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Courts & crime, 1948

1,290 stories in Riverina's papers · page 38 of 65

Man Remanded; Alleged Assault on Baby Son

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 July 1948 · page 3

LAUNCESTON, Friday: A young husband, charged in the Police Court today with having assaulted his three-months-old…

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Ex-Employer of Bradman Out of Gaol

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 July 1948 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Friday: Henry Warburton Hodgetts, former employer of Don Bradman, will be released tomorrow from Yatala…

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Father Charged with Mulder of Six Children

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 July 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: Glen Innes police today charged a 65-years-oId laborer with the murder of his six children in a ramshackle shanty four miles from Glen Innes…

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Ex-Serviceman's Outburst in City Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 July 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: A young ex-serviceman who, in the Special Federal Court today, pleaded to be allowed to return…

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Sentenced to Two Years

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 5 July 1948 · page 2

A young man was sentenced by Judge Berne at Albury Quarter Sessions to two years penal servitude for failing to pay £188…

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Wild Police Chase Through City Streets; Car Smashes Windows

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 July 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: A 70-mile-an-hour chase by police through city streets after an attempted hold-up of a city hotel ended when a stolen car mounted the footpath in Pitt Street and sheared off the front…

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Police Save Umpire From Angry Mob at Melbourne Rules Game

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 July 1948 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sunday: Police had to draw their batons to save the umpire from an enraged crowd after the Australian Rules Carlton-North Melbourne match yesterday…

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Man Charged After Police Car Chase

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 July 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: A man who allegedly went to a city hotel at 3 a.m. yesterday wearing a mask and armed with a…

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Court of Petty Sessions Friday, July 2 (Before Mr. S. Jones)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 6 July 1948 · page 2

Alfred Bamblett (72) was charged with being found drunk in East Street on Thursday. Constable Kirchner said that…

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Contempt of Court Threat to Labor M.H.R. by Canberra Board

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 July 1948 · page 2

CANBERRA, Monday: Mr. Allan Fraser (Labor, Eden-Monaro) was today threatened with prosecution for contempt of court by the chairman of the Canberra Industrial Board (Mr. G. A. Findlay)…

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Court of Petty Sessions (Yesterday) Before Mr. W. Finlay, S.M. Unlicensed Timber-Getting

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 6 July 1948 · page 2

Noel William Stevens, Sam Cullen and Clive Cullen were charged with having removed timber from Crown Land…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 July 1948 · page 2

IN the Wagga Court yesterday, Mr. Quiggin, S.M., declined to make an order for possession in favor of a landlord. Eric C…

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Yugoslav Police Raid Reds' Homes in Trieste

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 July 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.): Yugoslav police are raiding Italian Communist homes in the Yugoslav zone of the free…

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Orange Man Remanded for Theft

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 8 July 1948 · page 3

NARRANDERA, Wednesday : Norman George Howard, 36, of Orange, was remanded on £80 bail at the Narrandera Quarter…

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Repairs to Police Quarters

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 8 July 1948 · page 1

Tenders have been accepted by local contractors for renovations to police quarters at Tumbarumba, and it is…

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Fined for Not Having Rabbit Carcases Free From Flies Legal Battle in Gundagai Court

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 8 July 1948 · page 1

A court case which is of considerable considerable interest to rabbiters and rabbit exporters, was heard in the Gundagai Court yesterday, when…

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Charged with Giving Poison to Husband

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 July 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs: A woman had admitted administering poison to her husband in custards on three different…

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Thursday, July 8 Howard and Powter Again Charged

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 9 July 1948 · page 2

Clarence Raymond Pouter (20) and Norman George Howard (37) were charged with stealing six gallons of petrol of the value of 18/, the…

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Alleged Confession in Taronga Park Murder

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: James Michael Murray, a 30-year-old laborer, was today cited for trial by the City Coroner (Mr. M. J. Austin) on a charge of murdering Mrs. Avice Victoria Gasking (57), at Taronga…

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Japs to Die for Mass Murder of U.S. Fliers

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 July 1948 · page 1

TOKIO, Thursday: Five Japanese were sentenced to death by the Eighth Army Commission today for the murder of 65…

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