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Courts & crime, 1948

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Brundahl to be Charged Under Aliens Act

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 September 1948 · page 1
Also in Cootamundra Herald

CANBERRA, Wednesday: Lars Gustav Brundahl will be the first of the batch of aliens to be prosecuted for falling to register…

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Debate on Communism Special Police Squads

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 23 September 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A special squad of 100 police will help to control crowds inside and outside the Sydney Stadium…

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Cables in Brief Police Right to Strike

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 September 1948 · page 1

PARIS, Wednesday: The French National Assembly yesterday passed a bill limiting the right of the police to strike…

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Jury Disagrees in Canal Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 September 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: After retiring for four and a half hours, a Central Criminal Court Jury at 9 o'clock tonight failed…

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Batlow Tragedy No Police Suspicions

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 24 September 1948 · page 6

The police are now satisfied that there were no suspicious circumstances in the death of a man who was badly burned at Batlow…

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Court of Petty Sessions Monday, September 20 (Before Mr. E. Debenham. S.M.) Committed for Trial

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 24 September 1948 · page 4

Alan Robert Symons (38) was charged with breaking entering the shop of William Gladstone Morgan, at Narandera, on 6th September, and stealing…

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Magistrate Restrains From Proceeding with Conviction of M.h.r

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 September 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: After Sydney Max Falstein, M.H.R., had been fined £320 and ordered to pay £55 costs at the Special Federal Court today, Mr. Justice Owen, in private chambers, granted a rule…

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Attempted Car Theft Two Girls' Unenviable Experience

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 27 September 1948 · page 1

Ignoring the protests of two women, watching them from the varadah of a Combaning house two men brazenly attempted to…

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N.Z. Manhunt Follows Murder of Woman

Daily Advertiser · Monday 27 September 1948 · page 1

WELLINGTON (N.Z.) Sunday (A.A.P.-Reuter): The body of a woman with her head battered and clothing disarranged was…

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Charged with Fratricide

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 28 September 1948 · page 1

MARYBOROUGH, Tuesday.—Charged with the murder of his 36-year-old brother, Harold Ernest Royal, 82, laborer, was…

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Sydney Woman Refused Hotel Licence at West Wyalong; Court Stir

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 September 1948 · page 2

WEST WYALONG, Monday: In the West Wyalong Licensing: Court today a detective said a woman applicant for a hotel licence had associated with a reputed criminal…

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Double Murder Mystery

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 September 1948 · page 1

LITHGOW, Tuesday: Police are conducting a State-wide manhunt for the slayer of a middle-aged brother and sister…

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Double Murder Near Lithgow Manhunt On

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 29 September 1948 · page 1

LITHGOW, Wednesday—Police are conducting a Statewide manhunt for the slayer of a middle-aged brother and…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 September 1948 · page 2

Wagga grazier, Robert George Lockett, of Morgan Street, was fined £3 at the Wagga court yesterday for negligent driving…

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Murder Search Turns North After Police Question Two Youths

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 September 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Search for a youth, whom the police wish to interview in connection with the Wallerawang double murder, was concentrated on northern towns and Brisbane tonight. The youth was last seen in Sydney late on Monday, and would have had…

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Murder Manhunt Extends North

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 30 September 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday—The search for a youth, whom the police wish to interview in connection with the Wallerawang…

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Wife Charged with Putting Arsenic in Tea

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 September 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Mrs. Prances Lillian Whittaker, 35, of Kingsford, was alleged at the Central Criminal Court…

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Police Check at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 September 1948 · page 1

Wagga police yesterday and early this morning searched all trains passing through Wagga from the…

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Harvey-bugg Charged in Court

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 1 October 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Friday.—Benjamin Harvey-Bugg, 17, of Sydney, was charged with having murdered James Lyon…

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