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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

1,290 stories in Riverina's papers · page 29 of 65

Police, Probing Man's Death, Find Second Body

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 May 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: While detectives were investigating the death of a man whose body was found in a tent at…

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Police May Stop Football Gate Charges at Junee

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 May 1948 · page 1

JUNEE, Tuesday: Football revenue at Junee's main sports ground, Willow Park, is likely to be much lower this…

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Paris Police Deny Hunt For Man Plotting to Kill Princess

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 May 1948 · page 1

PARIS, Tuesday (A.A.P.): A denial that they were engaged in a widespread hunt for a man believed to be plotting an attempt on the life of Princess Elizabeth during her Whitsun week-end to Paris…

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Man Charged with Moree Murder

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 May 1948 · page 1

MOREE. Wednesday: William Dennison, residing near Moree, appeared at the Moree Court today charged with the murder…

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Youth Charged With Murder at Trangie

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 May 1948 · page 2

WERRIS CREEK, Wednesday: A 16-year-old youth appeared in the Werris Creek Court today charged with the…

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Gaol for Assaulting Aged Woman

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 May 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY. Wednesday: Reubin Frederick Jones, 24, laborer, of Davidson Avenue, Blaxland. was sentenced to three years' gaol at…

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Gaol For Car Thieves Move by N.R.M.A.

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 13 May 1948 · page 5

The N.R.M.A. will renew its request to the Government for an amendment of the law to substitute a minimum three…

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Special Federal Court (Yesterday) Before Mr. Atkinson, S.M. Overcharge on Lobster

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 13 May 1948 · page 2

Charles Edward Adams, the proprietor of a retail fish shop, at 270 Parker street, Cootamundra, was charged by an officer…

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Gang Stealing Electric Motors

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 1

TAMWORTH, Friday: Police believe that a well-organised gang is travelling country areas by heavy truck, stealing electric…

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Man Dead with Throat Cut: Murder Theory

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday. After; the body of a man with his throat cut was found at Lewisham tonight, a boy told the police…

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Russian Composers Go to U.S. Court

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Thursday f (A.A.P.): A five months campaign by Communists to suppress 20th…

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Failure to Destroy Rabbits Grazier Fined £100 At Adelong Court "Property a Menace" Says P.P. Board Inspector "One Of The Worst Cases Ever To Come Before Me" States Magistrate

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 1

At the Adelong Police Court on Friday last Gundagai P.P. Board Ro[?] inspector, W. A. Sturt, de[?]hed a [?] properly owned…

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Magistrate Delated by Bad Road

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 May 1948 · page 2

A special Federal Court, presided over by Mr. R. A. Atkinson, S.M., was held at Wagga last night. The court sat at…

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Murder Theory Dropped

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 May 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: Police have dropped the murder theory in the death of Gerald Ambrose Fitzgerald (50), who was found…

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Big Cash Theft From Wagga Cafe

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 May 1948 · page 2

In broad daylight and during the lunch-hour rush, £137 in notes and silver was stolen from a Wagga cafe yesterday…

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

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 17 May 1948 · page 3

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

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Leeton Police Court Alleged Breaking And Entering Committal for Trial

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 18 May 1948 · page 2

AT the Leeton police court on Thursday, John Bradley, aged 20, was charged with breaking and entering the shop of Frances…

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Yenda Orchardist Charged At Hospital Bedside

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 18 May 1948 · page 1

Police and court officials gathered at the Griffith Hospital yesterday morning at the bedside, of the Italian orchardist…

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Two Men on Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 May 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday: Two men were charged in the City Court today with the murder of Frank Vickers, 35, of South…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 May 1948 · page 2

A MAN charged yesterday at the Wagga court with exceeding the speed limit told the magistrate it was very difficult…

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