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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

1,374 stories in Riverina's papers · page 37 of 69

Woman and Child Murdered, Police Allege

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1947 · page 2

PERTH, Friday: When a farmer's wife resisted the advances of a farmhand, she and her three-year-old daughter were killed, it was…

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Riverina Round-up Inconsistency [?] Resistance [?] Up the Pole [?] Court Trouble [?] Community Living [?] Resentment [?] Encouragement

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1947 · page 2

THE Junee District Council of the F. and S. Association opposes any system of wheat stabilisation while the present Government is in…

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Doctor on Murder Charge Dies in Mental Hospital

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 7 July 1947 · page 1

SINGAPORE, Monday: Dr. William Lesley Blakemore, 46, who yesterday was charged with the murder of a former Sydney woman, died in a…

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Gaol Sentence Suspended at Wagga Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 July 1947 · page 2

A young man sentenced to six months' imprisonment for receiving at Wagga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, had the…

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Murder Charge in Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 July 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday: A 33-year-old laborer was arrested tonight and charged with the murder of Thomas O'Brien, 57, a pensioner,…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 July 1947 · page 2

A MOTORIST was fined £2 at the Wagga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on the unusual charge of travelling a motor car…

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Vic. Drivers Fined at Wagga Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 July 1947 · page 2

Jack C. Baulch, of Edward Street. East Brunswick (V.), was fined £20 at the WaRga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on a…

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On Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 July 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Alan William Dalton, 33, laborer, of West Melbourne, was remanded in the Melbourne City Court…

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Policeman Charged With Breaking and Entering

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 9 July 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A police constable, charged with breaking and entering and the theft of £700, pleaded not guilty in the Central court…

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Three Years For Cootamundra Theft

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 July 1947 · page 2

COOTAMUNDRA, Wednesday: Judge Berne sentenced Frederick Arthur Rice, 23, to three years' penal servitude today at the…

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Says Woman Was Returned to Convent by Police

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 July 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Allegations by Canon T. C. Hammond that a woman who ran away from the Convent of the Good Shepherd. Ashfield, was returned by the…

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Batlow Policeman Charged with Assault

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 11 July 1947 · page 1

Sensational accusation at Tumut Court of Petty Sessions, when a police constable appeared on a charge of occasioning actual bodily…

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Magistrate Suggests Women Leave the Court

The Gundagai Independent · Friday 11 July 1947 · page 1

During the hearing of a case in the Gundagai Police Court on Wednesday, in which some choice language was interspersed, the…

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Magistrate Congratulates Woman Upon Settling Differences Out Of Court

The Gundagai Independent · Friday 11 July 1947 · page 7

When Police Magistrate Hardwicke was informed in -the Gundagai Police Court on Wednesday that cases, two of insulting words…

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Constable Charged with Assault Mining Engineer Alleges He Was Punched in Cell Case Causes State-wide Interest Long hearing at Tumut Court

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 11 July 1947 · page 2

Osmond Archibald, mining engineer of Upper Gilmore said in the Tumut Court yesterday that after he was arrested by Snr. Constable Lewis, of Batlow, for driving a car under the influence, he was taken to the Batlow lock-up and, before he…

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Constable's Alibi in Theft Case

Daily Advertiser · Friday 11 July 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: A tailor and a hotel waiter in the Central Court today provided Senior Constable Sparnan Rose. 52, charged with the…

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Three Years for Cootamundra Theft

The Gundagai Independent · Friday 11 July 1947 · page 7

Judge Berne sentenced Frederick Arthur Rice, 23, to three years penal servitude on Wednesday Cootamundra Quarter Sessions…

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Wagga Youth Charged with Manslaughter

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 11 July 1947 · page 1

Wagga City Coroner. (Mr. A. I. Redman), who was inquiring into death of Victor John McLeod, 44, of Wagga, on the night of June 18, yesterday…

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Court of Petty Sessions Wednesday. July 9. (Before Messrs. E. Forrest and S. Jones. J's.P.) Stealing Charge

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 11 July 1947 · page 1

Raymond Henry Cox (32) was charged with stealing six £1 Commonwealth Bank notes, the property of Russell Franets D[?]erman, at…

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Batlow Policeman Charged With Assaulting Man He Arrested

Daily Advertiser · Friday 11 July 1947 · page 2

TUMUT. Thursday: Sensational accusations were made at the Tumut Court of Petty Sessions today, when a police constable appeared on a charge of occasioning actual bodily harm to a man he had arrested for driving…

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