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Courts & crime, 1948

1,290 stories in Riverina's papers · page 19 of 65

Assault Charge

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 March 1948 · page 2

A man was arrested at North Wagga yesterday afternoon and later charged at the Wagga police station with assaulting…

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Communist Disappears: Big Police Hunt To be Gaoled for Contempt

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 March 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Friday: Police in a Commonwealth wide search today found no trace of Edward Joseph Rowe, prominent Communist, who has been found guilty of gross contempt of court…

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Two Charged With Tobacco Thefts at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 March 1948 · page 2

Goulburn police have arrested two men and charged them with breaking, entering and stealing from Copland's and Edmondson's stores at Wagga on…

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Items of News Wagga Boy's Illness; Police Inquire

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 March 1948 · page 2

A Wagga youth, who is possibly suffering from tetanus, is seriously ill in the Base Hospital. The boy, James White, 15,…

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Police Seek Witnesses

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 March 1948 · page 2

Fifteen-year-old James White, of Edward Street, Wsgga, who is in the Wagga Base Hospital, believed to be suffering from…

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Man Charged with Wagga Thefts Sets Fire to Cell at Goulburn

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 March 1948 · page 1

A prisoner at the Goulburn Police Station who was arrested on Saturday and charged with breaking, entering and stealing from Copland's and Edmondson's stores at Wagga, yesterday morning set alight…

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Attempt to Set Fire to Goulburn Police Cell

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 30 March 1948 · page 1

A prisoner at the Goulburn Police Station who was arrested on Saturday and charged. with breaking, entering, and stealing…

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St. Michael's Club Meets Visitors on Tennis Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 March 1948 · page 2

The winners of the tournament at St. Michael's Tennis Club yesterday between Sydney members of the N.S.W. Catholic…

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Chinese Charged With Assaults on Manus

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 March 1948 · page 2

PORT MORESBY, Tuesday (A.A.P.): Two Chinese have been arrested on Manus Island and charged with assaulting…

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Judge Suspends Gaol Sentence of Seven Years

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 March 1948 · page 2

NARRANDERA, Tuesday: A former employee of the Hillston post office, Cecil Frederick Sturtzel Templeman, 32, married,…

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Leeton Tax Case Sequel £100 Fine or Gaol

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 31 March 1948 · page 1

NARRANDERA, Wednesday: A man who asked for a chance to support his wife and child was given an opportunity of a £100…

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Leeton Man Told to Pay £100 Fine or Go to Gaol

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 March 1948 · page 2

NARRANDERA, Tuesday: A man who asked a Judge for a chance to support his wife and child was given an opportunity…

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Strike Pickets and Police In Wall St. Battle

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 31 March 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wednesday: Ten pickets and two policemen were injured in a bloody and furious 15 minutes' battle in Wall Street…

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Judge Praises Dress of Coatless Man in Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 March 1948 · page 2

NARRANDERA, Tuesday: A prisoner dressed in a white shirt and trousers was the most sensibly dressed man in court,…

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Blood-Stained Shoes as Exhibit in Narrandera Court; Charge Dismissed

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 March 1948 · page 2

NARRANDERA, Tuesday: At the Narrandera Quarter Sessions today a detective produced a pair of blood-stained shoes with hair clinging to the heels, which he alleged were worn by a man charged with…

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Melb. Police Arrest Radio Theft Suspect

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: A man wounded by police bullets on March 4, when he drove a car at 80 miles an hour through…

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Police Hunt on Brutal Assault on Girl

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: An intense police hunt is being conducted for a man who brutally attacked and criminally…

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Theft of Radio and Money

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 2

Det.-Sgt. H. J. Cloke, of Wagga, is investigating the theft of a portable radio and £80 from a garage at Ganmain,…

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Woman on Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Charged with the murder of Isobel Theresa Latham at Randwick on March 24, Thelma Margaret McNamara,…

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Youth on Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: 19-year-old John Kenneth Donnelly appeared in the City Court today charged with the murder of his…

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