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Courts & crime, 1948

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Junee Police Found Large Scale Turf Tipping

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 1

Pulice told the Court of Petty Sessions in Junee last month that when they entered the home of Marshall Roy Wheeler on a recent Saturday…

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Heavy Fines Three Transport Cases At Gundagai Court

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 1

At the Gundagai Police Court three transport drivers who were charged with driving vehicles without the required licence, were heavily fined…

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Police Inquiries Into Fire and Death At Wyalong Concluded Man Remanded

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 2

The special squad of Sydney, Wagga and West Wyalong police who have been investigating the £ 1500 golf club house fire at West…

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Man Charged with Murder at Gosford

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1948 · page 1

WOY WOY, Friday: A postman who surprised his wife and a man kissing was shot dead by the man, it was alleged in the Central Court…

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M.I.A. Watch For Gaol Escapee

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1948 · page 2

LEETON, Friday: Police on the M.I.A. are keeping a 24 hour watch for 36-year-old Crofton Barnes, gaol escapee,…

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Caravan Mystery Sets Police a Poser

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday; A cream and green caravan worth £300 has been abandoned in bushland near Sydney…

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Gaol Breaker Surrenders to Police

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: Crofton Edward Barnes, 26, who escaped from Long Bay Gaol on New Year's Day, surrendered to police yesterday…

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Son Charged with Murder of Mother in Sydney Suburb

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: Following the discovery of the headless body of a woman in a dilapidated house in Redfern this morning, police charged the woman's 21-year-old son with murder…

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Fatal Smash Near Crookwell; Man Charged

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 2

GOULBURN, Sunday: Following a fatal accident early today Laurie John Frey, 22, a soldier, was killed. Police later charged the driver of…

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Decapitated Body Found Charge of Murder

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: stocky William James Marshall, 23, stood with his arms folded when charged at Redfern Court today with having murdered his…

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Rozelle Murder Charge Against Old-Age Pensioner

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 January 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Harry Elrington, 85-year-old bachelor pensioner, was charged with murder at Balmain Court today…

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Leeton Police Court Alleged Assault and Indecent Language

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 3

JOHN THOMAS O'CONNOR was charged at the Leeton police court before Mr. Lewis, J.P., on Monday morning with having…

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Youth Charged With Assault at Leeton

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 2

LEETON, Monday: Alleged to have assaulted two Sydney men in a Leeton lane last night, 20-years-old Victorian youth…

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Stealing of Wheat and Oats Prevalent

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 2

Hundreds of pounds worth of wheat and oats were being stolen by the bag from paddocks in Riverina, said Wagga police…

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Man Fined For Theft of Quilts

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 2

A man who stole five eiderdown quilts from the Wagga Hotel "because the ground where he was camping was cold and hard," was…

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Men Convicted for Stealing Bagged Wheat and Oats

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 2

Hundreds of pounds' worth of wheat and oats were being stolen by the bag from paddocks in Riverina, said Wagga…

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Elderly Man on Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: Jealousy was said to be the motive behind the murder yesterday of a 75-year-old woman by an 85-year-old crippled…

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Man Remanded on Sydney Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Unshaven and dressed in a shabby blue suit, William James Marshall, 23, was charged in the Redfern Court with…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 2

At the Wagga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday Kenneth C. J. Williams was remanded until next Monday on charges of assaulting,…

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Court of Petty Sessions (Today)

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 2

Before Mr. W. Finlay, S.M. Indecent Language Arthur Ambrose Grant (22) pleaded guilty to using indecent language in…

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