1947 · page 1

After a collision between a car and a young woman cyclist in Baylis street. Wagga, at 6.20 last evening, the driver of the car was arrested, and charged…

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Griffith Men Fined For Stealing Timber From State Reserve

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 June 1947 · page 2

"The wholesale theft of timber from State reserves has reached such proportions that it is now a public scandal. Timber thieves operate at night, and it is consequently hard to catch them in the act," Police Sergeant…

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No Quarter Session Cases District Court Matters Setttled

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 26 June 1947 · page 1

His Honor, Judge Berne did not visit Gundagai on Wednesday last, the day set down for the Gundagai Quarter Sessions and District Court,…

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Local Hospital Weathers Financial Storem Department Assists in Meeting Costs of Court Case

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 26 June 1947 · page 2

The Gundagai Hospital, like all other hospitals in the State is experiencing a very lean time a regards finance. But the position…

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Murder of Swagman

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 27 June 1947 · page 1

A man who is alleged by the police, to have lied to the police and to his mother about circumstances surrounding the death of an elderly swagman at…

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Manhunt Ends Murder Charge

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 27 June 1947 · page 1

PERTH, Friday: After on intensive manhunt by detectives, police and citizens, William Dudley Dogett. 42, farm hand, was arrested a mile from…

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Stewart Dawson Before Court

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 June 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: David Stewart Dawson, 34, who is serving a 10-year sentence for having maliciously wounded a former R.N…

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Manhunt Ends; Murder Charge Against W.A. Man

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 June 1947 · page 2

PERTH, Thursday: After an intense manhunt by a posse of detectives, police and citizens, William Dudley Doggett, 42, farm…

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Mr. Dewley Again in Court

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 27 June 1947 · page 1

Robert Dewley, who is M.L..A. for Drumtuoyne was fined £2 with 8/- costs. at Balmain Police Court on Tuesday, for having sold adulterated…

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Furniture Makers Fined at Wagga Court

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 27 June 1947 · page 2

Unusual charges under the Public Health Act were heard by Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M., at the Wagga Court of Petty Sessions this week. A Wagga…

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Wheat Prices Challenge Full High Court Case

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 27 June 1947 · page 4

The full court of the High Court, may decide the validity of the Wheat Australian Regulations. In the High Court Mr. Justice…

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Mayor Says Gaol Term Is "Death Sentence"

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 June 1947 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Friday: Although he asserted that he was being sent to his death, James Curley, Mayor of Boston, was ordered today to…

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