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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

1,374 stories in Riverina's papers · page 5 of 69

Wagga Council Charged with 'Unfair Treatment'

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 January 1947 · page 2

Mr. G. Edney charged the Wagga City Council with unfair treatment of requests from the South Wagga Progress Association at the…

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Two Charged With Offence Against Woman

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 January 1947 · page 2

BROKEN HILL, Monday: Leslie Hopper, 22, and Alan Walter McInnes, 20, were to-day remanded without bail on a charge of raping…

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Defendant Not Guilty of Assault at North Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 January 1947 · page 2

At the Wagga Police Court yesterday a charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm against Donald Clive Montgomery, of North…

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Charged with Murder of Baby

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Charged with the murder of her new born baby girl. Ida Lilian Higgins. 20, was committed for trial by the…

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Police Court (Yesterday.) Before Mr. K. A. Hardwicke, P.M. Betting

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 2

Thomas Francis Mangan (23) pleaded guilty to being the occupier of a room situated, in Parker street, Cootamundra, and known as the Pastime…

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Scotland Yard Detective Visits Man in Gaol

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Tuesday: Fanner stock and share broker, Harry Henry Hodgetts, 63, now serving five years in prison for his part in a share…

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Man's Obsession About Wife; On Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY. Tuesday; A man who was alleged to have an obsession that his wife was unfaithful was committed for trial to-day on a…

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Old Man Admits He Was Terrified £7 Fine and Compensation For Train Assault

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 1

"I was terrified," an elderly man, E. J. Connelly, admitted In Junee Police Court, when giving details of an assault by Harold James Nolan in the…

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Stealing at Temora Month's Gaol

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 1

After Constable Pantlin told the magistrate at Temora police court yesterday how defendant was seen to take an attache case and bag containing…

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Hanged for Murder a British Soldier

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 1

BERLIN. Thursday: A Britisher, P. J. Upson. R.A.S.C., has been hanged for the murder of a 60-year-old German woman in the French sector of…

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District Police Supt. Transferred

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 2

Police Superintendent J. F. Sweeney, of Goulburn, whose district includes Gundagai, has been transferred to Sydney…

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FLOSSENBURG 15 Guards Sentenced to Death Others Imprisoned Five Acquitted

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 1

BERLIN, Thursday: Fifteen guards from the notorious Flossenburg concentration camp have been sentenced to death by an American tribunal at…

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Pay Rises Approved for Police

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: A new agreement on pay and conditions of police, other than commissioned officers, was announced by the Senior Conciliation…

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Onion Sales Cause Police Investigation

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY. Wednesday: Following a complaint by two buyers, two onion sellers were to-day questioned by the police and a Prices…

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New Pay Rates Approved for Police

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A new agreement on pay and conditions of police, other than commissioned officers, was announced to-day by…

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Busy Year at Gundagai Court House Publicans Pay £992 in Licensing Fees OVER £10,000 Handled by the C.P.S.

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 2

During 1946, the Crown Land Agent and Clerk of Petty Sessions had a very busy time at Gundagai, attending to the multiplicity of jobs that go with the office. Figures quoted below show the enormous amount of work that is carried on at the local office…

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Charged with Theft of £1314 From Union

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: Charged with having stolen £1314 from the Australian Workers' Union between January, 1941 and…

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David Stewart Dawson in Gaol Hospital

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: David Stewart Dawson, 24, while serving a 10-year gaol sentence on a charge of malicious wounding, suffered a heart…

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Murder Charge Against Former Cabinet Minister

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday. Mrs Brook, about whom the Crown alleged that James John Ley was insanely jealous, was the…

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Water Stealing Rampant at Coolamonu and Ganmain Countyy Council to Take Action

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 2

A [?] was caused at the meeting of the [?] Riverina [?] all an Wednesday last when Mr. Roll Freer, the County clerk [?]…

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