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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

1,374 stories in Riverina's papers · page 48 of 69

For Trial on Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 August 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: Alleged to have pushed a man off a loading stage at Toohey's Brewery, Terry Street, with fatal results, Thomas…

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Two Men Committed For Murder

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 29 August 1947 · page 1

At the Wagga Police Court Derick Osborne. bolclkeeper. and Ivan Osborne, barman were committed (or trial on September…

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Plane Badly Overdue Police Inquiring

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 29 August 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: a twin-engined low-winged monoplane was last reported two days overdue on a flight from Mascot to Geelon. (Vic.)…

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Elderly Woman Arrested For Alleged Murder Of Sister

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 29 August 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday: Mrs. Mary Stackpoole, 78, of East Melbourne, was battered to death. Her sister. Miss Marlon Fitzmaurice, 76, who lived with…

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Miscellaneous Convictions at Wagga Court

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 August 1947 · page 2

CHARGED with driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor, Eric C. Forge was fined £15 at the Wagga…

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Plane Four Days Overdue; Wagga Police Inquiring

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 August 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: A twinengined low-winged monoplane was tonight reported two days overdue on a flight from Mascot to Geelong…

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Charge of Failing to Exhibit Price List Fails At the Court of Petty Sessions Monday, August 18. (Before Mr. Atkinson, S.M.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 29 August 1947 · page 1

Alexander Thomas Cameron (officer of the Prices Commission) v. Thorold Eustace Osmond and James Edward Dale, failing to exhibit a…

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Charged With Murder of His Three Children

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 August 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Charged with the murder of his three children at Hurstville on Monday morning. Keith Edmond Arnold, 34, was…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 August 1947 · page 2

HAROLD J. RYNEHART, of Fitzmaurlce Street. Wagga, was fined £2/10/ with 8/ court costs by Mr. E. J. Etherton, S.M., at the…

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"Police Were Tolerant With Uni. Students"

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 August 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY. Friday: Inspector William Lindsay Alford said today that police were very tolerant in the cases arising out of the university…

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Detective Shoots Man; Tells Story in Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 August 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: A detective told the Kogarah Court today that a man he had shot was likely to be a cripple for life…

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Riverina Round-up Dog Sprucing . . . Straying Stock . . . Experiment . . . General Exodus . . . Bulldozer Business . . . Country Education . . . Frustration . . . Police Raid . . . Leeton's Hotel

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 August 1947 · page 2

GUNDAGAI authorities are to erect a tuckshop near the tucker box the dog sat on. The "Dog and the Tucker Box"…

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Man Charged with Murder

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 1 September 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Later: Noel Ernest Master's, 30, lorry driver, was remanded at the Central court today until September 8 on a charge of having murdered…

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Police Disperse Street Meeting; Pastor Charged

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 September 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: Pastor Neville and another man were arrested and charged with offensive behavior after police broke up a meeting of…

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Motorist Charged After Collision Near Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 September 1947 · page 2

After two cars collided on the Tarcutta road, near Forest Hill, at about 7 o'clock last night, a man was arrested and charged at Wagga…

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Tranger Arrested on Stealing Charges Remanded Until

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 1 September 1947 · page 1

This morning at the Gundagai Court of Petty Sessions a stranger to the town, John Brown, was charged on two Counts of stealing. One…

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Wagga Police Appeal to Businessmen

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 September 1947 · page 2

A Wagga police officer appealed last night to business people to leave their premises illuminated at night this week. The officer said…

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Pakistan's Orcy of Murder and Looting Goes on

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 1 September 1947 · page 1

NEW DELHI, Monday: Thousands of non-Moslem refugees making their way from Pakistan to India were pouring into Lahore last night…

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Country Golf Club Again Raided by Police

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 September 1947 · page 2

Inspector Randall and another officer of the Wagga police visited the Wagga Country Golf Club shortly before 6 pm. yesterday and…

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Wagga Country Golf Club Another Raid by Police

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 1 September 1947 · page 3

Inspector Randall and another officer of the Wagga police visited the Wagga Country Golf Club shortly before 6 p.m.. yesterday and took the…

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