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Courts & crime, 1947

1,374 stories in Riverina's papers · page 65 of 69

Bank Nationalisation High Court Hearing be Delayed

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 1 December 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: There are now doubts in legal circles that the bank nationalisation test case will not come before the High court before next…

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Police Watching Dist. Women's Move Wagga Meeting Told of Probe

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 December 1947 · page 1

A detective from Cootamundra last week visited Gundagai to investigate the activities of the Gundagai branch of the United Women Citizen's Movement against…

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France Editions of Three Communist Newspapers Seized Strikers and Police Clash

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 1 December 1947 · page 1

PARIS, Monday: The French National Assembly has been adjourned until today, with the decision on the Government's anti-strike measures not…

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Police Probe Into Women's Anti-socialisation Movement Cootamundra Detective's Interview Discussed Yesterday at Delegates Meeting

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 1 December 1947 · page 1

WAGGA, Monday: Mr. P. A. Dodds, solicitor, Gundagai, speaking at a meeting of delegates of citizens' organisations from Albury, Wagga…

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Police Probe Gundagai Women's Activities Detective Interviews Mrs. G. P. BELLAMY Investigation Causes a Stir at Wagga Meeting

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 1 December 1947 · page 1

On Wednesday last a detective from Cootamundra visited Gundagai and interviewed Mrs G. P. Bellamy, secretary of the Gundagai United Women Citizens' Organisation. H said he was inquiring a to the aims and objects of her association and particularly as to…

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Billy Sheahan wILL Get to the Bottom of Police Action Liberty of the Individual Must Be Preserved, Says Member for Yass

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 1 December 1947 · page 1

"I will probe to the bottom Press reports that police interrogated a Gundagai , woman who had protested against the Nationalisatoin…

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Magistrate Praises Inspector Randall

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 December 1947 · page 2

During an interval at the Wagga Police Court yesterday, Mr. Finlay, S.M., paid a tribute to Inspector Randall, who will leave shortly. for…

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Alleged Theft of Fowls

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 December 1947 · page 2

Wagga police are investigating a report that between 20 and 30 fowls have been stolen from Mrs. Day's property near Wagga, on the Albury…

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Two Men Deny Murder of Jockey

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 December 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday: Two men charged with murder claimed that, although they were drinking with the victim. some other person or…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 December 1947 · page 2

Kenneth N. Nixon, of Tarcutta Road, Wagga, was fined 23 with 5/8 costs at the Wagga police Court yesterday by Mr. Finlay…

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Bank Case Before Court Next Year?

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 December 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Local circles today suggested that it was probable that the actual test on the Commonwealth Bank Act…

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Premier on Police Probe Into District Women's Movement

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 December 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: The Premier (Mr. McGirr) today referred to Press reports that Mrs. M. A. Bellamy, secretary of the Gundagai branch of the United Women's Citizens Movement against Socialisation, had been…

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Arabs Run Loose Set Fire to U.S. LEGATION Mobs Doing Mass Murder

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 2 December 1947 · page 1

JERUSALEM, Tuesday: An Arab mob in Damascus (Syria) killed all members of the Russian Legation staff on Sunday morning, according…

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The Women's Organisation at Gundagai And the Police Probe There

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 2 December 1947 · page 1

The Premier, referring to a suggested inquiry as to the published statements about the police probe at Gundagai, said it was the duty of the…

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Jockey's Murder Two Sentenced to Death

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 3 December 1947 · page 1

Noel Ernest Masters, one of the two men charged in Central Court yesterday with the murder of former Jockey, Neil Joseph McKenna, 37, said…

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Two Sentenced To Death For jockey's Murder

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 December 1947 · page 8

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Noel Ernest Masters, one of the two men charged in Central Court today with the murder of former jockey,…

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Murdered Man Victim of Fued Say Police

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 December 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE. Tuesday: Police are now convinced that Malcolm Appleby. 30, who was murdered at Footscray last week was the victim…

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Citizens' Rights Committee Similar To New Guard, Says Police Commissioner

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 December 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: An organisation known as the Citizen's Rights Committee was being organised in principle country centres somewhat on the lines of the New Guard previously in existence in New South Wales, according to a report from the Commissioner of Police (Mr. Mackay) read in the Legislative Assembly today'by the…

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France Police Cordon Broken

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 4 December 1947 · page 1

PARIS, Thursday: A cordon of armed police, wearing steel helmets, had been thrown round the National Assembly, where the Anti-Strike Bill…

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Indignation Over Police Probe

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 December 1947 · page 2

The indignation felt by members of the newly formed United Women Citizens' Movement Against Socialisation at the disclosure that the State police were inquiring into its aims and activities can well be understood…

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