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Courts & crime, 1948

1,290 stories in Riverina's papers · page 17 of 65

Bank Case Nears Record for Full High Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: There was nothing in the Federal Constitution which put any Governmental operation in a position inferior to that of any business operated for profit, the Federal…

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Police Act Quickly in Qld. Strike Union Secretary First to be Arrested

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Tuesday: The first arrest arising out of the present strike was made in Brisbane this morning, when Edward Conrad Englart, 50, State secretary of the Waterside Workers' Federation, was taken into custody on two traffic charges, and afterwards formally remanded until tomorrow…

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Former Police Commissioner's Will

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: The late Police Commissioner, William John Mackay, who died an January 27, left, an estate of £13,893…

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Gundagai Carrier in Wagga Court “Rabbits Exposed to Dust”

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 5

At the Wagga Court of Petty Sessions on Monday, the Wagga City Council charged James Clifton Bartlett, of Hanley Street, Gundagai,…

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Q'land Police Action N.S.W. Miners to Stop Work As Protest

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: All Western New South Wales miners will stop work tomorrow as a protest against the police…

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Death of Cootamundra Train Guard Remains A. MYSTERY Conflicting Theories Advanced By Police and Local Residents

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 5

Whilst the police believe that the death of train guard Robert Condron, 46, from arsenic poisoning at Temora on March 2, may prove to have been accidental, local authorities sav there is nothing in the theory that Condron had obtained water from a tank…

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Assault

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 4

Herbert William Hull v. Ronald Joseph Clark, assault. Mr. G. G. Dangar appeared for complainant; Mr. L. L. Henderson…

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Court of Petty Sessions Wednesday, March 10 (Before Mr. J. D. Austin, Stipendiary Magistrate) Convicted of Stealing

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 4

Thomas Mathieson (64) was charged with stealing at Narandera on or about the 29th February one coat, one badge, and one handkerchief, of the…

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Wagga Police Request

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 2

Wagga police are anxious to contact relatives of Paul Bush, 61, of 27 Beckwith Street, Wagga, who collapsed at the…

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Police Chiefs Estate

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: In the Supreme Court today it was revealed that the late Police Commissioner (Mr. W. J…

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Police Call for Witnesses to Accident

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 2

Any person who witnessed the accident on the corner of Baylis and borrow Streets at 1.5 p.m. on Tuesday, when…

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Police Mystified Over Death of Coota. Man

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: The death by poisoning of railway guard Robert Sylvester Condron, 46, of Cootamundra, has…

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Federal Court May Intervene In Queensland

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thursday: The possibility of intervention by the Federal Arbitration Court in the Queensland dispute is being…

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All Rifles Larger Than .22 Must Be Handed To Police

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 3

All rifles of a calibre larger than .22 mast be handed in to the local police, or sold to a registered pistol dealer…

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Evatt and Judge Clash in Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday: The Federal Attorney-General (Dr. Evatt) clashed sharply with Mr. Justice Starke during the…

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Evidence for Defence in Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 March 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.): James camb, 30, deck steward, was cross-examined for two hours at the Winchester…

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Police Raid at Narrandera

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 March 1948 · page 2

Police raided the West End Club, Narrandera, early on Saturday afternoon. Later a number of men were…

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Man Charged With Assault Near Holbrook

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Police arrested a man on the road to Gundagai today and brought him to Sydney, where he was charged…

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Griffith Man Acquitted of Theft Charge

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 2

A Griffith orchardist was acquitted by Mr. Austin, SM, at the Wagga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, on a charge…

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Man Charged With Failing to Abate Nuisance

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 2

At Wagga Court or Petty Sessions yesterday a case in which the Wagga City Council is charging Edward Kerfoot, of 98…

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