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Courts & crime, 1948

1,290 stories in Riverina's papers · page 28 of 65

High Court to Test Validity of Blackmarket Act

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 May 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: A writ challenging the validity of the Black-marketing Act, 1942, was issued out of the High Court today…

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£300 THEFT From Doctor's Home

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 10 May 1948 · page 3

Property worth £300 was stolen from the home of a Wagga doctor on Saturday night. Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Moran…

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£300 Theft From Wagga Doctor's Home

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 May 1948 · page 2

Property worth £300 was stolen from the home of a Wagga doctor on Saturday night. Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Moran…

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Court of Petty Sessions (Saturday) Bottle Of Rum!

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 10 May 1948 · page 2

Leonard Johns was fined £5 or ten days on a charge of stealing a bottle of rum, the property of the Railway Hotel…

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Attorney-general Refuses to File Bill Against Cootamundra Woman Mrs. Rita Marie Condron Freed of Murder Charge

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 10 May 1948 · page 2

There was a dramatic: development on Saturday night in the case in which Mrs Rita Marie Condron of Cootamundra, was mitted for trial on April 31, on a charge of having murdered her husband, Robert Sylvester Condron (46)…

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Greyhound Pup Was on Its Way to Brungle When Tumut Police Sergeant Appeared On The Scene

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 10 May 1948 · page 2

A greyhound pup, one that was valued at £25, and with which well known Tumut publican Tom Malone hoped to win many races…

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Grazier Fined £100 for Failure to Destroy Rabbits “Property a Menace” Says Gundgai P.P. Board Inspector “One of the Worst Cases Ever to Come Before Me” States Magistrate

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 10 May 1948 · page 1

At the Adelong Police Court on Friday, Gundagai PP Board Rabbit Inspector, W." A. Sturt, described a Tarcutta property owned by Richard Henwood, of Wagga as nothing other than a breeding ground for rabbits, and the defendant's attitude as being one of…

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Magistrate to Retire

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 11 May 1948 · page 2

Mr. A. B. Collins, stipendiary magistrate at the Special Court, will enter on long service leave on May 12 be for his retirement on August 31. Mr…

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£10 Fine at Wagga For Watch Theft

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 May 1948 · page 2

Charged with stealing a wristlet watch from the top of an upturned milk can in a Wagga dairy. Wagga man was fined…

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Big Jewelry Theft From an American Hotel

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 11 May 1948 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Tuesday: The F.B.I., are investigating the theft of three hundred, thousand dollars worth of jewels from the…

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Trangie Murder Search for Youth

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 11 May 1948 · page 1

TRANGIE, Tuesday: Hugh Caughey, 25, was found murdered, early today on Auburn station, one of the biggest in the…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 May 1948 · page 2

A 17-YEAR-OLD married woman with one child was charged with stealing before the Wagga children's Court…

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Court Refuses Horse Trainer's Injunction

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 May 1948 · page 6

SYDNEY, Monday: Alexander Higgins, horse trainer, was to-day refused an injunction restraining the A.J.C. Committee…

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Moree Murder Rabbit Trapper Charged

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 12 May 1948 · page 1

MOREE, Wednesday: William Dennison, 39, of Terry Hie [?] near Moree, was charged last night with the murder of Alan…

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Youth Charged with Trangie Murder

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 12 May 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A 16-year-old youth was charged at the Werris Creek police station yesterday afternoon with the…

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Conductor Released From Gaol

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 May 1948 · page 2

AUCKLAND, Tuesday (AAP-Reuter): Eric Mareo, former orchestral conductor in New Zealand and Australia, serving a…

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Fined for Assault on Wagga Detective

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 May 1948 · page 2

A man who struck a detective a heavy blow after he had been arrested was fined £5 for assaulting a policeman at the…

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Could Not Prove Boy's Age Police Case Dismissed in Cowra Court

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 12 May 1948 · page 4

Monty Hart, well known Bookmakers, of West Wyalong, was charged in the Cowra Police Court with taking, a bet on a…

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Judge Criticises Police

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 May 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Discharging the jury and acquitting at man, who was charged with stealing, Judge Shortland…

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Man Fined, Bound Over for Lake Albert Assault

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 May 1948 · page 2

A complaint about fowls waking a man up in the morning and stones being thrown on a roof led to a scuffle, a man charged with assault said in the Wagga Court yesterday…

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