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Courts & crime, 1948

1,290 stories in Riverina's papers · page 53 of 65

Charged With 1947 Theft at Collingullie

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 October 1948 · page 2

A young man has been arrested in Sydney and charged with having stolen £180 at Collingullie in November last year…

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Q'land Communist Sentenced on Sedition Charge

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 October 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Tuesday: In the Brisbane Summons Court this morning, Gilbert Burns, a member of the State executive of the Queensland Communist Party, was found guilty on charges of sedition preferred…

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Man Charged Over Youth's Road Death

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 October 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: William Kenneth Flack, 25, of Harbord was charged at the Manly Court today with the manslaughter of…

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Court Notice

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 October 1948 · page 2

Jurors for the Wagga Supreme Court are requested to attend the Court House at 11.30 a.m. today…

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Wagga Supreme Court Surprise Witness Tells of Fatal Accident at Young

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 October 1948 · page 1

A surprise witness was brought into the Wagga Supreme Court yesterday to give the first complete eye-witness account of an accident at Young in July, 1947, in which a 23-year-old girl was killed by a taxi…

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Riverina Police Promotions

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 October 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The Police Department today announced the following promotions:—…

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Fadden Will Not See Police

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 October 1948 · page 1

The joint Opposition parties tonight reaffirmed support of Mr. Fadden, and issued a direction that until Mr. Chifley…

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R.S.L. Cannot Ban Communists Equity Court Ruling

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 14 October 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday, — Mr. Justice Sugernman ruled, in the Equity Court today, that the Returned Soldiers' League had…

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Parents of Accident Victim Awarded £1601 at Wagga Court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 October 1948 · page 2

The parents of a 23-year-old girl, who was killed by a taxi at Young, were awarded £1601 damages at the Wagga Supreme Court yesterday. ALFRED RUSSELL LEVETT…

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Wagga Court Action and Cross Action Over Building

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 October 1948 · page 2

A TUMBLONG grazier said in the Wagga Supreme Court yesterday that he had received a "colossal account"…

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Lutana Crash Inquiry Mechanical Defects Noted on Airliner Before Fatal Journey Court Inspects Control Tower

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 October 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: Details of mechanical defects in the A.N.A. airliner Lutana on the flight before the one during which it crashed, were outlined by a pilot at the Air Court of Inquiry today…

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Husband's Story in Wagga Divorce Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 October 1948 · page 2

After searching for his wife for three years, he found her living in two tents at Albury with their two children and…

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Wagga Builder Awarded £750 by Jury in Supreme Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 October 1948 · page 2

By a majority of three to one, a Wagga Supreme Court jury yesterday awarded a Wagga builder £750. THE builder,' Herbert Playne, Wise, sued one of his clients…

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Sheep-Stealing Charge at Griffith

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 October 1948 · page 2

GRIFFITH, Saturday: Three men were arrested by the Griffith police yesterday and charged with stealing a sheep on…

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Man Charged With Assaulting Girl Aged Six

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 October 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: A 27-year-old man was charged at Redfern Police Station last night with the indecent assault of a…

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Gundagai Resident Sued by Building Contractor Case Being Heard in Supreme Court

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 18 October 1948 · page 1

Well known Gundagai business woman, Miss V. M. Fuller, head of the firm of Messrs C. P. Donovan & Co Pty Ltd. has entered a cross…

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Committed for Alleged Theft at Collingullie

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 2

NOTHING remained of £180 he had stolen from a Collingullie fanner after he had backed horses, bought clothes…

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Licensing Court

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 1

To-day a Licensing Court was held at Lockhart, Mr. J. A. Scobie, Licensing Magistrate presiding. The first matter dealt with was…

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Man Fined £15 for Theft of 1000 Articles

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 2

PLEADING guilty to the theft of more than 1000 articles, a former Army warrant officer saM in the Wagga Court of…

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Court of Petty Sessions

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 19 October 1948 · page 3

Before Mr. W. Finlay, S.M. Indecent Language. George Alfred Sheather, 27, laborer, was charged with…

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